For many years, Swati Chanchani has been designing and teaching a remarkable series of yoga intensives with her husband Rajiv. In The Breath of Yoga Workshop, Swati will:

• trace the roots of yoga embedded in ancient sacred works, including many stories and episodes to bring out the quality of and inspiration for postures;

• stress the links of moral and ethical values implicit in the practice of yoga, including non-violence, truthfulness, and contentment;

• highlight geometrical forms and precision in the postures to assist students in relating abstract concepts to what they have learned through their body movements.

This workshop will consist of four sessions. The Friday and Saturday sessions will be held at High Desert Yoga. The Sunday session will be informal, held at the Hanuman Temple and Neem Karoli Baba Ashram in Taos, New Mexico, where yoga workshop participants are encouraged to join the celebrations in progress followed by a group…