Johnny On the Road
Being Empowered: A Vinyasa Clinic with Johnny Gillespie
September 24 - 26th, 2010
Prana Power Yoga: Cambridge, MA
Tuition: $50 per session in advance, $55 the day of / $165 for all four, $170 the day of.
http://www.pranapoweryoga.com/
Prana Power Yoga
585 Mass Ave, 2nd Floor (2R on elevator)
Central Square
Cambridge MA 02139
617.441.YOGA
Being Empowered: Mindfulness Based Vinyasa Intensive: Friday, Sept 24th: 5pm-8pm
This Intensive will begin with a brief dharma talk on Being Empowered. Dharma literally translates as that which upholds or supports our life. We will weave these basic principles into a dynamic Vinyasa practice with a strong emphasis on movements that originate from our core. From your sweat you will develop stability, from your breath you will experience clarity and from your lighthearted nature wisdom will arise.
Therapeutic Movement Principles: Lecture & Movement: Saturday, Sept 25th: 12pm-3pm
This is the foundational workshop that makes up the philosophy of Empowered Yoga and the Balanced Athlete. The company Nike says, "If you got a body—you are an athlete". In this workshop you will learn therapeutic movement principles that will work quickly to heal and elevate injuries. You will learn effective ways to move with greater strength and freedom. After this workshop, you will never look at yoga or any other form of movement the same. This workshop is truly paradigm shifting—no yoga experience required. This workshop is good for anyone who has to move on a daily basis.
Intensive Session: Core Awakening: Movement: Saturday, Sept 25th: 5pm-8pm
"You can't shoot a cannon from a canoe". This is an old Strength and Conditioning adage which has much relevance today as modern science understands the profound cohesiveness of the human body. In this Intensive you will learn how to engage your Core and then connect that stability to the Four Peripheral Points of your body. You will become aware of where you are stuck and learn effective ways to unlock and release tension. You will leave this Intensive feeling upright, lighter and stronger.
Intensive Session: Living an Empowered Life: Mindfulness based Vinyasa Intensive: Sunday, Sept 26th: 1pm - 4pm
This Intensive will wrap up the weekend with a mindfulness based Vinyasa experience. We will summarize the whole weekend and go deeper into what it means to live an Empowered Life. Guidelines for continuing to work with these movement principles and life principles will be elaborated on. What seems like the end of a wonderful weekend will be just the beginning of a newly energized practice.
Testimonial
“There is a new generation of yoga teachers emerging in the U.S. Their knowledge base encompasses the best practices in Yoga, modern exercise methodology, eastern and western spirituality, and the life's work of the generation that brought Yoga to the U.S. They have grown up in a diverse, vibrant, and demanding field and are providing today's yoga students with classes whose effectiveness and sophistication are a credit to themselves and their teachers. Johnny Gillespie is and will continue to be a leader of this new generation of teachers, personally and professionally he embodies the excellence that is the future of Yoga in the U.S. He has made an invaluable contribution to my own understanding of the practice of Yoga and it is my hope that he will do so for countless others”
~Rolf Gates
