Yoga as Living, Dying, & Returning Anew – Second Sunday Circle

with Joe Barnett, E-RYT 500
August 10th from 2:00 to 3:45

$30, no cost for Sol Members *registration is required for all

Second Sunday Circle for this month:

Join Joe and the Sol Center community in a discussion on ways to utilize yoga asana, pranayama & meditation as paths toward better sleep, a better relationship with our dreams, and the art of dying.  Joe will offer a lecture on the three-phase cycle of Yin Yoga (exploration, quietude and the slide into pratyahara/sense withdrawal) and how he has come to recognize and utilize it over the last 25 years as a path toward the deepest levels of rest and release.  This will lead to a Q & A and a robust conversation about the power, beauty and possibilities of our yoga/meditation practice and community care.

(This is a talk about Yoga (capital Y) rather than a physical practice.  No Yoga mat or experience necessary.)

The Second Sunday Circle is a monthly gathering to explore diverse topics relating to spiritual perspective, path, and practice in an experiential and conversational format. Long time and brand new sol center friends are welcome.

Hi! I am Joe Barnett, an ERYT-500 Yoga Teacher Trainer, based in the southwestern deserts of USA.
I was the original assistant and still a close colleague and friend to Paul Grilley, the founder of Yin Yoga and innovator of a highly popular functional approach to anatomy and yoga asana. I copy edited Grilley’s recent works on meditation, philosophy and energy work. I have been teaching Yin and Yang forms of Yoga for 25 years, and continue traveling nationally and internationally throughout each year offering presentations and trainings based on my long-time mentor’s work. Staying true to the curriculum of Grilley, I provide a deep study (both experiential and anatomical) of skeletal variation, the fascia system, and yoga asana. I also lead a study into the more subtle mind/body practices through a framework of the revered and ancient texts of Patanjali Yoga Sutras and Bhagavad Gita. I guide tantric practices of Pranayama and Chakra meditation as inspired by Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama that combine breath and imagery to soothe the mind, calm the nervous system and nurture Spirit.

Parallel with yoga, I proudly serve my home community as an end-of-life doula, volunteer at my local hospice, and lead gatherings on mortality awareness and releasing fear of death, the greatest obstacle to living one’s best life. Integrating the education and normalization of death & dying with the philosophies and techniques of yoga is the ultimate goal.

However, play time is usually spent playing poorly at chess, learning Sanskrit, loving my goats and cats and family, practicing acroyoga, and studying anatomy, including a regular dissection course focused on the fascia layers, and one focused on the brain