Vitality Studio

Sunday, January 23rd, 2-5pm

In this workshop, we will focus on the way poetic language and imagery

can inform and deepen your asana practice. Students will be led in

simple writing exercises to loosen up a more organic sense of

language, freed from all judgment. This writing will remain private;

its purpose is to drop you into an experience of rhythm and sound from

deeper states of consciousness. Meditation and breath work will guide

participants towards generating mantra or language-based imagery that

correspond to specific poses. We will then practice bringing the

worlds of movement and language to touch. How can a particularly rich

or evocative phrase inflect our individual experience of a key pose?

How can we release emotion or see mental patterns more clearly by

using a word evoking personal associations with a pose? How can a

“home base” word keep you grounded while playing in the unfamiliar?

Come and practice in a safe, trusting environment, to explore how

language opens up new resonance within the physical practice.

Katy Hawkins is a yoga teacher here at Vitality, and a professor of

literature at Temple University.  Her Ph.D from NYU is in Comparative

Literature, and her scholarship centers on Eastern philosophical,

literary, and meditative forms.

To sign up contact info@vitalitystudio.com or 215-753-7153

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