Yoga master, Erich Schiffmann, leads you through his afternoon practice of inversions and their many variations in this session designed for the intermediate and advanced yoga student. The practice includes preparatory poses, headstand and headstand variations, an abdominal series, shoulderstand and shoulderstand variations, seated and reclining forward folds, seated twists, and deep relaxation.

Produced and edited by Erich, this intensive practice allows you to revel in the stillness, strength and wonderful euphoria that comes from turning your world upside down.

Includes:
7 min warm-up sequence
8 min headstand & headstand variations
11 min of various abdominals as preparation for the plow and shoulderstand
13 min shoulderstand & shoulderstand variations
9 min pattern consisting of seated forward folds, reclining leg stretches, reclining full-body twist
10 min pattern consisting of wide leg forward fold, cobblers pose, & a series of seated twists
5 min relaxation

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This is not an instructional yoga video in the usual sense of the term. It is instructional, however, in the very best sense. What follows is a group of friends doing yoga together, as they really do it. There is no teacher guiding the session. Every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday friends come over and do yoga with me. I'm usually in the room from 5–8 PM. People arrive and leave as fits their schedule. There is no structured format, no rules. It's freeform yoga practice. We often have music playing, but often we don't, and we spontaneously alternate between silent doing and casual talking. It's fun. I enjoy practicing like this. I think you will enjoy what you are about to see. I would recommend that you sit back, watch, and enjoy, then get down on the floor and join us. The practice or discipline in Freedom Style Yoga involves not deciding in advance what you are supposed to do. Instead, listen inwardly for guidance and give yourself permission to do as you are prompted. This is the real thing. Yogis doing yoga.

“I love this video — it's two and a half hours in Erich Schiffmann's home studio. Two discs of freeform yoga with Erich and his friends. I find it fascinating to watch these yogis work their way into poses in the same room together. Nobody does the same pose at the same time. The focus is on individual practice, although there are a lot of assists and advice re: particularly difficult poses. The music is whatever happened to be on the sound system: Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen...

The 2-disc set begins and ends with Erich practicing by himself.

This is absolutely-not follow along yoga. I often put it on for company while I practice.”

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Join Erich for this profoundly simple illustrated talk, filmed at his June 2006 Yoga Teacher Training in Venice, CA. The Wave and the Ocean, yoga philosophy made simple is the essence of Erich’s teachings, delivered with spontaneous clarity and his unique sense of humor.

This is the 2nd half of the story. The Traffic Helicopter* is the 1st half, an analogy that illustrates the meaning of yoga: reaching beyond our finite, ground-level view of life to yog with, to yoke or join with, the instantly accessible aerial perspective of the Infinite. But the story doesn’t stop there. The Wave and the Ocean is the often-overlooked deeper half. It clearly conveys the idea that the aerial view isn’t something outside ourselves. It doesn’t require a “joining with.” Rather, it’s just under the surface of who we think we are. The only effort required is the willingness to simply relax into the depths of who we already naturally are.

“Every wave is the specific and unique self-expression of the entire ocean. Yoga is about the wave, you and me, relaxing into ourselves and feeling the energy that constitutes our presence.”

*The Traffic Helicopter Analogy is on the Feathered Pipe Ranch DVD.

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