Mine Your Depths:  A Forrest Yoga Hip Opening Workshop
Your hips connect your legs to your core, and your legs stand on the ground, keeping you “grounded.”  When the hips are locked or clogged, it inhibits your ability to connect with the depths of your first and second charkas, cuts you off from the deep wisdom and creative energy that lies there, and also disconnects you from the earth.  Forrest Yoga is an inspiring method that asks you to go deeper, feeling for what mysteries, treasures, and truths are yet to be uncovered in your hips.  In this 2-1/2 hour workshop we will unlock the hips and mine their depths.  This workshop is for all levels of practitioners; you will leave feeling connected to your inherent wisdom like never before. 

Amp up your Energy!  A Forrest Yoga Backbend Workshop
In backbends you are deliberately exploring the unknown, arching back into the mysteries of your own experience.  Backbends are exhilarating, uplifting, and absolutely different than our normal way of being.  They run a different amperage through the nervous system, begin to resonate you at higher frequency, and rev-up your energy!  Forrest Yoga is inspiring yoga method that encourages you to dive into the magic and truth of your existence.  In this 2 ½ hour workshop, you will learn Forrest methods of heating the body, opening it, and backbending deeply with ease and safety.  This workshop is for all levels of practitioners; you will leave feeling the exhilaration that comes from the high-voltage experience of intense backbending!

Truth and Fear:  A Forrest Yoga Chaturanga and Sun Salutations Workshop
Often we resist the truth of a situation for fear of what it will show us about ourselves and our lives; instead we insist on living our fantasies and stories, which always thwart our development both in our lives and yoga practices.  Forrest Yoga is an inspiring yoga method that teaches us how the truth of our existence is far more wild, beautiful, and mysterious than any fantasy we could otherwise concoct.  In this 2 ½ hour workshop, you will learn Forrest methods for heating and training the body to find the correct alignment in chaturanga, to jump back and forward safely, and to use the bandas to support the low back at all times.  This workshop is for all levels of practitioners; you will leave feeling the exhilaration that comes from connecting to the core, flowing safely though the Sun Salutes, and committing to your own transformation through living in truth. 

Delight Your Spirit:  A Forrest Yoga Inversions and Arm Balance Workshop
Your spirit thrives on beauty, challenge, and truth.  Forrest Yoga is an inspiring method that teaches us how to access our spirits and to feed it these things and more.  Inversions and arm balances are challenging and exciting, rejuvenating the mind and body while increasing circulation of blood, oxygen, and energy, and, stimulating the endocrine and immune systems.  Additionally, both arm balancing poses and inversions develop mental and physical strength, balance and flexibility.  In this 2 ½ hour workshop, you will learn essential Forrest elements of these powerful poses.  This workshop is for all levels of practitioners; you will leave feeling the excitement that comes from connecting to the core, building strength, flexibility and balance, and most importantly, delighting your spirit.

Gravity Surfing:  An Advanced Forrest Yoga Workshop with Erica Mather
Description coming soon!!!

Designing a Practice for Yourself: Smart Sequencing for Your Body
Have you been wanting to design a practice for yourself to augment your growing participation at the studio?  Do you have injuries that need special attention?  Are you a teacher with an interest in deepening your knowledge of sequencing?  Are you an advanced practitioner who wants to further your practice in very specific areas?  Are you thinking of taking a teacher training, and want to know more about the technology behind making a class structure?  In this 2-1/2 hour workshop led by senior Forrest Yoga instructor Erica Mather you will learn how to create a sequence for yourself that addresses your specific needs.  Topics covered include pranayama, meditation, smart, dynamic sequencing, and working with injury.  With Erica's guidance, you will design and take your own one hour class.  To follow up, you will have private admittance to three group self-practices also overseen by Erica, where she will be available for guidance, questions, and assists.  All levels welcome. 

When: Saturday, May 22nd 2:00-4:30PM
Where: Life in Motion, 2744 Broadway (at 105th), 2nd floor
Cost:  $45 in advance, $55 at the door
Registration: 212.666.0870
Follow-up classes (cost per class $18):  tentatively scheduled
   Tuesday, May 25th 9-10:15AM
   Wednesday, May 26th, 6:30-7:45AM
   Thursday, May 27th, 9-10:15AM