Event Listing - Education

Sun Nov 22

The Posture of Gratitude: Bowing to and Honoring Mother Earth

Workshop with Thomas Fortel

Tel. 831.624.4949
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Location	Date and Time
Yoga Center of Carmel Sunset Cultural Center Carmel-By-The-Sea, CA 93921 map cross street: Suite #18 on 10th & San Carlos district: Carmel-By-The-Sea	Sun Nov 22 (1 to 3:30pm)

Description

This workshop focuses on twists and forward bends (rounded out with standing poses and shoulder stand).

Thomas Fortel is an Iyengar-trained, Ashtanga and Anusara-influenced Hatha Yoga teacher. A student of yoga since 1982, he has been teaching consistently since 1993. Adept in the use of yoga props, Thomas is equally at ease teaching a restorative or vigorous practice, and is experienced teaching beginner and intermediate students. Through the Iyengar focus on alignment, he particularly enjoys the mind-body connection which develops and appreciates the breath-work and vinyasa (flow) style of Ashtanga yoga. From the beginning of his teaching career, Thomas has naturally blended his experiences of Bhakti yoga within his teaching style. Thomas is a unique and gifted teacher who blends his medical background, years of yoga practice and teaching with his spiritual path. Most of all, he offers presence, love and attention to the individual students and the group field. Thomas says, “For me, the yoga room is a sort of alchemical oven where the powers of transformation are constantly unfolding within each one of us.