Advanced Windfire Yoga RetreatS
Our advanced yoga retreat classes provide you with a rare opportunity to enrich your yoga practice by making a deep practical exporation of yoga practice and techniques. This will not only enrich your yoga self practice, of postures, pranayama and meditation, but also perpare you for our Yoga Teacher Training Course.
THE DEPTH INTENSIVE provides a rare opportunity to explore the functional, structural and energetic principles underlying all yoga postures and their spiritual power. It includes a detailed study of 215 yoga postures, 45 moving yoga techniques, 7 bandhas, 20 yoga breathing techniques, 5 meditation techniques, their underlying mechanical principles, and their dynamic and inherent inter-relationships. They are explored in groups that reveal their inherent unities. There are 150 hours of instruction over three weeks. Content includes: theory of applied anatomy and kinesiology; exploration of how physical action, movement and respiration take place relative to conscious awareness and intent; practical exploration of the principles of biomechanical integrity and their direct application to practicing yoga techniques; theoretical exploration of psychology applied to yoga practices; exploration of the development and nature of mental processes that underpin perception; exploration of the development and nature of physical processes that underpin action and movement. It is a necessary part of the Windfire Yoga Teacher Training, and must be preceeded by the Foundation Course. It is also the perfect opportunity for advanced students not wishing to teach to deeepen their understanding and practice.
SOLO RETREAT takes place in between the Dynamic Yoga Depth Intensive and the Dynamic Yoga Teacher Training. It provides those doing both with an opportunity to explore on their own mat what they have learned about Yoga in the Depth Intensive. It is open to anyone who has completed any Windfire Yoga Depth Intensive, Yoga Teacher Training or Yoga Self Practice course. Two morning and three afternoon sessions are scheduled monday to friday for guided exploration of any aspect of yoga practice. Participants are free to use the yogasala for there own practice at all other times.
THE PRANAYAMA INTENSIVE is an indepth application of Patanjali's presentation of Pranayama in the Yoga Sutras. It includes one morning self practice session ending in a guided pranayama practice, an afternoon guided pranayama session, karma yoga, one talk and question/answer each day. Ongoing group and individual instruction and guidance is provided. The instruction given connects pranayama directly to yoga posture practice and meditation. Instruction is based directly on Patanjali, treating Pranayama as an method of enquiry rather than of imposition. This course is open to anyone: there are no prerequisites. Those who do not wish to participate in the yoga self practice will be instructed in walking meditation, or some other physical practice to be done as a substitute.
THE MEDITATION INTENSIVE includes one morning self practice session ending in meditation, a further 5/6 hours of meditation, karma yoga, one talk and question/answer each day. Ongoing group and individual instruction and guidance is provided. The instruction given connects meditation directly to yoga posture practice, using pranayama (as cultivating intimacy with breathing) as a link. Instruction is based directly on Patanjali, treating meditation as an open enquiry into that which is actually happening, rather than a means to impose some special state or reach a predetermined goal. Jnanayoga sessions of Radical Enquiry may be included as a means to relinquish limiting beliefs and assumptions. This course is open to anyone: there are no prerequisites. Those who do not wish to participate in the yoga self practice will be instructed in walking meditation, or some other physical practice to be done as a substitute.
The Dynamic Yoga Foundation Course
Dynamic Yoga Intermediate Courses
