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January 15, 2006

Video: Asana Demonstration by Ana Forrest

Today, conferernce faculty member and widely beloved yoga teacher Ana Forrest demonstrated to a packed house a wonderfully choreographed sequence of asana poses.

Ana is working on creating a DVD of this demonstration. In the meantime, you can check out this video clip from today's demo. (if the video demo is not working, you may need to download the latest version of Macromedia Flash.)

For more about Ana, visit www.forrestyoga.com.

Photo Credit: Todd Semo
Video Credit: Alan Zucker

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Video: Reaction to Asana Demonstration

Lisa Maria, a local writer who writes about yoga for Common Ground magazine, describes the inspiration that many felt after watching Ana Forrest's Asana Demonstration by saying that Ana is "a walking miracle."

Watch the clip here.

Video Credit: Alan Zucker

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January 14, 2006

Journey to the Core

For two solid hours, Ana Forrest kept us diving deep into the core of our bodies—and of our beings.

Gently but relentlessly, she reminded our packed class to focus our attention inside, using the breath to feed our energy. "Don't look at the ceiling," she'd say; "There aren't any answers for you there." Or she'd remind us that it's mighty hard to turn your attention to your interior experience when you're busy checking out what the person on the next mat is doing. Whenever the difficulty of the poses threatened to pull us out of our core, she knew just how to draw us back inside.

So despite a challenging session that included lots of supine work for the body's core musculature, handstands, forearm stands, Sun Salutations, and a long, intense standing sequence—and despite practicing mat-to-mat in a room of perhaps 80 other students—I walked out of class feeling deeply quiet and centered. I'd been in such a timeless state of attention to each moment that it was hard to believe we'd been practicing for two hours.

Continue reading "Journey to the Core" »

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January 10, 2006

Ana Forrest

Ana Forrest has been teaching yoga since 1974 and is the creator of Forrest Yoga®, a powerful and intensely mindful yoga practice that teaches students to awaken, heal, and strengthen both body and spirit. She is recognized worldwide as a pioneer in yoga & emotional healing and founder of Forrest Yoga Circle in Santa Monica, CA.

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