Yogic Arts™️

20h CE/RYT Accredited /Certificate Course

(16h with Sensei/ 4h Self Study & Written or Video Report)

08.06 - 11.06.2023

20h Training Camp & 2hr Open Flow Sessions

Level up, reset your flow, and go deeper into your practice with Vinyasa legend, Duncan Wong.

Discover and rediscover his unique and effective Warrior Yoga Flow system.

8.06. Thursday - 11.06. Sunday

In the lovely space of Northern Light Yoga studio in gorgeous Oslo City, after a two-year sabbatical, a crazy, sexy, cool, and warm welcome to practice again in person with Sensei Duncan Wong.

Duncan is thrilled to return and practice with the Viking tribal Sangha of YogicArts™️, co-harmonizing in interbeingness, while refreshing and revitalizing in this regenerative practice; a practice that evolves each time we gather and grow together.

We extend a warm welcome to new and old students who have never practiced with Duncan Sensei before, or have experienced his magic touch and are returning to practice with a desire to grow and deepen their practice and experience.

This course and stand-alone sessions will reveal the knowledge about the therapeutic side (yoga chikitsa) of flow (vinyasa), breath (prana), and core (bandha); learning the foundation of YogicArts™️.

What is YogicArts™️?

Duncan created the YogicArts™️ vinyasa system from his lifelong 30 years of yoga experience, as an interdisciplinary fusion of Yoga, Martial Arts, and Thai massage. The system was born from the desire to move through yoga positions with more ease and grace and to transcend any borders between disciplines, systems, and people. It is a heart-healing and mindful body practice and a living system that evolves each time people practice it together.

What will you learn:

In these fun &explorative days with Duncan Sensei, you will learn more in-depth about:

● how to engage/activate your core for bandha with the Wave Motion technique

● learn alignment behind the pose

● understand sequencing with Warrior Flow (Vira Vinyasa Krama)

● learn how to do arm balancing with the Slide Press technique

● learn how to release body tension with simple self assists and Thai massage

Duncan will teach several options for each posture and movement that will allow beginner-level practitioners to join in and benefit from the practice, and experienced practitioners and teachers will learn how to provide variations of poses for their students while increasing their skill set.

In the alignment assist part of the workshops, you will learn how alignment and structure are the key components to opening joint mobility and activating the supporting core muscles. As a result of alignment, we get a stable and comfortable posture and practice, which is a natural flow state, called Sthirah Sukham Asanam (Secure Happy Pose). In the assist part of the class, you will learn how to best support your students in their alignment and meet them where they are.
CONTACT, INFO AND REGISTRATION: 
mashastojcic@gmail.com

Schedule

Module 1

08.06.2023. Thursday

Prana Core:

How to activate and harmonize our yogic breath and natural strength

14:00-16:00 Training Camp

19:00-21:00 Flow Session

Module 2

09.06.2023. Friday

Asana Anatomy:

How to understand comprehensive asana structure essentials

14:00-16:00 Training Camp

19:00-21:00 Flow Session

Module 3

10.06.2023. Saturday

Vinyasa Mobility:

How to connect poses with creative and complimentary sequences; while expressing our range of motion, and seamless transitional flow motions.

10:30-12:30 Training Camp

14:30-16:30 Flow Session

Module 4

11.06.2023. Sunday

Flow Assist:

How to develop safe, smart, and effective therapeutic hands-on skills.

10:30-12:30 Training Camp

14:30-16:30 Flow Session

Schedule in detail

Module 1

08.06.2023. Thursday

Prana Core:

How to activate and harmonize our yogic breath and natural strength

14:00-16:00 Training Camp

Begins with a 30min Warrior Flow Practice that integrates the practices of pranayama (vital yogic breath work) with essential bandha techniques (accessing our inner core construct). As a Training Camp is basically a mini teacher training module, we then shift to 90min of detailed explanation, interaction, and observation of the prana-bandha (breath and core) complimentary techniques and how they interplay to create fluid power and grace in our flow.

19:00-21:00 Flow Session

90min of guided slow fluid flow, emphasizing the prana-bandha (breath and core) connection. This Flow Session will focus on the energy and timing of the breath and how our breath cycles formulate the contraction and expansion of our empowered inner core vs our full expressive form.

*Completed with 30min of pure relaxation, observational, or interactive savasana massage by Duncan sensei.

Module 2

09.06.2023. Friday

Asana Anatomy:

How to understand comprehensive asana structure essentials

14:00-16:00 Training Camp

Begins with a 30min Warrior Flow Practice that will integrate the structural alignment principles of Asana; from the foundation to the applied action and potential purpose of each pose. The next 90min will be devoted to the alignment points of the standing poses we know and love; with space for personal pose requests that you may wish to deepen your knowledge of. At this Training Camp, each student will receive Duncan Sensei's postural alignment observation with creative feedback insight. This is important to recognize the true nature of alignment; it reveals blocked energy in the form of weakness or tension.

Time for partner practice to develop the ability to support this mindful body balancing work will be provided.

19:00-21:00 Flow Session

90min of guided slow fluid flow, emphasizing classical standing pose alignment. This awareness of positioning is a lovely gift to receive and become aware of how alignment provides access to our innate inner core power, and opens the energy gates that increase our access to the flow state.

*Completed with 30min of pure relaxation, observational, or interactive savasana massage by Duncan sensei.

Module 3

10.06.2023. Saturday

Vinyasa Mobility:

How to connect poses with creative and complimentary sequences; while expressing our range of motion, and seamless transitional flow motions.

10:30-12:30 Training Camp

Begins with a 30min Warrior Flow Practice that offers both dynamic and restorative creative sequences; with an eye on transitional connecting motions. Presented in repeated mini flow sets for greater memory and accuracy of motion afforded by repetition. As a Training Camp, the important and often missed mechanics behind the vinyasic movement that links the poses will be addressed. Vinyasa assists can be on offer if the interest is there!

14:30-16:30 Flow Session

90min of guided slow fluid flow, targeting the best of Duncan Sensei's YogicArts system flow sequences. We will take it back to our original vinyasa roots while pointing out where the crucial vinyasa krama (sequential) shift from Astanga Vinyasa yoga occurred

out of necessity to evolve into a true vinyasa chikitsa (healing practice).

*Completed with 30min of pure relaxation, observational, or interactive savasana massage by Duncan sensei.

Module 4

11.06.2023. Sunday

Flow Assist:

How to develop safe, smart, and effective therapeutic hands-on skills.

10:30-12:30 Training Camp

Begins with a 30min Warrior Flow Practice with sequences chosen to inspire the most flow-friendly adjustments possible. You can expect to be assisted more than usual, paying attention to how Duncan Sensei methodically, yet spontaneously, works the room as the ground of the  collective energy and presence created by the group. Next we move into 90min of pure hands-on assists, offered in a comprehensive step-by-step style. Focus will be on virabhadra (warrior) based standing poses, that comprise the foundation of just about any pose you can imagine.

14:30-16:30 Flow Session

90min of guided slow fluid flow, with total attention given to the Flow Assist asanas (sequences with the poses that demand proper adjustments).

This will be the most pose assisted class, although as you know or will realize, all Flow Sessions are filled with high loving energy where adjustments are continuous. Standing, seated, and reclined poses will be on offer; with a priority to virabhadra (warrior) based standing pose adjustments.

*Completed with 30min of pure relaxation, observational, or interactive savasana massage by Duncan sensei.

*Note: All Flow Sessions will be completed with 30min of pure relaxation, observational, or interactive essential oil Thai therapy-based savasana massage (organic pure oil provided) by Duncan sensei (based on a 30 yogi capacity, Duncan sensei will offer a one-minute master basics massage (While you are awaiting your Savasana mini session, this is the appropriate time to either go deep into yoga nidra [deep rest] or get close to Duncan and partner to practice your renewed skills).

Brief Content Category Descriptions

Training Camp

Detailed Technique Explained (Good for Serious Students & Teaching Improvement). Includes a Warrior Flow Practice that Targets the Topic.

Flow Session

Pure Sweaty Flow Goodness (Good for People who Seriously like to Sweat & Learn). The Flow will Target the Same Topics as the Training Camp.

Warrior Flow (Vira Vinyasa)

Warrior Flow (Vira Vinyasa): is a yoga sequence that consists of 07 archetypal virabhadra &bodhisattva stances, which are done in a certain order, that gives access to deeper layers of strength and mobility, which then awakens the body into higher energetic levels.

Learn Smart + Safe Yogic Flow Mini Sequences that awaken your creative nature; drawing from modern dance, martial arts, vinyasa yoga, and pilates floor work. Each choreographed set is limited to a targeted muscle group and related counter pose, with a healthy inner heat linking motion, making each flow memorable and easy to repeat and practice or share (teach) again.

P.Y.T. (ProYogaTherapy)

These one-to-one master assists provide a chance to receive Duncansense’s uniquely deep yet safe bodywork assists with the added option to take advantage of the waiting time during the one-to-one assists by trying some of the adjustments and techniques via watch & learn partner work.

Duncan will instruct the precise techniques as needed!

Full P.Y.T. private sessions can be booked with D Sensei through the host.

About Duncan

Born into a family of mystics, scholars, and artists, Duncan began a life of movement in a dojo at age seven; a path that led him into the ring and becoming a champion fighter, but after years of training in combat and competing he realized he needed to heal and find balance in his life through that small measure of peace we all seek. This insight prompted him to make a trip to India where he wandered the land meeting and practicing with great yogis and mystics. After returning from India to his hometown in California, he continued a decade of training with a Buddhist warrior-monk in his temple dojo, where he synthesized his warrior yoga with fresh eyes and YogicArts™️ was born. He then went on to study for another decade under the warm guidance of his yoga mama, Shannon Gannon in New York City at the time when yoga became popular culture and allowed him to travel the world on a ‘pilgrimage of service’ that spanned three decades and continues today.

After a lifetime of training and teaching countless yogis, athletes, dancers, celebrated performers & top designers in the healing fields, he became known as the father of Warrior Yoga; a practicing path of healing, empowerment, and self-expression.

Fun fact, Duncan was the first man on the cover of the Yoga Journal magazine in January, 1995; the issue that launched the Ashtanga Wave around the world.

Pricing

Early Bird 10 % discount until 15.05.2023.

20h Course Package - 3450 noks

1 day -  900 noks

2 days - 1800 noks

3 days - 2700 noks

1 Training Camp - 450 noks

1 Flow Session - 450 noks

Flow Session Package (All 4 Flow Sessions) - 1500 noks

CONTACT, INFO AND REGISTRATION: contact@mashayogini.com

Payments (terms & conditions)

Please make your payment on the www.northernlightyoga.no website.

For other questions regarding payment or registration:
Contact Masha on
contact@mashayogini.com

In case of cancellation, no refund is possible, however, your payment will be honored, if you can find a replacement, or you may receive credit for the YogicArts 2023 Fall course, or any future YogicArts course or class at Northern Light Yoga studio; minus a 25% processing fee.

We are excited to gather as a tribe once again!

To All Yogis a Warm Welcome!

- Northern Light Yoga Team and Duncan Sensei