A 4 day Ashtanga Yoga Self Practice and Workshop Immersion
Thursday 16 February - Sunday 19 February 2023
For many of us our yoga practice is deeply important to us. It can make us feel like we’re flying, and yet there are so many things that come up through the process of practice itself. It’s these processes, those things that challenge us, that can be the most profound.
Wherever you are, whatever you bring, this Mysore Yoga immersion will shine a light on your practice, illuminating what’s coming up, and explore different ways of moving through it, whether you are working with an injury, feel a little stuck in your practice, or feel like you’re flying.
This immersion is for all practitioners of yoga to discover their own way of practicing this profound system of yoga. To see how the wider teachings of yoga and mindfulness can deeply influence your practice.
Scott will draw on his 18 years of experience teaching Mysore Ashtanga Yoga and Mindfulness to shine a light on your yoga practice and help you discover something fresh…
The immersion will include:
Mindfulness Meditation
Pranayama/breathing techniques
Ashtanga yoga - Self practice and guided classes
Chanting
Philosophy
Movement technique and theory
What you will gain from this 4 day immersion?
Over the intensive you will gain insight into your own patterns of practice and how to move in your own unique way. If working with pain or injuries there will be fresh light on how to alleviate and work with these issues. We will use the wider context of anatomy, mindfulness and philosophy to see how we can notice things in a fresh way. This will also help you to see the practice of yoga in a wider context to your life.
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Mysore style Assisted Self Practice with Scott Johnson
Session 1 - 6-7.30am Thursday & Friday / 7.30-9am Saturday & Sunday
Session 2 - 7.30-9am Thursday & Friday / 9-10.30am Saturday & Sunday
Scott believes that developing a self practice takes participation, commitment, learning and growth. Such self practice fosters the individual responsibility of the practitioner learning the practice for themselves.
With individual support and guidance, and the deep teacher-student relationship developed in this self practice method, practice evolves slowly over time, breath by breath, as an individual becomes stronger in their own time.
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Weekend Workshops with Scott Johnson
Workshop 1 | Where Philosophy Meets The Body - Saturday 18 February 2023 2-4pm
Workshop 2 | The Art of Transitioning - Sunday 19 February 2023 2.30-4.30pm
For many of us our yoga practice is deeply important to us. It can make us feel like we’re flying, and yet there are so many things that come up through the process of practice itself. It’s these processes, those things that challenge us, that can be the most profound.
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Workshop 1 | Where Philosophy Meets The Body
2-4pm Saturday 18 February 2023
Uncovering the physical, psychological and spiritual aspects of an ashtanga yoga practice.
The foundational aspect of yoga practice always comes back to this: we are cultivating deeper layers of awareness into what it means to be human. And even though the yoga we know and practice the most is physical, we are always cultivating two other aspects of practice: the psychological and the spiritual.
This workshop will look at the physical practice of ashtanga yoga from the lens of yoga philosophy. We will see that if we can integrate common philosophical principles into our movement practice then balance, alignment and a deeper felt sense awareness will be uncovered.
This workshop is for everyone.
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Workshop 2 | The Art of Transitioning
2.30-4.30pm Sunday 19 February 2023
Slowing down the practice to find the deeper movement
The ashtanga yoga practice is based on vinyasa, the art of movement and sequence. We will work on developing, through the lens of the movements of the primary and intermediate series, the ability to see ourselves through the process of vinyasa,. How we experience insight into how breath and the fluid movement in ashtanga yoga wakes us up to what it means to practice and what practice actually is.
We will see that the paradox of an ashtanga yoga practice is the ability to slow down and refine movement into one of transitioning our own unique patterns.
We will also take a gentle look at how the Sanskrit counting method holds the practice together. We will look to see how the count is the basis of realisation of the present moment in practice and work on techniques in particular postures and vinyasas to allow us to let go of effort.
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Costs
4 Day Immersion Costs
Full Immersion £235 (15% saving)
(assisted Self Practice Sessions (Thurs, Fri, Sat & Sun) + Yoga Assists Workshop + Weekend Workshop Series)
Semi Immersion £178 (10% saving)
(assisted Self Practice Sessions (Thurs, Fri, Sat & Sun) + Weekend Workshop Series)
To book Full Immersion or Semi Immersion please email judi@merchantcityyoga.com
Assisted Self Practice Sessions (Thu, Fri, Sat & Sun) £119
Mysore Session 1 - BOOK ALL SESSIONS NOW
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Drop Ins - Individual Self Practice Session £37
Thursday 16 February
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Friday 17 February
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Saturday 18 February
Mysore Session 1 (7.30-9am) - BOOK DROP IN NOW
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Sunday 19 February
Mysore Session 1 (7.30-9am) - BOOK DROP IN NOW
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Weekend Workshop Series (1 & 2) £79 - BOOK NOW
Workshop 1 Individual £45 - BOOK NOW
Workshop 2 Individual £45 - BOOK NOW
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About Scott
Scott has been director and senior teacher at Stillpoint since he co-founded it in 2009 as Stillpoint Yoga London, with the late Ozge Karabiyik. He has dedicated himself to sharing the practice of yoga each weekday morning since then.
Scott has been practising yoga since 1998, and teaching Ashtanga yoga since 2003. He's one of only a few Ashtanga teachers to both be authorised in the primary and intermediate series by Manju Jois and be given senior teacher status by John Scott.
Scott is registered as a senior yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance UK and has also undergone extensive training with Clear Mind International, gaining their level 1, 2 & 3 certificate in Mindfulness and Compassion.
Scott’s years of dedicated and committed teaching each morning has led Stillpoint to become a highly respected central London Ashtanga yoga shala. He meets everyone who comes and looks to create long-term relationships, integrating the practice of yoga and embodied mindfulness as a way of meeting the world.