What is mid-line awareness? We will explore the ways to achieve good structural base for postures by aligning ourselves along the central axial line, the fluid mid-line we were born with.
On the gross level, we have at least six physical dimensions that represent the geometry of our physical sheath: top, bottom, left, right, front and back. Our energy is transmitted across all these dimensions while we are shape-shifting or in-between vinyasa. With consistent practice and growing awareness of inner body sensation, we begin to explore a deeper layer of the body, in which the gross form of movements becomes an internal manifestation of energy or prana. One fundamental way to apply this concept through our practice is finding our mid-line, which gets us centred and fortifies the symmetry of asanas. It evolves further to become the “seat” of the seven chakras or energy centres that are activated or balanced through persistent asana, pranayama and meditation practice.
What is “bandha”? How do we know if we are “using” bandha in the vinyasa and within poses? This is an obscure concept, which sometimes does not make sense because it is not “present” for the naked eye. It is often referred to as “core” in the West or “Tan Tian” in Chinese Taoism. The commonly known bandha include mulabandha, uddiyana and jalandhara, which are “switched on” through yogasana and pranayama. The workshop will try to unfold this concept from an anatomical perspective and the work of breath.
Two-day weekend workshop, including
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This workshop is for Ashtanga practitioners, who practise the Primary series of Ashtanga yoga and the finishing sequences. To facilitate a closer and more intimate teacher-student relationships in your self-practice session on Sunday, it is Dorothy’s approach to work with small, focused group of practitioners so that she can spend more time with each of them in delving into their practice. This is also to cultivate Parampara, the transmission of knowledge from teacher to student in its most authentic, direct, valuable and effective form.
Dorothy was a physical geographer, leaving her footprints all over mountains, forests, rivers, and creeks. Having been loaded with an excess baggage of self-doubt and the trauma of personal loss in her early teens, Dorothy approached yoga at the Brahma Kumaris Raja Yoga centre in Hong Kong, where she studied Raja yoga meditation with Jan Moor. The journey grew quickly when she changed from her hiking boots to bare feet on the sticky mat. She has been practicing Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga for over a decade and is currently a Third series practitioner and a direct student of John Scott. In 2017, she received the 500 hour certification from John Scott Yoga and became one of the senior teachers assisting and teaching with John across the world. She is currently teaching extensively at Yoga Mala and the Landmark Mandarin Hotel in Hong Kong, besides establishing her international footprints in the ever-growing Ashtanga community.
Having learnt different schools of yoga from Forrest, Jivamukti, Iyengar and Ashtanga in particular, Dorothy truly believes that the diversity of yoga ultimately brings all beings back to the true nature of humanity, and the purest form of relationship between our inner garden and the outer world we live in. She founded DeeKapha Yoga in 2010, where she continues to aspire, and share her knowledge and experience to the expanding yoga community. It was during the demanding transient period of her “on-the-go” life that she learned to make peace with the red lights of chaos, emotional ebb and flow and alchemy. Dorothy recognises her love-hate relationships with the practice, and seeks deeper into the Dharma of yoga, which, she believes, is eventually the elixir to life.
Dorothy continues to fulfill her personal goal into teaching and sharing with humility and loving kindness.
