Asana to Meditation
A Workshop by Navtej Johar bio
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The workshop will work on the following five components introduced as tools of practice by Sri T. Krishnamacharya: asana, pranayama, meditation, chanting and ritual.

Asana, as the primary tool of commitment to a spiritual practice, where the body is put through a serious of adaptations of classic yoga asanas with the goal to limber and strengthen the spine and release the flow of prana within the body and bridge the body/mind.
Pranayama: the use of breath in asana being the distinctive feature of the style, the workshop will introduce concepts of arithmetic or mental gymnastics in breathing, thereby finely regulating the breath plus making the mind sharp and alert.
Meditation: this will require the practitioners to personally define their respective focus for themselves and then be made to place it within a grid of guided pranayama.
Chanting: Vedic chanting is a very powerful tool advocated by Krishnamacharya in which the breath, voice and affirmation unite. The workshop will introduce the principals and recitation of simple Vedic chants. These principles could then be applied to personal prayer and affirmations.
Ritual: Eventually the practitioners will be required to create or identify sustainable systems or rituals within their personal lives that could act as reminders to continuously bring them back to their practice after regular intervals.

(YTT: 16.5 credit hours ~ 10.0 Techniques, 6.5 Philosophy, Ethics and Lifestyle)