Yoga Body Buddha Mind

About the class

Two afternoons with Cyndi via Zoom (or via catch-up in your own time for a month after) -

Explore how the mutual support of hatha yoga and Buddhist meditation help us bring our bodies and minds into balance.

Cyndi will introduce shamatha, traditional Buddhist mindfulness meditation, as a path toward making friends with ourselves, creating a gap between stimuli and response, and leading to more options for a rich, joyful and beneficial life.

Each class will include a dharma talk introducing themes we will then explore through sustainable asana, playful sequencing and lots of opportunities to wake up in your body!

Saturday: Dots of Awareness

Mindfulness meditation instruction and practice.

Balance and equanimity are powerful practices that literally shift the ground of one’s existence, away from habitual drama story-lines, and toward a genuine sense of ease.

We will explore how meditation helps us to be “not too tight and not too loose,” and how asana class offers the perfect vehicle for finding this kind of fluid balance through standing pose sequences.

Sunday: Obstacle as Path

Mindfulness meditation and Maitri / Lovingkindness practice.

We yogis know that our hips are often the site of deep imbalance due to lack of flexibility, physical and emotional injury, too much sitting, too much kettle bell work. Instead of thinking of our hips as a a problem, we need to focus less on hip opening — just another form of craving — and find a healthy range of motion through soft closings, clarity of rotation, organized pelvis and legs, bright feet, and precise attention to exertion and ease.

About Cyndi :

Cyndi Lee is the first female Western yoga teacher to integrate yoga asana and Tibetan Buddhism in her practice and teaching. In 1998, she founded the OM yoga Center in NYC, a mecca for yogis worldwide. One of the most influential teachers in the U.S., Cyndi’s teaching work is now focussed on engaged yoga, meditation and sustainability.

Cyndi is the author of five books including the classic yoga text: Yoga Body Buddha Mind and the New York Times critically acclaimed May I Be Happy: A Memoir of Love, Yoga, and Changing My Mind. She is a regular contributor to numerous publications including Yoga Journal, Real Simple and Lion’s Roar.

In 2018, she was ordained as a Lay Buddhist Chaplain by Roshi Joan Halifax at Upaya Zen Center. Cyndi’s root guru is the Tibetan master, Gelek Rimpoche. She has been teaching yoga for 40 years and meditation for 30 years.

** PRACTICAL BITS **

Due to the nature of the Crescent Bakery building, it's ideal to wear layers of clothing for cooler / warmer fluctuations.

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Please note workshops will be refunded only if we can find someone to take your place. Obviously, we will take account of exceptional circumstances. If you have chosen to pay in instalments, payments to completion will still be due.

Please contact studio@orangeyoga.co.uk and we’ll be happy to help.

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