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Bibi Lorenzetti in ABQ

Visiting Teacher: Bibi Lorenzetti
WORKSHOP WEEKEND
May 17 & 18, 2014
Practice + Food: A weekend intensive in how food and yoga come together.
Full weekend registration: $90 member / $95 nonmember

Saturday, May 17th from 9-11:30am.
Vegetarian Lifestyle and Cooking
Being a vegetarian in your life and in your kitchen-- a 3-course vegetarian meal with discussion on vegetarian diet.
Saturday only registration: $50 member / $55 nonmember

Whether you already consider yourself a chef or think cooking a meal for one involves the microwave and plastic wrap, this class is for you! Bibi will teach you how to make easy, fast, and most importantly, nutritious meals that you’ll want to make again and again.
-​L​earn to cook easy and fast and healthy meals for one or more
-Discover new foods and how to use them
-Learn Bibi’s top tips and tricks to guarantee a flavorful meal
-Learn the benefits of the foods we’re eating

​Class includes:
-Cooking demonstration​
-​3-course meal, Instructions & recipes

Sunday, May 18th from 9-11.30am
Asana Practice & Healthy Lifestyle
Led primary series followed by a discussion on food & healthy lifestyle ​and how it's related to the practice.
Sunday only registration: $40 member / $45 nonmember

MORNING MYSORE CLASSES
May 16-23, 2014.
Door opens for practice at 8:15 am Sunday and 6:30 am Monday-Friday.
Opening mantra/teacher guidance at 8:30 am on Sunday and 7 am Monday-Friday until 9:30 am each day.
Door closes at 10 am.
Beginners should arrive after 8:30 on Sunday or after 7am Mon-Fri on their first day.
Included in regular Mysore tuition for ongoing students.
New? Register now for one month / one week / one day.
Beginners and new students are welcome and encouraged to attend.

EVENING MYSORE CLASSES (FOR BEGINNERS)
Monday & Wednesday 4:30-6:30pm
$20 drop-in (register).
Please note that this is not included in ongoing Mysore student tuition.

PRIVATE SESSIONS
Bibi will also be offering private yoga, cooking, and health coaching sessions.
60-minutes ($80) / 90-minutes ($120)
Please email to make an appointment: bibi.lorenzetti@gmail.com

ABOUT BIBI
After meeting Shri Sharath Jois in a workshop in New York in 2011 Bibi knew she had found her Guru. Since then she has traveled yearly to see her teacher in Mysore, India and study under his guidance at the Krishna Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute (KPJAYI).

Bibi is currently learning the Advanced A Series under the guidance of Shri Sharath Jois, her beloved Guru. She assists Kristin Leigh and Barbara Verocchi at the Shala's Mysore program in NYC.

Bibi is passionate about her personal yoga practice and the Ashtanga lineage. Her devotion and love for the practice come through her teaching, inspiring others to stay on the path. She shares this with enthusiasm and contagious joy! Bibi guides her beginner students in the building of a daily practice, and assists the growth of the more advanced practitioners. Her teachings are inspired by her own practice and the desire to foster greater introspection, and a deeper sense of self in order to evoke clarity, light, space, and stability.

In her work as a health coach, Bibi emphasizes taking proper care of oneself through fine-tuning the body and tapping into its inner wisdom. In her programs, Bibi supports her clients in making radically positive changes in the way they feel about and perceive themselves through food and cooking.

"I extend boundless gratitude to my Guru Sharath Jois, and my teachers and mentorsand look forward to sharing these transformational and awakening practices with you." -Bibi

Photo: Bibi teaching at The Shala (NYC)

Guy Donahaye in New Mexico

Ashtanga Yoga weekend intensive with certified teacher Guy Donahaye
October 19-21, 2012
Albuquerque Ashtanga Yoga Shala
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Register
This event will fill up. Register now here.

Question?
eliseashtangayoga@gmail.com 

SCHEDULE:

Friday
Fundamentals of Practice
7:00 - 9:00 pm

Bandhas and breathing in asana and Pranayama practice. This introductory session will explore the fundamental building blocks of asana practice, focusing mainly on bandhas, breathing, alignment and vinyasa. Through learning uddiyana, agni sara and eventually nauli, a deeper awareness of the bandhas arises. Through this awareness we will explore the expansion of breath, correct alignment and find balance, "sweetness" and strength in the asanas and pranayamas.

Saturday
Mysore Practice
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Mysore style practice allows you to breathe and move at your own speed. The verbal instruction is minimized to allow you to sink deeper into the internal aspects of the practice. Much of the teaching comes through the application of hands-on adjustments, which is a form of body work that enables the student to understand how to move beyond apparent limitations. The adjustments show the body how to move with selective effort using the appropriate muscles and allows the parts of the body which need to release to do so.

Mind Medicine I & II
1:00 - 3:00 pm
Two talks on Ashtanga Yoga theory, philosophy and practice. Followed by Q&A and Pranayama.

Sunday
Mysore Practice
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Mysore style practice allows you to breathe and move at your own speed. The verbal instruction is minimized to allow you to sink deeper into the internal aspects of the practice. Much of the teaching comes through the application of hands-on adjustments, which is a form of body work that enables the student to understand how to move beyond apparent limitations. The adjustments show the body how to move with selective effort using the appropriate muscles and allows the parts of the body which need to release to do so.

Mind Medicine I & II
1:00 - 3:00 pm
Two talks on Ashtanga Yoga theory, philosophy and practice. Followed by Q&A and Pranayama.

ABOUT

Guy Donahaye met Sri K Pattabhi Jois in 1991 and continued his studies with him, mostly in India, over a period of eighteen years until Jois' death in 2009. He is one of only 40 students worldwide who has been awarded a teaching certification by Jois during his 70 years of teaching, and has been conducting yoga classes in this traditional method since 1993.

Guy's interest in yoga is equally therapeutic, philosophical and spiritual: He came to yoga with the desire to improve his ability to meditate and found in yoga a deeply therapeutic tool, which facilitates spiritual evolution through healing body and mind.

In 2009 he published "Guruji" - a tribute to the teachings and life of Sri K Pattabhi Jois with Eddie Stern - a collection of 30 interviews he had conducted over a twelve year period with Jois' senior students and family.

He has been the director of the Ashtanga Yoga Shala in NYC since 1999 and before that in the UK from 1993-1998. He teaches regular workshops on Yoga Philosophy and Practice in New York and internationally.

More information and registration www.AshtangaYogaAlbuquerque.com

 Related:

Interview with Guy Donahaye by Elise Espat

4-week Ashtanga Beginner Course July 9 - August 2

The Albuquerque Ashtanga Yoga Shala is a unique space specializing in traditional Mysore-style Ashtanga yoga in the lineage of Shri K Pattabhi Jois. This method comes directly from Mysore, India and emphasizes personal development, dedication, and a strong student-teacher relationship. Mysore is ideal for beginning students.

Under the watchful eye of a highly trained instructor you will learn in a gentle, safe, and supportive environment. Students are taught gradually, ensuring correct understanding and time for integration of each asana, concept, and technique before the next is given. In this way, students progress on their own truly personal path of yoga.

All classes are taught by Krishna Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute Authorized teacher Elise Espat. Students will work individually with Elise, slowly developing a daily Mysore practice according to their abilities. Each session will build upon the last. To receive the most benefit from the course, it is recommended that students attend classes 4 days per week. If this is not possible, at least once or twice per week will suffice.

TIME: 8:30 - 9:30 am
DATES: Monday, July 9th - Thursday, August 2nd
DAYS: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
LOCATION: Albuquerque Ashtanga Yoga Shala 206 Dartmouth DR NE @Monte Vista in Nob Hill 
TUITION: $108

Pre-registration is required: eliseashtangayoga@gmail.com

AshtangaYogaAlbuquerque.com

Asana Labs

ASANA LABS
Primary Series asanas dissected


DETAILS
Sundays 3/25, 4/15, 5/13, 6/10
2:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Sunday, March 25 surya namaskar, standing asanas, tristhana
Sunday, April 15 seated asanas, vinyasa
Sunday, May 13 bandha, balance, backbending
Sunday, June 10 the space between

ABOUT
Primary Series asanas dissected. Part practice, part theory.

Themes include:
Alignment and essential anatomy
What to look for and what to avoid
Healthy and happy knees and shoulders
How to create more space in the body and mind
Overcoming obstacles
The benefits and therapeutic indications of the asanas
Maximum benefit with minimum effort (working smarter instead of harder)

more info and sign-up