Rentrée September 2016

It is official!
Voted Best Yoga in Paris 2016
Thank you everyone who supported this --
It was a fun surprise!

Public class schedule:
Mondays, 19h45-21h00
at YogaYoga Paris
Tuesdays, 12h30-13h30
at Centre de Yoga du Marais
Saturdays, 11h00-12h15
at YogaYoga Paris

Yoga Survival Tools for Teenagers
Session I: November 12, 19, 26, December 3, 10, 17
Saturdays from 17h30-18h15
at YogaYoga Paris
Please contact Ann by email to register

Second Sunday workshops
Please contact Ann by email to register

Community Class
at Centre de Yoga du Marais on
Sunday, December 18th from 11h30-13h00
Drop-ins welcome!

Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs - by request.
Private and corporate classes - by request.

End of the Year Update

Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs
A 12-week study course designed to give those with chronic and recurring lower back issues the tools to manage lower back pain. The course is based on a large research trial conducted the the University of York and funded by Arthritis Research UK. Its protocols have shown that this program is more effective than the 'usual care' hospitals provide to these patients in the UK.

The course meets once weekly and practice at home is an integral part of the program. This helps to ensure that by the end of the course students have the tools to keep their backs healthy for years to come. A yoga mat at home will be needed. Course book, relaxation CD and course handouts are included in the course fee. This will be my first offering of this course. Pre-registration is required by January 3rd.

Sunday early evenings from January 10 - April 17 (18h-19h30)
YogaYoga Paris, 6 passage de la vierge (M° Ecole Militaire)
Course fee 380€ (including course materials)

Yoga Survival Tools for Teenagers
A 6-week course designed to give teenagers tools to help manage stress and anxiety, to harness their focus and concentration, to handle emotions better, to relieve lower back pain and tension in the neck and shoulders, to re-energize, develop core strength and increase flexibility. Pre-registration is required by January 3rd.

Saturday early evenings (17h-18h30)
YogaYoga Paris, 6 passage de la vierge (M° Ecole Militaire)
Course fee 180€
Session I: January 9 - February 13
Session II: March 13 - April 16

Second Sunday Workshop
Every Second Sunday of the month with a thematic focus each month. In December, our focus will be on soothing stress and replenishing vitality. Pre-registration for this workshop is necessary -- just send me an email or give me a call to let me know you plan to attend :

Second Sunday of each month
11h-13h, 40€ for a single workshop
chez moi, near M° Porte Maillot

Winter Solstice Celebration
An Integral Hatha Yoga class including mantra (chanting), pranayama (breathing practices), asana (postural practices) and yoga nidra (deep relaxation). All levels welcome.

Tuesday, December 22nd, 19h45-21h15
Centre de Yoga du Marais
72 rue Vertbois (M° Strasbourg-St Denis, Arts & Metiers)
Single class rate, 20€

Community Class at Centre de Yoga du Marais
This is a donation-based Integral Hatha Yoga class with the proceeds going to support Families for Children in India. All levels are welcome.

Sunday, December 20th, 11h30am-13h30pm
Centre de Yoga du Marais
72 rue Vertbois (M° Strasbourg-St Denis, Arts & Metiers)
by donation (10€ suggested, but any amount is fine)


Open Class Schedule:

Monday 12h30-13h30 (M° Porte Maillot) 6-week workshop series - breath focused
Monday 19h45-21h00 (M° Ecole Militaire) - tonic
Tuesday 12h30-13h30 ((M° Arts & Metiers) - tonic
Wednesday 10h00-11h15 (M° George V) - gentle yoga for a Healthy Spine
Saturday 11h00-12h15 (M° Ecole Militaire) - tonic



ॐ

Ann Moradian

Creating Your Own Practice

A workshop for Yoga practitioners wishing to continue their practice over the summer, at home or on vacation. We will go through the basics of what is needed for a well-balanced practice, with plenty of examples and ‘hands-on” experimentation. Each student will develop their own home practice, designed to suit their individual needs, abilities and interests, while working with the reality of their time and other constraints. Pre-registration is necessary for this workshop.


Photo © Alex Vanagas.

Tuesday, June 30, 2015
19h00 – 21h30 (55€)
YogaYoga Paris
6 passage de la Vierge
Paris 75007

Open to students of all levels, and practicing any form of Yoga. It includes a mandatory pre-workshop telephone conference to discuss expectations, needs and limitations.

Chakra Intensive

with Atmagyanam & Gangamurti
from the Bihar School of Yoga

An intensive study of the Chakra system with Asana, Pranayama, Meditation, Nada Yoga, Yoga Nidra, visualization and lectures. A serious study with an intense routine, demanding self-discipline throughout, this workshop is an ideal opportunity for teachers and advanced practitioners to deepen their understanding, practice and teaching.
(We will add the fire rituals and cleansing practices to the degree possible.)



at YogaYoga Paris
6 passage de la Vierge
Paris 75007

August 20-27, 2015
9h00 - 18h00

Contact Ann Moradian
06.89.70.23.58
moradian.perspectives(at)gmail.com

Ajanta Caves

The Death of Budhha



All photos copyright Ann Moradian.
All rights reserved.

Forming a New Class -- all levels

I would like to propose a Monday lunchtime Yoga class near Porte Maillot. This would be a small group class (maximum 8 people) open to all levels, and in the format of a Workshop Series. This class can be conducted in English or in French, according to need.

The first series would be for 3 weeks:
December 1st
December 8th
December 15th

The price would be 60€ paid in advance.

Please contact me if you are interested.

Photo of Ann Moradian by Alex Vanagas. Copyright Alex Vanagas, 2014. All rights reserved.

All classes (including Tuesday 12h30-13h30 at CYM)
will continue during the Toussaint vacation period.

Sunday, November 9th, 10h-12h at Espace Oxygène
Workshop theme:
The Lower Back

DEUXIEME DIMANCHE à Paris

STAGES à THEMES (en français, with English as needed)
chaque deuxième dimanche, 10-12H
septembre 2014 à juin 2015

Prochaine stages, 14 juin
Full flow Asana Practice
Let your breath and body flow through your practice, with freedom, ease and stability
à Espace Oxygène (M° Gambetta)
4 impasse Cordon Boussard, 75020
pour tous niveaux, 25€

Drop-ins welcome. Bring your own mat if you have one. Sweaters & socks recommended during the cooler months.

14 septembre - Detox & Dètendre
12 octobre - Foundations of Asana
9 novembre - Healthy Lower Back
14 décembre - Chill Out!
11 janvier - Core Strength
8 février - Flexibility
8 mars - Balance
12 avril - Opening the Heart into Life (Backbends safely)
10 mai - Hips
14 juin - Full Flow Asana Practice

La Rentrée à Paris

Please note NEW contact information: moradian.perspectives(at)gmail.com

COURS COLLECTIFS / Group Classes
from September 1st:

Vinyasa Yoga (all levels):
Mondays at 20h30 at Make Me Yoga (M° Oberkampf)
Saturdays at 11h15 at YogaYoga Paris (M° Ecole Militaire)

Integral Hatha Yoga (all levels):
Tuesdays at 12h30 at Centre de Yoga du Marais (M° Arts & Metiers)


LES STAGES MENSUEL / Monthly Workshops
Chaque Deuxième dimanche (every 2nd Sunday)
10:00-12:00, pour tous niveaux
en français, 25€
à Espace Oxygène (M° Gambetta)

COURS COMMUNITAIRE / Community Class
Sunday, October 5, 2014
11:30-13:00, by donation
Hatha Integral Yoga, all levels
in support of Families for Children
at Centre de Yoga du Marais (M° Arts & Metiers)

SPRING WORKSHOPS - STAGES DU PRINTEMPS

WORKSHOP: ANAHATA (HEART) CHAKRA in English
Sunday, June 29, 2014
11h30-13h30, 40€ (reservations required)
M° Porte Maillot
The heart energy center, anahata chakra, is that beautiful space in each of us in which our material and spiritual aspects meet -- the animal and the soul, earth and sky, finite and infinite. In this workshop we will work with breath, yoga postures, sound and guided meditation to cleanse and replenish, to release blockages and to open to that infinite nourishment that is always available to us through the breath and through the heart center.

Si vous preferez d’assister ces stages en français, c’est aussi possible.
Contactez Ann à annmoradian(at)gmail.com ou 06.89.70.23.58

Thanksgiving Workshop at YogaYoga Paris

Wednesday Night Workshop at YogaYoga Paris
November 27, 2013
18h45 - 20h45
45€ drop-in rate, or class card

Gratitude & the Sustainable Heart

This atelier is a physical practice working with postures, alignment, breath, affirmation, imagery and meditation to unblock the natural flow of breath and energy that supports and nourishes the heart, allowing us to open with love and gratitude into the world we are a part of while maintaining our integrity and strength. The workshop is physically accessible for all levels, and a beautiful self-study practice for self healing and transformation.

YogaYoga Paris
6 passage de la Vierge, 75007 Paris (just next to 54 rue Cler)
M° Ecole Militaire
01 47 20 71 56
Reservations are encouraged, but not required.

Photo © 2013 Alex Vanagas.

Purnamadah Mantra

Cela est infini. Ceci est infini
De l'infini est apparu l'infini.
En prenant l'infini de l'infini, il demeure comme le seul infini.
Il demeure le même, même si l'infini est apparu à parti de lui.

Photo © Jivahn Moradian

That is whole. This is whole.
From the whole, the whole becomes manifest.
From the whole, if the whole is negated,
what remains is again the whole.

Om
Purnamadah Purnamidam
Purnat Purnamudachyate
Purnasya Purnamadaya
Purnamevavashishyate
Om shanti, shanti, shanti

The Perils of Yoga for Men

William J. Broad is at it again. And I would like to thank him for it. His article called Wounded Warrior Pose in The New York Times just passed my radar. It is worth a read. Particularly if you are a Yoga teacher, a studio owner or a Yoga practitioner. He raises, and insists on raising an important discussion around the topic of Yoga and injury.

I love Yoga. I have practiced it for over 30 years and taught it for over 20 years. And there is a disturbing tendency in the West to utilize yoga as "fitness" training rather than the wholistic and integrative practice it was originally designed to be. This sort of experiential transliteration is a normal part of taking in influences from cultures, practices and customs different from our own. And so, this discussion that William Broad continues to thrust upon the Western Yoga community is an important one.

What he describes as " competitive Yoga" is an oxymoron. This means that it is a combination of contradictory words. Yoga cannot be competitive and still be Yoga. When Yoga practices are used in a competitive manner it is no longer "Yoga," but something else. Yoga is inherently non-competitive, and its goal is to still the whirling mind so that it can see clearly into the unseeable universe that is the foundation of our material existence. The point of yoga is quieting all the mental ruckus so that we can live our lives as an act of meditation, fully conscious and aware, at ease and in healthy relation to the universe around us.

From my own experience, I would say that a physical Yoga practice works to clear out blockages and move us toward an optimal alignment, while helping us to become more conscious of who and how we are. We start by combing through and clearing, physically, the tangle of blockages we hold. Because the mind's energy (its attention) and our life force energy (our prana) flow together, this means that working physically to clear out blockages leads to a parallel clarifying of mental energies and flow. (The inverse is also true.) This happens over time, as we become ready to get out of our own way.

We in the West tend to be raised with a competitive, individualistic and strongly materialistic focus. Yoga contradicts this, from its very roots. One of the hardest lessons we Westerners face in the study and practice of Yoga is to work with our limitations honestly and with compassion. In competitive practices, we learn to push through pain. This increases the body's threshold for pain over the years to the point that we may no longer be able to interpret the body's signals as pain, and are therefore unable to respond to those signals that warn us of damage or injury. Many people don't feel like they are doing anything if they don't sweat, if their heartrate or breathing rate doesn't increase, if they feel no pain or struggle. In this same competitive environment, other people face the opposite challenge, tending toward laziness. Either approach misses the point.

For myself, I find that Yoga is very much about responsibility. About the ability to listen and respond appropriately to all the information we have access to as a complex living being. The constant relationship between discipline (tapas), honesty (satya) and non-harm (ahimsa) is a living process that is played out in every Yoga class I have ever attended or taught. Starting with just these three principles, bringing them to a level of active and engaged consciousness in our practice, leads the way to deep and powerful transformation both on and off the mats, at our our rhythms, and safely.

The work we do in Yoga is deep. We don't stay on the surface of things. A physical Yoga practice affects not only the muscles, tissues, ligaments, bones and joints of the body -- it also affects our bodies' systems. This means the respiratory and cardiovascular system, the hormonal and neurological systems, the digestive and reproductive systems... It works on all aspects and all levels of our being: physical, mental, emotional, energetic and spiritual. When we practice Yoga like we practice sports, not only are we likely to injure ourselves but we are also missing the listening of that quieting mind that returns us to wholeness. A wholeness that is powerful and resilient and joyous, and includes our weaknesses and limitations as well as our strengths.

--
Ann Moradian
December 24, 2012