Detailed Listing of Iyengar Presenters

Mon Jan 16–Fri Jan 20, 2023

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Fri Jan 20–Sun Jan 22, 2023

Marla Apt | | Olop Arpipi | | Victoria Austin | | Gitte Bechsgaard | | Ros Bell | | Nora Burnett | | Cristina Costa | | Anna Delury | | Mary Devore | | George Dovas | | Aileen Epstein Ignadiou | | Ruth Fisk | | Gloria Goldberg | | Sheila Haswell | | Justin Herold | | Holly Hoffmann | | Greta Kent-Stoll | | Pixie Lillas | | Simon Marrocco | | Jaki Nett | | Jayne Orton | | Cathy Rogers Evans | | John Schumacher | | Maria Shatlanova | | Patricia Walden | | Lisa Walford | | Joan White | | Anat Zahor | |


Marla Apt
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BIOGRAPHY: Marla Apt

Marla, a Senior Certified Iyengar Yoga teacher has been studying with BKS Iyengar and the Iyengar family for over 25 years.

She is pursuing her commitment to making the healing benefits of yoga available to communities in need as a founding board member of the non-profit organization, Iyengar Yoga Therapeutics. She helped create yoga interventions for research studies in yoga as a treatment for depression, anxiety and IBS. 


Marla was highlighted by Yoga Journal Magazine as one of twenty-one young yoga teachers helping to “shape the future of yoga” and has written for several international yoga magazines. She served the US yoga community as President of the Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States as well a member the national Certification Committee, chair of the Ethical Guidelines Committee and current member of the Continuing Education for teachers committee.

Marla teaches in-person and online. classes, workshops and retreats. Find her schedule, recordings, and articles at yoganga.com

List of Marla’s Iyengar Sessions

Title:

Learning through ups and downs

Type:

Sat Brahma Middling

Length:

2.0 hour(s)

Description:

In our journey as a Sādhaka, we go through many ups and downs.  Often it is the downs that provide the most valuable opportunities to learn. These are opportunities we sometimes miss.

Reframing our āsana practice as a microcosm of the challenges with which life presents us, we can try to realize the value of such unwanted emotions or actions.

In this session, we will work together to identify those moments, on the mat, where a misalignment here or an unwanted movement there may become the basis for correction and a more grounded practice … one that will support and nourish us in new and unexpected ways.

Notes:

What you will need to take part in this Session:

- A sticky mat
- 2 solid bricks
- 1 belt
- 1 chair
- 2 blankets
- An open mind!

I will be unable to accommodate, in this session, specialised adjustments for pregnant ladies; and/or those with chronic injuries.

Title:

Leap of Faith.

Type:

Sat Brahma Middling

Length:

1.5 hour(s)

Description:

The Patañjali Yoga Sutras say “heya duḥkham anāgatam”, which Guruji Iyengar translates as: "The pains which are yet to come can be and are to be avoided.”

Ä€sana, done today, is a way of investing in our response undertaken tomorrow. Our practice becomes a method of avoiding the dualities.

We may, for example, dislike virabadrasana III; or perhaps our bete noir is chatturanga dandasana. But that dislike is surely a taster for some bigger dislikes. It in fact gives us an opportunity to master our emotinal response at its very source. We can feel, and also watch, the potential stresses and negative emotions wanting to build up; and then gradually make them disperse as we focus on what we really want, which is balance, poise, and equanimity.
 
We can therefore learn a valuable skill we can also apply in the future. We can look at the suffering that arises from the thought of some future experience and understand that its reality will not be nearly so bad if we apply to it the skill we are learning in the present. Our daily practice is therefore our own private little internal piggy bank into which we can put our metaphorical savings. Each moment, and every one of our mindful actions, is then an investment that we can learn to cherish and cultivate. It is our positive account from which we can draw when hardship comes. And we not only collect the fruits of our efforts … we automatically re-invest … with extra interest accruing,

Notes:

What you will need to take part in this Session:

- A sticky mat
- 2 solid bricks
- 1 belt
- 1 chair
- 2 blankets
- An open mind!

I will be unable to accommodate, in this session, specialised adjustments for pregnant ladies; and/or those with chronic injuries.


Marla Apt
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