Level 1
3 Programs
Yoga for Beginners
Yoga for Beginners is for everyone. It is made for you who want to start doing yoga and need some guidance before your first full class.
Over four weeks we look at the foundational postures of a Vinyasa class: Downward-Facing Dog, Plank, Chaturanga and more. The classes are twenty minutes long. We stop here and there so you understand how to do a posture, and still get time to practise it.
- Week 1: Welcome to Your Practice, Move Into Plank and Chaturanga Dandasana.
- Week 2: Salute the Sun, Find Your Inner Warrior and Let’s Practice, your first flow without stops.
- Week 3: Repetition is Key, Reviewing Plank and Chaturanga Dandasana Take Two, because quality comes from repetition.
- Week 4: Stand Strong, Move into Backbends and Today We Flow.
Move at your own pace and take your time. You need a mat and two blocks. Books from your shelf work too. Level 1, with Lizette Pompa.
Two Week Meditation Program
Guided meditation for beginners and experienced meditators alike. Begin a meditation practice or deepen the one you have.
Meditation, or mindfulness practice, connects you to the present moment, and that is good for both the mind and the body. We begin right now, right where you are. Start with the Info Video.
- Week 1: Discover Yourself uses the body to ground the mind, Make Friends with Your Mind works with thoughts and distraction, and You're Alive follows the breath from the nose to the belly.
- Week 2: Hearing the Universe uses sound, Be a Baby explores sensation before words, and Body Scan closes the program with more time in silence.
The sessions are 15 to 20 minutes. The Completion Video gives you ideas for how to keep going. Level 1, no props needed.
An Introduction To Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Patanjali was a yoga teacher who lived in India long ago. His Yoga Sutras are the classic text on the philosophy and practice of yoga.
This program gives you a taste of some of the essential teachings in the four books, or chapters, of the Yoga Sutras. A sutra is a short phrase or teaching. Patanjali did not write the sutras down. They were chanted again and again so students could learn them by heart.
The program follows that traditional approach: we chant each sutra in call and response before a translation and interpretation. Start with the Intro to The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.
- Week 1: what yoga is, in Chapter One (Samadhi Pada) Sutras 1, 2 and 3, Kriya yoga in Chapter Two (Sadhana Pada) Sutra 1, why we practise in Chapter Two (Sadhana Pada) Sutra 16 and 17, and the eight limbs in Chapter Two (Sadhana Pada) Sutra 29.
- Week 2: the yamas and niyamas in Chapter Two (Sadhana Pada) Sutra 30 and 31 and Chapter Two (Sadhana Pada) Sutra 32, asana in Chapter Two (Sadhana Pada) Sutra 46, concentration in Chapter Three (Vibhuti Pada) Sutra 1 + meditation and perception in Chapter Four (Kaivalya Pada) Sutra 15.
Each teaching is 5 to 15 minutes. Level 1, no props needed.