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Monthly Studio Talk
2025-03-05 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Denver)
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Yogic Teachings on Death & Dying

Back in the early 90’s when our original Yoga Workshop studio was a few years old, we started offering Studio Talks on Sunday evenings after the packed Mysore class. We never knew for sure whether there would be a talk, though usually as we rolled up our mats and wiped sweat from the floor you’d hear Richard’s voice quietly saying, “In fifteen minutes, there will be a talk…if anyone is here.” They grew from 10-20 in attendance to close to 100 at times as word spread that the talks were interesting, often funny and always free. And best of all, you didn’t have to practice yoga to join in.

When the pandemic hit in 2020 we started offering Studio Talks live online and these too have grown into a monthly online gathering of sangha members from around the world. We cover foundational yoga teachings and paradoxes in context of modern life and for those who join live, we always stick around for questions.

The Joy of Awakening
2025-03-05 07:00 - 08:00, 2025-02-26 07:00 - 08:00, 2025-02-19 07:00 - 08:00 (America/New_York)
Now’s the time to wake up to your fully embodied state and feel the freedom of being whole, clear and joyful, able to gracefully ride waves of change that are integral to everyday life. Feeling free and happy—grounded in the present moment—takes practice learning to trust your body’s natural intelligence and allowing it to bring you back to a state of equanimity when emotions flare, habits set in, or calamities take center stage. Join Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor for 8 live classes, exploring simple asana, pranayama and meditation techniques that integrate body, heart and mind to bring balance, calm and insight into the moment. Each class offers: · A 45-minute guided practice and 15-minutes of live Q&A. · Practices that integrate body, heart and mind to bring balance. · Tips for adapting practices to fit your individual needs and circumstances. · Insights into cultivating the capacity for lasting happiness and compassion.

Monthly Studio Talk
2025-02-05 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
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The Highest Common Denominator: Embodying Truth

Back in the early 90’s when our original Yoga Workshop studio was a few years old, we started offering Studio Talks on Sunday evenings after the packed Mysore class. We never knew for sure whether there would be a talk, though usually as we rolled up our mats and wiped sweat from the floor you’d hear Richard’s voice quietly saying, “In fifteen minutes, there will be a talk…if anyone is here.” They grew from 10-20 in attendance to close to 100 at times as word spread that the talks were interesting, often funny and always free. And best of all, you didn’t have to practice yoga to join in.

When the pandemic hit in 2020 we started offering Studio Talks live online and these too have grown into a monthly online gathering of sangha members from around the world. We cover foundational yoga teachings and paradoxes in context of modern life and for those who join live, we always stick around for questions.

Richard Freeman & Mary Taylor ~ Feeling Happy: The Yoga of Body, Heart, and Mind
2025-01-30 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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Wisdom Dharma Chants: YOGA FOR MEDITATORS

LOCATION & TIME:

Online via Banyen Books

7:00-8:00 PM PST

Join Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor for a Banyen event sharing authentic wisdom from their new book, Feeling Happy: The Yoga of Body, Heart, and Mind.

Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor have both studied yoga for over 50 years. Together they teach workshops and trainings throughout the world and have authored several influential books. Their new book, Feeling Happy, draws from their decades practicing and teaching yoga, meditation, and Buddhism to explore what happiness is and to offer practical steps toward cultivating happiness as a deep, embodied expression of life. Freeman and Taylor offer insights from yoga philosophy and Buddhism as well as accessible practices to help readers develop true happiness, (self)compassion, and equanimity.

Richard Freeman has studied Ashtanga, Iyengar, bhakti, and traditional hatha yoga; Western and Eastern philosophy; and Sanskrit, all of which he incorporates into his Ashtanga yoga practice. Richard teaches at his studio, the Yoga Workshop, in Boulder, Colorado, as well as at studios and conferences throughout the world. He is also a frequent contributor to Yoga Journal and his video series, Yoga with Richard Freeman, inspires many people to take up yoga.

Mary Taylor is the cofounder, with Richard Freeman, of the Yoga Workshop in Boulder, Colorado, which they started in 1988. Mary travels and teaches Ashtanga yoga throughout the world, both independently and in collaboration with Richard. In addition to teaching, Mary works closely with programs focused on bringing contemplative and yoga practices into the health care system for integrative therapies and self-care, and she is active in Donna Karan’s Urban Zen Foundation.

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In Conversation: Kino McGregor
2025-01-02 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
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Conversation on Feeling Happy

Join Kino MacGregor, Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor for a conversation about Richard and Mary’s New Book, Feeling Happy, which explores the nature of happiness as a basic human capacity and illuminates how suffering and confusion can cast a veil over true happiness. Freeman and Taylor tap into yoga philosophy and Buddhism to offer practical guidance that will appeal to anyone interested in improving their mental and physical wellbeing. Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor have studied yoga for over 50 years. Together they teach workshops and trainings throughout the world and have co-authored numerous books.

Looking Back, Looking Forward, Staying in the Present
2024-12-27 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
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End of Year Talk

Join us for our end of year discussion on December 27th 2024.

STEP BY STEP: BALANCING, REFRAMING, OPENING AND LETTING GO
2024-12-10 00:00 - 2024-12-20 23:59 (Asia/Krasnoyarsk) | Samahita Retreat, 75/2 Moo 4 T. Namuang, Koh Samui Surat Thani, 84140, Thailand
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WHAT:

10-day Silent Retreat

PRICE:

Rates vary. Visit Samahita Retreat website for more information.

Schedule

Morning

6.45amTea / Coffee / Fruit7.15 am – 7:45amSit7.45 am – 8:00amBreak8.00 am – 10:00amAsana (Mysore)10.00 am – 10:45amBreakfast (silence)10.45 am – 12.00pmSit / Walk12.00 pm – 1.30 pmBrunch Buffet (silence)

Afternoon

1.30 – 3.45 pmPersonal Time3.45 – 4.00 pmSit4.00 – 6.00 pmChanting and Lecture6.00 – 7.00 pmDinner Buffet (Silence)7.00 – 7.30 pmEvening Sit

For Ashtanga practitioners sometimes the most difficult if not dreaded part of the practice is sitting still. Yet taking time to cultivate finishing postures, pranayama forms as well as meditation practice can enliven and bring a whole new depth to our daily asana practice. In this silent retreat we will focus on the balancing combination of asana, meditation and breathing practices. Each day we will sit, practice Mysore style, chant, explore postures in depth in guided sessions and work with the philosophical underpinnings of the elements of compassion and an understanding of the nature of the mind and the body.

Most days will be spent in meditative silence to allow the practices to be assimilated and take root. What better place to experiment with silence than in the supportive environment of the ocean and nature that is part of the Samahita experience. The retreat is appropriate for beginning and seasoned meditation practitioners alike. To understand more about this retreat please read this testimonial.

This retreat is a remarkable opportunity to slow down, reflect and go deeply into practice. Immersed in the richness of nature and the tropics, when we introduce silence of speech, something magical happens. Spaces, insights, and a sense of groundedness emerge freely. These shifts in experience and perspective are always there in the background, but when we introduce the freedom of silence, they shine forth.

Day two we ease into silence and on the last full day we ease back out. Students are encouraged to keep silent, stay off screens, and take advantage of the rare opportunity for reflection and renewal in the vastness of nature. Mary and Richard will be available if difficulties, doubts or questions within the practice arise.

Wisdom Dharma Chats: YOGA FOR MEDITATORS
2024-11-13 19:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Lisbon)
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TOPIC:

Wisdom Dharma Chants: YOGA FOR MEDITATORS

LOCATION & TIME:

132 Perry St., New York, NY 10014 or ONLINE VIA ZOOM

7:00-8:00 PM EST

Join us with Alejandro Chaoul, and Wisdom Publications in person in New York City on Wednesday, November 13 at 7:00 PM EST for an episode of Wisdom Dharma Chats. During this Wisdom Dharma Chat host Daniel Aitken and our guests will be discussing yoga for meditators, an upcoming Wisdom Academy online course. They’ll dive into the connection between yoga and meditation, including how yoga can help deal with classic meditation issues such as restlessness and fatigue, and much more!

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Monthly Studio Talk
2024-11-06 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Denver)
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Samsara: An Elegant Dance with Time

Back in the early 90’s when our original Yoga Workshop studio was a few years old, we started offering Studio Talks on Sunday evenings after the packed Mysore class. We never knew for sure whether there would be a talk, though usually as we rolled up our mats and wiped sweat from the floor you’d hear Richard’s voice quietly saying, “In fifteen minutes, there will be a talk…if anyone is here.” They grew from 10-20 in attendance to close to 100 at times as word spread that the talks were interesting, often funny and always free. And best of all, you didn’t have to practice yoga to join in.

When the pandemic hit in 2020 we started offering Studio Talks live online and these too have grown into a monthly online gathering of sangha members from around the world. We cover foundational yoga teachings and paradoxes in context of modern life and for those who join live, we always stick around for questions.

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Monthly Studio Talk- Cancelled
2024-10-02 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Denver)
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October’s Studio Talk is Cancelled

Back in the early 90’s when our original Yoga Workshop studio was a few years old, we started offering Studio Talks on Sunday evenings after the packed Mysore class. We never knew for sure whether there would be a talk, though usually as we rolled up our mats and wiped sweat from the floor you’d hear Richard’s voice quietly saying, “In fifteen minutes, there will be a talk…if anyone is here.” They grew from 10-20 in attendance to close to 100 at times as word spread that the talks were interesting, often funny and always free. And best of all, you didn’t have to practice yoga to join in.

When the pandemic hit in 2020 we started offering Studio Talks live online and these too have grown into a monthly online gathering of sangha members from around the world. We cover foundational yoga teachings and paradoxes in context of modern life and for those who join live, we always stick around for questions.

AWAKENING THE FLOWER BODY
2024-09-23 00:00 - 2024-09-29 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon) | Agora Lisboa, Rua do Açúcar Nº52, 1950-009 Lisboa, Portugal, Portugal
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PRICE:

910 €

HOST:

Agora Lisboa

SESSION TIMING:

Morning: 8:30am -12:30pm

Afternoon: 2-4:30pm

In this week-long immersion we will delve into the flowering process of awakening by exploring deep, internal forms and connections of the ashtanga vinyasa method adapted to the unique needs and circumstances of the individual.

Health, age, injury, and our broader and deeper relationships with others will be brought into our adaption of the practices to reveal the freedom of what it means to simply be in the here and now.

Morning practice will include pranayama followed by asana detailing the traditional ashtanga series to find power in subtle alignment and new depth in old poses. We will bring the brilliant core of the central axis out through the forms of the postures, turning them into mudras of feeling and expression so that our practice is ever deepening, steady and safe, a source for inspiration.

In the afternoons we will practice chanting and meditation as well as dive into the philosophy of the Yoga Sutra as it reveals the secrets of complete awakening to the world of interdependence between people, cultures, and deep contemplative experience.

Appropriate for students of all levels of practice.

Five Steps To Embodying Happiness: A Free Talk
2024-09-20 19:00 - 20:30 (Europe/Lisbon)
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TOPIC:

Five Steps to Embodying Happiness a Free Talk

LOCATION & TIME:

Agora Lisboa

19:00-20:30 Lisbon Time

With our new book Feeling Happy: The Yoga of Body Heart and Mind coming out this fall, we wanted to host a collection of free talks on the topic of happiness.

This edition will happen both in person at Agora Lisboa and online via Zoom.

There are limited spots available in person, use the link below to register.

JOIN VIRTUALLY SEPTEMBER 20TH HERE

Monthly Studio Talk
2024-09-04 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Denver)
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TOPIC:

What Do You Do When You Don’t Know What To Do

Back in the early 90’s when our original Yoga Workshop studio was a few years old, we started offering Studio Talks on Sunday evenings after the packed Mysore class. We never knew for sure whether there would be a talk, though usually as we rolled up our mats and wiped sweat from the floor you’d hear Richard’s voice quietly saying, “In fifteen minutes, there will be a talk…if anyone is here.” They grew from 10-20 in attendance to close to 100 at times as word spread that the talks were interesting, often funny and always free. And best of all, you didn’t have to practice yoga to join in.

When the pandemic hit in 2020 we started offering Studio Talks live online and these too have grown into a monthly online gathering of sangha members from around the world. We cover foundational yoga teachings and paradoxes in context of modern life and for those who join live, we always stick around for questions.

This month’s Studio Talk will be held in Portugal 6pm Portugal Time (GMT+1).

Monthly Studio Talk
2024-08-07 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Berlin)
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TOPIC:

Fear Within Patterns and Waves of Emotion

This Studio Talk we will be holding while in Europe- we will be holding it 18:00-19:00 Berlin Time (GMT+2)

Back in the early 90’s when our original Yoga Workshop studio was a few years old, we started offering Studio Talks on Sunday evenings after the packed Mysore class. We never knew for sure whether there would be a talk, though usually as we rolled up our mats and wiped sweat from the floor you’d hear Richard’s voice quietly saying, “In fifteen minutes, there will be a talk…if anyone is here.” They grew from 10-20 in attendance to close to 100 at times as word spread that the talks were interesting, often funny and always free. And best of all, you didn’t have to practice yoga to join in.

When the pandemic hit in 2020 we started offering Studio Talks live online and these too have grown into a monthly online gathering of sangha members from around the world. We cover foundational yoga teachings and paradoxes in context of modern life and for those who join live, we always stick around for questions.

Month-Long Teachers Intensive
2024-08-05 00:00 - 2024-08-30 23:59 (Europe/Gibraltar) | Teacher’s Intensive, Darmstadt-Eberstadt, Germany
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WHERE:

Darmstadt-Eberstadt, Germany

This course is full.

Teacher Intensive dates 2025 TBD Applications for next year’s course will be available in January, 2025.

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The purpose of the course is to facilitate an exploration of the internal principles and forms of Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga at a level that will deepen one’s practice and make teaching a natural outcome of practice. Always returning to our own personal experience, we will explore the practices and philosophies of yoga, their contexts, purposes, patterns, and limitations. Examining the tradition from multiple viewpoints should give depth and sophistication to the interconnected processes of yoga. The course will flow through the many and often contradictory philosophies of yoga into therapeutics, and asana practice, on to comparing and contrasting aspects of Buddhism to yoga, an introduction to Sanskrit and work with pranayama, back into meditation, on into the biomechanics of posture and movement, and into the hands-on world of relating to others.

SECRETS OF ASHTANGA YOGA
2024-07-05 00:00 - 2024-07-07 23:59 (America/Los_Angeles) | Breathe Together Yoga, 14107 South Winchester Boulevard, Los Gatos, CA, 95032, United States
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PRICE:

General: $610

Members: $555

Early-bird (Through 6/1): $555

Daily Schedule:

Morning: 9:00am-12:00pm

Lunch Break: 12:00pm-1:30pm

Afternoon: 1:30pm-3:30pm

Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga means so much more than whether or not you can put your leg behind your head or catch your heals in backbending, though those can be fun and tangible landmarks within our asana practice. But there’s always so much more to a balanced practice! The healthiest approach to yoga is to incorporate and integrate into our practice all eight limbs of the traditional ashtanga system as described in the Yoga Sutra. It is through this integrated approach that meditation, freedom, and lasting happiness spontaneously arise.

Mornings will be asana classes in which we explore details of the traditional series, finding power in the transitions and new alignment depth in old poses. We will bring the brilliant core of the central axis out through the forms of the postures, turning them into mudras of feeling and expression so that our practice is ever deepening, steady and safe, a source for inspiration.

In the afternoons we will practice chanting, meditation and pranayama as well as dive into the philosophy of the Yoga Sutra as it reveals the secrets of complete awakening to the world of interdependence between people, cultures and deep contemplative experience.

Monthly Studio Talk
2024-07-03 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Denver)
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TOPIC:

What is the Kundalini?

Back in the early 90’s when our original Yoga Workshop studio was a few years old, we started offering Studio Talks on Sunday evenings after the packed Mysore class. We never knew for sure whether there would be a talk, though usually as we rolled up our mats and wiped sweat from the floor you’d hear Richard’s voice quietly saying, “In fifteen minutes, there will be a talk…if anyone is here.” They grew from 10-20 in attendance to close to 100 at times as word spread that the talks were interesting, often funny and always free. And best of all, you didn’t have to practice yoga to join in.

When the pandemic hit in 2020 we started offering Studio Talks live online and these too have grown into a monthly online gathering of sangha members from around the world. We cover foundational yoga teachings and paradoxes in context of modern life and for those who join live, we always stick around for questions.
