Moving Into Meditation Yin/Yang Yoga and Mindfulness Meditation with Sarah Powers May 3 - 6, 2012

Incorporating a daily yoga and meditation practice into our life keeps us attuned to the importance of living ordinary moments with awareness. Nevertheless, even the most dedicated practitioners hit plateaus and need opportunities to become reinspired. In this workshop, Sarah will provide an atmosphere for balancing the body, heart and mind through active and receptive yoga poses, as well as offering teachings on Mindfulness meditation so that we can deepen or develop a skillful and committed meditation practice. Yin yoga is an essential compliment to our more active styles and offers a vehicle to develop our contemplative nature. The Yin style also keeps the body supple at its core while encouraging stagnate chi (prana) to flow throughout the joints, engendering a quality of steady ease. The active practice helps rejuvenate our natural vitality while developing a core stability, coupled with meditative, body centered presence. This workshop will focus on the integration of our Yin and Yang aspects of being, creating a practice that values both vitality and insight. Mindfulness meditation and Loving kindness practice will be emphasized in both the beginning and ending sections of each session. Each day we will focus on the blend of Yin and Yang sequences intended to balance our energetic center, our earth stability (called the Hara or Dantien in Taoism) in the belly, with our more mobile, or ‘heavenly energy’ in the upper body. This workshop is suitable for anyone who has been doing yoga for at least one year and has a strong interest in meditation. We recommend you come with a basic understanding of these practices by reading Sarah’s book, Insight Yoga, and/or viewing her DVDs Yin and Vinyasa and Insight Yoga, Mingling Heaven and Earth. May 3, 2012 Insight Yoga – a talk with Sarah Powers  Yoga Yard is proud to present a talk by acclaimed yoga and meditation teacher Sarah Powers. A regular guest of Yoga Yard, Sarah is known for her unique approach which combines traditional yoga practices with Chinese meridian theory and Buddhist meditation. At this event hosted by The Bookworm we will have a chance to hear about her best selling book - Insight Yoga - and how different sequences of Yin (passive) and Yang (active) poses can bring benefits to our bodies and minds. Sarah will also provide a foundational explanation of traditional Chinese medicine theory, mindfulness meditation instruction and how these can be incorporated into your yoga practice.  The talk will be followed by a Q&A session and copies of Insight Yoga in both English and Chinese will be available for purchase. Please note this event will be held in English only. Space will be limited so be sure to arrive early to secure your seat!
	About Sarah Powers Sarah Powers began teaching in 1987. She is the founder and author of Insight Yoga, which interweaves the insights and practices of Yoga, Buddhism, Chinese medicine, and Transpersonal Psychology into an integral practice to enliven the body, heart and mind. Her yoga style blends both a Yin sequence of floor poses to enhance the meridian and organ systems, combined with an alignment based slow flow or Yang practice, influenced by Viniyoga, Ashtanga, and Iyengar teachings. Sarah feels that enlivening the physical and pranic bodies, as well as learning to open to our emotional difficulties is paramount for preparing one to deepen and nourish insights into one’s essential nature--a natural state of awareness. She draws from her studies in Transpersonal Psychology, as well as her in depth training in the Vipassana and Tantric practices of Buddhism. Sarah and her husband Ty Powers live in the San Francisco Bay Area and have created the Insight Yoga Institute which offers 500+ YA hour trainings with other renowned teachers blending yoga, buddhism and psychology (www.insightyogainstitute.com). She is also cofounder of Metta Journeys (www.mettajourneys.com), a service oriented organization that offers yoga retreats internationally to help women and children in developing countries. Sarah is the author of the book Insight Yoga (Shambhala Publications). To learn more about her see her DVDs Insight Yoga or Yin and Vinyasa and go to www.sarahpowers.com
1） Moving Into Meditation Yin/Yang Yoga and Mindfulness Meditation with Sarah Powers May 3 - 6, 2012 Date/Time: May 3 - 6, 2012 Daily, 12:00 - 16:00 Cost: 2900 RMB (2600 RMB before April 3, 2012) Location: Beijing International Academy of Arts & Sciences(BIAAS) 2） May 3, 2012 Insight Yoga – a talk with Sarah Powers Date/Time: May 3, 2012 18:00 Cost: 30 CNY/20 CNY (Bookworm members and Sarah's Yin/Yang Yoga and Mindfulness Meditation participants) All tickets include one free drink Location: The Bookworm Building 4, Nan Sanlitun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing Tel: (010) 6586 9507 http://beijingbookworm.com/ Registration: Please register with Yoga Yard at 6413-0774, info@yogayard.com, or on our website at www.yogayard.com. Space is lim- ited; please register early. Registration is confirmed only when payment in full is received. Cancellations: If cancelling 30 days prior to the workshop, payment minus 10% of total workshop fee will be refunded. If cancelling 10 - 29 days prior to the workshop, 50% of total amount paid will be refunded. If cancelling made within 10 days prior to the workshop, no payment will be refunded. Payment must be received in full to confirm space.