Guided Mindfulness Meditation, Breathing & Chanting plus
Mysore Style Assisted Self Practice Ashtanga Yoga.
Sat/Sun Mornings
Guided Mindfulness Meditation, Breathing & Chanting plus
Mysore Style Assisted Self Practice Ashtanga Yoga.
Scott will begin each day with an optional guided mindfulness meditation and breathing hour to set you up for your morning asana practice and the day ahead. He will then support, encourage and help you develop your Ashtanga Yoga self practice whether you’re a beginner or advanced practitioner.
Friday 27th June 18:00-20:00
A MINDFUL APPROACH TO ASHTANGA YOGA
Meeting yoga practice with mindful awareness.
How do we individually approach yoga in relationship to our own lives? Can we see deeper into how our yoga practice can help us nurture the breath and movement awareness that we hold so dear?
How we notice this all play out can allow us to land the awareness of ourselves, and our physical practice, in the present moment. Again and again, This short workshop will play with both breathing and mindfulness techniques in relation to philosophical insights and movement awareness, all underscoring the patterns of ashtanga yoga we know so well.
Noticing the constant and ongoing interplay between asana reference points and a mindfulness based awareness is the ground from which we can become deeply embodied in practice. We will reflect on how this can be the base from how we move in our practice and the world…
Saturday 28th June
08:00-10:00 Mysore practice
Workshop 11:00-13:00
ASHTANGA YOGA AS EMBODIED MOVEMENT
Practicing Ashtanga with a new lens…
In this workshop we will engage with how we approach the Ashtanga yoga practice itself, how we meet the complexities of breath and movement and how becoming more present plays out in deepening the awareness of ourselves through a physical practice.
We will play with breathing technique, chanting, mindfulness and movement awareness noticing the constant and ongoing interplay between these reference points.
Sunday 29th June
08:00-10:00 Mysore practice
Workshop 11:00-13:00
THE PATTERNS OF ASHTANGA YOGA
Seeing the patterns laid out before us…
We continue the theme of Saturday’s mindful awareness by looking at asana and vinyasa, seeing how they all blend together to form an embodied movement awareness. We will look at the patterns and relationships that underpin the forms of the asanas in the practice and see how taking care allows you to deepen the awareness of movement though the postures and series. This will lead to acquiring a greater feeling of connection to the asana and movement of the body, while practicing Ashtanga Yoga.
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Scott Johnson
Scott has been director and senior teacher at Stillpoint since he co-founded it in 2009 as Stillpoint Yoga London, with the late Ozge Karabiyik. He has dedicated himself to sharing the practice of yoga each weekday morning since then.
Scott has been practising yoga since 1998, and teaching Ashtanga yoga since 2003. He's one of only a few Ashtanga teachers to both be authorised in the primary and intermediate series by Manju Jois and be given senior teacher status by John Scott.
Scott is registered as a senior yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance UK and has also undergone extensive training with Clear Mind International, gaining their level 1, 2 & 3 certificate in Mindfulness and Compassion. Scott’s years of dedicated and committed teaching each morning has led Stillpoint to become a highly respected central London Ashtanga yoga shala. He meets everyone who comes and looks to create long-term relationships, integrating the practice of yoga and embodied mindfulness as a way of meeting the world.
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