During Steve’s six weeks at the Iyengar Institute in Pune, India In June, July and 4 weeks in December of 2011 he immersed himself in the study of asana and breath as taught by Prashant. It is recommended that participants have a minimum of 2 years of experience with Iyengar yoga. The class is especially recommended for those planning / hoping to study at the Iyengar Institute in Pune.

Steve Jacobson is a certified Iyengar teacher who combines practicing and teaching yoga with a career as a philosophy professor. Steve has studied Iyengar Yoga since 1984, and has spent well over a year at the Iyengar Institute in India in regular visits dating back to 1988. He also has an extensive background in Aikido.

His classes are filled with compassion, humor and a sense of exploration.

Cost is $35

The 2nd class will begin at 2:15 and will be for more experienced students, who have at least 6 months of Sarvangasana under their belts.

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Br. Shankara will introduce you to this deeply moving book, and answer your questions about how Prabhavananda’s commentary can help make Patanjali’s sutras a step-by-step guide on your spiritual path.

From Prabhavananda’s Translator’s Foreword: “In this translation (of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras) we have not only provided a commentary but expanded and paraphrased the aphorisms themselves, so that each one becomes an intelligible statement in the English language. … Our commentary is mainly our own work. However, we have followed the explanations of the two ancient commentators, Bhoja and Vyasa. We have also quoted frequently from the brilliant and deeply intuitive comments of Swami Vivekananda.”

Brahmachari Shankara
Br. Shankara is the spiritual director and Resident Minister of the Vedanta Center of Atlanta. Barbara Brown Taylor, professor of religion at Piedmont College, brings her classes to the Center for discussions about Vedanta in practice. After a recent visit, she wrote: “You’re an inspired teacher, and I’m so grateful for your gentle way with my students last night. They came away with a great deal of usable new knowledge about Vedanta — but more than that, they came away with an experience of you that they’ll never forget.”

Swami Prabhavananda, Shankara’s guru, accepted him as a disciple in 1973, at the Vedanta Society of Southern California (VSSC). He was a disciples of a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, and senior monks in the Ramakrishna Order of India.

Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886), a West Bengali saint, trained the disciples who founded his monastic order during the early 1880s. Mahatma Gandhi said, “The story of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa’s life is a story of religion in practice. His life enables us to see God face to face. Ramakrishna was a living embodiment of godliness.”

The cost for this event is $20. Stillwater will also be collecting donations on his behalf.

Copies of the books will be available at the studio.

Phil Goldberg has studied India’s spiritual traditions for more than 40 years as both a practitioner and teacher. He is the author or co-author of 19 books, including Roadsigns: On the Spiritual Path and the acclaimed American Veda: From Emerson and the Beatles to Yoga and Meditation, How Indian Spirituality Changed the West. A skilled public speaker and workshop leader, he has taught throughout the country and appeared in national media. An Interfaith Minister and spiritual counselor, Phil recently founded Spiritual Wellness and Healing Associates in Los Angeles. You can visit his website at www.philipgoldberg.com

“In February 1968 the Beatles went to India for an extended stay with their new guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It may have been the most momentous spiritual retreat since Jesus spent those forty days in the wilderness.”

With these words, Philip Goldberg begins his monumental work, American Veda, a fascinating look at India’s remarkable impact on Western culture. This eye-opening popular history shows how the ancient philosophy of Vedanta and the mind-body methods of Yoga have profoundly affected the worldview of millions of Americans and radically altered the religious landscape.

Rich in detail and expansive in scope, American Veda shows how we have come to accept and live by the central teaching of Vedic wisdom: “Truth is one, the wise call it by many names.”

HELPING. ADJUSTING. DISCOVERING.

Bring your friend, your parent, or anyone you want!

You know how helpful it is when your teacher helps you twist? Or gives you an extra hand in something?

Well, safely learn to do this for a friend!

We will find new ways of getting deeper in the asanas you know and love, with a little help from your friends. And, helping them will help you understand these asanas better as well.

Come and join us for this fun filled class!

Kathleen Pringle is the Director of Stillwater Yoga Studio. She has been a student of Iyengar yoga since 1979 and has been teaching since 1983. To deepen her practice she studies regularly with the Iyengars in Pune, India. Kathleen was one of the few yoga practitioners from around the world who was invited to attend the International Woman’s Intensive taught by Geeta Iyengar, as well as the Silver Jubilee Intensive taught by Sri B.K.S. Iyengar. She served as a board member for the National Iyengar Yoga Association for 6 years then served an additional 4 years as the Certification Chair. She also assesses teachers for Iyengar Yoga certification.

Cost $40 per couple.