James Boag: Yoga Immersion


James Boag: Yoga Immersion

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MOVEMENT & SOUND & MEDITATION

Ancient and Always Fresh – Movement and Mythology

A whole life yoga weekend immersion with James Boag

– Explore the practical teachings of yoga symbols and stories.
– Savour the rich flavour of yogic mythology.
– Expand your understanding of timeless yoga principles to help cultivate deepening harmony in the reality of human existence.

Deepen your understanding of the time-proven yoga principles so you can apply them to your own life and practice.

When: 4-6 April 2025
Where: Jemný Svět and Taiji Akademie, Prague 2


Price:


the whole workshop: 4900 CZK


Friday: 1300 CZK
Saturday: 2500 CZK
Sunday: 2500 CZK
YOGIC MOVEMENT (SAT and SUN MORNING PARTS): 2500 CZK
YOGIC WISDOM (SAT and SUN AFTERNOON PARTS): 2500 CZK
Morning Session: 1300 CZK
Afternoon Session: 1300 CZK

Registration and further information: ohni.ohen@gmail.com

Weekend overview:

What you can expect over the weekend:

– Through moving, memorable and inspiring stories, gain practical references to help guide and support skilful, ongoing practice.
– Experience nourishing kīrtan and attune to deeper understanding of the practical significance of yoga symbols, deities and stories so we can draw on them with greater confidence to support more clarity in our day to day lives.
– Enjoy stimulating and refreshing movement practices to foster deeper understanding of how yoga principles can support all types of work, practice and movement.
– Learn robust and adaptable ‘do anywhere’ techniques to promote circulation of nourishing, harmonising energy and information
– Work playfully with coordinative patterns and stimuli, challenging body, mind and senses to easefully, playfully promote neurogenesis and renewal while cultivating dynamic strength, balance and practical mobility.

Learn more about the practical symbolism and stories of the yoga tradition, including:

– Why story and symbol is so effective as a means to support practice and invite deepening understanding
– The practical frame of the five acts of consciousness and how we can work with them in our own lives and practice
– Symbolism of Śiva Yogīśvara and Śiva Nāṭarāja
– Deep, practical symbolism of the Rāmāyaṇa and Hanuman

Complete Schedule:

Friday evening (18:00-20:30):
Introductory talk with movement and kīrtan:
Śiva Nāṭarāja and The Five Act Dance Drama of Consciousness

In this introductory session, with engaging story, uplifting song and nourishing movement along the way, we’ll look at how the yoga tradition uses symbol and story to condense practical teachings and give us robust supports to help guide a lifelong practice. This will include the rich symbolism of Śiva Nāṭarāja and the five acts of consciousness that we are always participating in, and which yoga practice seeks to harmonise, giving us a strong and adaptable frame for practice. We’ll also link the symbolism of Śiva Nāṭarāja to foundational teachings of the Bhagavad Gītā and Yoga Sūtra.

Saturday morning (10:00-13:00):
Yogic Movement:
Five Acts, Zero, Wholeness, Rhythm and Harmony

Working with the symbolism from the previous evening’s introduction, this movement based exploration will explore how we can harness a movement or āsana practice to help us create more space, affirm more steadiness, let go of unnecessary tensions and inhibitions, see more clearly where we may be unnecessarily limiting ourselves and invite more grace, beauty and connectivity.
This will include work to mobilise the joints and spine, attune and awaken the body’s different instrumental powers so we can more readily function as a unit and move through life as more of a dance and less of a struggle.

Expect principle-based yogic movement work that can inform and support all types of physical practice.

Saturday afternoon (15:00-18:00):
Storytelling and practical philosophy – Hanuman: squeezing the mountain and leaping over the ocean

In this session, James will tell part of the story of Rāmāyaṇa with particular focus on the character, role and symbolism of Hanuman, considered a partial incarnation of Śiva. This will give us a vivid and memorable picture of the ongoing process of yoga practice, of re-membering ourselves and what it means to serve the true self and bring ourselves into deeper togetherness in the reality of worldly existence.
With kīrtan and inquiry along the way.

Sunday morning (9:30-12:30):
Yogic movement: Squeezing the mountain and leaping over the ocean

Working with the themes and symbolism from the previous days’ sessions, we’ll explore how to harness yogic movement practice to work with all our human capacities and rehabilitate our understanding of our real selves.
Principles and practices to help make practice renewing, invigorating, fortifying and refreshing through all the stages and cycles of life, and to help us draw forth our deeper capacities.

Expect dynamic movement work stimulating reflexes and recruiting multiple intelligences to foster neurogenesis and renewal.

Sunday afternoon (13:30-16:00):
Storytelling and kīrtan

Why are we doing what we are doing? How can we ensure that our practice is serving us and we don’t become slaves to dogma?
In this session we’ll explore the powerful and many-layered story of the destruction of Dakṣa’s yajña. This will bring us to the heart of the teachings and how we can help ensure our practice stays heartful and nourishing to the whole as it inevitably evolves and changes through the cycles and stages of life.

Find more about James:

James teaches yoga and its philosophy all over the world. He focuses on the basic principles of yoga and natural movement. His approach updates the wisdom of traditional yoga teachings for modern times. He studied Sanskrit in Mysore, South India, and has been sharing his experiences for twenty years. In April, he will lead a YOGA IMMERSION workshop in Prague.
More about James at: http://www.jamesboagyoga.com/
His online courses can be found at: http://www.yogaanytime.com/

See you in Prague! 4-6 April!
Registration and further information: ohni.ohen@gmail.com