Nationally Recognized Yoga Teacher Bryan Kest
Date: Saturday, March 12, 2011
Time: 1:00-4:00pm
Cost: $60
The workshop will have a practice that strengthens not just the body, but even more importantly, the qualities of our mind that actually have the largest impact on our physical well being. The workshop will be a strong, well rounded, yet simple physical practice that leaves every nook and cranny in our bodies vibrating with vitality while challenging our minds in the sense of strengthening the qualities of mind that are most useful, positive and powerful, while eradicating the qualities of our mind that are harmful and stress inducing. It will strengthen qualities such as calmness, patience, focus, gentleness, gratitude, humility and acceptance, while weakening qualities such as judgment, competitiveness, distraction, reaction, and criticism. If you feed qualities of mind, they will grow big and strong, and if you don’t feed them, they will weaken and die. Now since our physical practice is such a fertile environment for most all of these qualities to arise, our physical practice becomes an opportunity to strengthen the qualities we want to be strong and to weaken and eradicate the qualities we find harmful. If you want to know how Bryan does this, you will have to come and see because words cannot replicate the experience that is a culmination of almost 30 years of his own yoga practice called Power Yoga.
Bio
Bryan started practicing yoga in Hawaii in 1979 with David Williams and Brad Ramsey. He remembers profoundly that the emphasis of the yoga back then was “being connected to something larger than ourselves that we were all part of.” It was a new lifestyle that focused on quality, not quantity, and a new view on relationship with our bodies, our hearts, and relationships with the people around us, as well as on this planet. So much of it was about community, hugging instead of shaking hands, and cooking, not just eating. It was also about eradicating the things that separate us all, yet respecting the differences between us.