Simple Techniques to Pacify & Transform Your Fire with Vidya Denise Chapman*
11:00 AM-12:30 PM
Tuition $20
Doesn’t the word fire immediately invoke thoughts of hot, burning, heat, light and spreading? Do you tend to run hot, cold or just right? Fire transforms. Your digestive fire transforms your food into fuel for both your body and your mind. We can have fiery emotions, be quick-tempered, hot-headed, irritable, angry, or we can have the fire or light of understanding, comprehension and illumination. Learn what lights your fire and how to keep it happy!
In this class you will explore specific qualities that pacify body and mind. Learn how to bring calm and balance into your life through yoga, pranayama, meditation and making use of vital energy points.
Vidya (Denise) Chapman is a certified yoga teacher since 2000, a licensed massage therapist, an ayurvedic practitioner and professional member of NAMA. After a life-threatening illness in 2002, she was introduced to Dr. Vasant Lad at Ananda Ashram. In 2007 Vidya travelled to India to study yoga with Nischala Joy Devi and Bhaskar and to see Ayurveda in its homeland. She is a graduate of the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded by Dr. Vasant Lad, and of the Gurukula and Panchakarma Therapy programs at his institute and clinic in Pune, India. Vidya has taught Ayurvedic principles, philosophy and cooking at several yoga teacher trainings, as well as marma therapy, shirodhara, abhyanga and other ayurvedic body therapies at the Sivananda Yoga Retreat in Nassau, Bahamas.
