Windfire Yoga Foundation Course

All students must begin with the FOUNDATION COURSE, unless allready comitted to ongoing selfpractice in which case you may attend the self practice week without attending the Foundation Course.

In the Dynamic Yoga Foundation Course you will awaken, sensitise and integrate the structural and functional capabilities of your body through systematically guided yoga practice classes. This integration focusses on the release of the spine, and the impact this has on freeing the breath (pranayama). In doing so you will learn the integrating internal dynamics of the bandhas that simplifies and fertilises every yoga posture.

Each module of our Dynamic Yoga Foundation Course is self-complete and suitable for all hatha yoga students, of any level or style wishing to deepen, enrich and empower their yoga practice. The classes of each module are designed so each week can provide a starting point for anyone. They can be taken in any order that time and circumstance permit.

The Dynamic Yoga Foundation Course provides training in: sensitisation of joints and muscles; awakening the seven primary bodyparts; integrating the ten primary joints and seven primary bodyparts; releasing the breath from conditioned imposition; establishing the dynamics of structural integrity; establishing respiratory integrity from structural integrity; clarifying the relationship between structure and function; harmonising the relationship between movement and action; harmonising the relationship between movement and respiration; the application of yama and niyama to practice; the direct application of the bandhas; the indirect application of the bandhas; release of the breath from hbituated imposition; clarification of ujjayi breathing; pranayama practice in the light of patanjali; meditation in the light of patanjali; clarification of the eight limbs of yoga.

The Method Module introduces the simplicity of yoga practice by using movement (vinyasa) to establish stillness (asana) on the basis of the integration (bandha) of breathing (pranayama), movement, action and awareness (drushti). The simple, primarily symmetrical, yoga postures of the Vinyasasuxmasya training series, used in all these classes are designed to sensitise the major joints of the body, while awakening the primary muscle groups, through the utilisation of the funtional dynamics of phsyical integrity. This provides the basis of the structural approach to the bandhas, and rests on the cultivation of deep internal sensitivity.

The Dynamic Module introduces the spiral dynamic of integration. Through the mechanism of muscular opposition the strengthening and lengthening of muscles and opening of joints are integrated. This integration is focussed on supporting the release of the spine through the activation of each part of the body. This initiates both somatakinetic and psychosomatic integration at the same time. The simple postures of the Vinyasaxakrasya training series, used in all these classes, are designed to facilitate functional and structural integration, and to clarify the structural invitation to the bandhas.

The Integration Module focusses on the integrating application of the bandhas. The bandhas are presented both in relation to the breath, and to structural integrity. All seven bandhas are clarified and explored in their subtleties of application: mulabandha, uddyanabandha, jalandharabandha, merubandha, hastabandha, padabandha and sarvangabandha. They are explored and clarified through the medium of the Vinyasaxiktisa training series which is based on integrating all the major joints of the body into the relationship between the ribcage and the pelvis.

The three modules of the Dynamic Yoga Foundation Course can be taken in any order and any number of times. There are five morning and three afternoon classes in each module,. All our yoga retreat classes are given within the fertilising context of patanjali’s ashtanga yoga, and link yoga postures together into a vinyasa flow of dynamic yoga practice ending with stillness in savasana and sitting, thereby balancing the 'yin' and 'yang' elements of traditional hatha yoga. All morning classes include guided pranayama and meditation.

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