It's been awhile!

Hi all,
Our blog has been a quiet place for the last year.
Seems appropriate to start again with the return of Sonia Nelson. Sonia is presenting three different workshops when she visits us at the end of April. Sonia is an amazing teacher, and has been a student of TKV Desikachar for over 30 years. Her knowledge is vast and we are honored to have her back at the yoga shala!

CHANTING PATNAJALI’S YOGASUTRA with Sonia Nelson
Friday, April 30, 2:00 - 4:00pm
$40 Early Bird before April 16, $50 thereafter
$245 for all three workshops

Through the traditional method of listening and repeating learn to chant selected sutras from the four books of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra. Step by step instruction will provide skills in basic chanting techniques, Sanskrit pronunciation, and the reading of standard transliteration. The sutras selected for study will be those most relevant to the practice and teaching of yoga in contemporary western culture.

Teacher Training Elective Course • 2 hours. Open to all students and levels. Continuing CEU Credits available.


North Williams + Teacher Training
TRANSFORMATIVE CHANTING – Creating Change Through Sound with Sonia Nelson
Friday, Saturday & Sunday
April 30, May 1 & 2

Friday, 6:30 - 8:30pm
Saturday & Sunday 2:30 - 4:30pm
$120 Early Bird before April 16,
$150 thereafter
$245 for all three workshops

Chanting is a powerful tool for discovering, expressing and influencing all dimensions of the human system. As a practice and study on its own chanting can help us to improve our focus, memory and mental discipline build self confidence and awareness bring balance to our energy reduce mental and emotional agitation find and refine our own voice improve listening and communication skills increase our usual breathing and digestive functioning strengthen the link to our own spiritual connections support an overall sense of well being

Combined with yoga practice, we can discover and forge new pathways between body, mind, and breath, infusing our relationship to yoga with new vitality. Taught step-by-step through listening and response, pure sound and simple chants from the Vedic and other traditions will be taught and then applied to asana, pranayama, and meditation. This integrated practice will encourage a new depth of experience helping to sustain our direction toward yoga as a process of transformation.

Teacher Training Required Course • 6 hours. Open to all students and Levels. Continuing CEU Credits available.


North Williams + Teacher Training
YOGA OF DHARMA with Sonia Nelson
Saturday & Sunday, May 1 & 2
Saturday 9:00am - 12:00pm, Sunday 9:00am - 12:00pm
$120 Early Bird before April 16, $150 thereafter
$245 for all three workshops

Mental clarity is a term often associated with the benefits of yoga practice. In our culture of change and choice, being clear about the relationship between our responsibilities and our desire for freedom can be challenging. Conceptual models and practices from the Vedic and yoga traditions provide the guidance and focus needed to meet this challenge as we act in the direction of our highest aspirations. The format of the workshop will be presentation, group discussion and practice that includes asana, pranayama, and a variety of meditative tools to support our exploration of this timely subject.

Teacher Training Required Course • 6 hours. Open to all students and levels. Continuing CEU Credits available.

About Sonia Nelson:
A student of T.K.V. Desikachar since 1975, Sonia Nelson has been a teacher of Yoga and Vedic Chant for over thirty years. She established the Vedic Chant Center in Santa Fe in 2000 and gives nationwide seminars and workshops on Yoga and Vedic Chant. Sonia has released a number of CDs including tutorials for Vedic Chant and the chanting of the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali. Currently in New Mexico, through individual instruction, Sonia focuses her teaching on mentoring, continuing education and personal practice development for yoga teachers. Sonia is a KHYF Certified Teacher Trainer.

www.vedicchantcenter.org/