The principles of Ayurveda, the science of longevity, can support us in adapting, adjusting, and accommodating our Yoga practice to our bio-energy body types or doshas. By taking a skillful, Ayurvedic approach to asana (posture), we can rectify physical and energetic imbalances and establish equilibrium. Conversely, signs that your Yoga practice may be creating an imbalance in the system are pitta tension, vata anxiety, and kapha lethargy.

In this dynamic workshop, you will learn how to fine-tune your practice with dualistic energetics: expanding and contracting, ascending and descending, heating and cooling, and tonifying and reducing. Explore how to practice postures and sequences informed by the knowledge of the five pranas (energies). Self-inquiry, discussions, and experiential practice will establish a deeper connection to your body type through an Ayurvedic approach to asana. You will return home with a renewed and invigorated practice that is best suited to your individual needs.

Course Information

Prerequisites

Knowledge of your predominant dosha. Click here to assess your dosha online. This workshop is open to all levels and styles of postural practice. Please bring a notebook if you’d like to take notes.

Continuing Education (CE) Opportunities

• Yoga Alliance (YA):  Approximately 7 contact hours.
  You can input your contact hours using your YA log in information.
• Integral Yoga Teachers Association (IYTA) can provide you a CE certificate with your program’s total contact hours for a $10 fee (free for IYTA members.) For more information, email membership@iyta.org.

Testimonials

I definitely got more than I expected. Michael is a wonderful teacher, a joy, and a blessing. — Past Participant

Michael Plasha really speaks to me and everyone in the class feels the same; he is able to connect with all of us on a personal level exactly where we are in our lives. He has a real gift of healing. — Jacki Ollinger