Welcome to Atlanta Yoga!
Located in Atlanta’s historic Midtown West, we offer daily classes, workshops, intensives and teacher training in Ashtanga and Anusara Yoga. To learn more about these two yoga traditions as taught at Atlanta Yoga please see our informational pages on Ashtanga and Anusara Yoga. Below you will find information on upcoming Series Courses, our popular monthly Saturday Series, Workshops with local and visiting Instructors, and this year’s Teacher Trainings (including a 230 hour certification training with Asheville Yoga’s Stephanie Keach and her senior instructors!). For a listing of our ongoing weekly drop-in classes, please see our schedule page. And please contact us with any questions you may have.
Events This Week: May 19th: Saturday Series, Iyengar Yoga with Scott Schroeder. Details on this and all of our May Saturday Series offerings may be found below. We ask that you pre-register for these workshops by contacting us via e-mail. Please include both your name and the specific workshop you plan on attending. AAGP will not meet this Saturday May 19th, but will meet on Saturday May 26th at 12 noon, led by Crystal Logan.
Saturday Series at Atlanta Yoga
Monthly Saturday offerings for deepening study and practice
Our Saturday Series is a collection of monthly offerings with three of Atlanta’s best teachers in three yogic traditions: Anusara yoga with Gina Minyard, Iyengar yoga with Scott Schroeder, and Ashtanga yoga with Elizabeth Rogers. Below you will find our monthly Saturday Series offerings. We ask that you pre-register for these workshops by contacting us via e-mail. Please include both your name and the specific workshop you plan on attending. Thanks!
Iyengar Yoga with Scott Schroeder: Seated Poses
Iyengar Yoga with Scott Schroeder : Spinal Twists
Saturday May 19th from 4:00 – 7:00 p.m.
This next installation in our Iyengar series will provide thorough instruction in moving deeper into spinal twists. We will work on twists in all kinds of poses- standing, seated, supine (on your back) and in inversions like headstand and shoulderstand. Much emphasis will be placed on the alignment and stability of the pelvis to drive maximum extension and torque to the vertebral rotation. We will also work with backbending actions and hip openers to further inform the mechanics of the pose.
When done correctly, spinal twists work on numerous levels in the mind-body. They tone and invigorate the spine, bring the nervous system into balance, and create new pathways in the body’s proprioceptive field. They tone and cleanse the organic body with fresh blood, and bring a sense of clarity and vitality to those who practice them regularly.
3-6 months of prior asana experience recommended.
Fee: $35
Anusara Yoga with Phil Davis : Standing Poses and Restoratives
Saturday May 12th 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. All-Levels, Beginners Welcome!
Stand in Your Truth, Restore Your Power In yoga, standing poses are a powerful tool for learning to draw the body and mind into optimal alignment with Source. When we are optimally aligned, we deepen (or maybe discover!) our connection to the Divine. This connection is the root of our Truth. In this workshop, we will explore ways to access the potential power of these poses using the Universal Principles of Alignment as our framework. We will work to artfully and powerfully connect to our Truth. We will cultivate a feeling of being grounded and a deeper knowledge of techniques that will help you in all yoga classes you take going forward.
The last portion of the workshop will be an exploration of restorative yoga poses. We will use good alignment, support, and guided imagery to allow the body to deeply release. When we release deeply, we allow room for our energy to be restored. After the yin of the standing poses, the deep yang of the restorative poses creates a deep, settled, and clear space.
Fee: $35
Ashtanga Yoga with Elizabeth Rogers
Ashtanga Yoga with Elizabeth Rogers: An All-Levels Introduction to Movement in Vinyasa practice
Saturday May 26th from 4:00-7:00 p.m.
The Ashtanga Vinyasa practice is constructed around the movements of the breath, the body, and the gaze. In order to orient to the movements and contemplative practices of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, we speak of three movements–push, pull, extend, and of three focal points to which we constantly turn/return our awareness–breath, body and gaze. Come join us for an exploration of this eloquent way of moving and being in body and self. Bring your willingness to explore new ways of moving, understanding movement, and articulating movement in body and in speech. You do not need previous Ashtanga experience for this workshop. Some experience in some form of contemplative moving arts/dance is helpful, but not required.
Fee: $35
Everything is movement, so… movement is always in relation to another movement: delicate or forceful, retracting or extending, constructing or deconstructing…. This awareness is at the heart of the vinyasa practice. –ER
Breath moves. Body moves. Gaze moves. In movement, they grow dense, gather energy. There is a hint of stillness. And the impulse to move rises, again. We extend out. We grow light, fade. We feel the weight of bones and stretch of skin. We feel a weight in the pelvic floor and we remember, we recoil, we return, we pull in again. In a constructed space of emptiness we find form, and in form, emptiness. To repeat: In movement–the movement of the breath, the body, the gaze, we find a certain density within–within the body, within the psyche. We may call this density of movement, paradoxically, stillness; it functions like a weight, an anchor…and in this density, this stillness, we find, again, movement. –ER
We become more delicate and we recognize the importance of the flow of energy and information through our body in all directions. We learn to apply our force in an efficient way and we learn to use “other” forces. We discover the advantage of soft flesh and sensitive hands. We learn to connect to groove even when there is no music. We are aware of people in the room and we realize that we are not in the center of it all. We become more aware of our form since we never look at ourselves in a mirror; there are no mirrors…. We change our movement habits by finding new ones, we can be calm and alert at once. –Ohad Naharin
Series Courses at Atlanta Yoga
Series courses are great for new beginners and experienced beginners entering into a more tradition-specific practice. However, it is important to understand that a practice is something that is built by consistent repetition over a period of time. We have found that practicing three days a week is the minimum for building and maintaining a solid practice. To this end, we have spaced our series courses so that you can take level-appropriate drop-in classes as well. Private instruction can also be very helpful in the beginning stages of developing a practice as well as for established practitioners. This is the way yoga was traditionally transmitted! Please contact us if you are interested in private instruction or if you have specific therapeutic needs.
Each series runs for six consecutive weeks and the fee for each series is $96. Registration is done by e-mail. Please be sure and include the title, day and time of the series you wish to register for or use the specific links on our schedule page.
We currently have courses in progress. Please check back for upcoming courses.
No Current Saturday Series
We are currently mid-course. Please check back for upcoming courses.
Teacher Training at Atlanta Yoga
We offer teacher trainings in the both the Anusara and Ashtanga traditions as well as periodic teacher intensives. We also offer a more general and foundational 230 hour training with certification through Yoga Alliance. Please see the details on this year’s 230 hour Certification program below. Please contact us for more information regarding Ashtanga and Anusara specific teacher trainings.
Live in Total Yoga! 230-Hour Yoga Teacher Certification Program
Through Yoga Alliance and the Asheville Yoga Center
Begins August 31, 2012!
We are excited to be hosting Stephanie and Asheville Yoga’s three most senior teachers for a 230 hour Yoga Alliance registered teacher training program. We have looked long and hard for a comprehensive foundational program to offer in addition to our more specified ashtanga and anusara training groups–a solid and well-engineered program that would provide students with a thorough understanding of the foundations of Yoga practice and teaching–and this is it! AYC’s comprehensive teacher training programs are designed to enhance your own personal knowledge of Yoga and its many facets, as well as provide you with the confidence and skills necessary to begin the journey of teaching Yoga safely.
This program is a comprehensive foundational training which runs over nine weekends, meeting about once a month over a span of seven months. (You will have assignments to do during your breaks between weekends and time to integrate what you are learning). The curriculum will be identical to the Asheville program, the only difference in the two programs, besides location, will be fewer instructors. The three most senior teachers will be teaching the entire program.
Full information on the program and applications may be found here.
Immersions and Intensives at Atlanta Yoga
Anusara Immersion 2012!
Part 1:
August 11-12
August 25-26
September 8-9
Part 2:
October 20-21
November 10-11
December 1-2
Part 3:
Dates will be in Early 2013, exact dates TBA as soon as possible.
Anusara Immersion is intended for dedicated students who wish to go deeper into every aspect of their practice. Immersion presents the methodology of Anusara yoga in a systematic way. It is a transformational opportunity to “immerse” not only into Anusara yoga as a powerful spiritual practice, but through this innovative and elegant method, into the very depths of one’s own Heart.
The complete Immersion is 108 hours in 3 parts. Immersion is meant to be a course all of its own for personal transformation through Anusara yoga. It is also the stepping stone prerequisite for Anusara yoga Teacher Training.
Each part of the Immersion includes philosophy and technique/anatomy lecture as well as asana practice, pranayama, meditation, contemplation, and group sharing. Every level of the Immersion expands upon the previous one and must be taken sequentially. Anusara Immersion follows a curriculum so the parts may be taken separately with any certified Anusara yoga teacher.
Workshops at Atlanta Yoga
We have an exciting line-up of visiting teachers for 2012 and 2013 including Sarah Faircloth, Christina Sell, Ross Rayburn, Desiree Rumbaugh, and Deb Neubauer! Registration for workshops is done by e-mail. Please contact us to register. Be sure to include your name as well as the particular workshops and/or sessions you will be attending! Next up is Ross Rayburn in August! We will post details here as soon as we have them.
