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In this workshop, Karin will teach a variety of ways of seeing and looking at the body in the context of the asanas with an emphasis on precision and detail. She will teach how to deconstruct the pose and rebuild it through powerful sequencing and incrementality. Students will learn how to adapt to their own asymmetries and misalignments by making use of modifications, while still working in the direction of the classical form. As Karin says, "The way there is also there." All sets of asanas - forward bends, backbends, twists, standing poses and inversions - will be taught and practiced, and Karin will help each and every student work through their difficulties so that the poses feel easeful and harmonious. This workshop will be about seeing and looking, practicing and doing.
Students will learn to:
- Use intelligent sequencing to arrive at more difficult poses
- Look at how actions in one pose get carried into other poses
- Identify the similarities & congruities within sets of poses and use this knowledge to deepen and grow our asana repertoire
- Observe and study the asymmetric body and learn how to work with it in our asanas
- Study more deeply Karin’s method of Observation and Analysis
As a bonus for workshop participants, on Saturday December 2nd from 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm, guest teacher Denise Glueck will teach an introduction to the work of dance therapy pioneer Irmgard Bartenieff, and will show how it can be integrated with Karin’s Iyengar work and the themes of the workshop. While Iyengar Yoga educates the body in structure and form, Bartenieff’s work focuses on expressive spatial movement. Both emphasize breath and the expressive mind, while reinforcing Bartenieff’s concepts of "inner connectivity, outer expressivity.”
This workshop is best suited for students who have studied yoga for at least a year.
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