Begin Again: A Yoga Journey

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Over one week, we’ll commit (or re-commit) to a pre-dawn practice including meditation, pranayama, asana, mantra, and dharma talks.

Daily, 6:30-8:30am.

This is an opportunity to begin again, to clarify intention, to hone our focus for the year and to allow discipline to disrupt distractions and live our yoga practice through our actions. As we clarify our intentions, we remember our soul’s deepest longing, and that can guide our actions, choices and interactions through the year. Our daily practice becomes a reminder of this deepest intention.

This weeklong commitment to practice is an annual tradition for the community to come together to commit to collective daily practice.

It is a simple, but profound practice to gather for the early mornings over a full week. We gather early in the year to set the intention to make practice a central part of our daily lives throughout the year.

Our mornings will include

• Meditation—committing to a daily practice of stillness and focused attention
• Pranayama—techniques to work with our life force
• Morning form—awakening the body, lubricating the joints
• Chanting—focusing attention toward intention
• Dinacharya—daily rituals to cleanse and clarify the senses
• Building discipline to support well being
• How to carve out time (even a little) for daily practice

This course counts for 20 continuing education hours through Yoga Alliance, and can also be used as electives for some of Janet's teacher training programs.