When beginning an asana practice, it is common that the dominant awareness is of muscles as being tight or weak. With practice we begin to experience that the muscles are there more to organize the bones and the greater structural strength is from the bones. Then we begin to feel that the muscles and bones are there to provide a container for the organs. Then the organs and breath become the primary references as to how to perform the asana. After the muscles, bones organs and breath become more integrated, we can start to attune to subtle lines of force that connect the mind body complex. This class series will explore how asana practice can evolve from the outer body of muscles and bones to the inner body of organs and breath and integrate with the subtle body of nadis and chakras.

Due to the sequetial nature of this series, drop-in is not available.

Kim Schwartz Kim Schwartz has studied and taught Hatha Yoga for more than four decades. His lifelong passion for mystical truth led him to become ordained as a swami of the Temple of Kriya in Chicago. He was elevated to the position of Maha Swami in the Kriya lineage, enabling him to ordain others as swamis. Kim was director of the Temple’s Hatha Yoga Teacher Training Program before moving to New Mexico, where he continues to lead High Desert Yoga’s Teacher Training Program. Kim is recognized by many well-known yoga instructors both as a “master of his art” in personal practice and as a true “teacher’s teacher,” one with the ability to communicate the timeless truths of yoga on many levels to fellow instructors in a way that enables them to pass this wisdom on to their own students. He is registered with Yoga Alliance as E-RYT 500 and YACEP. 

Read Kim's blog post "Releasing Tight Muscles"

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Schedule Details

10 Tuesdays, February 18–March 10 & tentatively April 7–May 12, 2020 (students will be notified of resume date)

5:45–7:15 PM

THIS SERIES IS PAUSED DUE TO COVID-19. ENROLLED STUDENTS WILL BE NOTIFIED OF RESUME DATE.

Price Options

$125 plus tax paid in full by February 7, 2020

$140 plus tax after February 7, 2020

* Ticket price includes 7.875% NM Gross Receipts Tax and 2.9% PayPal transaction fee.