Yoga Information

At Kula the yoga you are likely to experience will be of a broad array of modern and classical traditions. The more modern yoga traditions, especially stemming from the Hatha yoga system often begin and incorporate a lot of work with the body. Yoga “asana” or physical postures, in this line of tradition are practiced with intentions such as, conditioning, cleansing, detoxifying and preparing an individual for yogic exercises that delve deeper than just the body. Physical exercises can often lead to energetic exercises that usually incorporate more concentration on the breath than the muscles and bones. Energetic exercises often lead to meditative exercises that eventually lead the attention away from the breath towards non-physically linked aspects of indivi dual consciousness and more. As much as it is possible to exercise your body in yoga practices and relax your mind, it is also possible to use your body as an instrument to exercise your mind and more. Students are encouraged to intelligently experiment while playfully practicing to find a place of practice that is most beneficial for themselves.

In addition to the Hatha yoga system students will find in both the Anusara Yoga classes and the Kundalini yoga classes either a mix of or a concentration on more classical Tantric yoga ideas. These ideals stem from traditions that celebrate the body rather than see it as a problem to be overcome or conditioned away from. In the more Tantric traditions, enjoyment and liberation, celebration and evolution or even delight and progress are not seen as having to be separate or opposites. The body is as much an instrument of the divine or super spiritual as consciousness or the heart is. Students may enjoy an evolving practice of physically conditioning, energetically elevating and self celebrating yoga. Students are invited to investigate and develop their practice at any and every level, from relieving tight hamstrings in an attempt to enjoy a more bio-mechanically delightful body to celebrating one’s own connection to the divine.

At Kula, hard work and self surrender are no more separate than the individual from the community. In the same respect physical work, celebration and connecting to the diving in oneself need not be any more separate than modern yoga styles and classical yoga traditions.

Bring something comfortable to wear, a yoga matt if you have one and a playful curiosity.

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