The Power of Practice: 5 Day Pranayama Immersion
The Power of Practice:
5 Day Yoga Pranayama Immersion
with Heather Haxo Phillips
Monday – Friday: Feb 9 – 13
7 – 8 am PST each day
via Zoom
Pranayama is a deeply transformative practice on all levels, physical and emotional. It is your time to find deep quiet and expansiveness inside. Indeed, this type of rest can be a sacred experience. A daily pranayama practice is your time to be with yourself and see whats there.
You receive the most benefits of pranayama when you practice consistently. It does take discipline, dedication and a a baseline of knowledge to make the most of a personal pranayama practice. Yet the benefits of pranayama are incredible!
Being with a community of people committed to the same endeavor is one of the ways to inspire and direct your practice. And, winter is a wonderful time to an immersion like this: darker mornings create a quiet and contemplative atmosphere. Carving out this time for inward minded study will most certainly help you build your energy stores before the spring season begins.
Join us for 5 days of pranayama in a row. You will graduate from the Immersion with more confidence, ready to take your practice to the next level and receive enhanced benefits!
The program is Monday through Friday 7 – 8 am PST each day. Thursday we will go later so that there is time for question and answers.
The immersion is part of the Anusthana program, so it is specifically designed for people who have already received teachings on pranayama. Additional participants are invited to register: It is best for students who already have at least three years of studying asana and have had previous practice of pranayama with a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher.
Over the week, Heather will teach the art of reclining and sitting pranayama including use of props, body awareness and somatic sensation. We will focus our studies of pranayama looking through the lens of ashtanga yoga. As the 4th aspect of ashtanga yoga, pranayama practices rest on the foundation of yama, niyama and asana. They also prepare the sadhaka for the deep quiet involved with pratyahara based practices including dharana.
BKS Iyengar’s Light on Pranayama will be our guide and source of inspiration. Pranayama creates quiet and calm in the practitioner, helping to kindle the flame of intelligence and a relationship with the divine.
“Just as a breeze clears the ashes and smoke, so the divine spark in the sadhaka shines out when – by the practice of pranayama – his mind becomes free of impurities and fit for meditation”
– BKS Iyengar, Light on Pranayama
If you are new to pranayama, this is not the program for you. Please join our pranayama class on Wednesdays with Kim Kolibri. Click here to book your class.
RECORDINGS:
We plan that this immersion will be recorded. Every registrant will receive access to the recording for one month. If you cannot attend live, you can pre-register and receive the recordings.
Please note: All of the recordings will be sent in one email at the end of the immersion.
TUITION:
5 Day Immersion: $125
If you cannot attend every day, you can register and use the recording.
Scholarships are available – we have several spots! Please apply here.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Heather Haxo Phillips (she/her) is Director of Adeline Yoga and a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher at the Senior Intermediate level (Level 3). Among the highest certified Iyengar teachers in the East Bay, her additional certifications include: Certified Yoga Therapist (c-IAYT), Relax and Renew restorative yoga teacher and Yoga Alliance E-500 level instructor. She has specialized yoga therapy training which includes scoliosis, musculoskeletal injuries and pain management. One of her asana-related specialties is women’s health.
Heather has a deep commitment to the ancient teachings which includes mantra sadhana (chanting) and Sanskrit, pranayama and yoga philosophy. You can expect to find aspects of this in all of Heather’s classes. Heather deepens her own practice by studying regularly with senior Iyengar teachers, Sanskrit and Vedic scholars, and the Iyengar family in Pune. Heather is past President of the Board of Directors for the Iyengar Yoga Association of Northern California and an active volunteer for the Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States. She is a mentor and assessor, and currently serves on the Assessment Committee for IYNAUS.