The Relational Body: A Workshop Series // Kris Manjapra & Guest Co-Teachers
When:
Saturday, Jun 03, 2017 2:00p -
3:30p
Repeats weekly
Saturday, Jun 03, 2017 2:00p -
3:30p
Repeats weekly
Where:
Down Under School of Yoga
2000 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02140
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Meetup, Social Good, University
Event website:
downunderyoga.com/workshops
Four Saturdays: May 20, 27, June 3, 10
2-4pm in Cambridge
In these times, the need to cultivate love, compassion, and social action is most apparent. This four-part Iyengar series ignites our awareness as elemental, social, historical, and spiritual creatures. Our bodies are vessels of relation, and nodes within greater systems of life. Through our bodies, we relate to the environment, to each other, and to society. These co-taught workshops bring yoga asana, mindful listening and observing exercises, music and poetry, and discussion to the mat.
Workshops are donation based (we suggest $20 supporting the Iyengar Association of New England's Community Service Fund) but everyone is welcome.
History Professor at Tufts of global intellectual history, Kris Manjapra finds inspiration in the places where body and mind meet. He has a long-term interest in yoga for racialized bodies and yoga as a decolonizing practice.
May 20th: Flesh
Kris Manjapra and Lucilda Dassardo-Cooper
We use yoga practice to reckon with the way social class, diaspora, racialization, gendering, and sexual norms imprint themselves on our flesh and our experience.
Lucilda Dassardo-Cooper, a professional artist, teaches yoga in Dorchester. She is a Certified Iyengar Yoga teacher.
May 27th: Earth
Kris Manjapra and Annie Hoffman
We explore the elemental body and how we feel our ground and connect with the elements, with the environment, with each other, and with the earth.
Annie Hoffman teaches Iyengar yoga in the Boston area and is the owner and co-director of the Art & Soul Studio.
June 3rd: Heart
Kris Manjapra and Nadja Refaie
The heart is the seat of courage, compassion, and deeper knowledge. Practice can provide a source of energy for social activism. And heartful practice can help us compassionately explore our bodies as archives of history, memory, and meaning.
Nadja Refaie is one of the most beloved teachers at Down Under Yoga and a Certified Iyengar Yoga teacher.
June 10th: Space
Kris Manjapra and Betty Burkes
Our body is more than what we see. The other senses, especially hearing and touch, help us feel the depth of the personal and social body we inhabit, and the dimensions of space it contains.
Betty Burkes studied with BKS Iyengar in the 1970s and is President of the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center's Board of Directors where she sometimes leads practice groups.
