4-Beat Weekend Immersion
22nd – 24th September
£395 (£355 early bird if booked before 1st August)
This weekend immersion will look at how syncing to a 4-beat can simplify and refine the flow. Then we break down the individual poses so there is a constant focus in your self practice.
What are we all doing here? Beyond making the shapes, what are you aiming towards in your yoga asana practice? Where are you trying to get to in the pose? In this weekend of workshops we will be “zooming in” to the details of your asana so you can also “zoom out” and reassess the overarching intention of your practice.
What happens between the stage where the shape is everything and the stage where you transcend the physical altogether? Whether as teachers of others or ourselves, when we reach that point we all need to reset our sights.
We will look at how syncing to a 4-beat can simplify and refine the flow. Then we break down the individual poses so there is a constant focus in your self practice. Moving towards the point you can be less reliant on your teacher to tell you what you’re looking for/trying to feel and more reliant upon yourself. Become your own teacher and cultivate a reliable self practice, and/or new directions for your teaching (of others and) yourself.
This is suitable for practitioners of at least a year (or teachers) stuck in a rut/plateauing/hitting yoga ennui phase.
Marcus Veda
Marcus came to yoga because his first loves — football, martial arts and finally DJing — broke him. Like many, he found the magic of yoga went much deeper than the physical fix.
An undying urge to fly landed him on the Ashtanga inspired Rocket system but he soon became more interested in it as a way of life rather than just a way of moving … or “the martial art you do against yourself” as Nic Gregoriades, the BJJ black belt once said. For Marcus, it is about observing the mind stuff, while gravity, balance and resistant limbs defy you.
The DJing could never be laid to rest. Every class has a specially mixed soundtrack which lays down the rhythm and specific tempo of the flow: synchronous breath, bass and movement.
Marcus trained with David Swenson, David Kyle, Jason Crandell and his original teachers, The Yoga People, also introduced him to Yin Yoga – an antidote to the up & up of Rocket (and London yang life.) With that came a deepening appreciation of meditation, stillness of mind and yoga beyond the asanas that originally got me hooked.
Marcus runs teacher trainings with Hannah Whittingham through the Good Life Yoga School in London and online.
Friday 22nd September
18:00-20:00
4-Beat Master Blaster Class: One Continuous Flow of beats, breath & movement from samasthithi to savasana. Don’t break the chain. Led by the beat.
Saturday 23rd September
9:30-10:00
Kriyas, meditation, 4-purifications.
10:00-12:00
Class: Open heart surgery – backarches and beyond.
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Lunch Break
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13:30-14:45
The mix is the fix: What is 4-beat? Using it to find your flow. Arc of the sequence for teaching/cultivating a self practice to the beat.
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Break
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15.00-17.30
Shake (up) Your Asana playshop* (warrior standing > backarches assists) the up stuff.
Sunday 24th September
9:30-10:00
Kriyas, meditation, 4-purifications.
10:00-12:00
Hips to the floor: practice and pranayama.
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Lunch Break
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13:30-15:30
Shake (down) your Asana* (balances, hips + floor-folds) the down stuff.
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Break
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16:00 – 17:30
Balancing the yang with yin: Yin as a closing sequence.
*(pose breakdown- directionality vs alignment/partner-assisting)
