Back to the Heart

Experience the foundational elements of building a strong yet open backbending practice.  This workshop will explore the anatomy of the lower cakras as they set the foundation for the stability and vulnerability needed to have an open heart, mind and body.  Through this asana practice you will learn how to activate your core to support deeper and more meaningful back bends. This workshop includes: mantra, vinyasa, asana lab and modifications.

‘Ascending to the High Seat’ – An extended open class taught by Rima Rabbath & Monica Jaggi.
Many of us struggle sitting with ourselves for any amount of time. In seated asanas, not only the body sits but also the mind joins in and sits with the body.  By bringing our center of gravity closer to the earth,  we feel more capable of observing the polarities being expressed from the seat of our unconscious (tendencies, emotions, karmas). The dialectical mind is allowed to rest as love & hate, likes & dislikes, attraction & aversion, are seen equally without being for or against.  In this direct experience of the whole of ourselves, our connection to totality is revealed, from which compassion arises, empathy is born, and separation is overcome.