Prana Workshop

Saturday 4th August 2:30pm - 6pm

Sunday 5th August 2:30pm - 6pm

$160

With Paul Wooden

Prana is a Sanskrit term for energy, life energy. 

This workshop series will be an experiential journey towards a deeper appreciation of and sensitivity to energetic life. In our bodies, our hearts and our minds. The study and practice of pranayama points us towards a process orientated relationship with life.

Cultivating a relationship with pranayama is cultivating a relationship with the living current of life itself. It is a profoundly intimate affair. Pranayama is a way of opening to the nourishing intelligence of life.

Saturday  - UNDERSTANDING ASANA: Dharma Talk, Asana, Pranayama and Meditation                         

Asana is an intimate relational invitation. A way of uncovering the innate natural energetic dynamics of the body.  Witn prana as guide we will explore ways to inhabit the body, find ground and align with life. 

Sunday - UNDERSTANDING PRANAYAMA: Dharma talk, Restoratives, Pranayama and Meditation

Cultivating a relationship with pranayama is cultivating a relationship with the living current of life itself. it is a profoundly intimate affair. Prana is accessed through feeling and the practice of pranayama expands our capacity for feeling. The responsiveness of feeling is the guiding intelligence in the practice of pranayama. It requires us to be profoundly available for the moment to moment unfolding of life.

Please Note: This is a 2 day workshop, single day attendance is not available at this time.

About Paul:

Paul Wooden has been practicing and studying yoga and meditation for over 30 years and teaching for 25 years. He draws from his experience in many different styles and traditions and, through a practical understanding of their underlying unifying principles, weaves together a cohesive and integrated approach to yoga. Paul is a unique voice in the world of yoga.  He has a way of bringing the sometimes abstract teaching of yoga into ordinary language making them accessible and workable in our lives.

A workshop with Paul is an invitation to the deeper dimensions of practice. His particular way of working opens us to the sensitivity and receptivity necessary for the subtler inner practices. He continues to study the wisdom traditions and finds particular value in integrating the essential message of the classical, tantric and non-dual traditions. They each have enormous gifts to offer our inquiry. He complements this with a more contemporary understanding of the human condition with continued study of developmental psychology and integral theory.

Paul is an ongoing student of the Diamond Approach and is also a student of Peter Levine’s trauma work (somatic experiencing) which seeks to help uncover and release the binding patterns of trauma in the body. The learning continues.