Whether you’ve been practicing for a few months or many years,
these workshops will help you break through the fundamentals and
develop an intermediate and beyond practice. Internationally
respected for his straightforward and accessible teaching, Jason’s
method will improve your arm balances, inversions, backbends,
transitions, and more by breaking these postures down into
progressive steps that everyone can do.
These weekend workshops will advance your practice by addressing
the most common challenges that students face in every posture
group—and teaching you how to move into the next phase of your
practice. These workshops are equally valuable for
teachers who want to learn how to help their students continue
to make progress in their practice.
The Space Between: Creative Transitions
Friday, October 9th, 6–9p
Vinyasa yoga is rooted in dynamic, transitional movements that
incorporate posture and breath. This workshop will freshen up your
practice by exploring creative sun salutations, standing pose
transitions, and arm-balance combinations. Once you’ve refined the
fundamental transitions in sun salutations—including how to jump
back and jump forward with greater levity and skill—you’ll make the
following progress:
- Develop new, creative transitions in your salutations that
strengthen your spine and shoulders.
- Learn standing pose and standing balance combinations that build
confidence and advance your practice.
- Begin incorporating arm-balances and inversions into your
salutations and standing posture combinations. Newer students will
learn all of the necessary steps.
- Deepen you backbends, twists, and forward bends by focusing on
the transitions into these postures.
- Start combining basic arm-balancing postures.
Air Time: Handstand + Forearm Balance + Headstand
Variations
Saturday, October 10th, 1–4p
Learning handstand, forearm balance, and headstand takes time—even
more when you want to bring these postures into the middle of the
room and include variations. Once you’ve warmed up and refined the
basics, you’ll make the following progress:
- Learn to transition more confidently and gracefully into
handstand, forearm balance, and headstand. You’ll go up with one
leg, two legs, and lay the foundation for “pressing” into these
poses.
- Work on “timed” versions of these postures to develop greater
strength, focus, and orientation while upside down.
- Just in case things get ugly, you’ll learn how to safely fall out
of these poses without hurting yourself or impaling your
neighbor.
- Explore a classic progression of headstand variations that will
compliment your handstands + forearm balance practice.
Still stuck or scared? You’ll build strength and confidence for
these postures with a step-by-step approach that you can do on your
own at the wall!
The Best Arm Balances You’ve Ever Done
Saturday, October 10th, 5–8p
Many students struggle with arm balances because they simply
haven’t learned the necessary techniques. Breaking these postures
down into logical, progressive steps that everyone can do is the
key to making progress in these poses. Once you’ve warmed up with
core-strengthening postures, hip-opening, and a bit of vinyasa
flow, you’ll make the following progress:
- Learn how to practice the entire crow/crane family, including
one-legged and twisting variations. Lay the foundations for jumping
into these postures from down dog and transitioning into them from
handstand. You don't have to be able to do this right away, but
it’s time to take a step in this direction.
- Learn the entire side-plank family, including how to transition
directly from these postures into standing poses.
- Develop the steps for twisting arm balances like
astavakrasana and eka pada koundinyasana.
- Learn how to prepare your hips for grasshopper,
tittibhasana, and visvamitrasana.
- Begin combining multiple arm-balances.
Think you’re not ready for these? Don’t worry, there are reasonable
options for everything we do.
Demystifying Lotus + Splits
Sunday, October 11th, 1–4p
This workshops is for everyone that finds lotus and splits elusive
but wants to make progress in these key postures. You’ll unwind
tension in your hamstrings, outer-hips, quadriceps, and hip-flexors
in a wide range of postures. You’ll explore the fundamentals of
hip-opening before making the following progress:
- Learn the most common causes of restriction in your hips and how
to work more effectively with these joints.
- Learn the secret to keeping your knees safely aligned in
lotus.
- Deepen your standing split variations and standing lotus pose
variations.
- Explore several different seated split variations and seated ½
lotus variations.
- Experiment with inverted split and lotus postures.
Think your not flexible enough? There’s no pressure and it’s not a
contest. This is just an opportunity to experiment and explore.