Cameron Kamakura 2018 Workshops: Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th August

Kamakura Workshop Schedule
Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th August 
 

Venue:  Hase Kokaido

Saturday 18th August

10am to 1pm (door open 9:45am) Mysore Class

  

1-2pm Workshop

Asana Playshop
Challenges are part of our yoga practice, they arise to bring us insight.

In this playshop will address any issues and questions you have about your asana practice. There will be discussion, demonstration and gentle exercises.   

Knees, hips, shoulders, wrists, jumping back & through, back bending, ... etc. anything that interests you, bring your questions along for explanations and fun!

Sunday 19th August

10am to 1pm (door open 9:45am) Mysore Class

1-2pm Talk and Q&A

Balanced Mind in a Busy World
In yoga it is said that having a clear and balanced mind is our natural state, and practice helps us to return there. If this is true why do we experience continued imbalances, despite regular yoga practice? 

In this discussion we will explore the nature of the mind and discover the true cause of its fluctuations. You will gain insights and tools that will help you create and maintain a clear and balanced mind, and how to quickly recover when your mind has become unbalanced.

Beginners and all levels welcome

Directions 

• Hase Kokaido, 1-12-5 Hase, Kamakura. 5 minutes walk from Hase station on the Enoden line.

Prices 

• 2 days Mysore practice & talks  ¥7,500 or
• Single day Mysore practice & talk   ¥4,000
   

Reservation 
Reservation is essential please mail:  kula.ashtanga.workshop@gmail.com

About Cameron

What is Ashtanga Yoga?

Ashtanga Yoga is a dynamic style of yoga that links a sequence of postures in a continuous flow with the rhythm of the breath.

Ashtanga is proven to be safe, highly effective and transformational. It is one of the most popular and well-practiced yoga systems with a large international community of students and experienced teachers.

'Ashtanga' means 'eight limbs' and this corresponds to the eight sections of the teaching, also known as Patanjali or Raja Yoga. The first four sections focus on ‘external’ experience and include social and personal ethics, physical posture, and breathing. The next four sections focus on ‘internal’ experience and meditation. 

Throughout the practice a deep internal heat is created that energizes, purifies, and strengthens the entire energetic and physical system. A calm focussed mind, light, strong and soft body rapidly develop, providing the optimal conditions for experiencing the self beyond the mind and body.

Personalised more effective learning by the Mysore method

The traditional method of learning the Ashtanga practice is quite unique and is commonly referred to as the ‘Mysore’ method, taking its name from the city where Shri K. Pattabhi Jois dedicated his life to teaching.

In a Mysore class students of all different levels, including beginners, practice together according to their needs and at their own pace. The teacher works with students individually. For beginners this means being gradually introduced to the practice in a way that makes it accessible, while still offering enough of a challenge for it to be stimulating and engaging.

How the Mysore method can benefit you:

Empowering – you very quickly develop autonomy and have your ‘own’ yoga practice which you can enjoy anywhere and anytime you wish.  

Raised self-awareness – during the practice your focus is with yourself; your body and your breath, rather than on a teacher giving instructions. Your self-awareness quickly expands naturally cultivating an internal focus and meditative experience. 

Individualised – the teacher works with you individually, prescribing a practice to suit your changing needs. The Mysore class offers a supportive environment where you can practice according to your condition on any given day, more or less, fast or slow. This enables the therapeutic qualities of yoga to be more readily realised, and makes the practice accessible to a wide variety of people.

Shri K. Pattabhi Jois said it best:

“ Anyone can practice. Young man can practice. Old man can practice. Very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man who doesn’t have strength can practice. Except lazy people; lazy people can’t practice yoga.”

The Ashtanga Yoga lineage in the tradition of Shri K. Pattabhi Jois is taught by his grandson Sharath and daughter Saraswati at the Shri K. Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute (KPJAYI) in Mysore, South India. Please visit the KPJAYI website for more information.

Ashtanga Yoga Mantras

Ashtanga Yoga Mantra (Opening Chant)

OM
VANDE GURUNAM CARANARAVINDE
SANDARSITA SVATMA SUKHAVA BODHE
NIH SREYASE JANGALIKAYAMANE
SAMSARA HALAHALA MOHASANTYAI

ABAHU PURUSAKARAM
SANKHACAKRASI DHARINAM
SAHASRA SIRASAM SVETAM
PRANAMAMI PATANJALIM
OM


OM
I pray to the lotus feet of the supreme Guru, who teaches knowledge, showing the way to knowing the self-awakening great happiness. Who is the doctor of the jungle, able to remove the delusion from the poison of conditioned existence. To Patanjali, an incarnation of Adisesa, white in colour with a thousand radiant heads (in his form as the divine serpent, Anata), human in form below the shoulders, holding the sword of discrimination, a wheel of fire representing infinite time, and a conch representing divine sound, to him, I prostrate.
OM


Mangala Mantra (Closing Chant)

OM
SWASTI-PRAJA-BHYAH PARI PALA YANTAM
NYA-YENA MARGENA MAHI-MAHISHAHA
GO-BRAHMANEBHYAHA SHUBHAMASTU-NITYAM
LOKAA SAMASTHA SUKHINO-BAVANTHU
OM

SHANTI SHANTI SHANTI-HI

OM
May prosperity be glorified. May administrators rule the world with law and justice. May all things that are sacred be protected. And may the people of the world be happy and prosperous.
OM

Peace peace peace.

Yakushima, BRUTUS June 2005