In this workshop Ramanand Patel and Pandit Mukesh Desai combine their efforts to provide a safe and penetrating journey into yoga practice. Ramanand will provide the expertise on learning various asanas in the Iyengar Tradition. Sound will be used as a prop to support deeper penetration and to help introject the breath and senses. Pandit Mukesh Desai will accompany Ramanand with his vast knowledge of Indian Classical music and his wondrous vocal and musical ability.
Leaders in their respective fields, they each provide the sense of joy, knowledge and humor. Sound may also be used to provide new insight into the rhythmic flow of vinyasa to facilitate smoother breath and movement. Poses that have been difficult to hold will blossom. Deep-seated blockages of the mind to free flow of prana and emotions will release with the aid of music, as the listener is able to integrate the sound and transcend past limitations.
Ramanand Patel is recognized as a valued senior teacher in the Iyengar yoga community. He combines technical expertise with philosophy and humor. Ramanand has been a leading Iyengar Yoga Instructor for students and teachers around the world since 1968. He is respected as an innovator in the use of props and working with students who have special needs.
Pandit Mukesh Desai is a disciple of Pandit Jasraj, and is a world renowned classical Hindustani musician. His love and devotion is evident in everything he does but never more passionately than when he shares his music and himself. Pandit Mukesh musical talent is eclipsed only by his own delightful sense of humor which makes him one of the most beloved teachers of music around the world.
Fri: 6:30-8:30 PM
Sat & Sun: 11-5:30 PM, with 30 minute break. Healthy snacks provided.
House concert Saturday Evening, details forthcoming.
14 hour workshop w/ concert ticket: AASY members $330, non-members $375
Concert tickets alone: AASY members $15, non-members $20
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Click here to view and print a registration form (.doc file).
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Registration Criteria:
Registration is open to all Iyengar yoga students with 2 or more years experience in Iyengar yoga. Students must be able to hold sirsasana and sarvangasana for 5 minutes, wall allowed or use of rope wall. Yoga students from other methods may inquire about participation directly to Laurie Blakeney at info@annarborschoolofyoga.com.
There are various levels at which yoga asana and pranayama are done. They are physical (general alignment), physiological (working through the bones), organic (channeling the effect towards particular organs), sensory (understanding "being receptive" through proper use of gross as well as subtle sense organs and senses), pranic (use of five major pranas), and meditative. To move from organic into pranic stage, proper understanding and use of senses is necessary. In Yoga and Sound workshop we attempt to teach this. The workshop will include both, chanting correctly as taught by Pandit Desai as well listening and chanting in postures, after Ramanand has created a basis for that level of work through physical, physiological and organic approach. How far we can go into this depth will naturally depend partly on the ability and the expertise of the students as a group. Our past experience at teaching this suggests that all students from the beginning to the most advanced ones find the experience extra-ordinarily helpful as it makes them learn how to continue deeper work without additional strain or stress.
What do we listen to: When evaluating the audio equipment we listen to sound. This is critical listening. We do it in two ways, one by technical measurement and two by human hearing mechanism. The latter is vastly superior to the former. Many of the better known professional authors on the subject agree further that there are some dangers in critical listening. They are briefly:
a. Any signal put into audio equipment never comes out better at the other end. In comparing commissions and omissions, it is agreed that those that add to the signal are far worse than those that remove from the signal.
b. Critical listeners, once they start on the path, tend to listen to the hardware rather than the music.
c. Expectation of the sound quality becomes so high that listening for the shear pleasure disappears.
Yoga & Sound Workshop
Ann Arbor School of Yoga
Aug. 20-22, 2010
Fri: 6:30-8:30 PM
Sat & Sun: 11-5:30 PM
House concert Saturday Evening, details forthcoming.
14 hour workshop w/ concert ticket: AASY members $330, non-members $375
Concert tickets alone: AASY members $15, non-members $20
Click here to register online.
Click here to view and print a registration form (.doc file).
Click here to view and print a registration form (.pdf file).
Please ensure that you meet the Registration Criteria.