Adaptive Yoga: Sun Salutations & Kleshas
OLLI, Fall 2025
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As we transition from the heat and activity of summer to the shorter days of fall, life often presents transitions that can leave us feeling ungrounded. In this 10-week course, you will learn functional and adaptive yoga to help you establish consistent home practice. Explore four variations of the traditional Sun Salutation sequence (reclining, seated, kneeling, and standing) to enhance your strength, alignment, and balance. Expand your repertoire of subtle mental-emotional tools with emotional processing techniques, confidence-boosting practices, mudras to ease transitions, and pranayama to integrate the mind and body. Throughout this course, we will examine the kleshas, the obstacles to spiritual development outlined in the Yoga Sutras, and learn how they manifest in our lives, hindering our journey toward wholeness and self-acceptance. Homework will include Yoga Nidra meditations focused on the kleshas, addressing self-knowledge (avidya), managing the ego (asmita), understanding attraction (raga) and aversion (dvesha), and conquering fear (abhinidvesha).
PLEASE NOTE: This is a ‘Level 2’ course; pre-requisites include one of Cheryl’s previous 10-week OLLI courses. SUPPLIES REQUIRED: a yoga mat, two 4” yoga blocks, a blanket, an 8” yoga strap, and a chair. Week 1:Reclining Warm-Ups and the Kleshas Week 2:Reclining Sun Salutation Week 3:Building Self-Knowledge (Avidya), refine reclining poses Week 4:Seated Sun Salutation Week 5:Managing the Ego (Asmita), refine seated poses Week 6:Kneeling Sun Salutation Week 7:Understanding Attraction (Raga) and Aversion (Dvesha), refine kneeling poses Week 8:Standing Sun Salutation with Chair Week 9:Conquering Fear (Abhinidvesha), refine standing poses Week 10:Building a Home Practice WEEK 1: Immunity Yoga
Monday, May 12, 2025 Learn how to use a Neti Pot for allergies, as well as floor warm-ups, mudras, and pranayama that boost immunity. WEEK 2: Travel Yoga
Monday, May 19, 2025 Simple seated and standing practices to ease hips and back pain during long travel days, plus calming mudra and breath for nervous flyers. WEEK 3: Stay Cool
Monday, June 2, 2025 Set an intention for the new moon and learn cooling movement, mudra and breath to reduce heat, release frustration and stay cool as a cucumber; bonus New Moon Yoga Nidra recording. WEEK 4: Stay Calm
Monday, June 9, 2025 Learn mind-body techniques that will keep you calm amidst the busy-ness of the summer; bonus Waxing Moon Yoga Nidra recording. WEEK 5: Stay Collected
Monday, June 16, 2025 Restorative yoga and sound practices to leave you feeling collected and integrated in body, mind and spirit; bonus Full Moon and Waning Moon Yoga Nidra recordings. |
Cheryl Fenner Brown, C-IAYT
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As an Integrative Yoga Therapist and Hatha yoga instructor, I love teaching how posture, breath, and attention can completely transform one's relationship with their bodies and themselves. Students appreciate my deeply educational approach to yoga; I weave together anatomy, philosophy, asana, mudra, chanting, pranayama, and Yoga Nidra, delivering it with compassion and humor. I specialize in working with cancer patients and helping people in midlife and beyond to thrive.
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