Rae Heimbeck?s Seminar on Modern Yoga
Name:
Rae Heimbeck?s Seminar on Modern Yoga
Date:
October 17, 2013 - December 12, 2013
Event Description:
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
