Myofasciae, Prana + the Bandhas with Jeffrey Shoaf - June 2015

Merging Anatomy + Spirit

Benefits of Jeffrey Shoaf’s approach:

Explore the anatomy, physiology, and function of connective tissue (fascia) as a way of understanding how its health is integral to the function of our other “life” systems, including, but not limited to, our physical, emotional, energetic, and “communicative” self.
Apply this knowledge experientially in our own yoga practice using asana, kriyas, pranayamas, and bandhas to better support this flexible armor that creates the shape we’ve come to know.
Provide for us as teachers, therapists, and bodyworkers new ways of body-reading; coming to better understand and support our work with both students and clients.
Understand the role the myofascial system plays regarding physiological and energetic effects upon the deeper structures associated with advanced breath practices and bandhas.

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In the introduction to the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, under the sub-heading titled
The real purpose of hatha yoga, there is the following reminder:
“Just to improve the physical health (of a patient) is not enough. The mental health must also improve, the nature must change, the personality must change, the psychological and the psychic framework also has to change. You should not merely feel freedom from disease, but freedom from bondage and from the vagaries of the mind. Now, the time has come when teachers in every part of the world must understand and transmit the true nature of hatha yoga”.

Our bodies, minds, and spirits all represent form. As the Pradipika reminds us, these are not separate entities, but one form. All ‘systems’ must then, for optimal health, be communicating synchronistically, consistently, to function properly. As American Architect Louis Sullivan stated: form follows function, but to flip it around, function will inevitably, necessarily, be a byproduct of form as well…
Our myofascial network is our stand-alone matrix of channels and pathways in which all other of the body’s systems are suspended in, and rely upon, a full representation of a micro-universe; the materials most anatomists have until recently discarded and/or ignored in dissection labs. One thing we need to remember first and foremost about fascia is that “It’s Alive!”

About Jeffrey Shoaf, ERYT500

Jeffrey Shoaf E-RYT 500 has been an avid practitioner of yoga since his first class at Main Street Yoga in Illinois in August of 2002. His trainings from the Pranakriya School of Yoga Healing Arts include 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training, 500 Therapeutic Yoga Teacher Certification, and will also incorporate the 500 hr. advanced teaching certification in 2014. His teachers and mentors are Yoganand Michael Carroll, Jacci Reynolds, Marlysa Sullivan and Debra Risberg, of the Pranakriya and Kripalu lineages, and also included extensive early influence from the work of Gary Kraftsow and Eric Schiffman. Jeffrey is also a licensed massage therapist, practicing integrative bodywork, with a focus on myofascial release and neuromuscular therapy. Additionally, he offers ayurvedic body treatments with the direction and assistance of Dr. Ashlesha Raut, a Board Certified Ayurvedic Physician in a Healing Arts Center in Illinois. He works with clients and students individually, integrating bodywork and yoga therapy techniques to improve, integrate, and unite the body/mind connection. To find out more about Jeffrey Shoaf, visit http://pranakriya.com.

Date & Time

Friday, June 26
6:00pm – 9:00pm

Saturday, June 27
9:00am – 11am, 12:00pm – 3:00pm + 4:00pm – 7:00pm

Sunday, June 28
9:00am – 12:00pm + 1:00pm – 4:00pm

Cost

$375.00 after April 26, 2015
$325.00 before April 26, 2015

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CEUs & Yoga Certification Info

18 of CEU Hours toward 500 YA or CEUs
$15 Additional CEU certificate due at time of registration
Participation in full workshop required to receive 500YA credit.
This certification counts as one required module towards 300Hr registry towards the Kunga Yoga Therapeutics Track

Cancellation Policy

No refunds will be given for workshops. 10 days prior to the workshop cancellation is permitted for WYC account credit only (minus a $25 administrative fee). 10 days and closer to the start date of the workshop the total tuition is non-refundable and non-transferable.

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Myofasciae, Prana + the Bandhas with Jeffrey Shoaf – June 2015