Dharm atma yoga
From EcoReality
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UPCOMING WORKSHOP!
Chakra Creations - Explore the seven chakra system of yogic anatomy with asanas (postures), stories, drawings and meditations. Interactive and individual. No experience necessary.
when: Saturday Dec 6 2008 from 9am to 1pm
where: 2172 Fulford-Ganges Rd @ Dharm Atma Yoga studio
cost: $50 ($40 before Nov 15 and for existing students)
what to bring: your smiling self in loose clothing for movement, a blanket, a snack and water to drink
What is it?
Dharm Atma Yoga is a vehicle for the teachings of Kundalini Yoga. This is a venue for learning and practising the yoga of awareness, including breath, posture, sound, meditation, diet and lifestyle.
Dharm Atma is the spiritual name of Shannon Cowan. It means Soul on a path of Right Action.
I am Dharm Atma, a Kundalini Yogini who has agreed to practice this yogic technology and also to guide others in the practice and experience of health and wellbeing from a place of acceptance for what is and creation of our dreams through physical yoga, awareness, relationships and communication.
This vehicle is sponsored by EcoReality, an cooperative association in which I am a member.
Where?
Dharm Atma Yoga is found at 2172 Fulford-Ganges Road, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada. It is in the studio known currently as the Jing Hui Qi Gong studio on land owned and operated by EcoReality Co-Operative Association.
When are classes held?
Regular Class, any level student is welcome Tuesdays: 5:30-7:00 pm Wednesdays: 8:00-9:30 am
Parent and Child Class (Birth to 3 years) Wednesdays: 10:00-11:30 am
Meditation and Chanting Class Tuesdays: 7:30-8:30 pm
Contact
Telephone Shannon Cowan 250-653-4663, KRI Certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher(9am-7pm please).
Email: Shannon@Ecoreality.org
Cost
Single Class Drop-In is $15.00
10 class Pass Card for $125.00 ($25 savings) Valid for 4 months.
Please understand that there will be no refunds, exchanges, or extensions offered since the prices reflect primarily coverage of costs to instructor.
A reciprocal exchange of energy activates the full benefits of learning and teaching yoga.
Shannon understands that some folks choose consciously to live with little money. For this reason, the Tuesday 7:30 class is by donation.
Well Being and Responsibilities
Please respect this space, it is shared by many users and is a space of Higher Consciousness.
Dharm Atma Yoga and EcoReality cannot take responsibility for lost, stolen or damaged items.
The instructor(s) strive to provide teaching that is suited to each inividual’s needs. As individuals, we each hold the ultimate responsibility for our own well-being. This class/workshop/program is not intended to replace professional medical advice/treatment.
All student participants will be required to read and sign a waiver before their first class. The content of this waiver is as follows:
Dharm Atma Yoga Waiver and Release of Liability
Please take the time you need to read this with conscious attention.
The instructors at Dharm Atma Yoga strive to provide teaching that is suited to each inividual’s needs. As individuals, we each hold the ultimate responsibility for our own well-being. This class/workshop/program is not intended to replace professional medical advice/treatment. Dharm Atma Yoga and EcoReality Co-Operative expressly disclaim any responsibility for any liability, loss or risk, personal or otherwise, which is or may be incurred as a consequence, directly or indirectly, of the use and application of any of the teachings, suggestions, information or otherwise of the instructors or the course materials presented herein. ~Thank you from Shannon Cowan, Dharm Atma Yoga and EcoReality.
I, the undersigned, agree
- To assume all risk of injury to myself and all risk of damage to and loss of my property arising out of my participation in these Yoga classes.
- To take full responsibility for my well being in all classes, to control the level of my own participation within my personal physical limits, and to stop doing anything that causes me pain or injury.
- To release Dharm Atma Yoga, EcoReality Cooperative and their instructors and other employees from any and all liability for any injury, including death, and for property damage or loss which may be suffered by me, arising out of or connected in any way with my participation in these Yoga classes.
- For myself, my heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, to indemnify and hold harmless Dharm Atma Yoga and EcoReality Cooperative Association from any and all liability, claims, demands, actions, loss and damage arising out of my participation in these Yoga Classes.
I HAVE CAREFULLY READ THIS AGREEMENT. I FULLY UNDERSTAND ITS CONTENTS. I AM AWARE THAT THIS IS A RELEASE OF LIABILITY AND A CONTRACT BETWEEN MYSELF AND DHARM ATMA YOGA AS WELL AS A CONTRACT BETWEEN MYSELF AND ECOREALITY CO-OPERATIVE.
Shan 22:11, 7 September 2008 (PDT)
More About the Practice
Yogais the union of spirit with body and mind. It is a form of integration and holistic practice through which humans can realize and act from a place of wholeness and compassion. In sanskrit jugit means to join together or to yoke. It is about joining an individual's unit consciousness with the Infinite Consciousness.
Kundalini Yoga is called the yoga of awareness because it utilizes breath, posture, sound and meditation or directed attention to achieve states of integration and elevated consciousness. Kundalini Yoga is a technology and a science. In the history of what we know today as yoga, Kundalini Yoga falls under the category of a Raj Yoga.
Raj Yoga. Union of individual consciousness with Universal Consciousness is the goal of Raj Yoga. Raj literally means king in sanskrit and refers to the mind as the king of the organs and the place where this type of yoga practice is mainly focussed. Yoga Chitta Vritti Naroda means Union Halts the Waves of the Mind. Raj in this sense also refers to the ancient lineage of yogic teachings - a practical method that was taught by the Rishis or kings over 2000 years ago in India to other kings in their lineage for the purpose of Yoga - ie. to realize the Self through Union with Ultimate or Universal Consciousness, sometimes referred to as God or One or Creator or God Head.
Later, Patanjali was a man who compiled and summarized these teachings from the Raj Yoga lineage and made them more widely available as The Yogic Sutras. Patanjali's yoga differs from Raj Yoga in that it consists of the Eight Fold Path of yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, dharana, dyana, and samadhi, while the Raj Yoga focusses primarily on the last two dyana- single pointed concentration or mindful meditation and samadhi - diving into the inner universe, zero point, neutral mind and shuniya.
Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan follows the ancient teachings of Raj yoga and also the entire Eight Fold Path of Patanjali. It is a holistic practice of inner focus, breath, movement, sound and calming of the waves of thought in the mind as a means to achieve a neutral space, integration and union with Higher Consciousness or the Macro Self, Goddess, Earth Consciousness, Creator, etc...
Yogic Lifestyle Kundalini Yoga is a lifestyle that involves much more than exercises practised occasionally in a group. The goal of Kundalini Yoga Teachers is to guide students to experience and live in a space of their Highest Consciousness where they achieve the capacity to love and serve themselves and others even more effectively than their own teachers have/do. It offers tools for cultivating characteristics of leverage, the power to transform ourselves and others; legacy, integrity and ongoing living awareness; lineage, a history and a line of transmission of teachings as a technology that is whole and remains viable over time.
Each Kundalini Yoga class offers teachings in breath, posture, sound and meditation, as well as philosophical teachings about the yogic lifestyle as taught by the Master of Kundalini Yoga, Yogi Bhajan, Ph.D.
Examples of yogic philosophy includes, but are not limited to:
The benefits of eating sustainable, vegetarian diets and preparing your own food for community with love.
Recipes and foods for health based on Yoga and Ayurveda.
The Ecology of body, environment and the systems of Agriculture and Permaculture in which we grow the foods we consume.
Ishnaan, the practice of bathing with cold water for health, vitality, longevity and physical and psychic cleansing.
Much more...
