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Lotus Rising with Richard Gartner

Sunday, February 12th, 1-3pm
$25 in advance/$30 at the door
South Side location
Padmasana (Lotus position) is often used for meditation – the Buddha is often depicted in it. The Lotus leg position can also be developed in our asana practice. This advanced workshop is designed for students familiar with Padmasana and wish to explore postures that incorporate it. Students will be guided through forward bends, back bends, twists and arm balances in Lotus. Sequences for developing these postures will be given. This workshop also addresses Lotus in inversions. Students should be in good physical condition, experienced, and able to sit comfortably in Padmasana for at least five minutes without any pain.

Yoga Conditioning for Runners and Athletes: Evolve Your Training, Transcend Your Limits

Sunday, February 26th, 2:30pm-5:30pm
$45 in advance/$55 at the door
South Side location
Calling all runners, athletes and Pittsburgh Marathoners! Yoga is often touted as the next great training revolution for every sport imaginable — golf, football, soccer, cycling, running. But is this just a fad? Or can yoga really make you a better athlete? Yoga absolutely can make you a better runner and athlete. In this hands-on clinic, experienced yoga teacher and runner Linda Meacci teams up with ultramarathoner and endurance athlete Lucas Marsak to offer instruction and share insights on how yoga can benefit the athlete in a very real way. Lucas has studied yoga with Linda and others since 2005, and it has transformed his running. He now has better biomechanics, increased durability, and better recovery. He can run longer distances with more ease and finds deeper enjoyment in the entire athletic process.
All athletes welcome. No yoga experience required.

Yin Yoga Teacher Training with Richard Gartner

Friday, March 16th, 5:30-8:30pm
Saturday, March 17th, 12-3pm and 4-7pm
Sunday, March 18th, 9am-12pm
12 hours, includes manual, $225
South Side location
Yin Yoga is the art of insightful relaxation, personal acceptance and contemplative awareness. Those who have experienced it are rejuvenated and transformed. The practice consists of long relaxed holds with an emphasis on the connective tissue and joints of the hips, pelvis and lower spine. It allows students to focus deeper into the body.

This specialized training examines:
-Yin Yoga philosophy
-anatomical considerations in pose selection
-prop and non-prop modifications
-the role of language to enhance the Yin experience
-Yin sequencing
-techniques on incorporating Yin into a general class

The training includes a manual for continued reference. Students will appreciate your addition of Yin Yoga to their practice, and this training will enhance your own Yoga sadhana. Often, Yoga’s physical practice is marketed as “more, hotter, faster”, but more and more students are getting wise to this unattainable acceleration. Yin Yoga’s philosophy of stillness and independence counters this frenzied rush. Empower your students!
Pittsburgh-based Richard Gartner cultivates an exciting independent spirit in yoga, inspired by teachers like Tias Little, Max Strom and Paul Grilley. Richard is a certified Prajna Yoga instructor at the 200-hour level and is currently fulfilling Tias’s 500-hour program. He is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher through Yoga Alliance. His workshops can be taken for continuing education credit.

Get Crackin' with Richard Gartner

Sunday, April 15th, 9:30-11am
regular class pricing
South Side location
In 2009, medical doctor Donald Unger ended a 50-year personal experiment - after cracking just his left knuckles at least twice a day for five decades, he concluded "there was no arthritis in either hand, and no apparent differences between the two hands." (from Scientific American). This and many other studies prove cracking your joints on occasion doesn't harm them at all. In fact, it enhances the range of motion in a joint by allowing all potential movement to occur. Plus it feels really good! Introducing Richard Gartner's 'Get Crackin!' class, where we spend 75 minutes popping as many joints as we can in the hands, feet, wrists, hips and neck. You might even get lucky and experience the elusive 'firecracker pop' all the way down the spine. In addition to joint cracking, we’ll be doing some abdominal work, deep breathing, and a few long holds.

Techni-cool information: This class is based on Swami Satyananda Saraswati's Pawanmuktasana Series 1 and 2. The first is considered anti-rheumatic and the second is for the digestive tract. As for the cracking itself - there are different types of popping in the body. Richard will explain the different types, which ones are good, and how to tell. We'll be focusing on what’s called defixation - the release of any vaccuum in the joint caused by two sides of the joint fixed together.