ASHTANGA YOGA
Ashtanga Yoga is the Eight Limbs of Yoga, a 5,000 year old practice – one of the few yoga methods that has maintained its roots in the West. It’s progressive and productive. It’s physically vigorous. It’s mentally challenging. Spiritually speaking, it will wake you up.
CURRENT NEWS:
Cultivate an Ashtanga Yoga Practice - 10 week workshop begins September 12, 2010 at Balanced Movement Studio in Carrboro, NC. Learn the fundamentals of Ashtanga yoga, how to navigate Primary and Second Series, and develop a productive daily practice for life. $125. (If you are interested in joining this program after September 12th, you may contact me for alternative arrangements.) Upon completion you will be invited to continue fine tuning and progressing your work through the Mysore-Led practices on Sundays at 4pm. Don’t just go to class, get a practice.
REVOLUTION YOGA - Ashtanga to grow you and change the world.
Background:
Tracey “Tao” Oliveto has been teaching yoga since 1995 and owned Yoga Bliss Studio in Raleigh, NC from 2000 to 2006. Tracey now resides in Carrboro, NC and offers Ashtanga classes and private lessons taught from a holistic perspective. With a focus on Ashtanga practices and teaching technique influenced by Iyengar teaching methods, classes incorporate details of alignment, Pranayama (breath work), and Bandhas (energy locks).
Tracey has a BA in English and Psychology. After acquiring two levels of certification from the American
College of Sports Medicine, she spent 10 years working in the fields of nutrition, health and fitness. Taking on the study and training of Iyengar and Ashtanga yoga disciplines in 1993 provided the opportunity to address and teach more holistically. She has since regularly attended yoga teacher trainings and workshops, studying many yoga traditions, while maintaining a focus on Ashtanga’s methods and The Eight Limbs. She has studied with many senior teachers, including David Swenson, David Williams, Tim Miller, Nancy Gilgoff, and others.
Tracey continued graduate level counseling psychology courses in 2001 and then completed a 500-hour certification in Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy in 2002. For more information on private yoga therapy sessions, see below.
2008 RATES AND FEES:
Private lesson, 90 minutes, sliding scale fees: $50 -$75
Semi-private lessons, 2 people, 90 minutes - $75 - $90 total
Semi-private lessons, 3 OR 4 people, 90min - 2 hours, $100 total
CURRENT CLASSES:
Thursdays, 8:30am at Arcadia in Carrboro.
Sundays at Balanced Movement Studio in Carrboro, 4-5:30pm
Call or email for details.
For appointments or scheduling, call 919-259-0406 or email traceychange@gmail.com.
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PHOENIX RISING YOGA THERAPY
WHAT IS PHOENIX RISING YOGA THERAPY(PRYT)?
PRYT is based on the understanding that body and mind are not separate, and physical and emotional issues are profoundly connected. PRYT combines yoga techniques, such as posture, breath and meditation, with elements of contemporary psychotherapy and dialogue to help direct the messages that live in the body, using the insights gained to create action and change in our lives.
WHAT ARE PRYT SESSIONS LIKE?
PRYT is a non-directive, client-centered process. In a typical session, you are guided and assisted in yoga-like postures and breath work, designed to bring you deeper into an internal experience. Non-directed dialogue is integrated into the entire process. This unique combination of postures, focused dialogue, and other techniques, enable you to readily access information stored in the body, often buried under life’s distractions or our built-in coping mechanisms.
Each session closes with an opportunity to process your experience through meditation and dialogue and explore how you can integrate your experience to find understanding and facilitate change.
WHAT DISTINGUISHES PRYT FROM TRADITIONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY?
Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy’s principles and theories are rooted in the
ancient science of hatha yoga. It is a body-oriented modality as opposed to a mind-oriented modality such as traditional psychotherapy. The Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy practitioner guides the client using a specific set of carefully developed techniques to access emotions, memories, and intuitive understanding which is believed to be stored in the physical body, specifically in the energy centers known as the Chakra System.
Contemporary psychotherapy does not fully accept the premise of the body/mind/spirit triad and relies on diagnosis, prescription, and treatment. In PRYT, the sessions are client-centered and based on the belief that we are part of a whole of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual parts. The practitioner is there to help the parts communicate within the whole and then organize the experience.
WHO BENEFITS FROM PRYT?
Although most clients come to PRYT looking for relief from or understanding of everyday questions, frustrations, troubling emotions, or physical discomfort, some Practitioners are using the approach to work with specific populations/conditions and referral sources. Some work with conditions like ADD, Addiction, and Eating Disorders. Others work in Pain Management or in the corporate world using the methodology to help with the management of stress.
WHO IS THE FOUNDER AND STAFF?
Phoenix Rising was developed and founded by Michael Lee, MA, a recognized educator
and therapeutic body worker. Michael was a resident and faculty member at the Kripalu
Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Massachusetts. He arrived there with 20 years
experience in adult and college education in Australia.
Michael leads Phoenix Rising training programs and workshops throughout North
America, Australia and Europe. He remains on faculty at Kripalu Center, The Omega
Institute, The Open Center, and Interface. A staff of 43 part-time and full-time teachers around the country supports him. All senior teaching staff has a minimum of three years on-the-job training, as well as an extensive background in yoga.
HOW LONG IS THE TRAINING AND WHAT IS THE FORMAT?
Certification is achieved through 600 hours of coursework as well as a three-month supervision period of practice (48 sessions). Yoga experience or other bodywork modality is a prerequisite.
6. What is covered in the training and what teaching methods are used?
The program is primarily experiential and based on the belief that we are already
healers. Essentials of the Phoenix Rising method are taught during Level 1 and 2.
Students learn assisted postures, proper body mechanics, the metaphysical aspects of
body psychology, dialogue techniques, breathing techniques, integration techniques,
elements of professional practice, and contraindications and variations for working with
specific clients.
In Level 3 the work is fine-tuned and deepened. Students receive one-to-one coaching
from a personal Mentor. The personal as well as the professional development of the
student is a fundamental part of the entire program.
90 minutes - sliding scale of $85 - $120.
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YOGA INTEGRATION - mini-workshops and discussion groups available on these topics:
Ten Keys to Health
The Eight Limbs
The Tools of Yoga
The Fundamentals of Ashtanga
Cultivating Practice
Iyengar yoga techniques
The Nine Obstacles on the yoga path
Energy Locks (Bandhas)
Ayurvedics and yoga
The Inner Teacher and Self Assists
Injury Prevention and Back Care
The Chakra System
Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy
ViniYoga for healing
Your Yoga Identity
Pranayama - Breath Work
Introduction to 2nd Series
Arm Balances
Inversions
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Links to Tao of Change posts on Yoga Philosophy:
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More Thoughts from Tao:
Be sincere, not serious
Half of what happens in yoga you do. The rest just happens.
The edge is not the point where you quit.
Millimeters count.
Be where you are. Be who you are.
