with Mukunda Stiles

Thursday, November 20 - Sunday, November 23

Two 2-day Workshops:
Structural Yoga Therapy - Thursday and Friday
Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy - Saturday and Sunday

Each Day: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm and 2 - 5 pm

Full 4-day Workshop:
Earlybird before October 23 - $495
After October 23 - $525

Structural Yoga Therapy:
Earlybird before October 23 - $280
After October 23 - $300

Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy:
Earlybird before October 23 - $280
After October 23 - $300

This workshop is presented by Yogaspirit
Please contact Yogaspirit to register

Structural Yoga Therapy™
Mukunda’s teachings are based on his interpretation of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Structural Yoga Therapy™ focuses on adapting practices to individual needs and presenting teachings that translate into a yogic daily lifestyle. Structural Yoga™ instructors are trained to teach people with a broad spectrum of needs, from those able to participate in traditional yoga classes, to those with movement restrictions, injuries, or health challenges, who require modifications and a very compassionate, healing approach.

The training will include anatomy, biomechanics of movement, breathwork, meditation and ayurvedic principles, giving students tools to practice free of pain from a safe, intelligent and spiritually respectful foundation.

Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy™
There are several secret sutras there that imply Ayurvedic concepts as a means to adapt to the individual’s situations. Krishnamacharya says that Patanjali gives guidelines for adapting yoga to four archetypal students. Within this we are also given guidance for how the Ayurvedic energies come into and out of balance thus providing insights into the need for further adaptations.

Ayurvedic guidelines developed by Mukunda show how the three energetic components of mind/body (doshas) are balanced by three different patterns of movement in asana. The method he recommends in his new book incorporates specific gentle rhythmic vinyasas that promote a release of deeply seated prana to balance vata. Those needing to balance the quality of pitta are given different vinyasas done in a unique manner that focuses on stretching as a means to elevate of diminish the heating principle of pitta. Students with imbalances in kapha need to work with detoxification, tone, and stamina building in a unique manner to enhance their immune system. Thus each dosha is adjusted according to the exercises of Classical Yoga as given Mukunda by his studies with Krishnamacharya’s varied students. Mukunda has written four books including Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy.

About Mukunda
Mukunda is the Director of the Yoga Therapy Center, Holyoke, MA and author of Structural Yoga Therapy, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and the recently published, Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy.

After his army service, he pursued an economics degree at the University of California – Davis. Being a Pisces he has two sides: for his spiritual side he needed a little balance, so he began to teach psychic healing and yoga. In April of 1974, he had another abrupt meeting with destiny through Swami Muktananda who initiated him into a deeper level of spiritual life through the Tantrik Kundalini process of Shaktipat. The effect of this deeper connection with Spirit was profound. “My life has never been the same”. He moved into a new direction and received a degree in religious studies with a thesis on Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. Baba Muktananda encouraged him to make Yoga his profession and gave him the name Mukunda, an aspect of the Divine Presence as the compassionate liberator.

Mukunda was certified to teach Muktananda’s meditation method, as well as hatha and raja yoga. Baba authorized him to give spiritual initiation (Dhivya diksha), give spiritual names, and to transmit Shakti Kundalini awakening through the formerly secret process of Shaktipat. He continues this tradition through individual sessions as a spiritual mentor.