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The Three A's: Alignment, Awareness and Adaptability
Type: Sat (Asana/Pranayama / Visnu Practice / Middling (Madhya)
INSTRUCTOR: Joyce Zouves Van Rensburg
Class Description: In this class Joyce will share, in her own inimitable way, with both precision and a keen sense of humour, sequences personally received from BKS Iyengar in Pune. Her emphasis will be how to bring complete awareness to the performance of some of the foundational asanas, focusing particularly on the detailed placement of arms/hands and legs/feet. She will show us how to improve greatly our flexibility and performance by using traditional `Iyengar` props: walls to aid alignment and stability in standing poses and backbends; foam blocs to help sideways stretches; chairs to encourage balance and movement in inversions and twists; and belts on backs, hips and feet to achieve amazing extensions in seated asanas. We will leave with not only clearer ideas of how to, but also the confidence actually to go ahead and adapt our bodies to the requirements of the poses irrespective of the perceived difficulty levels of the actual asanas.
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