Awaken Your Dormant Human Consciousness (B1C)

Make Your Mind Sensitive

Gurushabd Singh Khalsa leads us in the sodarshan kriya, revered for awakening dormant consciousness and making the mind sensitive. Rishi Daman experimented his whole life, spanning 120 years, to find the simple truth of this kriya—to totally shut off the mind to misbehavior. The kriya includes pranayama, which will be done seated, and movement.

Gurushabd Singh Khalsa is codirector of Golden Bridge Yoga in Los Angeles and New York City. He studied and trained with Yogi Bhajan for many years and offers classes that are challenging, musical, and inspiring. Gurushabd Singh Khalsa and Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa have been married for more than 25 years. goldenbridgeyoga.com

Building Intuition (B2D)

By subjecting our ego to our intuition, we free ourself to create a life that satisfies us, and the greater good. Gurushabd Singh Khalsa guides us in a practice of Kundalini Yoga, including movement and seated pranayama, designed to make our mind sensitive, build our intuition, and tap into universal higher conscious wisdom.

Gurushabd Singh Khalsa is codirector of Golden Bridge Yoga in Los Angeles and New York City. He studied and trained with Yogi Bhajan for many years and offers classes that are challenging, musical, and inspiring. Gurushabd Singh Khalsa and Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa have been married for more than 25 years. goldenbridgeyoga.com

Insight Meditation (B3C)

Breathing With Life

Yoga practitioners often develop a wonderful sensitivity to energy and sensation in the body. By adding meditation to your practice, you can also develop a heightened sensitivity to the mind. Guided by Matthew Daniell, you learn the Buddha's meditation instructions on breath awareness—"breathing with life"— to systematically develop a present moment attention that looks into the mind-body process. As the practice of clear seeing unfolds, you learn to let go of suffering, and enter into your life more fully, with an open heart, freshness, and ease.

Matthew Daniell is the guiding teacher at the Insight Meditation Center in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and a member of the religious services department at Phillips Exeter Academy, where he leads meditation groups for students and faculty. He also studied yoga in the tradition of T.K.V. Desikachar and is certified to teach in several traditions. imcnewburyport.com

Meditation & Yoga (B4J)

What is meditation? How does yoga define meditation? Mark Whitwell offers a meditation practice designed appropriately for each person and placed in the context of yoga, its natural home.

Mark Whitwell has enjoyed a lifelong relationship with the teachings of T. Krishnamacharya through his studies with B.K.S. Iyengar, K. Pattabhi Jois, Srivatsa Ramaswami, Indra Devi, A.G. Mohan, and T.K.V. Desikachar. He is author of Yoga of Heart: The Healing Power of Intimate Connection and founder of The Heart of Yoga Association, a nonprofit that provides yoga education around the world. heartofyoga.com

Yoga & the Heart-Mind (C5F)

Living in the Inner City

The ancient etymology of "purusa," the Sankhya and yoga term for our true or essential self, is the "city dweller." Much of yoga therapy works on the "suburbs," structural and physiological conditions and their symptoms. Yet, the deeper sources of suffering are often rooted in the "inner city" of our thoughts, moods, and behavioral patterns. We discuss the theory and practice of journeying through the suburbs in order to heal our inner city, followed by a practice that integrates asana, pranayama, chanting, mantra, and meditation.

Gary Kraftsow began his study of yoga in India with T.K.V. Desikachar in 1974 and founded the American Viniyoga Institute in 1999. He is author of Yoga for Wellness and Yoga for Transformation and has produced the DVDs Yoga Therapy for Low Back, Sacrum, and Hips and Yoga Therapy for Upper Back, Neck, and Shoulders. As one of the foremost yoga therapists in the United States, Kraftsow has consulted on many research and collaborative projects, notably a National Institutes of Health study on yoga for back pain and a Harvard Medical School study for generalized anxiety. viniyoga.com