Yoga Svarupa: The Essential Form
An Iyengar Yoga Immersion for Practitioners and Teachers
Taught online and in-person by Holly Kostura, Senior Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher
Yoga sādhanā is an opportunity to reach a space inside the body-mind where we are fully present with our full presence.
This is its essential power: to reveal the formless contained within the form.
In this immersion you will deepen the connection between your unique body-mind-Spirit by engaging yourself in the process called practice.
Pranayama
These sessions will be curated to prepare for each day’s target family of postures (ie, hip openers, twists) and offer insight into their effects on the body-mind.
Asana
You will learn to aim at a “target posture” suitable for your level of practice by:
* looking at the classical configuration
* feeling your way into the constitution
* understanding the relationship between the body-breath-mind and the posture
Teacher Mentoring
Day 1: Thought Process, Demonstration, Instruction, Helping Method
Day 2: Making the Plan
Day 3: Teaching the Plan
Day 4: Individual & Situation Presentations
SCHEDULE
Sunday, June 25th
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM: Online gathering of the collective consciousness.
Wednesday, June 28th – Saturday, July 1st
10:00 AM -10:45 AM: Pranayama
11:00 AM – 1:15 PM: Asana
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Teacher Mentoring
An optional Advanced Led Practice is being offered at 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM ET on Sunday, July 2nd (+$25).
PRICING
Full Retreat, with Teacher Mentoring: $500
Full Retreat, without Teacher Mentoring: $265
Individual Day of Asana/Pranayama only: $75
REGISTRATION
Links are sent upon receipt of payment via Venmo @holly-kostura.
HOUSING
A limited number of spaces are available in an Airbnb within walking distance to the studio.
Please contact Holly for more information regarding booking your accommodations.
TRANSPORTATION
The studio is located blocks away from the Historic district in Bethlehem, PA. It is less than 90 minutes from both Newark, NJ (EWR) and Philadelphia, PA (PHL).
The closest airport is Lehigh Valley International Airport (ABE) in Allentown, PA, a fifteen minute drive to the studio.
ABOUT HOLLY
Holly Kostura has been practicing self-inquiry through the art, science and philosophy of classical Yoga in the Iyengar tradition for over twenty-five years. She has studied at the feet of the Iyengar family, including B.K.S. Iyengar, and their long-time students.
The author of Your Year of Yoga: Learning to Love Practice, Holly is one of the youngest women in the world to receive the title “Senior Teacher” in the Iyengar Yoga tradition. She shares freely and openly any insight that has come to her with those who are seeking transformation through this great discipline of redemption.