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Matthew Remski has been practicing meditation and yoga since 1996, sitting and moving with teachers from the Tibetan Buddhist, Kripalu, Ashtanga, and Iyengar streams. Along the way he’s been certified as a yoga therapist and an Ayurvedic consultant, and has maintained a private practice in Toronto since 2008. From 2008 through 2012 he co-directed Yoga Festival Toronto and Yoga Community Toronto, non-profit activist organizations dedicated to promoting open dialogue and accessibility. He currently facilitates programming for yoga trainings internationally, focusing on yoga philosophy, meditation, Ayurveda, and the social psychology of practice.

He is the author of eight books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction including Of Threads of Yoga: a remix of Patanjali’s Sutras with commentary and reveri.

Schedule
Friday 6 to 8:30 pm
Saturday and Sunday 11am – 4pm (with a break for lunch)
April 27 – 29, 2018

Cost
Before March 27 (Early Bird Special) $205
After March 27th $225

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See below for workshop descriptions. All workshops are led by Laurel Van Matre. All levels welcome!

Workshop #1 – Adjustments
Date: Saturday, March 10, 2018
Time: Noon – 3:00
Cost: $45

Workshop #2 – Handstands and Inversions
Date: Saturday, March 24, 2018
Time: Noon – 3:00
Cost: $45

Workshop #3 – Therapeutics
Date: Saturday, April 21, 2018
Time: Noon – 3:00
Cost: $45

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Laurel Van Matre is known for her in-depth understanding of alignment and ability to break down the yoga poses that elude us most. In this workshop she will make them easy and accessible in a way you’ve never practiced before and you will never forget because with the proper alignment they actually FEEL GOOD in your body. You will never be so excited about building triangle pose from the ground up again.

The ‘Adjustments Workshop’ is the first of the Saturday Workshop Series for Winter, 2018. These workshops are designed to be available to anyone, teacher or student, wanting to learn more. They are meant to be collaborative, meaning Laurel will take into account who is in the room and what questions you may have. These workshops are meant to be taken again and again adding a stronger foundation to your toolkit everytime you attend. We highly recommend.

Been trying for weeks (months, years even?!) to stick a handstand or find stability in a headstand? In this workshop Laurel will take you through a sequence of poses designed to break-down the actions needed in your practice to create the strength, flexibility and understanding you need to achieve inversions with confidence. This is a ‘workshop’ style set-up meaning we will stop and start and ask questions during the 3 hour time frame.

These workshops are designed to be available to anyone, teacher or student, wanting to learn more. They are meant to be collaborative, meaning Laurel will take into account who is in the room and what questions you may have. These workshops are meant to be taken again and again adding a stronger foundation to your toolkit everytime you attend. We highly recommend.

As a yoga student, teacher and trainer for 21+ years, Laurel has made it her daily work to learn to understand the mechanics, or alignment of each asana, in a way that helps us set a strong foundation in each pose and create strength in the muscles that support holding healthy curves the spine. She teaches her students to practice in a way that give us the physical benefits of yoga and also supports our muscles and bones as we grow and age. In this workshop Laurel will teach us how she applies her understanding of alignment in a way that can help us therapeutically in our yoga practices to relieve pain from misalignments such as: sciatica, bulging or ruptured discs, plantar fasciitis, sacral instability, low back pain, carpal tunnel, shoulder blade instability and tension headaches.

These workshops are designed to be available to anyone, teacher or student, wanting to learn more. They are meant to be collaborative, meaning Laurel will take into account who is in the room and what questions you may have. These workshops are meant to be taken again and again adding a stronger foundation to your toolkit everytime you attend. We highly recommend.