Eoin Finn - Superflow Yoga at The Yoga Sanctuary on Danforth

Workshops with Eoin Finn
All workshops are suitable for all levels of practioners,
from beginner students to teachers of yoga.

Sunday Nov 22, Monday Nov 23
@ Danforth 4th Floor
& Monday Nov 30 @ College

All 3 Events - $125 +gst

"Yoga and Ecology" Blissology + Vinyasa Yoga Practice with Eoin Finn
Sunday November 22, 2009 @ Danforth
1 to 4pm ~ $60 + gst

Yoga is doubtlessly one of the best ways to take care of our body and minds. However, this is just the start. In this workshop we will learn how the physical yoga asana practice can allow us to experience true interconnectedness, not just with our own minds and bodies, but with the larger circles of connection that we interact with daily in our lives, i.e. our personal relationships, our communities and how we treat all sentient beings i.e. our larger environment.

Rediscover ancient yogic teachings and apply new insights to address the needs of our planet in this crucial time. Join yogi, blissologist and ocean worshipper Eoin Finn in an exciting conversation about how we can make this happen. We will begin with a Blissology discussion, flow into an invigorating and mindful Vinyasa practice that will allow us to feel as good as we possibly can. We will end with Eoin's unique earth-body meditation, leaving us with an experience that will inspire us to create change in our practice and in our lives.

The Pursuit of Happy Hips: Theory and Vinyasa Practice with Eoin Finn
Monday November 23, 2009 @ Danforth
6 to 9 pm ~ $60 + gst

The energy of the hip area can be alive and vital, or dull and dormant. The hips are the connecting point between the upper and lower body. Furthermore, the hip area is where we experience significant tightness, both from the stresses of our sporting activities as well as from the inactivity of sitting in chairs for many hours in a week. This is more than our ancestors could have imagined possible.

Explore pelvic anatomy and the psychology of the hips. Find out what rules we need to follow to help keep the yoga practice safe and beneficial to our physiology, while also learning how many rules, actually restrict us. Then participate in Eoin’s flowing series of poses that will leave you feeling blissful and ecstatic.

Balance the discipline of a hot and sweaty practice with the chilled West Coast, “play yoga” attitude. This workshop is taught in Eoin’s All levels, All Good Approach, with modifications for beginners and plenty of juiciness for intermediates and advanced yogis. We are talking freedom, baby.

Superflow Yoga: Connect to the Ocean Inside @ College
Jam style super-vinyasa class with Eoin Finn + Insiya Rasiwala
Monday November 30, 2009
5 to 7 pm ~ $20 + gst

Flow is the essence of our being. It involves being present to every breath that we take and to our collective universal breath. In alignment-based flow yoga we move in a linear synchronicity, patterning our bodies to the alignment of yoga asanas.

While this moving in a linear fashion is incredible learning and discipline, allowing our bodies to gain connectivity for mind, body and spirit, we tend to focus on this disciplined, serious adult learning of movement. We ignore our innate developmental movement patterns, the spiraling, circular forms of movement that are essential to our innate selves. We are also innately attuned to moving from a place of natural intelligence, in a spiraling, ecstatic form of movement that we call “Super flow.”

Drawing inspiration from Yoga, ancient martial arts, dance, surfing, ski and snowboard maneuvers, Super Flow is an ecstatic form of movement. Set to music, it starts off slowly allowing ourselves to feel centered and open in our bodies. Gradually we build up in intensity, spiraling back in touch with the joy of movement.

Superflow is not a replacement of Yoga as we know it, but a powerful complement to the regular yoga practice. It Offers a little more exuberance and a little less introverted energy. It complements static movements with rhythmic flow. You will sweat, release and feel the life force pulsing through you.

Eoin Finn has been a disciple of Yoga, Eastern and Western philosophy, martial arts and meditation since 1987 and has been teaching Yoga for over a decade.

First introduced to Yoga while at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Finn discovered the benefits of yoga as a great warm up to extreme sports such as mountain biking, surfing and windsurfing. From there, Finn’s travels to France, Hawaii and Japan developed his yoga practice, eventually leading to his commitment to teaching, sharing and promoting yoga, health and bliss.

Deemed as one of Vancouver’s best yoga instructors, Finn’s popularity has spun itself into a successful yoga and wellness portal-site, vancouveryoga.com, his Platinum-level Power Yoga DVD in 2001, best selling, Platinum-level Power Yoga for Happiness DVD in 2003 and the recent Pure & Simple Yoga DVD in 2006.