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This Fall’s Metta project will take place in Montauk at Love Yoga Space. We will practice together raising money and awareness for Operation Shanti an orphanage in Mysore, India. Take a trip to the beach for a good cause and if you can’t make it please consider donating directly to www.operation-shanti.org

For more information contact: ashleydorr@hotmail.com.

Metta is the pali word for lovingkindness: a practice where we offer kind wishes of peace and well being to others. We believe that by building awareness, dedicating our practice and making small offerings, we can work to make a difference in the lives of others, ourselves and the world around us.

Prana is a Sanskrit word meaning: breath, vital energy, life force. It is also a five voice a cappella group who uses their breath to make sound to relax the body, still the mind and open the heart. Their sound is a unique blend of western folk, jazz, and choral music influenced by the music of India, Tibet, Tuva, and Mongolia, with a strong emphasis on vocal harmonics.

Prana will perform music from all 5 of their CDs including their new album “Chiaroscuro” (released 9/9/16). In addition they will be singing 6 new pieces. http://www.pranasound.com/music.shtml

All of the most basic and ancient spiritual practices revolved around honoring the elements that make up our reality. In these intimate workshops we will learn how to access the wisdom and power of each element in order to drop back into alignment with the universe. Expect a deep vinyasa class accompanied by live music, restorative poses, sound healing and guided meditation.

The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali is a foundational text on Yoga mind, and Yoga practices. This text has been especially important to the seminal Yoga master T. Krishnamacharya and his influential students B. K. S. Iyengar and Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. Over my seventeen-year study with Pattabhi Jois he probably shared from this text more than any other, and often answered students’ questions in Sanskrit, quoting the Yoga Sutra, and then translating and further expounding. We will discover how this body of thought is applicable to our daily practice, as well as our teaching. In chanting the Yoga Sutras, we will experience an exhilaration and clarity that allow for an enhanced understanding of the Sutras.

I began my Yoga studies in 1982 and in 1993 I began my practice with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in his groundbreaking classes in New York City. I traveled to Mysore, India a dozen times to study with him over a seventeen-year period. 15 years ago, he sent me off to learn Sanskrit chanting, and since that time I have also been a student of Dr. M.A. Jayashree. My main focus of study with Dr. Jayashree has been the chanting and discussion of the Yoga Sutra. I produced two CDs for her, one a recitation of the Yoga Sutra, along with other Stotram and chants. The other, a call and response CD of the entire Yoga Sutra that exceeds five hours that she and I recorded over two long Bangalore weekends.

Today I teach workshops and trainings around the world, with a focus on the Yoga Sutra as well as Ashtanga Yoga. I host a popular podcast on the Yoga Sutra on SoundCloud. I create Yoga programming for Spinal Cord Injury and MS, and I share natural lifestyle and Yoga as a blogger on YouTube as Kiki Says.

I am happy to be returning to the Shala for this unique opportunity to share the entire Yoga Sutra.

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Fri eve
Detailing The Primary Series, Part I (Suryas – Navasana)
6:30-9:00pm
Sat morn
Detailing The Primary Series, Part II (Navasana – Utplutih)
10:00-12:30pm
Sat afternoon
Integrating Breath and Bandhas in Your Asana Practice
1:30-3:30
Sun Noon
Intro to Nadi Shodana – Demystifying the Intermediate Series
12:00-2:00

Sun afternoon 
Yoga Asana Play Book – The Body Mechanics
3-5:30

Your body is an integrated organism which functions as a whole. you change a bit, you change the whole. This workshop takes a broad look at essential body mechanics – how we balance better, how you can ease peripheral muscles and target core muscles, how to economize your energy while in full motion, how to feel energy versus muscle use, how to extract maximum benefit from your body in practice, what to think of pain, the difference between content and form, how to navigate yoga dogma versus personal experience as well as detailed alignment pointers & optimal weight distribution and many more aspects to keep our yoga practice delicious every day. You will leave this workshop renewed and with a more successful view on working your body on your yoga mat. All levels Welcome.