Workshops
Workshop Info: see under 'Saturdays' under Class section for a full list of events!
Workshops/masterclasses are Euro: 22, unless otherwise stated! Check which venue they are at please.
For bookings contact Yoga Dublin Studios - 01 498 2284 or info@yogadublin.com or see our contact page...
Tahnee Fournier - Anusara-Inspired Teacher Workshops - Downtown Studio
Saturday, 26thJuly YOGA DUBLIN DOWNTOWN, 2 Hour Master Class with Tahnee : Holding Steady in the Arms of Grace – Principle #2
Using the principles of Anusara yoga, this 2 hour master yoga class will encourage you to use the strength of body and mind to open fully to the light of your own heart. Tahnee will guide you to finding more freedom and power in your physical body while empowering you to step fearlessly into the radiance of your inner being.
These master classes are taught using the Universal Principles of Alignment from Anusara yoga. Each class is designed and sequenced with focus on one principle combined with spiritual context interwoven throughout. Tahnee is an Anusara-Inspired teacher who recently located from Canada to Ireland. She has been studying Anusara for almost 10 years and is pleased to be contributing to the growing yoga community in Ireland. Tahnee is a mother to two young girls, loves to surf in Donegal, jump horses in Ravensdale and explore Irish history and culture with her family. Tahnee is a featured teacher on www.ihanuman.com, an ambassador for Manduka Mats and is about to launch free online yoga classes on her website www.tahneesyogaspace.com She is known for her inspiring and uplifting attitude as a yoga teacher with her classes being challenging, playful and dynamic.
Debbie Corradino workshops - Downtown
Hatha Yoga is a multi-layered experience--starting with the more dynanic forms of yoga asanas and moving towards more subtle forms of breath and energy work. Utilising both the external technique of asana and the internal techniques of pranayama and meditation allows us to go deeper: moving beyond muscular movement to experience the deeper subtle energies of our bodies. These workshops will focus on strong but slow asana work, and a introduction to meditation and breathwork.
Sundays: 13/20/27 July: 11-12.30am - Ranelagh
Randall O'Leary
Randall, a resident of Thailand, most of the year, is coming to Dublin for the summer 2008, ! 
Downtown workshops. Saturdays, 11am-1pm, eu22
The Yoga of Breath Cycles: 12 July
This workshop focuses on the interaction of breath with posture, in both movement and stillness. By expanding the breath in yoga postures the transformative power of the practice increases dramatically. This workshop will investigate how breath influences the nature of energy and mind and how we can use the breath to purify and intensify.
Cleansing and Detoxifying the Organs: 19 July
This workshop will work with practices that have a deep effect on the inner organs. We will look mainly at the organs of digestion, respiration and the nervous system and how yoga can create an inner cleansing. This purification is an essential step in the physical transformation that yoga can bring.
Understanding the Bandhas and How to Use Them: 9 August
An essential and often misunderstood part of yoga are the energy locks, or bandhas. Few people understand how the bandhas really work and when to apply them, and this workshop will investigate the use of the locks during yoga practice. By working more deeply with the bandhas, one's practice increases in depth and power.
Bending Over Backwards: A Backbending Intensive: 26 August
Backbends are some of the most intense poses in the yoga practice; they can also be a source of resistance, fear or injury. These postures require careful alignment and preparation to perform deeply and this workshop will concentrate on understanding the nature of backbends and how to do them well.
Tantra: The Essence of Yoga: tba
When people think of Tantra, they usually think of just one thing. However, all of yoga is based on Tantric concepts and understanding the nature of Tantra will illuminate a deeper part of yoga than just the work on the mat. Tantra is a philosophy which can guide one through life to health and happiness. We will explore how Tantra forms the essence of the postures and breath of modern yoga practice.
Inversions: Exploring Inverted Postures tba
The most powerful poses in all of yoga are inverted postures such as handstand, headstand and shoulderstand. We will look at alignment, preparation and principles of practice so we can take advantage of these wonderful poses.
Getting to the Core of the Issue: Essential Strengthening and Connection. tba
Over the last few years, I have been developing many practices to bring us deeper into our own centers. This center is the source of our power and connection and is often overlooked in yoga practice. We will work to strengthen and lengthen the belly, lower back and deep leg muscles. A very good class for people with mild back problems.
Active Birthing Workshop at Ranelagh
15.00-18.00, Lou Horgan for partners, eu100 per couple
Next: Saturday, 19 July, 2008
For those in last Trimester "Active birth is nothing new. It is simply a convienient way of describing normal labour and birth and the way that a woman behaves when she is following her own instincts and the physiological logic if her body" Janet Balaskas. Lou , a student of the Life Centre, London, is qualified Hatha Yoga and Pregnancy Yoga teacher. This forthcoming workshop will be exploring the the postures, breath and physiology of labour and birth. Lou will be drawing on knowlegde from her wonderful teachers, Uma Dismore Tuli (Life Centre,Birthlight) Judith Crowe (Active Birth), all the wise mothers, grandmothers, midwives she has met along the way, and finally from her own experience through her own home birth. Areas covered will include. Labour and Birth postures and breathing, active birth in hospital, the role of your partner, Interventions, the post natal period and more...
Somatic workshop with Dave Curtis
TBA - 11.00-13.00 Downtown eu22
To book: text: 087 912 4930
Somatic movement for yoga practitioners This is a unique opportunity to explore the "experience within" through Somatic Movement Education. Some of you will have tasted the effects if you have been to my classes recently...if not below is a description of SME.
Somatic Movement Education (SME – In the Tradition of Thomas Hanna), also known as Hanna Somatics, is a system of neuromuscular education (mind-body training) which helps you to enjoy freedom from pain and more comfortable movement for the rest of your life.
SME teaches you to recognize, release, and reverse chronic pain patterns resulting from injury, stress, repetitive motion strain, or habituated postures.
SME particularly helps relieve pain and disability associated with common health complaints such as: headaches; stiff or painful joints and muscles; fatigue; poor posture; breathing problems; impaired movement; accident trauma and whiplash effects; back pain; repetitive use/stress injuries; etc.
Even if you don't have any issues in your body SME will enhance your overall awareness of the mind/body connection. It is excellent for releasing residual tension before and after Yoga practice and it helps refine your ability to be present in each posture while deepening the experience of it.
This is cutting edge science presented in practical form so you can take it home and own it yourself!
This workshop will combine Somatic awareness of all the functional movements of the body followed by a Restorative Asana practice. Restorative yoga is where props are use to support the body in the posture allowing the practitioner to completely surrender all tension. It's benefits include a quiet, calm mind and a relaxed emotional state.
Anusara yoga workshops with Bridget Woods-Kramer at Ranelagh.
RANELAGH
13th & 14th December, 2008
Bridget was here (24/25 May), all her w/s were full, so please for her fifth visit to Ireland in December, book early!
Anusara yoga
Anusara yoga is fast becoming one of the most popular
schools of hatha yoga in the world.
It is a uniquely integrated approach to Hatha yoga in which
the art of the human spirit is powerfully blended with the
science of bio-mechanics.
Anusara is a Sanskrit word which means flowing with
grace…going with the flow......following your heart......
Bridget began her yoga practices in India in 1975 and embarked on an intense program of study to become a senior teacher. She has concentrated on teaching since 1988 and her style of dynamic Yoga has developed from her time teaching and studying at Yoga Works in Santa Monica, considered to be the USA's most authentic and ground-breaking school.
Bridget is the main certified Anusara teacher in the UK. Having studied with John Friend the founder of the Anusara school of Yoga since 1994. Teacher Spotlight December 2007 Anusara Newsletter
A leading light in the fitness industry for more than two decades and credited with the introduction of the aerobics phenomenon in the UK, Bridget launched one of the UK's leading fitness facilities and Health Spas, The Fitness Centre and world renowned Sanctuary in Covent Garden.
Bridget has authored numerous articles and books and has a proven record for identifying coming trends. She is known for her dynamic style of teaching with close attention to alignment detail. She is very dedicated to her students and takes a personal interest in their progress. A strong personal practice enhances her ability to teach from experience.
Find out more about Bridget at Omshop
Find out more about Anusara or Wikipedia Entry on Anusara yoga
Bookings and payment in advance required to: Yoga Dublin Studios
Payment in full required to secure place before workshop*
This weekend workshop will be a mixed level foundation weekend for those that want learn more about Anusara yoga. It will be composed of a variety of practices, in which students will learn to apply the Anusara biomechanical principles of alignment in their poses, and an introduction to the Tantric philosophy of Anusara and to the study of the alignment principles. There will also be time for pranayama and meditation.
Prices eu50 one/eu90 two/eu130 all three*
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Formats Saturday: 09.30-12.30 - General levels 14.00-17.00 - Advanced levels Sun: 09.30-12.30 only - General |
Bridget Woods-Kramer |
13 & 14 December 2008
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The 21 Day holistic Detox Program with Bridgette
1st Friday every month, at Ranelagh, three week programme, debriefing on the fourth Friday.
GET THE BODY AND ENERGY LEVELS THAT YOU HAVE ALWAYS DREAMED OF…
The 21 Day Detox is a safe and guided detoxification program designed to cleanse, rejuvenate and lose weight. It is the ideal opportunity to give up smoking.
This workshop will give you a new year and a new you!!!
“if someone doesn’t comment within 2 weeks on how great you are looking, then you’re cheating.”
The program includes:
- 1 dynamic pilates class per week.
- 1 dynamic yoga class per week.
- 1 session of auricular acupuncture specific to the detox programme per week.
- explanation of the 21 day Liver and Kidney cleansing diet, printouts and recipes for the alkaline diet.
also included:
Chinese herbs for metabolic regulation, energy and weight loss ( 2 types)
- Specific mix of aromatherapy oil for use in the bath or burner to keep uplifted and focused throughout the course
(a questions and answers session will be held at the start of each group ear acupuncture session. The Chinese herbs, oil and printouts will given out at the first session.)
A follow-up 3 week maintenance course will follow this course.
Workshop cost (all inclusive of classes, herbs, oil and printouts) €250
Details: Pick one Pilates and one Yoga, at either studio on a Monday or Wednesday night options are as follows:
Pilates: Downtown Mondays, 13.00 or 20.00 or Wednesdays, 13.00 or 20.45
Pilates Ranelagh: Mondays, 19.00 or Wednesdays, 17.50
Yoga Ranelagh: Mondays, 20.30 or Wednesdays, 17.50 or 20.30
Yoga Downtown: Wednesdays, 17.45 or 18.45
Put together a Monday, and Wednesday, yoga/pilates class, and the group auri-acupuncture is on Fridays at Ranelagh, 18.30
next = 9 July
Matthew Sweeney Mysore week/astanga workshops
Returning June 2009 watch here for dates! We have his new book 'Vinyasa krama' now in stock, eu35 both studios and at our online shop.
Yin and Yang Workshop with Dave Curtis
Blending the Yin/Yang of Yoga styles
Autumn tba, 11am-1pm, eu22
This workshop will focus on complimenting the Yin (soft meditative) style with the Yang (hard/dynamic) style of Yoga creating a balance of harmony and integrity.
The Yin approach activates the Meridian (energy) system deep within the connective tissue through practice of floor postures (mainly hip openers and forward bends) held for extended periods.
The Yang approach stimulates strength and structural integrity within the practice of powerful, demanding standing and balance poses linked together with Ujjayi breath.
Each approach compliments the other by stimulating the entire mind/body experience. Finding the balance between the Yin and the Yang in our yoga practice helps us lead more balanced lives off the mat.
