January 5, 2012 | 0 Comments

Buddhayana Yoga: The Yogic Art of Sitting, Standing, & Walking

A 7-Week Digital Yoga Practice with Sofia Diaz

January 26th – March 8th, 2012

Thursdays • 5-7pm PT • 6-8pm MT • 7-9pm CT • 8-10pm ET

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Please note, this entire series is audio only. There are no videos for this course.

*You can participate live or engage the practice recordings later, at any time, from anywhere in the world.

In the Zen tradition it is noted that “sitting, standing and walking” are the greatest tests of one’s true awareness or awakeness. This seven-week digital yoga series will unfold out of the heart of this understanding. The beginning, middle and end of every practice will unmistakeably be founded in “adamantine truth” (i.e. strong bodily establishment in ‘Buddha Nature’ or ‘Christ Heart’ or ‘non-dual Love-Bliss’- simple yet Large, just like true bodily engagement of any kind).

The Hatha Yoga will progress through a fabulous series of asana and pranayama practices all centered in a strongly concentrated state, designed to serve the bodily freedoms to “sit, stand and walk” purrrrfectly!!!

Get a Taste of Digital Yoga with Sofia Diaz

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Sofia Diaz is a hatha yoga master, a lineage holder in the Balasaraswati lineage of the South Indian temple arts and a recipient of numerous meditation empowerments in both Tibetan and Shakta Tantric traditions . She turns the body wisdom practices she is empowered in into accessible teachings and practices for the modern western mind. Being an inspired woman practitioner, the rigors of her practice have resulted in great clarity and expertise in the domain of Feminine Spiritual practice, which she has been generously teaching for 27 years. She has published writings on yoga and sacred movement in both academic and popular journals and travels frequently, teaching women’s yoga intensives throughout the world.

What You’ll Learn…

Week 1: Experientially defining ‘sit’, opening the nadi’s (energetic nodes) of the pelvis and legs aimed toward Rajasana (the royal pose) – which is being able to sit supported by the cosmos in all our parts, allowing ourselves to Be the cosmos simultaneously.

Week 2: Lengthening the spine using the support of opened pelvis and legs to transform bodily perspective from stillness to potentiated Freedom (i.e. to Stand). The freedom to bodily stand is fundamentally, outrageously ecstatic! In this ‘week 2’ of practice we will locate and make use of spinal extensions and gentle inversions while remaining rooted in the thick openness of the legs and pelvis.

Week 3: Engaging all participant’s experience, we will practice the most necessary and the most delightful aspects of the practices given thus far in order to deepen liberating personal choices (vs. constricting avoidance strategies), thus empowering doubtless discrimination over tepid bodily fears in lawfully choosing what to practice. (This is a clarification and expansion upon Touchstone #1 from Real Yoga 1).

Week 4: Emotions and Will practice week. Deeply and lengthily practiced asanas to purify or bring awareness to blocks in conscious forward (guidance) and backward (healthy surrender) gestures – the beginning of ‘wake-full walking’ and the exaggerated noticing of pleasure in the power to move.

Week 5: The Rainbow of Spinal Choices week. This week of practice is designed to flesh out the conscious choice of where we walk from in our deepest bodily motives to move. This will be a week of great emphasis on vinyasa (breath-moved asana series) and choosing one’s favorite and most challenging Surya Namaskaram Vinayasa (Light-bowed-whole-body-breath-offered-cycle).

Week 6: The week of Celebration and review of dynamic stillness, ecstatic freedom and bliss-full sacrifice/offering as the heart-engaged bodily sensations of liberated sitting, standing and walking.

Week 7: “The Great Choice” week (or lifetime!) of practice. We will end the series highlighting the Unique Shape of all of our yogic choices – conscious and unconscious – as we feelingly sit, stand and walk alone, back into our individual lives and make choices about what is the most important, delicious and clarifying thing/things to practice moving forward from this series.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can’t Make the Call?

No problem… If for any reason you can’t attend the live call, you can download a recording of the call and listen to it whenever you like. This includes seven 120-minute MP3′s for you to keep and review and practice with, over and over. We will post the recording from each class as soon as possible for you to engage.

What Do I Need to Participate?

If you have a phone line and a computer with an internet connection, you’re ready to engage Real Yoga 3 from the comfort of your own home. Just dial into the weekly class via phone or listen online over the webcast. After you register, you’ll receive an email with access codes for our first session on Thursday, February 24th. After that, you’ll receive an email each week with new access codes to attend the live sessions.

What You’ll Receive

Seven 120-minute teaching sessions with Sofia Diaz, including dharma talks, yoga practices, and Q&A periods.
Access to all seven recorded class sessions available via MP3 download to listen to on your computer or iPod.
Each two-hour practice will alternate weeks between: dharma/theory introduction, followed by physical asana practice and Q&A sessions, followed by physical asana practice