Hello, Folks!
Jocelyne and I hope that you are all having a great summer so far. We have a bunch of fun classes and other offerings coming up over the next few weeks, and hope that you can join us for some of them. Our September classes at Sky Ting Yoga (
register here) will be from September 3rd to the 9th, and we've increased to a six-day week from
five days. We have also changed the pricing so that you can purchase either the six-day week including Sunday led; the week of Mysore only; do a single Mysore drop-in, or a single led class.
And here are some other things...
1.
Yoga and Physiology: Engineering Health launches Monday, August 12th. This online course created for NYU Tandon School of Engineering covers a basic introduction to all of our physiological systems and yoga postures that address specific functions of each system. The course was designed by molecular biology professor (and now med student)
Alexandra Seidenstein, Professor Tommy Lee, and myself, with appearances by special guest doctors and scientists, including neuro- and spinal surgeon Dr. Erich Anderer. The course is a free on
Coursera, and can also be taken as a certificate course for a fee.
3.
South Hampton Arts Center Friday, August 16th, 10am. If you happen to be in or around Southampton next Friday, please join us for a led primary and pranayama class, followed by a short talk on yoga in the amazing SHAC main room.
4.
Trickle Down Kindness Friday, August 16th, 5pm-7pm, Watermill, NY. An intimate evening panel featuring Ladies of Hope Ministries founder Topeka K. Sam, David Lynch Foundation president and NYT bestselling author Bob Roth, and myself, in a
conversation about real life strategies to navigate obstacles in an effort to treat all of our relationships (including to ourselves) with more care.
5.
Rockefeller Center Free yoga classes on Saturday, August 17th and 31st at 30 Rock - please come! Classes start at 9am. All levels welcome.
6.
Namarupa Hatha Yoga Retreat August 22nd to 26th, Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing in Pine Bush, NY. Yoga, long ago, thoroughly intuited the dynamic state of equilibrium called homeostasis and its role in the optimal functioning of the human being. Yoga evolved subtle techniques still used today to
enhance our health and happiness. Often in "modern yoga" practice the emphasis is on the muscular-skeletal system. However, yoga practice was originally much more focussed on the nervous and respiratory systems. The yogis developed methods using breath to balance and fine tune the body’s responses to stressors leading to increased well-being and stronger resistance to, as well as quicker recovery from, disease. The various asanas mainly enabled and enhanced breath control. Balancing
the right and left hemispheres of the brain was of paramount importance. We will investigate the nervous and respiratory systems of the body, as well as the endocrine and immune systems and learn how yogic principles work as verified by modern science. We will learn about Heart Rate Variability, how it is an accurate and easy way to measure the health of the autonomic nervous system and how pranayama and bandhas tone the vagus nerve which in turn leads to a stronger and healthier being.
Taught by Robert and Meenakshi Moses and Anna Winkler. I'll join for one of the days for some talks on the nervous system.
That's all for now! We hope to see you at some of these offerings, and if not this month, then at the classes in September. Thank you all!
With love,
Eddie and Jocelyne
