Join us for five inspired workshops celebrating movement, intention, and connection. Attend any session, or immerse yourself in the full five-part journey.
This weekend with Joan Hyman, we will explore the anatomical and the subtler energetic pathways that connect us to our most central support: our spine. In yoga, The Sushumna Nadi is known as our central channel that runs along the spine and is considered the energetic highway of awakening. Through asana, pranayama, and meditation, we will cultivate balance between effort and ease so that prana, our life force, can rise through our body cultivating clarity and steadiness.
This weekend is an opportunity to reconnect with your body and harmonize your inner energies through thoughtful practices, refined alignments, working with props, and breath to create a sense of spaciousness and ease in the nervous system. As we integrate these transformational practices, we can find a deep stillness that helps us live from our true center.
This weekend with Joan Hyman, we will explore the anatomical and the subtler energetic pathways that connect us to our most central support: our spine. In yoga, The Sushumna Nadi is known as our central channel that runs along the spine and is considered the energetic highway of awakening. Through asana, pranayama, and meditation, we will cultivate balance between effort and ease so that prana, our life force, can rise through our body cultivating clarity and steadiness.
This weekend is an opportunity to reconnect with your body and harmonize your inner energies through thoughtful practices, refined alignments, working with props, and breath to create a sense of spaciousness and ease in the nervous system. As we integrate these transformational practices, we can find a deep stillness that helps us live from our true center.
Can't make the whole weekend? Attend any of the five sessions across Bondi Beach and Surry Hills studios. Each workshop offers a unique focus and is open to all levels — join one or more that speak to your practice.
Our spine is supported by our feet, legs and the intelligence of how our bones are stacked.
In this foundational workshop, we will explore how standing postures build structural integrity for the spine through alignment, muscular engagement, and we will learn how to create support from the ground up so the spine can feel both stable and spacious.
We will examine:
Expect steady and thoughtful strength work and gain a deeper understanding of why these upright postures are the keystone for yoga practice.
Inversions reveal were we are out of balance, they can bring up fear, and show us where we resist.
This workshop will explore how the spine responds when upside down and our orientation shifts. We will focus on how to move through resistance, physically and mentally, while maintaining integrity.
We will explore:
Inversions can become a laboratory for awareness and eventually they can shift us towards a meditative state. This workshop is suitable for students who are interested in learning more about these challenging and fun poses.
Twists are about intelligent rotation and understanding how to stacy each part of your spine. They create a squeeze and soak sensation in the intervertable discs, helping our system to feel transformed and alive! We will explore where rotation truly begins in the spine and will build heat through standing twists before transitioning into longer holds in seated twists to calm the nervous system and “wring” our tissues out.
You will explore:
Expect both activation and release. All levels welcome!
Backbending is often misunderstood as flexibility, and in truth, it requires, intelligent, strength, and balanced in our spine.
Backbends when practiced slowly and with awareness can strengthen our posterior chain, mobilize the thoracic spine, and lengthen the whole front body leaving us open and energized!
We will explore:
The intention in this workshop is how to practice backbends for longevity and sustainablity. Students should be comfortable in foundational poses before joining this workshop.
Beyond anatomy lies our subtle body. In this final workshop, we shift our focus from the structure of the spine to the energetics that flow through our sushumna nadi, the central channel through which prana is said to flow.
This practice will include:
This is a quieter, more internal practice designed to integrate the physical body and create a felt sense of centeredness.
All levels welcome.
Joan Hyman is the director and founder of The Schoolof.yoga™, an authentic international teacher training program focused on continuing education. Her grounded teaching style seamlessly supports her students as they emerge from their practice with the rich and bright energy that yoga has to offer. Joan’s teachings come from an organic and intuitive place, as she draws upon the combined studies of Ashtanga and Iyengar yoga as well as Ayurveda and meditation. An authentic modern-day yogi, Joan's love and devotion show up in her practice and throughout her teaching. You will leave her class feeling transformed and deeply aligned.
Joan spent fifteen years as a distinguished YogaWorks Senior Teacher before bringing her expertise to Wanderlust as the Director of Teacher Trainings in 2016. Now, with over twenty years experience leading retreats, trainings, and international workshops, Joan travels the globe and teaches online, leading her own signature trainings. She has created The School of Yoga, which is a professional education program, helping students and inspiring teachers to work towards their five hundred hours Yoga Alliance Certification. A leader in the yoga community, Joan’s open-hearted approach to teaching yoga keeps both her inner spirit and her students continuously evolving.