Join visiting instructors Tias Little and Surya Little of Prajna Yoga for a very special weekend of workshops at Green Yogi!
The weekend’s schedule:
Friday, March 13
2-5pm: Light on Women's Practice: Cleansing and Toning with Surya Little
This class focuses on lateral twists and supportive backbends to open and energize the chest and lift the spirit. In this practice we release blocked energy and tone the internal organs so that the flow of energy is balanced. We will use inversions with variations to support mental tiredness, nervous exhaustion, calm the nerves, and to sleep more soundly.
6-8pm: Twists to Improve Circulation with Tias and Surya Little
This class involves twisting movements for the spine, organs, muscles and skin. Through supine, seated and standing poses come prepared to release blockages in the gut, shoulders and spinal musculature. Twists help to squeeze, flush and replenish the tissues of the body. They allow the breath to flow deeper while revitalizing the blood and boost energy. After moving through a sequence of twists, we practice pranayama to expand the lung tissue.
Saturday, March 14
11am-1:30pm: The Sacrum, Hip Joints and Low Back with Tias and Surya Little
This class is a deep dive into the structures around the hips to build strength and stability in the low back. We take a slow progression through the many angles of rotation in and around the hips to generate fluidity in the sacrum, sacral-iliac joints and pelvis. We practice SATYA, standing poses and seated poses to generate a stream-like flow of prana through the spine.
3-5:30pm: Nadis, Circulation and the Joints with Tias and Surya Little
In yoga the nadis are described as rivers of energy that flow through the body. They are circulatory pathways of blood, lymph and nerve that flow through all the connective tissues. There are thousands of small tributaries throughout the body that move via arcs, curves, spirals and elliptical patterns. In this immersion, we do SATYA movements and yoga postures to increase circulation through all the tissues of the body. We use rocking, circular and spiral movements to release the fascia and joints of the body. When there is uninhibited flow through the currents of the nadis there is radiant health and longevity in the body.
Sunday, March 15
11am-1:30pm: The Tao of Yoga with Tias and Surya Little
The Tao suggests the natural evolution of things that occurs over time. The essential spirit of the Way is inseparable from the natural world—the currents of rivers, the erosion of mountains and the formation of snowflakes. For many, the Tao is simply known as the path of water. In this class, we bring together the fluidity of SATYA and the suppleness of a yoga practice to embody the flow of the Tao. In every movement we look to cultivate ease and naturalness and embody naturalness, fluidity and flow. This practice begins with insight and reflection on passages from the Tao Te Ching.
Pricing
Join us for the whole Tias and Surya Weekend Immersion for $240 (includes four workshops Friday evening - Sunday afternoon.) Registration for individual workshops is $70:
Sign up for Light on Women’s Practice
Sign up for Twists to Improve Circulation
Sign up for The Sacrum, Hip Joints and Low Back
Sign up for Nadis, Circulation and the Joints
Registration for Light on Women’s Practice is $70, or can be added on to Weekend Immersion for $60. Reach out to events@mygreenyogi.com to inquire.
About Tias Little
A gifted orator, Tias brings metaphor and imagination to his classes. He weaves together poetic language, embodied wisdom and subtle body awareness in all his classes.
Tias synthesizes years of study in classical yoga, Sanskrit, Buddhist studies, somatic practices and anatomy in his dynamic and original style. He began studying Iyengar Yoga in 1984 and lived in Mysore, India in 1989 studying Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga with Pattabhi Jois. His teaching includes precision of alignment, anatomical detail and meditative awareness. He is the founder of SATYA, Somatic Awareness Training for Yoga, a somatic practice that complements yoga.
Tias is a long time student of the meditative arts and Buddhist studies beginning with Vipassana and continuing in Tibetan Buddhism and Zen. Tias earned a Master’s degree in Eastern Philosophy from St. John’s College in Santa Fe. Tias Little makes his home under the big skies of Santa Fe New, Mexico where he co-directs Prajna Yoga with his wife Surya. Tias is the author of five books, The Thread of Breath, Meditations on a Dewdrop, Yoga of the Subtle Body, The Practice is the Path (Shambhala Publications), and In the Space Between: The Poetry of Embodiment.
About Surya Little
Intuitive and inspiring, Surya brings a compassion to the teaching of yoga. Her classes are dynamic and lighthearted as she cultivates a strong mental and physical practice with students. Surya specializes in yoga for the different phases of a woman’s journey, offering private yoga sessions and nutritional consultations.
Always with an eye for beauty Surya’s healing touch includes skin care, diet, lifestyle, and interior design. Her yoga is informed by the Five Element theory of Qi Gong within the Taoist tradition. Her tap root in yoga training is in
Iyengar and Ashtanga vinyasa yoga. She began her practice of Iyengar Yoga with Karin Stephan and Aadil Palkhivala and continues to study with Patricia Walden. She has studied nutrition, and constitutional healing at the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Within the Prajna Yoga curricula, Surya teaches meal preparation using medicinal whole foods based in the Japanese macrobiotic diet.
Together with Tias Little, Surya is the founder of Prajna Yoga in Santa Fe, New Mexico.