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Planting Seeds of Change:  Celebrating the New Year

A Weekend of Anusara Yoga® with Certified Instructor Jonas Westring

Friday Jan 9
18:00-21:00 Hip Opening Heaven, Fantastic Forward Bends, Deep Meditation.

This first session clears out the old and opens your being to fresh possibilities for the New Year.

Saturday Jan 10

10:00-13:00 Freedom is truly your True Nature.
Backbends and Inversions designed to free up your energy, build courage, and strengthen your faith.

15:00-18:00 Anusara Yoga Hands-on Assisting Techniques.

Hands-on adjustments for common yoga poses using the intelligence of Anusara Universal principles.

Sunday Jan 11

10:00-13:00 Eye of the Tiger - Celebrating your Full Potential.

To complete the weekend we will do everything possible to explore and honor our fullest potential.

Full weekend workshop provides 12 Anusara Yoga credit hours.

Anusara Yoga
Founded by John Friend in 1997, Anusara Yoga is a profound, effective, and elegant Hatha Yoga system that blends the ancient art of yoga with the science of biomechanics. One of the most popular and fastest growing yoga systems in the world today, Anusara features Universal Principles of Alignment, a Tantric philosophy, and a celebration of the full potential of life as a whole. Through Anusara’s life affirming approach, effective biomechanical alignment principles, and dedication to community – students enjoy a new level of inspiration and confidence on their yoga path.

Jonas Westring, PT, E-RYT 500, is a licensed physiotherapist in his native Sweden and in the USA who began his yoga studies in 1981 at the Scandinavian Yoga & Meditation School. A multi-certified yoga instructor and yoga therapist, Jonas is a Certified Anusara Yoga teacher™ and has studied with John Friend since 1999. Formerly core faculty member for Integrative Yoga Therapy and other teacher training programs in the USA, Jonas now directs Shantaya Yoga School. Combining a background in physiotherapy with over 25 years yoga and bodywork experience, Jonas teaches at venues worldwide. He is known to transmit the essence of ancient healing arts through clarity, mindfulness and joy.   

www.shantaya.org