Hatha Yoga Shala East Bay

01/04/2025

Happy New Year 2025! ✨
Our winter courses are on our website and open for registration. Link in bio. Sessions include both online and in-person teaching at the Berkeley Alembic. Classes starting very soon so signup now! We look forward to seeing you this winter and supporting you in your yogic sadhana.

10/24/2024

How do you create the inner and outer conditions to support your sadhana?
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THE YOGIC LANDING PAD: For true transformation, yogic sadhana requires the right conditions. Just as a plant will thrive when given the right soil, nutrients, water, and climate, our sadhana will also thrive when it develops within a supportive context. This can be likened to a “Landing Pad” - an inner and outer space within the whole of our life, free of sabotaging habits and conditions, where our yoga practice can land, take roots, grow and evolve.
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Join us this Sat, Oct 26 for a special online workshop for ALL levels of practitioners. Mark will shed light on ten of the most essential considerations everyoe must deal with if they truly want more than just a mediocre yoga practice and mundane quality of life. These will all be examined from gross to refined levels.
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Link in bio to our website where you can learn more and register.
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09/16/2024

We are back from Alaska, and looking forward to resuming our teaching THIS COMING SATURDAY, SEPT 21, when our new Fall courses begin. Courses start with three online sessions, so even if you cannot attend live, you will be able to catch up with the recordings at your leisure. Details and registration links on our website - link in bio. We have a lot to share with you all this Fall, and look forward to seeing you soon!
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09/15/2024

For yogic sadhana to bear fruit and provide a means to positive transformation in all realms of life, a solid basis must be established which can truly support a deeper unfolding. In Shadow Yoga, the tools utilized to fulfill this first stage of sadhana include the three prelude forms, primary asana vinyasas, bandha triyam (the 3 bandhas), and the concluding activities within full practice format.
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We’re offering new Fall courses to guide students towards greater skill and proficiency with these preliminary tools, leading to a better understanding of how to utilize and integrate them within practice. Look for PROGRESS THROUGH THE PRELUDES: Mastering the preliminary tools of Shadow Yoga. Begins Sept 21.
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09/15/2024

For experienced practitioners, the various forms of the Nrtta sadhana, asana-angaharas, kriyas and mudras, are essential tools of an advancing yogic sadhana. None stand alone, and all must be mastered and skillfully integrated in order to make applicable the gross structure, free and awaken the inner body, and activate the energetic pathways, all while cultivating a proper mindset. This will support the process of absorption - the basis for pranayama and meditation.
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During Fall 2024, we’re offering a two-part course for experienced students that will progressively refine and integrate these important tools, with emphasis on building a direct, embodied understanding of their effects and inter-relationships. Begins Sept 21
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01/13/2024

Asana Angaharas (arrangements) help establish the necessary conditions for the most essential asanas to become accessible with sthiram sukham (firmness and ease). The Mantra Sadhana gives the inner shape and changes the resonance of the entire being.
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In 2024 we will introduce the Mantra Sadhana slowly within the context of the Asana Angahara full practice format. New course begins Jan 13
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01/13/2024

New course starts Jan 13 to complete and refine the Balakrama prelude form while introducing the “full practice format” which includes asana/vinyasa (sequence of seated asanas) and conclusion. Students will gain an experiential understanding of the larger scope of the Shadow Yoga sadhana, and the role of the preludes.

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01/02/2024

Our new courses for Winter 2024 are posted!

New year, new courses beginning Jan 13th ✨

01/02/2024

Wishing you all smooth and peaceful transitions into 2024 ✨🙏💫

With the new year, we have new courses starting Jan 13th. Sessions in person at the Berkeley Alembic and online. Learn more and register at horneryoga.com ✨

More to follow through the rest of the year Looking forward to seeing you in this new year ✨

10/24/2023

The Asana Angaharas utilize elements from the Shadow Yoga preludes and the Nrtta forms to progressively build stability and ease in asana and the concluding practices of the yogic sadhana.
As one’s practice matures, the synergy of practice is enhanced through understanding the components and their interrelationships while developing the skillful means required for their integration.
Join us for a new Asana Angahara I course starting Oct 28. We’ll introduce new material that reflects the evolution of this practice.
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10/24/2023

The Balakrama ("Step to Strength"), is the first Shadow Yoga prelude to be learned. This dynamic and flowing practice builds the power and functioning of the legs which in turn strengthens the bones, blood, and vital breath. The Balakrama systematically builds the foundation thus setting the stage for the safe and effective unfolding of the deeper practices of Hatha Yoga.
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New Balakrama course starting this weekend Oct 28 will teach the form in a step by step manner while introducing some new material reflective of the evolution of the Shadow yoga practice. It is open to all students with some prior yoga experience. Hope to see you there!

09/14/2023

Traditionally yoga asanas were taught through an individualized approach adjusted to the unique needs of each student. This eliminates unproductive activity by focusing energy and attention on asanas that will most quickly remove the present obstructions.
Sep 18-22: individual Asana course with Sundernath and Emma at the Berkeley Alembic. For practitioners with an existing yogasana sadhana. Registration is still open at shadowyoga.com