IYENGAR YOGA THERAPEUTIC WORKSHOP with Djoeke Van Der Werf 2012.4.7－2012.4.8

The first every Iyengar workshop conducted by B.K.S. Iyengar certified teacher
With professional medical background and more than 21 years of teaching experience
Focus on the therapeutic values of “Iyengar yoga” and help to alleviate back pain & lower back pain, knee problems and stress.
“Iyengar is all about positioning various parts of the body postures so that each individual part as well as the various physiological systems functions at their best potential.”
This workshop with Djoeke will demonstrate the strengths of the Iyengar system. Iyengar yoga focuses on the therapeutic effects of postures so it helps alleviate common metal and physical problems. For example, back pain & lower back pain, knee problems and stress. The way Iyengar has practiced and improvised the various ways of using the Yoga Props can help Yoga students derive maximum benefits from the asanas. Iyengar yoga’s rewards are quickly apparent. Even a beginner will get a feeling of well being from postures intended to exercise every tendon, muscle and ligament.

7th April, 2012 Saturday 8th April, 2012 Sunday
9:00AM-11:30AM 9:00 AM -11:30 AM
Asana, Twists & Supine and Pranayama Prone, Backbends or Inversions, Pranayama.
1:30PM-4:00PM 1:30 PM -4:00 PM
Asana, Standing, Seated, Inversions or Backbends Asana, Forwardbends, Balance, Pranayama

AboutDjoeke Van Der Werf

Djoeke Van Der Werf earned her “Intermediate Senior” Yoga Certification from B.K.S. Iyengar. She has more than 21 years of teaching experience in the U.S., Europe, Jordan and the UAE. Because of her professional medical background Djoeke focused on the therapeutic values of “Iyengar yoga” and was asked to teach yoga programs in Hospitals and Nursing Homes to benefit people with disabilities.

Workshop with Ana Forrest

First time in Shanghai, China!

November 25 – 27, 2011

The Forrest Yoga Workshops are asana focused practices. Forrest Yoga helps you connect to your core - getting strong and centered. It uses heat, deep breathing and vigorous sequences to sweat out toxins. The long holds in the pose progressions help you flush, oxygenate and rejuvenate every cell. The Forrest Yoga Workshops are offered to practitioners of all levels. As a beginner to Forrest Yoga, you learn to breathe deeply and connect in feeling with your body. As you progress, you get proficient at safely tailoring each pose to work best for you; particularly with physical and emotional injuries. Join Ana Forrest at Y+ Yoga Center and sign up today for the package of the following workshops.

FRIDAY November 25, 2011
INTRODUCTION TO FORREST YOGA 7.00PM – 9:00PM
This workshop is an introduction to Forrest Yoga, a unique style of yoga created by Ana Forrest and developed to evolve into a powerful, transformational system. Welcome any foundation practitioners to attend this workshop. You will learn about the five pillars of Forrest Yoga (Breath, Strength, Integrity, Spirit and Go Deeper) as well as the techniques that make Forrest Yoga uniquely different from other practices.

SATURDAY November 26, 2011
CELEBRATE YOUR PRACTICE 10.00AM – 12.30PM
Rekindle the fires of passion and pleasure with Forrest Yoga. Reconnect to your energy and delight in your strength. Bring healing and inspiration into your personal practice. Learn to make your practice exhilarating and delicious.

OPEN YOUR HEART 2.30PM – 5.00PM
Learn the magic of heart-opening asanas. Open your core, which gives your heart support and counsel of your other primary chakras. This helps your heart & Spirit be more resilient, flexible & adept at surfing emotional waves. Learn to remove obstructive shielding from your heart so it can truly and honestly feel each new experience afresh.

SUNDAY November 27, 2011
JOURNEY TO THE CORE 10.00AM – 12.30PM
Take a physical and mental journey deep into the core of your own being, where you will create a heightened sense of awareness through breath and asanas. Open to the amazing quality of feeling that lives inside as you sweat, breathe and enter into the incredible mystery that is your core.

HEAL YOUR BACK 2.30PM – 5.00PM
Revitalize and strengthen your back. Stimulate healing by learning how to bring fresh oxygen, blood and nerve energy into your back and torso. Forrest Yoga teaches poses created specifically to heal and strengthen your back. Work, sweat and attain freedom from back pain.

ABOUT ANA T. FORREST
Ana Forrest is an internationally renowned pioneer in yoga and healing. Her own trauma and life experiences have formed the foundation from which Ana created Forrest Yoga - a distinct approach of using yoga to address today?s physical and emotional challenges with a highly developed understanding of the human body and psyche. She challenges her students to access their whole being and to use Forrest Yoga as a path to finding and then clearing the emotional and mental blocks that dictate and limit their lives. With Ana?s meticulous guidance, students cultivate an acute awareness of their own practice and life process, creating a unique and powerful opportunity for the student to make practical life decisions based on their own experiences. “In teaching Forrest Yoga, I am doing my part to ?Mend the Hoop of the People,? to inspire people to clear through the stuff that hardens them and sickens their bodies so they can walk freely and lightly in a healing way, in a Beauty Way.” With more than 35 years of experience teaching yoga, Ana Forrest is a living example of a teacher who has freed herself from the strictures of trauma and habits and chosen a warrior?s path of truth and compassion. She became a certified yoga instructor at the age of 18, is an ordained practitioner of Native American medicine and has studied Polarity Therapy, Acupressure, Homeopathy, Hands-on Healing, Martial Arts, Psychotherapy and Regression Therapy.
Giving her life mission to ?Mend the Hoop of the People? a global reach, Ana continues to teach around the world throughout the year. Ana?s book, Fierce Medicine, (HarperOne) was published in May, 2011.

Moving Into Meditation——A 9-hours Workshop with SARAH POWERS

Moving Into Meditation
Yin/Yang Yoga and Mindfulness Meditation
A 9-hours Workshop with SARAH POWERS
exclusively at Y+ Yoga Center, Shanghai from 28-30 Oct 2011

Incorporating a daily yoga and meditation practice into our life keeps us attuned to the importance of living ordinary moments with awareness. Nevertheless, even the most dedicated practitioners hit plateaus and need opportunities to become re-inspired. In this workshop Sarah will provide an atmosphere for balancing the body, heart and mind through active and receptive yoga poses, as well as offering teachings on Mindfulness meditation so that we can deepen or develop a skillful and committed meditation practice.

Yin yoga is an essential compliment to our more active styles and offers a vehicle to develop our contemplative nature. The Yin style also keeps the body supple at its core while encouraging stagnate chi (prana) to flow throughout the joints, engendering a quality of steady ease. The active practice helps rejuvenate our natural vitality while developing a core stability and meditative body centered presence.This workshop will focus on the integration of our Yin and Yang aspects of being, creating a practice that values both vitality and insight. A guided and silent mindfulness meditation will be incorporated with the yoga sessions.

Class time and outline:
Fri 6:00pm-8:00pm:  focus on floor poses and meditation
Sat 1:00pm-4:30pm:  focus on backbends and compassion practice
Sun 10:00am-1:30pm: emphasize standing poses and mindfulness meditation.
Total 9 hours
As Sarah likes to teach in a progressive manner, she asks that you come to the whole intensive.

This workshop is suitable for anyone who has been doing Yoga for at least one year and has a strong interest in meditation and we recommend you come with a basic understanding of these practices by reading Sarah’s book, Insight Yoga.

About Sarah Powers

Sarah Powers began teaching in 1987. She is the founder and author of Insight Yoga, which interweaves the insights and practices of Yoga, Buddhism, Chinese medicine, and Transpersonal Psychology into an integral practice to enliven the body, heart and mind. Her yoga style blends both a Yin sequence of floor poses to enhance the meridian and organ systems, combined with an alignment-based slow flow or Yang practice, influenced by Viniyoga, Ashtanga, and Iyengar teachings. Sarah feels that enlivening the physical and pranic bodies, as well as learning to open to our emotional difficulties is paramount for preparing one to deepen and nourish insights into one's essential nature--a natural state of awareness. She draws from her studies in Transpersonal Psychology, as well as her in-depth training in the Vipassana and Tantric practices of Buddhism.

Sarah and her husband Ty Powers live in the San Francisco bay area and have created the Insight Yoga Institute which offers 500+ YA hour trainings with other renowned teachers blending yoga, buddhism and psychology (www.insightyogainstitute.com). She is also co-founder of Metta Journeys (www.mettajourneys.com), a service oriented organization that offers yoga retreats internationally to help women and children in developing countries. Sarah is the author of the book Insight Yoga (Shambhala Publications). To learn more about her see her dvds Insight Yoga or Yin and Vinyasa and go to www.sarahpowers.com.

Going with the Flow, Following Your Heart
The Second Coming of Anusara with Lois Nesbitt

• Lois Nestitt 1st visit to Shanghai at Y+
• Introduction to the essence of Anusara and Teachers' Training

Time: 5TH – 7TH JUNE 2009
Price：150/1 class、680/6 classes

-Anusara -

Anusara (a-nu-sar-a), means “flowing with Grace,” “going with the flow,” “following your heart.” Founded by John Friend in 1997, Anusara Yoga is one of the most popular and fastest growing yoga styles in the world with over 1200 affiliated teachers and 100,000 students world-wide. Anusara Yoga classes are now found throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, the UK, Europe, Australia, and Japan with a growing presence in many other areas of the world.
Anusara Yoga's remarkable popularity is due in large part to its uplifting philosophy that looks for the good in all people and all things. Three years ago, John Friend brought his Anusara yoga visit Y+, today John Friend’s earliest student Lois Nesbitt will share her amazing Anusara experience with yoga practicer at Y+.

-LOIS NESBITT-

• Lois is from USA and is the earliest student of John Friend creator of Anusara Yoga and become a leader in the international Anusara Yoga community since 2000.
• She is one of the first Certified teachers in New York City and also one of the first teachers to offer long-term Anusara Yoga Teacher Trainings (2002).
• She has trained dozens of teachers in Anusara Yoga, both in the United States and abroad. This year she led the first Anusara Yoga Teacher Training in Costa Rica and she will be the first to lead an Anusara intensive in China.
• Lois may be the only prominent yoga teacher who holds a doctoral degree from an Ivy League university! In 1988 she received a Ph.D. in comparative literature (French and English) from Princeton University; she also holds a B.A., Magna cum laude, from Harvard University.

-Schedule-

FRIDAY 5 JUNE

LIGHTEN UP! BACKBENDS MADE SAFE AND EASY!
[14:00-15:30] – XTD
Backbends boost our energy and lift our spirits. In this playful session, Lois will guide you deeper into backbending while showing you how to release tension and lengthen tight muscles—all using the Anusara Yoga Universal Principles of Alignment. You’ll emerge light-hearted and free!

WINGS OF THE HEART
[19:15-20:45] - XTD
Our arms and hands are the wings of our hearts: they are how we reach out to the world, to give, to receive, and to touch. Yet often poor shoulder alignment clogs the energy flow between heart and hand. Learn how Anusara Yoga’s arm spirals can free up congested joints, relieve pressure on the elbows and wrists, and create a new freedom and stability throughout the upper body in all poses.

SATURDAY 6 JUNE

LINE UP! INTODUCTION TO ANUSARA YOGA
[10:30-12:00]- XTD
Learn the building blocks of Anusara Yoga, fast sweeping the globe to become one of the world’s most popular styles of yoga! Anusara yoga zoom in on how to set a strong foundation for any yoga pose and create strength evenly throughout the body. It has uplifting philosophy that looks for the good in all people and all things.

TAKE THE PULSE: DRAWING IN, REACHING OUT
[16:00-18:00]-XTD
All of nature pulsates, drawing in/contracting and expanding out. Two main energy currents in our bodies mirror this universal pattern: one helps us to connect into our core, the other allows us to expand back out. Together, they create the perfect balance of stability and freedom, on and off the mat! Learn how to gather your force around the Anusara Yoga Focal Points, giving you the strength to expand back out, creating light and space in your poses.

SUNDAY 7 JUNE

STAND TALL!
8:30-10:00 - XTD
The pelvic basin is the physical and energetic core of the body. Yet a lifetime of bearing weight on our legs leaves most of us feel tight or locked up in some part of the hips and thighs. To the rescue! Anusara Yoga’s Inner and Outer Spirals of the Legs restore balance to the lower body, providing the optimal

DIVE IN! ANUSARA YOGA TEACHER TRAINING
10:30-12:30 XTD
Lois Nesbitt serves on both the Anusara Yoga Curriculum Committee and the Certification Video Assessment Committee, where she helps to shape the future of Anusara teaching. Lois will outline the path from introductory workshops through Anusara Yoga Immersions and Teacher Training, and answer any questions you may have about this yoga and this process.

Duncan Wong
Inspired Your Spiritual Athlete

Time：Oct. 10-14
Venue：Y+ Yoga Center Xin Tian Di Stuidio

- One of the first yoga teacher in Y+.
- Creator of the Yogic Arts system.
- The heart and soul of yogi in America.
- Yoga teacher of Madonna.

Duncan Wong, creator of the Yogic Arts system, an organic movement technology that synthesizes comprehensive powerful flow yoga, mixed martial arts stance structure, Thai bodywork therapy, and a refined approach to assisting and alignment; with the rhythm of modern dance and urban breakbeats. Duncan's ability to multi-assist the entirety of a pose, and his gift of conveying the essential mechanics and the relationships between each pose and its intrinsically connected movement, naturally opens our mind and hearts to better embrace and master this Vinyasa flow style of yoga, that in reality, is the best method of mirroring our own life movement and lifestyle choices, allowing us to see our Selves more brightly, and awaken to the insight necessary for us to realize our destiny, while guiding and protecting us on our sacred paths.

Welcome the return of Master Duncan Wong!

Warrior Salutation

Discover what the Warrior poses were originally designed for. You can expect a deeper awareness and appreciation of why you do that ‘Warrior Thing’ from the insight into this ancient wisdom of the Yogic Warrior Life. The Warrior Series of Yogic Arts is a comprehensive technically detailed complete practice for entire yogic body.

Jumping Principles

Awaken the way to float in and out of the poses, breaking down the movement technology with slides, presses, and jumps, from the ground up to the wall and discover that it is ok to fall. You can expect to learn detailed information about how to develop real technical skills that will rearrange your entire idea about how to jump, and where your unlimited power is actually coming from.

Buddho Base Camp

Here we experience the deeper aspect of the martial art component that helps define the Yogic Arts system. Come and live out your fantasy of being a Master of the arts, while learning comprehensive, safe, interactive techniques that serve as highly effective joint and muscle therapy and body-to-body control, which translates back into asana (postural) adjustment ability advancement and understanding.

Pure Ashtanga

Full-On Primary Series, as taught by Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois and Sri Sharathji Rangaswami Guru, a traditional led style practice in the lost art of seated asana aerial Vinyasa exits movements, with an emphasis on the Marichyasana set (Marichi’s Poses) and Navasana (Boat Pose) Wall Work, for aerial jump through to seat mastery.

Adjustment Clinic

Learn the art of very effective alignment assists, and soft core conditioning, taught with guided instruction of yogic anatomy alignment and refined stance structure foundation principles, offered in a healing partnered context. (Partner not necessary.)

Time: Nov. 20-22 2009
Avenue: Y+ Yoga Center Xin Tian Di Studio

- The Leading Ashtanga Master.
- Senior disciple of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and Sri O.P.Tiwari

CE(Continuing Education) workshop for RYTS.

- Paul Dallaghan -

Paul is a senior student of Sri O.P.Tiwari, one of the few remaining classical yogis and masters of pranayama. He has practiced pranayama for many years under Tiwariji’s direct guidance which has led to deep insight and understanding of practice. Paul is also certified by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in ashtanga vinyasa. He uses this as a base for intelligence in asana to be applied appropriately for the student. Early on in 1998 Paul trained and taught at Om Yoga in NYC with Cyndi Lee whom he is very grateful to for the starting opportunity. Paul continues with his regular practice and study on both the traditional and modern scientific approaches. He also spends time in Thai Buddhist monasteries to continue a personal practice.
Paul grew up in Dublin, Ireland. After completing his degree at Trinity College he was bound for New York where his life in yoga began. Since 2001 he has been in Asia between Thailand and India with a primary focus on practice and study. With his wife, Jutima, they opened Yoga Thailand and continue to enjoy living there. Especially since the arrival of two lovely sons, Sean and Dylan. He knows firsthand about raising a family, earning a living and keeping a sincere connection with practice and internal development. This practical experience and love of the subject matter he shares with joy, intelligence and humour.
Please visit www.yoga-thailand.com and www.centeredyoga.com for more details.

- Pranayama -

Pranayama is rarely taught well or even correctly. It is a fine science and a subtle art. It takes time to understand through long practice. Paul, grounded at such a level, will introduce and advance Pranayama to students at a very comfortable level so it is manageable and possible to fit into one’s day so you can keep up and really grow from it. For anyone who has touched on the practice you can expect to have it refined and deeply explained, both from a technical point of view in how to do it correctly and in a philosophical understanding of its place and purpose in one’s internal development, as a direct path to meditation.

Pranayama

Newer students to Pranayama will be able to learn the basics and go home with a base practice. Students with a continuing practice will be assessed and help given to further their practice.

Asana for Pranayama

It is open to anyone with a sound practice or looking for a clear base to form as an Asana practice. The key principles of Asana will be refined with special attention to alignment, integrity and energy of the pose within the art of vinyasa. Awareness and proper breathing added to this structure affects the energy that vinyasa can further affect.

Everyone is born to follow their dream.

- Danny Paradise Mini music concert
- Asthanga workshops( Provide CE certificate)

Danny Paradise：

• World-renowned Ashtanga master, have over 30 years' yoga experience.
• < The Asian Wall Street Journey> said he is yoga instructor who “has achieved fame” and “Yoga Musician”
• He has been taught many celebrities including tennis star John McEnroe, Fashion guru Donna Karan, superstar Madonna, Sting…

5th March Fri 19:15-21:15
Practice： Derivative poses within the standing and finishing sequence of the primary series.
Discussion： History and origins of Yoga and the relationship to indigenous traditions around the world.

6th March Sat 13:30-17:30
Practice： Pranayama, extended Standing sequence and an exploration of an expanded primary series, elements of 2nd and derivative routines from other traditions.
Discussion： Making your own connection the Heart of the Universe.

7th March Sun 13:30-17:30
Practice： Focuses on the 2nd series and beyond. Introduction of the advanced sequences.
Discussion： Human chakras/organs.

Yoga Mini Musical Concert —— Music from Paradise

Time： 6th March 19:30-21:30

Danny Paradise is a wandering troubadour and has been performing his original songs around the world for longer than he has practiced and taught Yoga.
Danny's songs are the positive, joyous reflections of a 21st century Yogi and minstrel.
His 2 music CDs include the musical and vocal contributions of Sting, Paul Simon, Edie Brickell as well as world class musicians from Nepal, Egypt, Europe and North America.

Time: 28th – 30th May 2010
Avenue: Y+ Yoga Center Xin Tian Di Studio

•Leading of Ashtanga Master.
•Senior disciple of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and Sri O.P.Tiwari

- Paul Dallaghan -

Come and learn something new but really it’s a full establishment of grounding so that you grow in what you are already doing.
Do you know how to breathe?
Do you know where the pelvic muscles are and how to use them? Are these bandhas?
Have you explored pranayama?
Are you ready for the next level?
How can you deepen your asanas?
With Paul’s help we’ll get into all of this. So bring your questions so it can be directly relevant to you.

Pranayama

FRI MAY 28: 19:15-21:15 (2 hours)

Paul, grounded at such a level, will introduce and advance Pranayama to students at a very comfortable level so it is manageable and possible to fit into one’s day so you can keep up and really grow from it.

Newer students to Pranayama will be able to learn the basics and go home with a base practice. Students with a continuing practice will be assessed and help given to further their practice.

WEEKEND SESSION
MAY 29 & 30: 10:00-12:00 & 14:00-17:00 (5 hours per day)
Start each day with intention and breath work - Pranayama and Meditation.
Followed by Asana Practice: detailed guidance in the Asanas, develop and grow a self-practice from the Ashtanga Yoga series going through in led detail and mysore style.
The session will also cover selected philosophical (Yoga Sutra) topic. There will be some discussion and Q&A.

Time: April 16th-18th 2010
Avenue: Y+ Xin Tian Di Studio

-Bo Srey-

• Bo Srey is a Certified Anusara yoga teacher who practices yoga for 15 years.
• He is the earliest student of John Friend who is the creator of Anusara Yoga.
• As an assistant teacher, Bo teaches Anusara teachers’ training and spread the culture of Anusara with John Friend all around the world.

-Anusara-

Anusara (a-nu-sar-a), means “flowing with Grace,” “going with the flow,” “following your heart.” Founded by John Friend in 1997, Anusara Yoga is one of the most popular and fastest growing yoga styles in the world with over 1200 affiliated teachers and 100,000 students world-wide. Anusara Yoga classes are now found throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, the UK, Europe, Australia, and Japan with a growing presence in many other areas of the world.
Anusara Yoga's remarkable popularity is due in large part to its uplifting philosophy that looks for the good in all people and all things. After John Friend and Lois Nesbitt, today Bo Srey will share his amazing Anusara experience with yoga practicer at Y+.

Balanced Action Leads to Freedom

Everyone is always talking about balance. Learn practical ways to apply this beautiful concept in your asana practice. In Anusara Yoga, we seek to articulate nature's way in the body. This is what Anusara teachers mean when they speak of Universal Principles of Alignment. These are not arbitrary principles or the sole domain of a particular style of hatha yoga. Instead, as the name states, they are Universal. In addition to aligning with the natural and optimal design of the body, they work in every pose, no matter the outer form. Come taste the harmonious efficacy of these principles as they bring new insight into your yoga practice.

Aligning with the Natural Harmony
Time: 6th April (Fri) 19:15 - 21:15

In this session we will explore how our intention to connect to the bigger way can create a more refined and purposeful practice. By opening to something bigger, we can align with the flow of the dynamic forces that are constantly at play within and around us. We will explore this intention through a dynamic mix of fluid, flowing asana.

Back Bend Bliss
Time: 17th April (Sat) 10:00 - 12:00

In this workshop session we will celebrate the opening of the Heart as embodied in the class of poses known as back bends. Learn how the Universal Principles of Alignment create optimal alignment in the body to move your body safely into deeper back bends.

Hip Harmony
Time: 17th April (Sat) 14:00 - 16:00

Hip openers and forward bends create a deep release in our Being if done correctly. Learn how to practice this class of poses to optimize pranic flow in the body. Particularly, we will release excess vata (wind element) in the body that can cloak the power of awareness in a fluttering of thoughts and emotions.

Eye of the Tiger Practice
Time: 18 April (Sun) 10:00 - 12:00

Today we play with a mixed practice of standing poses, inversions, hand balancing and back bends to awaken the inner Tiger. Get ready to deepen your practice in this intensely-playful session.

Taming the Tiger
Time: 18 April (Sun) 14:00 - 16:00

As with yesterday's afternoon session, our intention is balance. After a strong practice in the morning, we conclude with more cooling asana, including hip openers, twists and forward bends. We will assimilate our new understanding as we transition from the workshop environment back to the 'world'.

Workshop with Ana Forrest

Moving Into Meditation——A 9-hours Workshop with SARAH POWERS

Going with the Flow, Following Your HeartThe Second Coming of Anusara with Lois Nesbitt

FRIDAY 5 JUNE

SATURDAY 6 JUNE

SUNDAY 7 JUNE

Duncan Wong Inspired Your Spiritual Athlete

Welcome the return of Master Duncan Wong!

- Paul Dallaghan -

- Pranayama -

Yoga Mini Musical Concert —— Music from Paradise

- Paul Dallaghan -

-Bo Srey-

-Anusara-

Going with the Flow, Following Your Heart
The Second Coming of Anusara with Lois Nesbitt

Duncan Wong
Inspired Your Spiritual Athlete