What is Yoga, Yoga's History & Course Logistics + What does it mean to be a student? What is a practice? How do we practice?
The course begins with a lecture on the history of yoga's concepts and practice techniques. We will discuss the key concepts of yoga, how they have shifted over time, and consider the factors that have caused us to arrive at this juncture in the history and development of yoga.
We will look at what it really means to be a yoga student and explore the skills w need to become (or continue to be) a wise student who actively participates in the educational processes embedded within yoga.
We’ll discuss the intentions of a yoga practice within a historical and modern context, learn how the current framework actively impedes that, and situate ourselves as individual practitioners and teachers. We’ll consider the various practice techniques that we might employ to move us toward yoga’s deeper aims.
We’ll outline the logistics of the course and talk about to how to get the best out of YST by clarifying what you need and how best to engage.