Rae Heimbeck?s Seminar on Modern Yoga

Rae will once again be offering us the opportunity to go deeper into the wisdom of Yoga. This lecture series will run on Thursday evenings from 5:30-7:00 PM for 10 weeks with a different topic of discussion each week. Join us at Hal Holmes for this wonderful opportunity to dive into Yoga from a different perspective each week! Schedule: 1. Thursday, Oct. 10 - Review of Elizabeth De Michelis, A HISTORY OF MODERN YOGA: PATANJALI AND WESTERN ESOTERICISM (Continuum, 2004) 2. Thursday, Oct. 17 - Review of Joseph S. Alter, YOGA IN MODERN INDIA: THE BODY BETWEEN SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY (Princeton U.P., 2009) 3. Thursday, Oct. 24 - Review of Mark Singleton and Jean Byrne, eds., YOGA IN THE MODERN WORLD: CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES (Routledge, 2008) 4. Thursday, Oct. 31 - Review of William J. Broad, THE SCIENCE OF YOGA: THE RISKS AND THE REWARDS (Simon and Schuster, 2012) 5. Thursday, Nov. 7 - Interview with Bob Smith, author of YOGA FOR A NEW AGE (Prentice-Hall, 1982), and Ki McGraw 6. Thursday, Nov. 14 - Interview with Lydia Myakota- Rowan and Ashley Rowan on their "Affinity-Chi Yoga" 7. Thursday, Nov. 21 - Interview with Reid Heimbeck on Alternative Medicine and Yoga 8. Thursday, Dec. 5 - Interview with Marsha Hawk on Varieties of Modern Yoga, commercialism and professionalism of same 9. Thursday, Dec. 12 - VCR tape of Patabhi Jois leading a session of Ashtanga/Vinyasa Flow Yoga, the most athletic form of Modern Yoga