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Lisa Walford Deep peace, and simple joys Home Workshops Classes Newsletter Podcasts Videos About Contact Roy Walford Privacy Terms ← Older posts Between Heaven and Earth, from aspiration to application… Posted on April 10, 2024 by lisa Is this not what we do each time we get on the mat, each time we enter the yoga space, each time we sit for meditation? We Center, we remember to remember that we are connected, we are, as Piere do Chardin said, spiritual beings on a human journey.” Seemingly, this human journey can be filled with decay, suffering, and trauma. In the Jewish tradition, we are here to mend the world, to heal our brokenness, and to find the light that lies within all. In our yoga journey, we embody heaven”, as qualities of harmony, connection, and integration. And earth” as gravity, what is,” and the effect events have on our subtle body. What if we can establish our ”ground of being” in awareness, in the body, and in each moment as a moment of presence… Before moving into the unknown” such as standing on your head, or bending over backwards, or public speaking, or surgery, or …, you fill in the blank, we can come into that ground of being, anchored in presence. How to practice entering into this presence”, and becoming established in a felt sense of harmony? Do we imagine it? Our intentions, aspirations, prayers can be specific and focused on a particular outcome, like world peace, financial stability, self-acceptance. Until we sense the reality of the Bhavana” or felt sense of these in our body and in our heart, they remain a thought-form outside of our true experience. Receptivity is powerful. Being a conduit means that it’s not all up to you. In Tadasana, we can feel the power of gravity and our ability to go with it or connect from the root and rise with the grace of gravity. Embodiment is a felt breath, a felt sense of give and take, a felt sense of every moment unfolding. In this workshop, we will work with our eyes closed a bit. First with simple poses, eyes open, then moving through a sequence where you individually decide where your felt sense of extension, grounding, expansion lies. There is no right shape or form, rather coming through a sense of ownership, or felt sense in your embodiment, into agency, the doing of the backbend or the headstand. If you have read this far, then I’m hoping you can join me on April 20th, 2-4pm, at the Center for Yoga LA . Call +1.323.498.0222 , email info@cfyla.com , or click here for information, or to sign-up. Posted in Yoga | Leave a comment Yoga for Post Pandemic Recovery Posted on March 11, 2023 by lisa Yoga for Post Pandemic Recovery is a four day immersion with four colleagues, Joan Hyman, Annie Carpinter and Marla Apt and Cristina Holopainen, MARCH 16 – 19. I teach on Sunday, March 18 at 1:00 – 4:00 PDT. This entire weekend promises to be exceptional. https://urbanashramyoga.com/postpandemic-recovery Life practices for healing and resetting the nervous system for your students, loved ones, or for yourself In Buddhism the third noble truth is to recognize that we have agency over how we relate to the inevitable suffering (the first noble truth) that is inherent in growth, change, dis-ease, decay and all the uncontrollable nuances life presents. As we emerge from the pandemic all of us carry deep within the scar tissue of systemic change, whether that is on a personal level of health or in cultural shifts in values, policies and priorities. Change is hard. Sometimes it seems like we harden to new possibilities; and that shedding old ideas of how things should be in our world just makes us run to pull the blanket over our eyes. Chronic illness can be on a physical level, like long Covid, fibromyalgia, diabetes or hypertension. Deep seated fear of change or loss can cause us to retreat into a shell, shun friends, and close doors to new horizons. Anis Nin said: And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud became more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” To recognize how we all face challenges on small and monumental levels and that we can cultivate an inner resilience to adapt to change is YOGA. To recognize that while we exist in the ever changing moment we also breath with the small inner voice that can kindle and light the flame to illume our next moment with inspiration. This is also YOGA. My workshop will include asana practice, dynamic and restive, along with meditation and discussion. Posted in Yoga | Leave a comment Navayogimarga – January yoga Festival Posted on December 21, 2022 by lisa Navayogimarga: The modern yogi’s path” An Online Yoga Festival Monday January 16 –Friday Jan 20 and Open weekend Friday Jan 20 –Sunday Jan 22 https://www.navayogimarga.com/index.php Begin your year with an inspiring festival of internationally renowned teachers representing different aspects of Guruji Iyengars influence over many facets of yoga. From asana practice to contemplative spirituality, breath and energy work to off the mat and giving back to the world, practicing with this broad spectrum of gifted teachers is a super opportunity. Join me to celebrate Guruji’s influence over modern yoga and to acknowledge one of my favorite teachers, Kofi Busia. I will be teaching Immunity and Stress, Building Resilience through Iyengar Yoga. This festival is Kofi’s vision. All of the presenters have some connection with this amazing teacher. He holds an advanced certificate from Iyengar and has been teaching for over forty years. He has studied Sanskrit and Indian philosophy at Oxford University and taught yoga in Oxford for more than 20 years. Kofi is one of very few teachers who seamlessly weaves wisdom teachings in a practical and contemporary way through out his classes. He is respectful of all sincere yoga practitioners and inclusive in his willingness to bring us all together. I hope that you will consider joining me for this extraordinary opportunity! Receive a 5% discount when you sign up with the following code.. LWA1 into the Discount Box” that appears AFTER pushing the Add To Cart” button on the Festival Purchase Page at: https://www.navayogimarga.com/purchases_c.php . Posted in Yoga | Leave a comment Stress and Immunity: Building resilience with Iyengar Yoga Posted on November 27, 2022 by lisa Stress and Immunity: Building resilience with Iyengar Yoga , a virtual workshop for our times. Saturday and Sunday December 10th & 11th, 10am to 1pm PST. All levels welcome. Presented by Iyengar Yoga Therapeutics with senior certified Iyengar teacher Lisa Walford and Alyson Ross, PhD, RN, CIYT. For more information please contact Iyengar Yoga Therapeutics at info@iyengaryogatherapeutics.com or visit https://www.facebook.com/IYTLA . Lisa was gifted with studying under Guruji Iyengar after she was diagnosed with HIV in 1986. Alyson worked for over a decade at the NIH as a stress researcher and has published extensively on the use of mind-body techniques in stress reduction. Together they will guide you through the science and yoga sequences to understand and feel how profound the healing process can be. BKS Iyengar explained that what we do for ourselves when we are feeling depleted is different than what we must do to help strengthen our inner resources when we are in good health. Being pro-active about our wellbeing, physical, biological, energetically and emotionally is essential if we hope to live a satisfying life. The right effort rewards us on so many levels! Join us and learn the fundamentals from both the Western and Yogic perspectives on the immune system and the impact of stress on our physiology and ability to maintain inner equilibrium. Principals in yoga asana to enhance inner resilience emotionally and physically are equally essential and will include sequences that Guruji Iyengar suggested for both new and experienced students. Immune means protected, unburdened. In current times this concept takes on many dimensions: immune to gossip and slander or resistant to toxins...