Samavesha: the Anusara® yoga Festival 2017: Full Schedule

08:30 CEST

Ease in Backbends

Limited Capacity filling up

Level 1/2 - Backbends are very often practiced with an inner need of control which shows in too much effort in the pose. In this workshop we will find out that backbends actually will be more graceful and done with ease if we allow ourselves to trust more into the earth, to settle into what gives foundation and to trust in order to open up. We will work physically to root into our hips more, to really release the thighs and the weight into our foundation and to do this with patience and a lot of awareness.

Speakers

Nicole Konrad

Nicole is a Certified Anusara Yoga Teacher - owner of Openlotus, Cologne, Germany. She teaches Yoga for more than 10 years and is more than honored that she can share the beauty of this profound practise with others. For her, Yoga helps to deepen the connection to herself, live itself... Read More →

Wednesday May 31, 2017 08:30 - 10:00 CEST
Spanda

Asana, Bring Your Mat!, Level 1/2

10:30 CEST

Gait Going - Yoga and the Connection to Walking Patterns

Limited Capacity seats available

Understanding gait offers tremendous information about how our bodies work and compensatory patterns we've established to remain upright and moving. Learn specific therapeutic Asana sequences that help address smoother gait. In this workshop, we will witness gait patterns as snapshots frozen in time. Discover in your own body places where you have full movement. Explore where you have potential to develop new pathways leading to positive change. Join Anusara Certified and Certified Yoga Therapist, Lisa Long, to Feel Well. Move well. Breathe Well. Be Well.

Speakers

Lisa Long

Lisa Long's fascination with the human walking pattern began nearly 20 years ago when she realized she kept leading her movement with the same leg. Over the decades, her private clients have helped her see, understand and teach more clearly. Regularly receiving referrals from the... Read More →

Wednesday May 31, 2017 10:30 - 12:00 CEST
Spanda

Workshop, Workshop for students & teachers

14:30 CEST

Introduction to Ayurveda

Limited Capacity seats available

What's your dosha? And what do you do about it? The science of Ayurveda teaches us to observe the qualities of the five elements not only in our bodies, but in every aspect of our life: the seasons, our daily practice, our time in life… In this workshop we will learn to use these qualities to read the patterns in our own unique bodies and identify what it looks like to be in and out of a state of balance. Through this practice the 5 elements become keys to understanding our true nature and how to ride the wave of our own healing process.

Speakers

Rachel Bush

Rachel came to the practices of yoga and Ayurveda with the desire to heal. After her first year of practice she had undergone such a transformation in her health and state of mind she decided to dedicate her life to these practices and has been teaching ever since. She is a licensed... Read More →

Wednesday May 31, 2017 14:30 - 16:30 CEST
Spanda

Workshop, Workshop for students & teachers

17:00 CEST

Flowing with the Devi Power Through Arm Balances

Limited Capacity seats available

Level 2/3 - Arm balances are a class of poses generally reserved to male students, wrongly implying we need to have strong muscles to hold them. Discovering the inner feminine power within, connecting to that power in the center, we can flow through them with ease and joyfulness, expressing our graceful steadiness in everyday life, through majestic koundinyasanas, ekapadagalavasanas, handstands and pinchamayurasanas. Gentlemen are welcomed too, so they can learn how to express their inner gentleness in strenuous poses.

Speakers

Caterina Cortellini

Hatha Yoga Teacher, Atma studio Bologna

Wednesday May 31, 2017 17:00 - 18:30 CEST
Spanda

Asana, Bring Your Mat!, Level 2/3, Taught in Italian

08:30 CEST

Interconnection Through the Five Elements (taught in Italian)

Limited Capacity seats available

Level 1/2 - The 5 elements are a manifestation of the Supreme Consciousness (Chiti) and they are present also in our body. Through the asanas we can experience the connection to them at all levels of our being, from the outer world to our physical body and to our subtle body. The Anusara Universal Principles of Alignment will powerfully support this research and help the students to merge into the 5 elements. The class will develop from standing poses to hip-openers and some backbends to reach the apex asana Pincha Mayurasana.

Speakers

Maria Grazia Orlando

I started to practice Hatha Yoga in 2006 after a suggestion from a friend and I was almost immediately captured by it. Then in 2009 I was invited to an Anusara Yoga masterclass held by Piero Vivarelli and it was a so profound experience that brought me to start the journey into this... Read More →

Thursday June 1, 2017 08:30 - 10:00 CEST
Spanda

Asana, Bring Your Mat!, Level 1/2, Taught in Italian

10:30 CEST

The Yoga of Wandering

Limited Capacity full
Adding this to your schedule will put you on the waitlist.

Level 1/2 - A class based on the Yoga of Wandering which will focus on setting out from the altar of morning and journeying back to ourselves through breath, asana, poetry and music.

Speakers

Jack Harrison

Jack first encountered yoga in the 1970s in San Francisco at a yoga school in Haight-Ashbury where he lived for a while. Five years later he was in Galway on the West coast of Ireland and practising with the Irish Wheel of Yoga. He continued to practice various styles including Iyengar... Read More →

Thursday June 1, 2017 10:30 - 12:30 CEST
Spanda

Asana, Level 1/2

14:30 CEST

Introduction to the Celtic School of Yoga and Music

Limited Capacity seats available

An illustrated talk, encompassing breathing techniques and music, which will explain the principles on which the Celtic School of Yoga has been founded.

Speakers

Jack Harrison

Thursday June 1, 2017 14:30 - 16:30 CEST
Spanda

Workshop, Bring Notebook / Pen & Paper, Bring Your Mat!, Workshop for students & teachers

17:00 CEST

Wild and Free

Limited Capacity full
Adding this to your schedule will put you on the waitlist.

Level 1/2 - In this heart opening class we'll explore how to embrace our body's boundaries, by learning how to use these limitations as gateways to our innate power of abundance and inner wildness. Refining our awareness of the upper body loops, we'll progress our way to a fun and free expression of Camatkarasana - Wild Thing!

Speakers

Jeannine Plaiche

Jeannine Plaiche, BA, E-RYT500, Certified Anusara Yoga teacher, Naturotherapist and travel enthusiast from Montreal, Qc, Canada. Previously a professional figure skating coach and personal trainer, her passion for the body, mind and movement has led her to a degree in psychology... Read More →

Thursday June 1, 2017 17:00 - 18:30 CEST
Spanda

Asana, Bring Your Mat!, Level 1/2

08:30 CEST

Space, Strength, Expansion (Taught in Italian)

Limited Capacity filling up

Level 2/3 - Focused on Open to Grace, Muscular Energy and Organic Expansion, we will progress gradually to improve and pick a challenging arm balance pose like ekapadagalavasana wich is also a great hip openers that requires space, strenght, an open and courageous heart and will to play.

Speakers

Alberto Vezzani

Alberto is a Certified Anusara Yoga® teacher.He began yoga with great dedication in 2004 after a life changing meeting with Cesare Boni which led him to receive formal initiation into meditation under the guidance of his Guru.After the first Asana class with Andrea Boni, he met Piero... Read More →

Friday June 2, 2017 08:30 - 10:00 CEST
Spanda

Asana, Bring Your Mat!, Level 2/3, Taught in Italian

10:30 CEST

Coming Back Home

Limited Capacity seats available

Level 1/2 - Life often gives us opportunities to feel, to learn, to grow. Sometimes these opportunities come disguised in challenges that take us away from our center, away from home. Making us feel small and fragile. It is then when we need to keep closer to our hearts, and allow ourselves to stay open to life, helping us to stay connected with the inner strength and with the inner light. Through back bends we help our selves to open up, to soften up towards the awareness of our great inner strength so we can bring ourselves back home and shine from inside out. Apex Pose: Pincha Mayurasana

Speakers

Letizzia Wastavino

TriMotion

Letizzia is Chilean, trained under the wonderful Anusara Yoga world in Montreal, Canada. She now lives in Austria, Klosterneuburg, near Vienna, where she shares her passion with great enthusiasm.She has a Master in Science degree in Physics and it is her love for movement, biomechanics... Read More →

Friday June 2, 2017 10:30 - 12:00 CEST
Spanda

Asana, Level 1/2

14:30 CEST

Divine Alignment: Broaden the Bandwidth of Your Personal Shakti

Limited Capacity seats available

Our modern yoga approach does not rely on a guru and the idea of energy transmission from the teacher to the student often gets lost as we emphasize asana and alignment. At the same time, you experience that some teachers transmit the essence of yoga like high speed internet, even if their teaching is technically less skilled. In this workshop, you will discover how increase your bandwidth to the divine and systematically channel shakti, creative live force. You will learn a krama — a series of steps — that you can practice and refine. Your benefit: -Shakti flows through you more freely invigorating you while you teach. -Your students experience a sense of wholeness — purna — and look forward to coming back for more.

Speakers

Leigh Ann Kittell

I teach yoga teachers and life coaches to tap into their divine connection so that they can support themselves and others with passion, strength and joy.After working me, they have a new found sense of confidence and direction which helps them balance their personal and professional... Read More →

Friday June 2, 2017 14:30 - 16:00 CEST
Spanda

Workshop, Bring Notebook / Pen & Paper, Bring Your Mat!, Workshop for Teachers

17:00 CEST

Anusara yoga e l'arte dello storytelling / Anusara Theme and the Art of Storytelling (Taught in Italian)

Limited Capacity filling up

In questa lezione scopriremo come le tecniche dello storytelling, o arte del racconto, permettano di trasmettere qualsiasi insegnamento teorico attraverso un linguaggio universale in grado di parlare contemporaneamente al corpo, alla mente e al cuore di tutte le persone. Un linguaggio che, quindi, è in grado di creare una sintesi tra karma, bhakti e jnana yoga. Vedremo anche come diverse tecniche utilizzate dallo storytelling presentino interessanti analogie con i principi di allineamento universali di Anusara yoga.

Speakers

Eric Minetto

Eric Minetto è nato a Torino nel 1971 ed è laureato in Letteratura Nordamericana. Dal 2001 al 2013 ha insegnato storytelling e scrittura creativa alla Scuola Holden di Torino. Fondatore della scuola di crescita creativa Upaya (www.upaya.it), è Anusara-Inspired™yoga teacher e... Read More →

Friday June 2, 2017 17:00 - 18:30 CEST
Spanda

Workshop, Bring Notebook / Pen & Paper, Taught in Italian, Workshop for Teachers

08:30 CEST

Dharmic Movement with the UPA's (Session 1) - Asana

Limited Capacity filling up

Level 1/2 - This asana session will focus on developing healthy “Longevity” related movement skills. Rather that having a class session focused on an “Apex pose”, experience a class with a theme and apex movement skill focus. The UPA’s can be directly related to developing healthier movement patterns or skills as well as asana posture. Take a fresh look at applying the UPA’s for more joint healthy movement rather than advanced asana practice. Fun, Creative and a Physically challenging. This session will be supported with the Dharmic Movement with the UPA’s workshop session.

Speakers

Adam Ballenger

Saturday June 3, 2017 08:30 - 10:00 CEST
Spanda

Asana, Bring Your Mat!, Level 1/2

10:30 CEST

Dharmic Movement with the UPA's (session 2) - Workshop

Limited Capacity filling up

For this workshop session, an Orthopedic perspective of what is Dharmic for the body will be presented. When practicing asana, it is easy to practice for circulation, fun or challenging asana development. When it comes to practicing for the health of the bones and joints, what is healthy may be more complex and in the long term, potentially more important. When the joints wear out, the movement will deteriorate and eventually stop. This session will present the loops and spirals as kinematic road-maps for how to use the body for longevity rather than advanced asana development. There is no need for previous anatomy or bio-mechanics study for this session; Adam will be presenting a small amount of anatomy, bio-mechanics and kinesiology, directly related to the Loops used in Anusara Yoga for the purpose of practicing asana and aging well. This session will include a small amount of Loop movement skill practice and integration into asana and transition, as well as lecture, demonstration and presentation.

Speakers

Adam Ballenger

Saturday June 3, 2017 10:30 - 12:30 CEST
Spanda

Workshop, Workshop for students & teachers

14:30 CEST

Different Ways of Sequencing

Limited Capacity seats available

Sequencing is one of the most important skills required to teach an Anusara yoga class. Since we don’t have any prescribed sequences, we sequence asanas based on sequencing principles, which are based on the biomechanics of the body and deep knowledge of asana. In this session we will see an overview of the ATT Sequencing Module and we will get to do some practical exercises in how to create efective, safe and transformative sequences using diferent pathways.

Speakers

Susana García

Yogini, surfer, traveller, life student. Always amazed about the creative energy of the human heart (hrdaya shakti), her mission is guiding students towards that inner place of love, wisdom and power. Her classes are a place for transformation where she helps them find their limits... Read More →

Jayendra Hanley

Jayendra Hanley has been practicing and teaching yoga for many years, the last 15 in Europe, where he taught Anusara Teacher Trainings in the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Belgium, France and England. Jay is the co-coordinator of the Anusara Curriculum Committee... Read More →

Saturday June 3, 2017 14:30 - 16:30 CEST
Spanda

Workshop, Workshop for Teachers

17:00 CEST

Recognize Unity through the Harmony of Diversity

Limited Capacity filling up

Level 1/2 - How can we find unity within diversity? And diversity within unity? The human being is an example of how the Universe can manifest itself, diverse and complex. Nonetheless, order can be found in anything, a truth principle that can be translated into harmony. Searching for it within the Universal Principles of Alignment, we’ll move through an asana sequence focused on Muscular and Organic Energy, the two principles of Energy that regulate humans and Universe alike.

Speakers

Monica De Lucia

I became an Anusara Inspired Yoga teacher in 2015. Piero Vivarelli is my master. My favorite asana is Urdhva Dhanurasana

Claudio Ugolini

In 2009 I met Anusara Yoga and in 2014 I became an Anusara Inspired teacher. I'm studying with Piero Vivarelli and my favorite asanas are arm balance

Saturday June 3, 2017 17:00 - 18:30 CEST
Spanda

Asana, Level 1/2, Taught in Italian