Yoga Movement Weekend Seminars with Gay White

Winter/Spring 2010

Yoga Movement is an innovative blend of dance and yoga, a dynamic and invigorating practice, and a chance to enjoy group movement. These seminars are for experienced yoga practitioners, and/or teachers and offer Yoga Movement asana classes, creative work, and teaching practice. You are eligible if you are a graduate of The Yoga Room ASP, have a yoga teaching certificate, or with permission of the teacher.

There are ten seminars, five hours on Saturday and three hours on Sunday, once a month, for ten months. The course begins in January and finishes in November 2010.

Saturdays 11:15am–1pm & 2–5pm
& Sundays 1–4pm

Jan 16 & 17 ~ Personal Yoga Movement Practice
Uncover, deepen, and enliven the energetic connections to the source of natural movement.

Feb 13 & 14 ~ Moving with the Breath
With gentle breathing and yoga as an inner focus for timing, slow down and enjoy moving with a group.

Mar 13 & 14 ~ Art of Sequencing
Arrange asanas in ways that enhance efficient use of energy and periods of unbroken awareness.

May 15 & 16 ~ Creative Approaches
Move into the present moment, clear out old movement patterns, and free up creative inspiration.

Jun 19 & 20 ~ Teaching Movement
Explore how people move and learn differently in order to encourage freedom of movement.

July 17 & 18 ~ Contemplative Performance
Realize performance as communication, ritual, and a distillation of experience .

Aug 14 & 15 ~ Observing and Recalling Movement
Enhance kinesthetic memory, perceive movement in the body and in space, and see the whole.

Sep 18 & 19 ~ Transitions: Flowing Through Asanas
Moving in slow motion with conscious breathing, build inner heat and deep strength.

Oct 23 & 24 ~ Phrasing and Dynamic Practice
With rhythm, tempo, gravity, and stillness, build dynamic movement phrases for choreography and teaching.

Curriculum Summary and Fees

•          Yoga Movement asana classes, 40 classes at $10, $400, 60 hours

•          Weekend Seminars, 10 seminars at $100, $1000

•          Assisting, $100, 10 hours

•          Student teaching, $100, 10 hours

•          Individual project, $400, 20 hours

•          Single weekend seminar, $120

Weekly Yoga Movement Classes

Thursdays, 9:30–11:30am • Saturdays, 11:15am–1pm at The Yoga Room
Asana classes: single $20, series $15

About Gay:  Gay White has practiced dance composition and improvisation, tai chi, and yoga and has studied yoga at the Iyengar Institute in Pune, India. She has been making dances since 1975, and in 1992 founded the Yoga Garden Dancers, a group who perform original choreography using asanas.

Gay teaches yoga and an innovative blend of dance and yoga called Yoga Movement. She is currently Director of the Yoga Room and is on the faculty of the Yoga Room Advanced Studies Program. She also teaches classes, workshops, and retreats.

“What distinguishes Gay’s work with yoga movement is her extension of yoga into the realm of performance and her emphasis on the importance and power of doing yoga movement in a group rather than as an individual practice or solo performance.”

For more information on Gay's workshops, email gay@yogagarden.org
or Call Gay at 510-528-9909  
To ensure your attendance, please reserve early. 

Class & Workshop 
Locations, Directions & Links

The Yoga Room

2530 San Pablo Ave, Suite D. We are in the northwest corner of the building we share with the Sierra Club, Ecology Center, Audubon Society, and Centro-Latino. Enter the lobby and proceed down the hallway to the door marked Suite D, The Yoga Room. Pass through this doorway and follow the corridor to the right until you reach our beautiful, quiet new studio. There is an anteroom where you can leave your shoes and clothing, but please bring your valuables into the practice space.

Please do not park in the building parking lot. Parking is available on San Pablo, Blake Street, or Tenth.

To sign up for a series or register for a class or workshop, contact Gay by email at gay@yogagarden.org or call her: 510-528-9909.