Commune with Upside-Downness

Inversions are a crucial part of the yoga asana curriculum. A simple web search will reveal all the gems that inverted time brings a human body. It’s nice to have one or two inversions to call on when the world itself has turned the wrong way up. (Handstands counter depression, for example. Shoulder stand is very calming and restorative. Headstand II brings courage. &c. &c. )

This workshop happens in two parts.
You can do the morning only ($50), or the whole day ($85).
BYO yoga practice things.

Establishing Inversions (8.30am – 12.15pm)
If inversions have felt out of reach, this workshop session will trouble-shoot problems, and seek to provide ongoing ways to integrate inversions into your practice. Exploring good preparation, and relevant strength and alignment to support inverted poses, we’ll work across all the basic versions of the inversions repertoire (Headstand I & II; Handstand; Pincha Mayurasana; Shoulder Stand….)

**This session will involve: sitting, breathing that supports inversions, inversions-relevant asana, relaxation. Please discuss any existing conditions with Antonia prior.

Inversions & their Variations (1.15pm – 4.30pm)
This session builds on the practice of the morning’s study. It welcomes those with some established basic inversion know-how to develop further with the sequences of variations in Sirsasana I, Sirsasana II (relevant to Bakasanas), Sarvangasana.

**This session will involve sitting practice, conditioning work, some study, inverted asana practice, then savasana.

Feel free to email with any questions. Students from a variety of yoga traditions can benefit from close work on this aspect of practice. Please write to us to see if you are suited to joining the morning-only or the whole day.

info [at] vijnanayogaaustralia [dot] org