Iyengar Yoga Backbend Workshop with Peter Thomson
Oasis Holistic

Peter Thomson has been practicing yoga since 1979 and a student of the Iyengar family since 1981. He founded or co-founded a number of significant schools in Sydney (The Yoga Space, The Sydney Yoga Centre, Mosman Yoga Room) and in 1988 founded the Glebe Yoga School. In 2002, Peter founded the Sydney Yoga Space where he now teaches.

Peter has traveled frequently to Pune and has been a participant in a number of intensives courses with Mr Iyengar including the Backbend Intensive in 1991, Australian Convention in 1992, the South African and Australian Intensives in 1994 and 1995, the Rishikesh Convention and Pranayama Intensive in 1996, the celebrations and intensive in 1998 in honour of Mr Iyengar’s 80th birthday and the Jubilee celebrations for the Iyengar Institute in 2000.Peter’s particular interest in the practice and teaching of yoga is the depth of perception, inquiry and understanding that sustained practice can develop and in making that understanding accessible to students so they can claim it as their own.

Iyengar Yoga Backbend Workshop with Peter Thomson

Dates: 6 to 8 January 2006

• 6 January 2006 (Friday)
  6.30pm - 9pm
  
  
• 7 January 2006 (Saturday)
  9am - 11.30am
  2pm - 4.30pm
  
  
• 8 January 2006 (Sunday)
  9am - 12pm
  
  
  Total of 10.5 hours

This Backbend Workshop will focus on using backbending as a template for the underlying yoga process and aim towards developing an understanding which students can apply more generally to their yoga practice. Peter's approach is process-based rather than prescriptive and is built off the establishment of clear perceptual foundations.

Note: Iyengar Backbending Intensive participants is open for registration only to students who have attended Peter Thomson's Iyengar Intensive Workshop or have prior learning experience with him.

Fees: SGD $265.00

Venue:
Oasis Holistic
Block 10 Selegie Road #01-50
Selegie House
Singapore 180010
Phone: (65) 64422881