BERYL BENDER BIRCH
Astanga Yoga/Power Yoga
Weekend Workshop
December 3, 4 and 5, 2004
LOCATION: Sammons Center for the Arts
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Come join us for inspiration, motivation, and celebration! Spend the weekend with one of American's most loved and highly regarded yoga teachers, Beryl Bender Birch, practicing yoga in all its many challenging forms. Revitalize your life!

Arrive Friday evening for a little stretching, a little breathing, a little yoga therapy, and lots of unwinding, with an easy asana practice to get you into weekend yoga mode. Come back on Saturday morning for a great energetic asana class filled with ujjayi breathing and plenty of sweat. Saturday afternoon we will explore yoga therapy with one another, plus spend time in meditation, pranayama, chanting, and discussion. More fun and practice on Sunday.

Beryl's yoga teaching career began in Winter Park, Colorado in l974 (just after she returned from four months traveling in India) with classes for skiers — both pros and recreational. In 1980, after "teaching yoga to everyone in the town of Winter Park" she moved back to the city of her birth, New York, New York, and was introduced to the practice of astanga yoga by her teacher Norman Allen. (Allen was Sri K. Pattabhi Jois' first American student and the first Westerner to master the astanga series and bring it to the US.)

Beryl began teaching astanga yoga to a handful of adventuresome and ahead-of-their-time runners in New York City in 1981 at the prestigious New York Road Runners Club, where she became the Wellness Director. Her husband Thom, a world class runner at that time, joined Beryl as a teacher for the NYRR in 1984, after having used the astanga yoga system to rehab a career ending injury, a torn achilles tendon, and regain a national championship. Together, Beryl and Thom pioneered the introduction of yoga to the traditional athletic community.

Thom was the "most elite athlete and tightest person I'd ever worked with" says Beryl and "was a great role model for all the injured runners that came to our classes back in the 80's and 90's. His status as a world class runner and successful use of it as a form of physical therapy gave a lot of credibility to the astanga system at the time, in the eyes of athletes. Twenty three years and tens of thousands of students later, the NYRR continues to offer Beryl's Power Yoga classes.

Beryl is the founder and director of The Hard & The Soft Astanga Yoga Institute (since l980) in New York City, East Hampton, and Vermont. She is driven to inspire others to follow the astanga yoga methodology as a transformational tool for the evolution of the body , mind, and spirit. She resides in East Hampton with her five Racing Siberian Huskies, Hopi, Carmel, Cheaten, Mo and Nellie.

ITINERARY (subject to change):
Weekend of Wake Up, Get Back, Get Down Yoga with Beryl Bender Birch
Friday evening, December 3, 2004, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Saturday morning, December 4, 2004, 9:00am - 12:00pm
Saturday afternoon, December 4, 2004, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Sunday morning, December 5, 2004, 9:00am - 12:00pm

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
For any additional questions on this or other events, please contact Living Yoga Dallas at 214-739-1605 or email info@livingyogadallas.com.

For more information on Beryl Bender Birch, visit Beryl's website at www.power-yoga.com.

WHAT TO BRING:
A well hydrated and well rested body, refraining from eating at least 2 hours prior to the workshop. When eating, select foods like fresh fruit, vegetables, whole grains. Low acidic food choices are optimum.

Wear lose comfortable clothes, and bring your favorite yoga mat.

Bottled water is available for purchase.

LODGING:
There is no lodging or meals provided for this weekend. Visit our Resources section for hotel recommendations with special rates for Living Yoga Dallas workshop participants.

LOCATION:
Sammons Center for the Arts
3630 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75219
214-520-7788