Instructor: Annie Carpenter
In Person in Stockholm, Sweden at Yoga Folks Studio
This module will give you 15 hours towards your Advanced SmartFlow 300-hours, or Yoga Alliance CEUs.
A Weekend Exploring the Foundations of Healthy Movement and Presence
Join Annie Carpenter for a transformative weekend exploring the essential principles of alignment, stability, and presence in your yoga practice. This intensive workshop is designed for both teachers and dedicated students seeking to deepen their understanding of the body's intelligent design.
What You’ll Explore
Secure the base through understanding healthy feet and ankle alignment
Deep hip anatomy and movement in all directions
Master side-bending as essential core work for spinal stability
Return to center and understand the essential challenge of balanced steadiness
Cultivate the opposite through Pratipaksha Bhavanam philosophy
Workshop Overview
This weekend intensive combines daily practice, hands-on exploration, and philosophical inquiry to help you understand how every movement we make either supports or destabilizes our foundation. Through careful examination of the feet, hips, and spine, we'll learn how small shifts in awareness and alignment create powerful changes in our practice and teaching.
Daily Sessions
Friday 5:00PM – 7:30PM: Secure the Base: Healthy Feet in Yoga Asana
For teachers and dedicated students: We will examine the 3 primary arches of the feet and how they feed the ankles, shins and knees. We'll practice both seated and standing poses, and examine healthy shifting of weight in all directions. Variations in body types and typical problems will be addressed. Healthy feet keep us moving!
Saturday 9:30AM – 12:30PM: Deep Hips: Practice for Happy and Healthy Hips
For teachers and dedicated students: Let's move our hips in all directions and explore our imbalances and asymmetries with an eye to creating our own personal balance. A mix of strong asana and deep releasing will give us strength and a feeling of openness.
Saturday 2:30PM – 5:00PM: Side-bending for Length and Stability
For teachers and dedicated students: Side-bending is all too rare in Yoga; because it's complicated! Let's break down the work from below and above and find the sweet spot for our low backs, side waists and abdomens. Make no mistake this is deep core work, at its best.
Sunday 10:30AM – 1:00PM: The Central Channel: The Yogi's Essential Challenge
For teachers and dedicated students: Standing tall and upright is called Mountain, Tadasana; but also SamaSthithi, which means equal standing, or balanced steadiness or stillness. Every pose we do has a bit of this in it; and every pose asks us to be aware of how to Return to Tadasana, essentially how to Return to Center. This will be a deep, thought provoking and strong, centering practice that will move you from the outer layers of your practice and body to innermost sense of who you are.
Sunday 3:00PM – 5:00PM: Living the Continuum: Pratipaksha Bhavanam
Lecture and brief meditation. Let's conclude our weekend with an essential philosophical component, Cultivating the Opposite. Get the details on where it comes from, and why it matters. Then we'll look at how to apply it to our Asana practice and teaching; and ultimately how to live this powerful, insightful and gratitude inducing tenet. We'll close with a sweet meditation.
Who Should Attend
For yoga teachers and dedicated students seeking to deepen their foundation work and understand the principles that support healthy, sustainable practice.
Pricing:
Full Weekend Course: 6000 SEK
Individual Courses: 1500 SEK
Full course participants are prioritized, and individual bookings may be cancelled if needed.
