Eoin Finn Returns to Yoga Mandala
Eoin Finn at Yoga Mandala, Calgary November 20th & 21st 2009
YOGA & ECOLOGY Workshop
Friday November 20th
6:45pm – 9:30 pm
Yoga is doubtlessly one of the best ways to take care of our body and minds. However, this is just the start. In this workshop we will learn how the physical yoga asana practice can allow us to experience true interconnectedness, not just with our own minds and bodies, but with the larger circles of connection that we interact with daily in our lives, i.e. our personal relationships, our communities and how we treat all sentient beings i.e. our larger environment.
Rediscover ancient yogic teachings and apply new insights to address the needs of our planet in this crucial time. Join yogi, blissologist and ocean worshipper Eoin Finn in an exciting conversation about how we can make this happen. We will begin with a Blissology discussion, flow into an invigorating and mindful Vinyasa practice that will allow us to feel as good as we possibly can. We will end with Eoin's unique earth-body meditation, leaving us with an experience that will inspire us to create change in our practice and in our lives.
Suitable for All Levels of Practitioners: from beginner students to teachers of Yoga.
Cost: $50 + gst
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THE PURSUIT OF HAPPY HIPS™: Theory and Vinyasa Practice 2009
Saturday, November 21st
10:30 am – 1:30 pm
The energy of the hip area can be alive and vital, or dull and dormant. The hips are the connecting point between the upper and lower body. Furthermore, the hip area is where we experience significant tightness, both from the stresses of our sporting activities as well as from the inactivity of sitting in chairs for more hours in a week than our ancestors could have imagined possible.
Explore pelvic anatomy and the psychology of the hips. Find out what rules we need to follow to help keep the yoga practice safe and beneficial to our physiology, while also learning how many rules actually restrict us. Then participate in Eoin’s flowing series of poses that will leave you feeling blissful and ecstatic.
Balancing the discipline of a hot and sweaty practice with the chilled West Coast, “play yoga” attitude, this workshop is taught in Eoin’s “All levels, All Good” approach, with modifications for beginners and plenty of juiciness for intermediates and advanced yogis. We are talking freedom, baby.
Cost: $55 + gst
EOIN FINN
One of Canada’s best-loved yoga teachers, Eoin Finn, visionary and co-founder of the Yogathon and Blissfest for Camp Moomba, is also a Blissologist (one who studies Bliss), surfer and writer. He first studied Yoga, Eastern and Western philosophy, martial arts and meditation in 1987 and developed an affinity for Vinyasa (flowing or power) style yoga while living in Maui, Hawaii in the mid-1990’s.
Fusing his passion for athletics and yoga as an essential cross-training element, Eoin has worked with high-level athletes ranging from NHL hockey players to Olympic skiers in the US and Canada, for whom he has created customized, performance enhancing yoga programs. He has also conducted numerous YES (Yoga, Ecology and Surf) Retreats around the world, sharing his deep respect and love for nature and yoga with his students.
Eoin’s teaching offers a heart-opening, invigorating and experiential practice that is grounded with humor, dynamism and a focus on alignment and anatomy.
He thanks many teachers who have inspired him along the way including Nadia Toraman of Maui Yoga, Vijnana Yogis: Gioia Irwin and Orit Sen-Gupta; Structural Integration Therapists Mark Finch and Tom Myers; and Body Mind Psychotherapist Susan Aposhyan. He now resides between Vancouver and Canada's surf mecca, Ucluelet, BC.
Eoin’s class schedule, free yoga downloads as well as Eoin’s instructional videos are available at www.eoinfinnyoga. For more information on yoga and Vancouver you can also visit www.vancouveryoga.com, a site dedicated to health, spirit and community
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