a center for
personal and planetary
awakening

Mystic River Yoga
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Suite 3900
Medford, MA 02155

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Reading List

Advanced Studies

                      Advanced Studies Outline

Non-dual studies:

1. Vedanta

2. Dzogchen

3. Zen

4. Vipassaana

5. Gempo Roshi's "Big Mind/Big Heart

6. Ramana Maharshi

7. Nisirgadatta Maharaj

8. Krishnamurthi

9. Satsang teachers including Adyashanti, Neelam, Francis Lucille, Jean Klein and others

Embodiment/Yoga

1. fundamental organizing patterns in the energy body

            a. prana/apana

            b. wave motion in the fluid body

            c. the 'Deep Front Line'

            d. heart rhythm coherence w. breath and brain waves

            e. organizing relationships to earth and sky

            f.  the five levels of work in asana

            g. developmental movement patterns

            h. evolutionary movement

2. fundamentals of structural alignment

              a. joint congruence

         b. working with open and closed bone circuits

         c. anatomy/kinesiology of the feet, ankles and knees

         d. anatomy/kinesiology of the hips and sacral area

         e. anatomy/kinesiology of the spinal column and skull

         f. anatomy/kinesiology of the shoulder girdle, arms and hands

3.  teaching asana

          a. role of standing poses in teaching yoga

          b. role of seated poses in teaching yoga

          c. role of forward bending poses in teaching yoga

          d. role of inverted poses in teaching yoga

          e. role of backbending poses in teaching yoga

          f. role of restorative poses in teaching yoga

4.  breathinga. working with beginnings students and breath

             b. prana vikshanam

             c. ujjayi pranayama

             d. viloma pranayama

             e. retentions (kumbhaka) in pranayama

             f.  other explorations in breathing

5.  other related movement disciplines

               a. Body Mind Centering

               b. Continuum

               c. martial arts

               d. dance

Shadow/psychological/emotional

1.  1-2-3 shadow work

2.  the 4  parikarmas

3.  yamas and niyamas

4.  ethics training from the Buddha's 8 fold path

5.  Vedic teachings on the human condition

Evolutionary Enlightenment

1. Ken Wilbur's Integral Institute

2. Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme' s Cosmological vision

3. Don Beck's "Spiral Dynamics Integral"

4. Andrew Cohen's 'EnlightenNext' community

5. Itzak Bentov's "Stalking the Wild Pendulum"