ShaktiYogaDances
UPCOMING SHAKTI YOGA DANCE WORKSHOPS 2012
SHAKTI YOGA DANCES Sunday, February 12, 2-4 PM Laughing Dog Yoga. 159 Linden st. Wellesley. $25.00
SHAKTI YOGA DANCES Saturday, March 3, 2-4 PM Boxborough Yoga Studio. 25 B Stow Rd. Boxborough. $25.00
“Who doesn’t grow happier at the sound of music? Who doesn’t want to join the dance, perchance to sing along? SHAKTI YOGA DANCES connect body and heart in ancient tribal ritual creating joyous community.”
ABOUT SHAKTI YOGA DANCES
Shakti Yoga Dances are Asanas that dance the mat. They choreograph Yoga’s ancient poses to chosen music, mudra, Pranayama, and chant. Linking and repeating the Asanas as a dance, opens emotional rhythms of heart and belly, a reminder of our need for communal ritual and celebration. The spirit in each dance is layered with seasonal Ayurvedic and Astrologic under-tones, which enrich, and expand Yoga-technique toward Yoga-life.
Workshop Format: Opening-circle of invitation and intention; Learn the mudras, chants, Pranayama and energies behind each dance; A Vinyasa flow warm-up, incorporating some of the Asana links and combinations. Two to three dances are repeated until the flow feels comfortable, and joyous. Closure with cooling poses, in a circle of conversation, moves the body home to Savasana.
Music, dance, and poetry are magical conjurers. They have carried us through uncertain times for centuries. This Universe, layered in unseen energies, offers endless opportunities to express life. Our breath, our songs, and poetry, along with dance and Yoga, are tools to access and translate this possible magic. Science has proven what the ancients knew, that in harnessing rhythms in the cosmos, we harness power to heal and transform.
The word, Shakti, is from the Sanskrit- ‘Shak- to be able to.’ It is a primordial energy, a feminine creative force that is an agent of change, of existence, and liberation. Shakti is a sacred force of empowerment, moving through the body as Kundalini energy. Shakti is the inherent feminine motivation transforming the Universe. Her life giving prana forges intimate connection with the Self from the dance. As with tantric practices, energy is coaxed from the base of the spine to move through the asanas, awakening transformative powers within.
“Of what is the body made? It is made of emptiness and rhythm. At the heart of the world there is no solidarity, there is only dance.”
George Leonard, scientific mystic.