Launch Your Yoga Journey . . . In California

Cathy Woods will be offering a yoga program  from February 27-March 1, 2015 at Mount Madonna Center, California.

Launch Your Yoga Journey: Enrich Your Life

For those who want to explore yoga, those fairly new to the practice, and those wanting to renew and expand their existing practice. In this comprehensive program, participants will gain a clear, practical, concise experience of yoga, on all levels, body, mind and spirit. Sometimes, there is confusion about what yoga is and what it is not – confusion about jargon, styles, systems, and “brands” of yoga. Some westernized versions focus on exercise and fitness, sometimes missing the essence of the practice. This program will focus on that essence. Students will leave with a positive experience, a strong, easy to follow base for embarking on their yogic journey, feeling rested, renewed, & empowered.

We explore:

  • The true meaning of yoga, as an awareness practice
  • Asanas (postures)
  •  Meditation
  • Pranayama (breath work)
  •  Yamas/Niyamas (inward/outward observances) and all 8 limbs of yoga
  •  Stress reduction/relaxation,
  • Metaphors of yoga and how to incorporate them into ALL we do
  •   indful walks/meditation in motion.

This is not an esoteric workshop, nor about yogic texts, but a simple, authentic exploration of the practice.

CATHY WOODS, ERYT500, author of several published articles, is a yogini who has been teaching for 23 years based not only on her training and education, but also on her own self-realization and insights. Though she remains connected to Kripalu lineage, she teaches the “yoga of her heart,” focusing on assisting students to enrich their lives and helping them embark on their own inner journey

Tuition $275, plus fees