FREE EVENT: Demystifying the Chakras with Doug Keller (Online)

A Free Event: Demystifying the Chakras: with Doug Keller (online)

The chakras can seem mystifying for many yoga students and teachers. In this conversation, Doug Keller will share with us the significance of the chakras and practical application for both on the mat and in our daily lives. We will hear about practices to access the chakras and their healing power.

This Free Event will be an Introduction to Doug's Upcoming Workshop

Chakras: The Practical Significance of Subtle Body Anatomy

June 15 - 2:00pm-4:30pm PDT

The evolution of the idea of the ‘subtle body’ with tantra and hatha yoga is a subtle and profound shift in the very idea of ‘self’ and ‘soul’ — from a more static idea of Purusha or Atman in early and classical yoga, to an understanding of the self as being in process, growing in understanding, consciousness, and freedom. What is key to this process is a deeper connection to the body and what it has to tell and to teach us.

This is where the chakras come in, and the process of reconnecting to this transformative wisdom can take place — and be taught — on many levels, from explicit focus on the chakras and the tools for experiencing their energy, to a variety of relatable and accessible means of focus in asana, pranayama and meditation.

This session will explore these different levels of approach in practice and teaching, and how they relate to this emerging understanding of a should in process — and how these come together in a fundamental experience of recognition or ‘Pratyabhijna’ as the heart of this process.

Technology: Zoom will be used. You will receive the zoom link in the confirmation email.

Reminder emails: will be sent 2 days, 30 min and 10min before the event.

About Doug: Doug Keller’s background reflects a lifelong commitment to studying, imbibing and sharing the vast field of knowledge and practice known as yoga.After receiving honors and graduate degrees in philosophy from the top Jesuit universities in the United States, Georgetown and Fordham Universities, and teaching philosophy at a college level for several years, he then pursued his ‘post-graduate’ education in the practical experience of yoga at the Siddha Meditation Ashram, Gurudev Siddha Peeth in India, for seven years. He spent a total of 14 years doing service, practicing, training in and teaching yoga in Siddha Meditation Ashrams worldwide. He received intensive training in the Iyengar system in New York City, mainly with senior certified Iyengar teacher Kevin Gardiner. He also practiced Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga in India, and became one of the first certified Anusara Yoga teachers, producing three highly respected books on asana, pranayama and yoga philosophy.

His further expansion in learning is reflected in his latest and most in-depth work, ‘Yoga as Therapy,’ which is truly one of the most comprehensive, innovative and useful treatments of the structural aspect of yoga therapy available. And for three years he was a regular columnist for Yoga+ Magazine (formerly Yoga International, published by the Himalayan Institute), writing the ‘Asana Solutions’ column that addresses specific therapeutic problems. He is at the highest level of certification with Yoga Alliance, E-RYT 500, and a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists.Doug is also a ‘distinguished professor’ on the teaching faculty at the Master’s Degree program in Yoga Therapy at the Maryland University of Integrative Health, a state-approved institution of higher learning.

Doug’s teaching is rooted in a vast and inclusive perspective of study and practice that honors the insights of the many streams of wisdom that flow into the river of yoga.Website: www.doyoga.com