Welcome to the Yoga Center of Fort Collins, a studio dedicated to the teaching style of BKS Iyengar. Our Iyengar classes focus on alignment, breath, concentration, and stillness. The Iyengar method follows the Patanjali Ashtanga (8 limb) path with emphasis on the third limb, asana.
I hope you all have had a good summer and are looking forward to getting back into your Yoga classes with renewed interest and committment. I look forward to seeing you!
As yoga students, we learn to pay attention to the spine's ability to bend and extend. We treat our spine with intelligence and concern, as it is the house of the magestic nervous system. Coming to a yoga class is a protected time for you to pay attention to your body, your breath, your mind and emotions. All these movements, external and internal, are called vritts in the yogic language. Vrittis are fluctuations that are natural and ongoing. The first sutra says Now is the Time for Yoga. The second sutra says Yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind. By the end of a yoga class, your awareness of the vritts is heightened. Any pose you hate to do and any pose you like to do, these are both considered vritts of the mind.It is in the moment of an absence of a vritti, the absece of internal noise that Time expands and becomes infinite. This is a wonderful experience in which to build our lives.
You might ask, how does this happen by doing dog pose, or triangle pose, or an inverson? And the answers reveal themselves in the doing of the poses, not the thinking of them, not the reading about them, but in the doing. This is the method of yoga put forth by BKS Iyengar, you must be in dog pose to reap its secrets! This yoga we have jumped into is an ongoing practice that has no end. I am grateful for this gem.
See you soon, Cathy WrightIMPORTANT NOTE: Our second summer recess begins August 23rd and extends through Labor Day, September 6th. The first class of the fall will resume on Wednesday, September 8th.
Cathy's Travel Updates. CLICK Cathy's Travel Updates for updates Cathy posts when she is away at Iyengar Workshops & Seminars or when she is in India. Attention: New Posting!
UPCOMING CLASS CANCELLATIONS:
In late August Cathy will be visiting family and friends in Iowa so her classes are cancelled for both the week of August 23rd and August 30th & Labor Day (September 6th).
Connie's Beginning Iyengar Yoga class is cancelled on both August 5, August 12 & August 19. She will be out of town.
If you would like to contact Cathy via e-mail, click here! Cathy's e-Mail . If you would like to join our e-mail list (i.e., announcements, updates, last minute class cancellations, send Cathy an e-mail requesting that we add you to the list (see link above). Yes, it's that simple. Don't worry, we keep all email addresses strictly confidential and will NEVER share such information with anyone.
IMPORTANT NEWS: We are now offering additional beginning Iyengar classes at the Yoga Center of Fort Collins. See STUDIO CLASS SCHEDULE for more information detailing our additional instructors & exciting classes!
SPECIAL WORKSHOPS!! CLICK Workshops for information on the exciting workshops we have planned for 2010.