Morning Practices, Workshops and Teacher Intensive with Chuck Miller, June 22 – 30, 2012.
Morning Practices:
Friday June 22nd 7-9 am Conducted Morning Practice
Introduction to Sama, Vinyasa, Breath, Roots, and Core
We will go slowly and explore more details in the Sun Salutation and Standing poses. This will be a practice, rather than a workshop style class, so it will flow with a slower pace and more focus on correct inner work. “It is not important how far or how fast we go!”
Saturday June 23rd 10:00 to 12:00 Conducted Morning Practice
Morning Practice continues. We will review and continue to travel further into the series, making sure to carry forward what we have learned as we challenge our abilities to maintain that work in the more difficult postures.
Sunday June 24th 7:00 to 9:30 am Morning Practice, Led Primary Series
“It is not important how far we go nor how fast we go.” This will be instructed Ashtanga with a focus on methods of adapting the practice to the individual student. This is a great place to learn how to take care of yourself in a conducted class. There are options you can employ to stay in the flow and still work appropriately.
Recommended for one and for all, advanced and beginner.
Monday-Friday June 25th – 29th 6:30 to 9:00 am
Morning Practice. We continue with our morning practice. I reserve the right to decide whether to do conducted or Mysore style!
Saturday June 30th 10:00 am to 12:00 am Morning Practice
Full Led Primary Series, Up to Speed
We will continue with our morning practice to focus on correct effort and intention as we’ll bring the practice up to speed. Come one, come all. Test your ability to work consciously as we challenge the pace.

Workshops:
Friday June 22nd 12:00 to 3:00 Shoulder Workshop
We use our shoulders a lot in Ashtanga. It is best if we learn how to take good care of them before we start demanding more from them in the more advanced postures. That is the intention in this class. We will use the ‘basic’ but not easy shoulder challenging postures of the Sun Salutations, Downward Facing Dog, Chaturanga Dandasana and Upward Facing Dog. The work we explore in those will inform many of our other postures as we move on.
Saturday June 23rd 2:30 to 5:30 Workshop
Samasthitihi and SuryaNamaskara: unwrapped and reborn….
As it sounds we will go deeper into Surya Namaskara and Samasthitihi. There is a set of Universal Actions we need to learn in these practices that are the heart and soul of the whole practice. This is the primary ground work of the whole practice.
Sunday June 24th 1:00 to 3:00 pm Standing Postures Workshop
The postures of the Standing sequence are very important, safe and therapeutic if done correctly. Let’s look at how to truly benefit from them and to learn how to challenge ourselves appropriately in these postures we practice everyday. Getting the legs stronger and learning how to use that strength to extend the spine will help us in backbends, forward bends, twists, and inversions.
Standing postures are the best hip openers.
Saturday June 30th 2:30 to 5:30 pm Back Bending Workshop.
Let’s learn to practice these poses as front stretching postures and not as back bends. We can do them in a fun and healthy way well into our old age if we do them correctly! There are a few simple things we need to focus on to make these asanas fun and therapeutic.
Teacher Intensive:
Monday -Friday June 25th- 29th,1:30 to 4:30 pm. A 5-day Teacher Intensive for teachers and experienced students. Possible things to explore:
-common injuries and how to avoid them
-techniques to help us navigate in a Vinyasic way
-how to modify our effort to stay on the right path and work therapeutically
-hands-on adjustments to help us understand the Universal Actions of all postures
-time for questions and answers
-the unification of practice and philosophy in Ashtanga Yoga
-alternating between passive and active work to help find our way
-pranayama and meditation
Chuck Miller has been practicing yoga earnestly since 1971 and finally learned Ashtanga Yoga from Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in 1980. Studies with Pattabhi include numerous extended and familial encounters in America and nearly 2 years during 7 trips to Mysore , South India .
Chuck enjoys teaching with a focus on the wholistic nature of Ashtanga Yoga, teaching it as both a philosophical system as well as a strong practical method. Chuck is known for his gentle but deliberate hands-on adjustments which are both reassuring and challenging.
Teaching since 1988 Chuck was Director of Ashtanga Yoga and was a co-owner of the original Yoga Works in Santa Monica , CA , for over 16 years.
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