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Anat Zahor
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BIOGRAPHY: Anat Zahor

Anat Zahor is the founder of the Yoga Dharma School.

She is a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher, a practitioner and teacher of Yoga, meditation and Buddhism. She conducts the Yoga Dharma teacher’s training program and certifies the graduates as ”Yoga Dharma Teachers“.

Anat is leading Yoga Dharma retreats and workshops and Vipassana meditation retreats. She is also known as a Dharma speaker and leads private and group tuition called Dharma mentoring.

Anat’s background as an artist generates her unique and creative way of teaching, allowing a direct spiritual experience.

Anat has been practicing Yoga since the early 1980s. Later she broadened her learning into Tai Chi-Chuan, Chi Kung, Taoism and Buddhist studies, a fact that led her in 1994 to her first Vipassana Meditation retreat as taught by S.N. Goenka. Since then Buddhism has become the basis of her life view and action.

In 1996 Anat focused her Yoga practice in the Iyengar method, and in 1999 she was first accredited as a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher from the RIYMI center in Pune, India.

Anat participated in Yoga workshops with various Senior teachers at different countries, including B. K. S. Iyengar himself. She visited the RIYMI center in Pune, several times to study with the Iyengar family.

In 1999 Anat started practicing Vipassana in the Mahasi Sayadaw Burmese Method. Since then she has been traveling and staying at least for a monthly retreat at the Chom Tong monastery in Northern Thailand practicing Vipassana Meditation under the guidance of Venerable Ajaan Tong Sirimangalo, and her teachers Kate and Tanath Chindaporn. Anat translated into Hebrew the book The Only Way,  a Path to Nibbana.

On July 2011 Anat was first ordained as a Bhikkhuni (fully ordained female Buddhist monastic) in a traditional ceremony by Ven. Ajaan Tong Sirimangalo, the chief Vipassanā Kammatthana Master of the northern region of Thailand and is one of Thailand’s most respected meditation teachers.

During her years of practice, Anat personalized her Yogic practice and named it YOGA DHARMA.

List of Anat’s Iyengar Sessions

Title:

Integrating Props With the Body

Type:

Sat Brahma Middling

Length:

2.0 hour(s)

Description:

Creating stability, body alignment, both balance and concentration, and a sensitive mind, are all things that happen quite naturally, during practice, when one uses props.

I love using my props in my yoga practice. It makes my practice deep and creative. All organs of action are awake, and sensitivity is sharpened.

Yoga props are a boon to the practice. Join me for a creative Iyengar yoga session as we integrate props to the body-asana.

Notes:

Please have the following props available, if at all possible:
Mat,
2 belts,
2 blocks,
2 blankets,
Bolster,
Chair

Title:

A Flow In Asana Practice Using Props

Type:

Sat Brahma Middling

Length:

1.5 hour(s)

Description:

If we are to create a smooth movement, within ourselves, of the asana's healing energy, then a continuity and a flow of the practice itself are required . This flow can be enhanced by combining and interweaving yoga props inro our practice.

Using props can be part of the flow, so bring along yourself, your mat, and your props and join me in my class.

  • Join me for a creative Iyengar yoga class where we focus on the importance of the flow of our practice.
  • Join me for a creative Iyengar yoga class as we integrate the props to the body-asana.

Notes:

Props:
Mat,
2 belts,
2 blocks
2 blankets,
Bolster,
Chair

Title:

Breathwork in Asana practice for a Samadhi Experience

Type:

Sat Brahma Middling

Length:

1.5 hour(s)

Description:

The practice of Asana, Pranayama and Meditation should show no separation. They are the road to Samadhi; and when integrated, you fly.

Join me in a creative practice of Breath-Asana-Samadhi.

Props will be used In in this practice of Iyengar yoga.

Notes:

Props:
Mat,
2 belts,
2 blocks
2 blankets,
Bolster,
Chair

List of Anat’s Open Weekend Sessions

Title:

Four Foundations of Mindfulness in Yoga Practice (Asana Practice)

Type:

[A] On The Mat / Asana Class

Level:

All Levels

Length:

2.0 hour(s)

Description:

Asana practice and exploring the practice

There is, in the Buddhist tradition, a practice called "the Four Foundations of Mindfulness". I would like to share with you the teaching of the four focal points of awareness, and how to evoke this wisdom in a yoga asana practice.

The four focal points for attention are:

  • Mindfulness to body.
  • Mindfulness to feelings.
  • Mindfulness to Mind.
  • Mindfulness to objects of the mind.

Notes:

Please try to have access to the following props:
Mat,
2 belts,
2 blocks
2 blankets,
Bolster,
Chair

Title:

Four Foundations of Mindfulness in a Yoga Practice (Lecture + Meditation)

Type:

[C] The Divine Is Within / Contemplative Spirituality

Level:

All Levels

Length:

2.0 hour(s)

Description:

Lecture + Meditation

There is, in the Buddhist tradition, a practice called "the Four Foundations of Mindfulness":

  • Mindfulness to body
  • Mindfulness to feelings.
  • Mindfulness to Mind.
  • Mindfulness to objects of mind.

We will learn how awareness to the four foundations of mindfulness in a yoga practice can deepen sensitivity and wisdom.

Notes:

Please try to have access to the following props:
Mat,
2 belts,
2 blocks
2 blankets,
Bolster,
Chair

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