It has been said that yoga practiced with alignment will have positive effects on structure and function of the organ system. In some ways this is true. However, yoga often involves the repetition of movements in a set series of asanas with a set style of breathing that, in the end, may counter this theory.
This workshop will demonstrate how yoga asana and pranayama may be helpful to the organ system and muscular skeletal system, but it will also demonstrate how yoga asana without other movements of the body may in fact create problems organically.
We will take an in-depth look at how alignment-based yoga systems can either overuse or underuse movements thereby creating supportive and non-supportive environment for the muscular-skeletal, organic and pranic system.
Daily Schedule
08:00-11:00 Morning Session
11:00-12:00 Break
12:00-14:00 Afternoon Session
Suitable for
- Practitioners who have been regularly practicing yoga and meditation for at least one year
- Practitioners who’d like to know more about structural alignment in asanas.
CE Credits
10 hours of CEU credits for Yoga Alliance
Hart Lazer is co-owner of United Yoga Montreal and internationally recognized as a teacher of yoga teachers. Systematic, profound, thorough, sensitive and challenging, he is a master at teaching the mechanics of asana, having studied closely with Iyengar teacher Ramanand Patel for many years and undertaken a serious study of Ashtanga yoga. Hart Lazer offers his students the experience gained from his unique life story, from boyhood in a Jewish rabbinical school through a career in counseling and over 25 years as a yoga teacher and practitioner. In recent years Hart has explored the effects of Buddhism, yoga and trauma on the body and has developed a multi-dimensional approach to working with human difficulties.
