Intelligent Hips Yoga Workshop

Intelligent Hips: Bringing the Wisdom of Standing Postures to our Authentic Seat at Prajna Yoga & Healing Arts

The practice of standing postures wakes up the relationship of the legs and the pelvis bringing energy and vitality to how we carry ourselves in the world with sthira (steadiness). This downward flow or apana vayu connects us deeply to an inner intelligence and stillness that opens into the sukham (ease) of our authentic seat. This workshop will explore how the standing postures in yoga asana bring wisdom to a practice of seated meditation. 

Brenda Proudfoot, RYT, has been teaching yoga for ten years. Brenda completed the Prajna Yoga 200 and 500 hour trainings in 2010. She has assisted Tias at the San Francisco Yoga Journal Conference and at his Level III training the Subtle Body in Santa Fe New Mexico. Additionally, Brenda has studied extensively with Rodney Yee. She assisted him for a span of seven years at Yoga Journal Conferences in San Francisco, in Estes Park and at his week long teacher training program in Sonoma. She has also studied regularly with Patricia Walden at conferences and workshops. Brenda is trained in Thai Massage/Thai Yoga Therapy and weaves principles of this work through much her teaching. Brenda has owned and directed, Valley Yoga in Visalia California since 2001, located in the central valley of California. She often muses how yoga has brought her back in touch with aspects of her Mennonite and Amish roots from her upbringing in Pennsylvania.