Kirtan! An Evening of Ecstatic Chanting

Embark on a vocal journey through the sacred sounds of ancient India. Drawing from an unbroken tradition of Indian devotional singing, Jai Uttal will introduce and lead us in the ancient practice of "Kirtan" (or chanting), the heart of devotional yoga. This practice of calling to the divine creates a bridge between the individual and the eternal, opening the heart and welcoming the spirit. Sometimes soft and meditative and sometimes loud and wildly rhythmic, Kirtan takes the participant on a deep emotional and musical journey through our mostly unexplored inner world. With solo performance and call-and-response group chanting, Jai creates a space of invocation, prayer, and heartfelt expression.

Jai has been leading Kirtans worldwide for over thirty years. "These ancient chants," writes Jai "contain a transformative power and healing energy. By singing these prayers we join a stream of consciousness and devotion that has been flowing for centuries."

No previous experience is needed. This is an exploration of the heart, independent of vocal or musical technique.

Date: 06/16/2012 - HIPCORE YOGA
06/23/2012 - HEARTCORE YOGA

THE CORE SERIES:

This 2 workshop series is designed to deeply strengthen core muscles and intelligently enliven underused core architecture. You will learn new and efficient ways to wake up your core strength that include challenging and innovative ab work alongside stabilization, compression and release work (including the illusive AGNI SARA and NAULI kriyas).
Each workshop will be balanced by the counterpart of either heart openers (heartcore) or hip openers (hipcore) for a balanced, nourishing and detoxifying practice.

All levels though some previous expereince with Vinyasa Yoga is recommended.
Not appropriate for pregnancy.

PLEASE BRING A SMALL HAND TOWEL WITH YOU TO USE AS A PROP.

Date: Monday-Friday 07/16/2012 - 07/20/2012
Monday-Friday 07/23/2012 - 07/27/2012
Location: Urban Flow, 1543 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Practice: Vinyasa Yoga, Seated Meditation, Pranayama, Mantra Recitation

This 20 hour program - open to dedicated students of vinyasa yoga for at least one year - may be applied towards the 60-hour Module 1 Bhakti Flow Teacher Training, a required component to the BFTT Certification Program.
This program always qualifies as Continuing Education credit for Teachers.

For more information on Rusty Wells, please visit www.rustywells.com.

Bryan Kest Power Yoga Master Class

Power Yoga Master Class Description:
Bryan Kest’s Power Yoga Master Class is a well rounded flowing asana practice integrating mental practices that enhance everyday living. The class is intended to invigorate your body and help you practice developing a calm, less reactive state of mind with dynamic flowing routines.
In a Power Yoga workshop, you are encouraged to focus on the process and not the end result. This allows ALL levels of yoga practitioners to enjoy and benefit from the workshop.

A Power Yoga Master Class typically includes:
• 1 hour lecture about basic philosophy and fundamentals
• 2 hour physical practice incorporating principles from the lecture

Biography- Bryan Kest has been practicing yoga since 1979 and has been teaching since 1985. He developed his unique, distinctive style of yoga, Original Power Yoga, in 1979. Over the years, this style, an amazing workout for the body, mind and spirit, has made him a well-known, popular teacher across the country and around the world.
His mainstream popularity is matched by an authentic foundation in the ancient practice of yoga and a long path of development as a yogi (a practitioner of yoga). At age 15, Bryan uprooted from his native Detroit home to make a life change in Hawaii. He moved to live with his father, a doctor, who understood the benefits of yoga. Like many of us, Bryan originally thought yoga was nothing more than strange contortions, but that changed when his father introduced him to a physical style of yoga called Ashtanga. This appealed to him immediately, and he soon observed great changes in himself, both physically and mentally. Yoga quickly became his passion, one that would take him to India for a year to study with the great yoga masters of the world, Pattabhi Jois. He has been continuing on his yoga path ever since.

Bryan founded and teaches at two studios in Santa Monica, CA. He also teaches at workshops and retreats around the world; provides an intensive teachers training program; and is featured in his own Warner Brothers video series from 1995, as well as a newer video series and audio CD series. His most recent endeavor is www.PowerYogaonDemand.com. This on-line tool features streaming video of Bryan’s classes in Santa Monica, which are recorded live and streamed to students around the world.
For articles by Bryan and more information about Power Yoga, visit www.PowerYoga.com.