Workshops & Events
2024 Winter Session Special Events and Workshops
Postures and Philosophy Workshop
Friday, March 22, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
In modern times, yoga is seen as an exercise product with health and fitness generated by the practice of its dynamic and vigorous postures. In the yoga tradition, the health benefits of the postures are seen as by-products of the essential process that they represent. In truth, yoga poatures are condensed lessons (and laboratories) for living well. Join Center for Iyengar Yoga Director and Level III certified Iyengar Yoga teacher, Christopher Briney for an in-depth exploration of the potential and power of the yoga postures as tools for self-transformation, along with the holistic picture of health that yoga espouses. This is a great workshop for anyone wishing to increase the power of their yoga practice and its effects.
To register online, please click here: Postures and Philosophy Workshop
CFIY Microcinema Night
February 2, 2024
Join the CFIY community for a viewing and brief discussion of the film, Groundhog Day, starrring Bill Murray and Andie McDowell. This classic comedy follows a cynical, self-absorbed weatherman’s life-changing experience of being trapped in a kind of time warp. In addition to its humorous and charming content, the film carries a strong message about the cultivation of yogic qualities such as selflessness, service and honesty, and the powerful transformations they can effect.
Tickets: $12
Herbal Tea, Chai, Popcorn and Snacks will be provided.
Purchase Tickets online here: CFIY Microcinema Event
B.K.S. Iyengar--hailed as "the Michelangelo of yoga" (BBC) and considered by many to be one of the most important yoga masters--has spent much of his life introducing the modern world to the ancient practice of yoga. Yoga's popularity is soaring, but its widespread acceptance as an exercise for physical fitness and the recognition of its health benefits have not been matched by an understanding of the emotional, intellectual, and spiritual development that the yogic tradition can also offer. In Light on Life, B.K.S. Iyengar brings readers this new and more complete understanding of the yogic journey.
Here Iyengar explores the yogic goal to integrate the different parts of the self (body, emotions, mind, and soul), the role that the yoga postures and breathing techniques play in our search for wholeness, the external and internal obstacles that keep us from progressing along the path, and how yoga can transform our lives and help us to live in harmony with the world around us. For the first time, Iyengar uses stories from his own life, humor, and examples from modern culture to illustrate the profound gifts that yoga offers. Written with the depth of this sage's great wisdom, Light on Life is the culmination of a master's spiritual genius, a treasured companion to his seminal Light on Yoga.
(Review from Amazon.com)
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