The Yamas & Niyamas: Exploring Yoga's Ethical Practice

Managing Transitions: Life Changes with the Yamas and Niyamas

 Classes will be held monthly, beginning Sunday, October 17, 2010 from 6:30 – 8:00 pm at the Yoga North Studio.

Dates:  Oct. 17, Nov. 21, Dec. 19, 2010, Jan. 16, Feb. 20, Mar. 13, Apr. 17, May 15, 2011.   Cost:  $175.00, includes book and course materials

Managing Transition:  Life Changes with the Yamas and Niyamas will apply the wisdom of the ethical guidelines of yoga, focusing on those persons who are dealing with life changes, such as the effects ageing can have on one’s body and mind, or whose medical issues have compromised their normal ways of coping, or those who have suffered a significant loss that has impacted their lives.
The five Yamas (nonviolence, truthfulness, nonstealing, nonexcess, and nonpossessiveness) guide us in dealing with our relationship to the outer world, while in the Niyamas (purity, contentment, self-discipline, self-study, and surrender) we turn inward to develop a right relationship to ourselves.  We will use the book, The Yamas and Niyamas, Exploring Yoga’s Ethical Practice, by Deborah Adele, co-owner of Yoga North, to explore and apply to our own lives the concepts and questions raised in each chapter.  Certain meditation and yoga practices will also be introduced to enhance our explorations.
Your instructor is Catharine Larsen, MA, Licensed Psychologist, whose life has been enriched by studying and teaching The Yamas and Niyamas, and who is dealing with the effects of ageing in her own life.  Those who have studied these practices have found them life-changing and life-enriching each time they explored them.  We look forward to you joining us as we explore and mine the gold of yoga’s ethical practices.

Staying in the fire

until the blessing creates

deep, abiding peace.

Tapas/Self-Discipline by Catharine Larsen July 2010

This 8-week commitment to yourself and the group meets Sundays for lecture, guided practice, and discussion...