INFOS & VORVERKAUF

Sir Edward Clark und das Tripsichore Yoga Theatre Ensemble erstmals in Berlin für Tripsichore Workshops, Yoga Theatre Performance und Yoga Philosphy Lectures! Dieses ganz besondere Erlebnis solltet ihr auf keinen Fall verpassen.

WORKSHOPSPRACHE: Englisch. Teilnehmer sollten über ein Grundverständnis der englischen Sprache verfügen. Der nachfolgende Text ist daher nicht übersetzt.

Experience the wonder of the Tripsichore Yoga Theater Company in the performance of "The Last Breath" on Friday, March 9th, and immerse yourself in the practice through four workshops with Edward Clark, offered March 10 - 11th.

Tripsichore Vinyasa Yoga is both challenging and fun.  It encourages the student to explore the furthest range of their physical potential while providing the technical approaches that ensure safety.  The Tripsichore Yoga style has been developed for 30 years and, in investigating yoga, has endeavoured to reconcile the idea of making advanced physical practice enhance the ends of a spiritual quest. 

LOCATION: Jivamukti Yoga Berlin Mitte, Brunnenstr. 29, 10119 Berlin

DATES: 9.-11.3.2012

DETAILED COURSE DESCRIPTIONS AND TIMES: see below

PRICES:
Entire Weekend with Sir Edward Clark Fr.-Sun.: 165 EUR if booked and paid by March 8th, thereafter 185 EUR

Tripsichore life theater performance & lecture: 20 EUR if booked and paid March 8th, thereafter 25 EUR

Any single 3 hour asana workshops: 45 EUR if booked and paid by March 8th, thereafter 50 EUR

Any two 3 hour asana workshops: 85 EUR if booked and paid by March 8th, thereafter 95 EUR

Any three 3 hour asana workshops: 120 EUR if booked and paid by March 8th, thereafter 135 EUR

All four 3 hour asana workshops: 150 EUR if booked and paid by March 8th, thereafter 170 EUR

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Jivamukti Berlin GmbH
Konto 14918850
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HypoVereinsbank Berlin
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SIR EDWARD CLARK Edward Clark ist der künstlerische Leiter und Choreograph des Tripischore Yoga Theatre, Londons gefeierter Tanztheater-Yoga Truppe, die dafür bekannt ist, traditionelle Yoga Asanas dazu zu verwenden, originelle Choreographien zu kreieren. Er war über 20 Jahre lang der Leiter der Abteilung für Bewegung und Tanz an der renommierten Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. In Edwards Arbeit verschmelzen seine klare künstlerische Vision mit einem tiefen Verständnis für die essentielle Auseinandersetzung mit der Yogapraxis, dabei verweilt er stets mit einem Fuß beim Tanz, einem beim Asthanga Yoga und einem in der Tradition Sivanandas (für Edward ist dies möglich, da er bereits seit über 30 Jahren Yoga praktiziert). Die Synthese von Atem, Asana, Choreographie und Philosophie prägt ohne
Frage seinen Unterrichtsstil. Seine Klassen sind unterhaltsam, fordernd und
aufregend! Sir Edward Clark hat niemals ein Lehrer-Zertifikat erhalten und
möchte diesen Zustand auch so belassen ;)

THE TRIPSICHORE VINYASA YOGA STYLE developed by Sir Edward Clark is both challenging and fun.  It encourages the student to explore the furthest range of their physical potential while providing the technical approaches that ensure safety.  The Tripsichore Yoga style has been developed for 30 years and, in investigating yoga, has endeavoured to reconcile the idea of making advanced physical practice enhance the ends of a spiritual quest.  Expect to experiment with unusual inversions and back bends. In a Tripsichore workshop, you’ll be sure to learn some new and interesting variations on inverted postures and new ways to achieve back bends.  You’ll find out how to be more flexible and how to do things that look like they require considerable strength but, in accord with yogic principles, you’ll also discover that these are achieved with grace and ease.

ys: Was ist Tripsichore Yoga? Trip-sic-ho-re (trip-sic-uh-ree, zieht die Vokale in die Länge) ist eine griechische Muse des Tanzes. Wir nannten uns Tripsichore, weil wir eben ein bisschen tänzerischer sind. Tripsichore ist eine darstellende Gruppe, verbindet Choreographie mit Yoga. Wir machen auch Comedy, sehen uns als Choreographen, bezeichnen uns aber als Theater. Es ist kein Tanz, aber es sind choreographierte Bewegungen. Es geht um Geschichten, Erzählungen und Charaktere, und wir machen Sachen, die in einem yogischen Kontext stehen. Wir haben eine Form von Yoga erfunden, die innovativ ist und sich mit gewissen Orthodoxien auseinandersetzt, zum Beispiel, wie man atmet, was Haltungen sind und was mentale Eigenschaften wie Konzentration und Vertiefung sind. Wir haben das in einer neuen Form gekoppelt, mit der man beides ausdrücken und Schönheit erleben kann. (Auszug aus dem Interview mit Edward Clark auf www.yogaservice.de)

THE TRIPSICHORE YOGA THEATER COMPANY began in 1979 as a company devoted to creating full length dance narratives. We explored a variety of stylistic forms includingpunk ballet, conventional modern dance and strict neo-classical technique. We used masks, performed with rock bands and did pop videos.
While yoga was always a part of our training, it wasn't until 1992 that we realised the expressive potential and choreographic viability of yoga postures. Once we began to devise works using yoga asanas, their extraordinary artistic logic became evident.
Surprisingly, it would seem that there has been no orthodox tradition for using yoga technique to create dances in the 5000 year history of the discipline. The postures intrinsically possess a sumptuous beauty and fluidity. They are the ideal vehicle to express the themes of harmony, balance, spirituality, ecstasy, bliss and mysticism because they are exactly about these subjects in and of themselves. We are now many years into this experiment and each day brings new discoveries.

AN OVERVIEW OF THE WORKSHOP WEEKEND: ADVANCING YOUR PRACTICE WITH SIR EDWARD CLARK IN BERLIN
After kicking off his first visit to Berlin with a breathtaking life performance of the Tripsichore theatre followed by a yoga philsophy lecture and talk, the series of four yoga asana workshops with Sir Edward Clark in Berlin is dedicated to strategies for improving your yoga practice - to understanding how to be your own teacher and how to get more out of your regular classes. Each workshop will include a section on Pranayama and Philosophy - not as separate subjects, but as material that is integral to making your practice grow.
What does it take to move your practice forward? How do you start working on and refining challenging material? Usual answers would consider looking at postures that you find challenging and this could be material that you are already good at as well as that which you find difficult. Both can deepen a practice. A deeper practice isn't just about harder postures though. Rather, it is also the quality with which you perform them.

INDIVIDUAL EVENTS DESCRIPTIONS & TIMES:

Fri. 9.3.2012, 20-22.00:
THE LAST BREATH & THE TRANSITORIAL AND THE ETERNAL - A LIFE PERFORMANCE OF THE TRIPSICHORE YOGA THEATER FOLLOWED BY A YOGA PHILOSOPHY LECTURE BY EDWARD CLARK

"THE LAST BREATH" is a life performance of the Tripsichore Yoga Theater Company. It combines the lyricism of dance with the spirituality of yoga in a Cirque d'Soleil-type performance. You don't want to miss a chance to see this cool show! The play is centered around an intense story of the final breath of a woman and her post-death experience.

Tripsichore uses yoga to create theatrical works and finds that the postures used in a vinyasa fashion are the ideal vehicle to express the themes of harmony, balance, spirituality, ecstasy, bliss and mysticism because they are exactly about these subjects in and of themselves.

The London-based troupe's gravity-defying flow of yoga-inspired shapes has been acclaimed world-wide: "Tripsichore's performances combine the lyricism of dance with the spirituality of yoga in a Cirque du Soleil-type performance.", "The performances exude power and passion, while simultaneously creating a focused stillness that is awe-inspiring", "Tripsichore's lithe bodies entwine elegantly, flip over effortlessly and balance daringly. The performers' physical control is awesome."

 

"THE TRANSITORIAL AND THE ETERNAL - Right Action and Right Knowledge in the Bhagavad Gita" is a lecture and talk on yoga philosophy that Sir Edward Clark will hold following the Tripsichore Theater play on Friday night:

The aim of yoga is to attempt to "experience" and "know" the unfathomable and inexpressible nature of the universe or to at least assume that this is possible. The techniques for doing this are many, but involve either a sublimation or destruction of the individual's identification with personality and, through that process, experience that they are something much greater than the personality.
These techniques might range from severe austerities or to sitting peacefully and chanting or to performing acts of kindness or duty without self interest. However, one of the oldest and most esteemed techniques is pursuit of knowledge and wisdom through experimentation, observation and analysis.
The yoga aspirant must contend with the idea that the experience we have of life with its range of personal joys and sorrows is something that cannot be clung to for it is transitory and that there is some kind of ever enduring peace or happiness that is extremely difficult to apprehend, but which offers perfect freedom. The finite is transitory and the infinite is enduring. To come to a place of knowing this, we start with the physical world and through experimentation, observation and analysis begin to glean the things which are transitory in the attempt to discover what is eternal.
Yet, this philosophic process must also consider that endless duration makes "good" no better and that it is also wise to appreciate things even though they may be transitory.
How do you make sense of such philosophic considerations whilst on the mat?
At present, there are two essential models (with innumerable variants) – the "Stillness" model wherein one seeks to bring the body, mind and breath into a place without flux and a "Movement" model wherein evenness is equated with that which stillness presupposes. In contemporary practice, while stillness has been a yoga orthodoxy for possibly several millennia, yoga is today done with a strong emphasis on movement…both while in asana and while getting into and out of it. The ascendancy of asana has not necessarily brought about a deep understanding of the nature of the Absolute, but it has succeeded in putting the question on the table. (It has, of course, also brought about many other benefits dealing with a range of things like health and lifestyle). But, while contemporary yoga has tabled the question, its results have been equivocal at best and seems to lack clear methodology for bringing about an appreciation for the Absolute.

Sat. 10.03.2012, 10-13.00 - TRIPSICHORE YOGA ASANA WORKSHOP I:
DEVOTION AND DISCIPLINE - How the intention of the yogi clarifies
concentration in vinyasa and asana
One of the core ideas of yoga practice is the development of concentration
towards a singularity (eka grata). This Tripsichore yoga asana workshop looks at how, in a physical practice, one endeavours to dedicate the entirety of one's being to a single thing. In so doing, the subjects of dharma, dharana, and dhyana
will be examined and practised within the context of asana and vinyasa
practice.

Sat. 10.03.2012, 14.00-17:00 - TRIPSICHORE YOGA ASANA WORKSHOP II:
MOVING WITH UJJAYI BREATH AND MOVING FROM THE MULA - What is the most you can do with the least effort?
Pranayama is energy manipulation played out through the postures. This yoga asana workshop explores the idea that it is possible to raise an energy known variously as kundalini, shakti or prana through the specific use of ujjayi
pranayama in vinyasa movement.

Sun. 11.03.2012, 10.00-13:00 - TRIPSICHORE YOGA ASANA WORKSHOP III:
OVERCOMING FEAR AND OTHER OBSTACLES - Unusual Asanas and Balances
There are postures we love to do and others we are not so fond of - some
come to one with apparent ease and others are approached with a degree of
dread. Yoga philosophy encourages, through action, the appreciation and
awareness of the "present moment" without attachment to the outcome. Fear
and other obstacles tend to be based on projections into the future or past.
To overcome these tendencies, one identifies the fear or obstacle and
strategises to confront them.

Sun. 11.03.2012, 14.00-17:00 - TRIPSICHORE YOGA ASANA WORKSHOP IV:
BACK BENDS DON'T HURT - Finding ease in the extreme
One of the glories of physical practice is the grace of the backbend. But,
the extremity of this movement is not regularly encountered in daily life.
To execute these movements safely is a matter of technical exactitude which
should be practised by those who find it easy to do and by those for whom is
a daunting prospect. This is a workshop that will look at how to achieve
extreme back bending in a safe way.

THE PRESS ON SIR EDWARD CLARK & TRIPSICHORE:
"For the past 15 years [Tripsichore] has developed its own unique brand of asana...the practices are a joy to watch and, along with the workshops, a treasure trove of intriguing ideas." — Richard Rosen, Yoga Journal---

"Edward Clark, a student of yoga since 1978 and founder of the UK-based Tripsichore performance group (www.tripsichore.com), reveals to the public for the first time the Tripsichore Yoga techniques that have dazzled onlookers for decades." — Sara Avant Stover, FitYoga Magazine---

"Even when they are linking together spectacular poses, such as lifting from wheel in handstand to arching variations of handstand to wheel again, or in more simple movements, it is the smooth and watery transitions that create beauty." — Felicia M. Tomasko, LA Yoga Magazine---

"...Edward Clark makes magic and entertains... The awe-inspiring virtuoso on the first disc could absorb anyone... Clark is like the jazz musician of Surya Namaskar, always mixing up the notes, revivifying those who are ready for the challenge." — Molly Roemer, Yogi Times---

"...Edward has deliberately made the practice sequences quite challenging to give people an opportunity to investigate their real potential by trying things they otherwise might never do. Challenging they are. Even the Simple series would be a bit of a reach for most intermediate yoga students, except for those who have an athleticism that combines considerable strength, flexibility and balance. Growing in complexity from strongly intermediate to highly advanced, the sequences all start manageably with a basic sun salutation that has some distinctive Tripsichore movements, such as arm circles in extended forward bend. But in the Regular and Plus sequences, Edward and Eileen really begin to take you into some complex and difficult movements and postures. Tripsichore's techniques are likely to take you beyond your current beliefs about physical, mental and energetic limitations--and perhaps to a deeper realization of the unity and flow of life." – Tim Noworyta, Yoga Chicago ---

Interview with Sir Edward CLarke at www.yogaservice.de