anusara yoga

anusara yoga

Anusara® Yoga is a hatha yoga style, that grew from Iyengar Yoga's brilliant, precise alignment method. Anusara focuses on alignment in a more qualitative and energetic way that is flowing and opening, and honors the divine within each student. Its approach is serious but fun, aligning you with grace within and in the world. People smile and laugh through this practice, which is part of what makes it so enjoyable! When you learn the Universal Principles of Alignment, you use them so in each posture your neck, back and every part of your body is protected. Then, your energy really opens up, and all the poses feel comfortable and playful. Anusara Yoga is growing more quickly than of any type of yoga in the world. The principles are beautiful.
Cristin's practice includes Anusara, so the alignment principles strongly influence her teaching.

STAY TUNED FOR MORE INFORMATION, AS BELOW COURSE HAS PAST.

Anusara Yoga Immersion in Accra
22-23 & 28-30 October 2011
Times: 8-11:45am & 1-4pm each day

click for flyers & click to register

Anusara® Immersion is an in-depth study of Anusara® Yoga.
In a series of workshops, we cover in detail all the basic elements of philosophy and asana alignment technique.
The Immersion provides a great foundation of practical understanding of
Anusara® Yoga for all serious students and those wanting an in-depth yoga experience.
(This is internationally-recognized Immersion part 1; parts 2 and 3 are being planned for spring 2012 in Accra.)
The Immersion is the first step for those interested in optional future Anusara® Yoga Teacher Training.

For those coming from abroad -- we have planned a 10-day inclusive package tour with hotels, restaurants, all transport
and tours of Ghana's beaches, castles, capital city and more!
Please click flyer above or reach Cristin for details: click to email Cristin.

Jayendra was in Accra in Febuary 2011 for a Anusara Yoga weekend.
35 people attended and had a great time. Click for photos!

A unique opportunity to study this inspiring,
powerful yoga style,
with a world-class teacher in Ghana!.

Special Guest Teacher - Jayendra Hanley -
is returning to Accra!

Please email Cristin if interested..

Jayendra Hanley has studied and practiced hatha yoga and meditation for 32 years, the last 17 years with John Friend.
He was one of the first to become certified as a teacher of Anusara Yoga and is one of the top European trainers.
He is from the U.S., but is currently living in Holland, and he offers weekend workshops and year-long teacher trainings to dedicated Anusara students in many parts of the world.
Students enjoy the clarity and depth of his instructions and his light, fun style.
www.jayendrahanley.com

more about anusara yoga
a powerful, therapeutic hatha yoga system of joyful heart opening and strong principles of alignment

Founded by John Friend in 1997, Anusara yoga is a school of hatha yoga, which unifies a life-affirming Shiva-Shakti Tantric philosophy of intrinsic goodness with Universal Principles of Alignment. Anusara yoga has become one of the most highly respected schools of hatha yoga with over 1,000 licensed yoga teachers, thousands of teachers in training, and hundreds of thousands of students worldwide. Anusara yoga has a presence on every continent throughout the world, excluding Antarctica, and is in 70 countries, thus attracting media attention worldwide.

Anusara yoga’s remarkable growth is due in large part to its uplifting philosophy, epitomized by a “celebration of the heart” that looks for the good in all people and all things. Consequently, students of all levels of ability and yoga experience are honored for their unique differences, limitations, and talents. This celebratory vision sets the basis for a yoga school in which the harmony and joy of a tightly knit community of highly trained teachers and fun-loving students is exalted. This community feels like it has the tightness of a family, yet the looseness of a merry band of bohemian artists.

The Anusara yoga community is well-networked and organized, yet there is a strong emphasis on creative freedom and individuality. Anusara yoga is held together by everyone’s implicit alliance to the spiritual principles of Anusara yoga philosophy, such as celebrating beauty in all its diversity, truthfulness, and honoring the creative freedom of the Divine in all beings. Everyone is aligned with the truth that Grace plays the key role in the successful flow of their practice, classes, and the community itself. Without a rigid dogma, the school is open to continual change and restructuring. Self-examination, discovery, and receptivity to new ideas are foundational to this dynamic system. Individual creativity and investigation are always encouraged within the bounds of basic alignment principles and philosophic precepts of Anusara yoga. Anusara yoga grows with harmony and integrity through the combined vision of our Anusara yoga teachers to unveil the innate goodness, worthiness, and Supreme nature of each student and every being.  

Anusara yoga's remarkable growth is due in large part to its uplifting philosophy, epitomized by a "celebration of the heart," that looks for the good in all people and all things.

learn more (some of above quoted from John Friend's website: www.anusarayoga.com)

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benefits
empowering, find your individuality and creative self-expression, enhance and reveal the beauty of life, build and empower self-esteem, find light-heartedness, playfulness, and joyful creativity, reveal and connect to your Divine nature

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