Yoga Junction

19/11/2024

Tara Fraser, co-founder and director of Yoga Junction is now teaching online on Tuesday evenings at 8pm. She shares insights from her 30+ years of yoga teaching and her work as an Advanced Rolfer in this class. New perspectives on the quality, purpose and effects of yoga asana and pranayama are offered to support your personal practice. Accessible to all, everyone welcome. Booking via this link
https://www.yogajunction.co.uk/book-yoga/

05/11/2024

I am teaching two yoga classes online this winter term Tuesday evenings 8.00-9.00pm and Thursday morning 8.30-9.30am. Both these classes are influenced by my work as a Rolfer, are accessible and open to all levels of experience. Everyone welcome let's move together!
Booking via Yoga Junction
https://www.yogajunction.co.uk/classes/

25/07/2024

Somatic and Mindfulness workshop with Jackie and Sarah. Sunday Sept 29th 4-6pm £35. Improve your mind-body connection through a variety of techniques that increase awareness, promote relaxation, and enhance communication between the mental and physical. Learn to be guided inward and allow feelings and sensations that are present to be experienced and explored.
booking - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/somatic-mindfulness-workshop-for-women-tickets-942279903557?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=1

01/06/2024

Iyengar yoga courses starting this week with Katrin Barrass. Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. For all levels of experience and ability. 6 week courses for £83 or drop in for £15 per class. Book at www.yogajunction.co.uk

22/02/2024

"The prostration-like movements of sūryanamaskāra may derive from older devotional practices of sun worship but its inclusion as a technique in a system of is without any known precedent until the twentieth century. In fact, the one reference to in a medieval text on Haṭha Yoga advises against its practice on the grounds that it might afflict the body ( ) if performed many times. This comment indicates that a rather strenuous form of sūryanamaskāra was known in the nineteenth century, but descriptions of such a practice are yet to be found." (Birch 2018: 139)

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Birch, J. 2018 (submitted 2013). "The Proliferation of Āsana-s in Late Medieval Yoga Texts." In Bier, K., Maas P. A. & Preisendanz, K. (Eds)., Yoga in Transformation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. V&R Unipress, Vienna University Press. Ch 3: 139.

https://www.theluminescent.org/2018/10/yoga-in-transformation-vienna-volume.html

22/02/2024

Sharing this with all our historically minded Yoga community......

Exciting times in Oxford this week!

Please join us online on Friday, 23rd February
at 2pm — 5pm.

Webinar details below.

18/02/2024

Dr Jason Birch writes:

“The meaning of the term amaraugha is multivalent. The author of the Amaraugha (14) states that amaraugha has the name Rājayoga, which is the highest of the four yogas taught in the text. In Amaraugha 3, Rājayoga is defined as a meditative state free from mental activity (cittavṛttirahita), a statement that is redolent of the definition of yoga as samādhi in Pātañjalayogaśāstra 1–2 (yogaḥ samādhiḥ [...] yogaś cittavṛttinirodhaḥ). The meaning of rājayoga as both the best yoga (literally, ‘the yoga that is king [of all yogas]’) and a non-dual meditative state was clearly expressed in another Śaiva work, called the Amanaska, that probably predates the Amaraugha by a century or so. Therefore, Śaiva communities appear to have known the import of Rājayoga by the time the Amaraugha was composed, and the equivalence of amaraugha with Rājayoga is the most obvious meaning behind the name of the text. This meaning of amaraugha was accepted by Svātmārāma, who included it in a list of synonyms of the term rājayoga in the Haṭhapradīpikā.

In an important passage of the Amaraugha (13–14), where the internal processes leading up to the union of Śiva and Śakti are described, the author appears to use the term amaraugha in the sense of a divine stream of teachings, a connotation that is similar to that of the term divyaugha (‘the divine stream’) in earlier Kaula scriptures (Birch 2019: 970). This is related to the more literal meaning of amaraugha as ‘a stream (ogha) of immortals (amara),’ which can be understood as referring to the lineage of immortal siddhas that began with Matsyendranātha and Gorakṣanātha, the putative pioneers of Haṭhayoga and founders of the ascetic order known in more recent times as the Nātha sampradāya.“

An excerpt from “THE AMARAUGHA AND AMARAUGHAPRABODHA OF GORAKṢANĀTHA:
THE GENESIS OF HAṬHA AND RĀJAYOGA”.

25/10/2023

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06/07/2023

WellWoman Workshop with Helene Fauquet Last chance to take some time for yourself, to do some strong postures, have fun doing them, dance, jump, stretch and then enjoy some deep relaxation. 2 hours to reconnect with your body, remember a few postures, breathing exercises you can do on your own when you feel overwhelmed, angry, anxious... Some self-massage tips to relax the stomach and the legs... A nice way to get ready for the summer.

Saturday 8 July, from 5 to 7pm. £30