āsana sādhanā
a complete 7 day āsana practice with Rory Viggers
15 - 21 June 2022
Daily from 6am - 7.30/8am (UK time)
Livestream
Experience the transformative effects on mind + body through a consistent, full-cycle asana practice.
If you are wanting discipline, structure and direction in your practice, join this special week of asana.
Across 7 days you will…
Practice asana daily (60 - 90 minutes)
Systematically experience a full range of asana (eg. simple back bends, forward bends, twistings, seated postures, standing postures, simple hand balances & more).
Each day you’ll practice different asana groups (covering every group over the week).
Have the option to finish each day with an additional inversions practice (20 - 30 minutes).
Experience the effects of structured practice to help inform, reignite and elevate your practice.
Access the recording of each day to replay (for 24 hours only).
Finish the week of inspiring practice on the summer solstice.
I look forward to sharing and helping you develop your practice.
Freedom through structure
Look back through the timeline of yoga and its texts and literature describe the pedagogy of practice in a very systematic, methodical and structured way.
Whether postures, breath work, meditation techniques, philosophy or chanting, the practice is structured.
If you lack motivation, direction, inspiration or time management, part of this can be attributed to not having a system or structure in place for your personal practice.
Hatha Yoga disciplines such as Ashtanga and Sivananda prescribe set asana sequences. Other Hatha systems like Iyengar have a hierarchal order in which certain practices precede the next.
Systems and structure could be interpreted as rigid, linear, external, physical.
This is a misunderstanding.
The structure is there for foundation, momentum and ultimately FREEDOM.
Whatever aspect or style of yoga you practice, it primarily concerns the mind, the thoughts, the latent energy.
To free the mind you need discipline and structure. As the practice evolves, the mind needs a higher level of structure, support and discipline, that brings bigger shifts in your energy.
Whether it's business, athleticism or masterminding, a plan and structure is vital. With no action a dream or desire remains just that. With structure, aligned action, conviction and faith, alchemy happens. In Sanskrit we call this Sraddha.
Our personal practice has quantum shifted with structure, with being an energetic match for the next level of expansion. This is the Sraddha.
The subconscious mind influences everything. To solely practice 'intuitively’ freestyle, the level of discipline and self reflection needed to see beyond the whims of the subconscious need to be superhuman. Structure is your road map to progression.
Structure enables you to transition through practice when the mind is throwing up 101 reasons for you to do something else, shorten the practice or not give your full potential. It will try and find any excuse.
How your week will roll…
This 7 day programme is about you experiencing and practicing the asanas. The focus and approach is ‘experiential’ rather than ‘instructional’.
Each day you’ll start at 6am and practice a sequence of postures from the same asana family.
Some days will be shorter than others, the general practice wont go on past 7.30am (Saturday & Sunday will start at 7am, finish 8.30am).
You then have the option of either finishing or continuing with a daily inversions practice. This will be between 20-30 minutes.
If you have an established pranayama, meditation or chant/mantra practice, you can do this before or after your asana practice.
Sample Schedule:
Day 1:
General Asana practice: 6am - 7.15/30am
Standing postures, Leg stretches, Savasana.
Optional Inversions practice: 7.15/30am - 7.35/50am
Head-balance, shoulder balance, full arm balance.
”There are yoga teachers and then there are teachers of yoga. Rory belongs to the latter group. There are some yoga classes I go to just in order not to practice by myself, but in Rory’s classes I always learn something new; and, I really mean always. Rory’s classes are not merely about strength and flexibility (even though they are about that too), he rather teaches ever new ways to get into an asana, ways to become aware of and awaken muscle groups you never knew existed, and to relax and become confident in your body. Rory has a wealth of knowledge of the human body that he’s most skilled in articulating and sharing for a more embodied way of being in the world (not just on the mat).”
AH, Yoga Practitioner
”Both Rory and Dory are such exceptional teachers; their knowledge, wisdom and understanding (both of the anatomy of yoga and the philosophy) shines through” Tabitha, Yoga Teacher
Our method & inspiration
Our asana teacher, Dona Holleman, has been the biggest influence on our practice.
Her approach to asana galvanised our personal practice with structure, discipline and regularity - it quantum shifted.
This practice week is inspired by what we have learnt (and continue to learn) over the past 12 years of dedicated study with her.
Teacher
Rory Viggers
Rory's unique teaching style skilfully enables you to uncover a greater depth of awareness and understanding in your practice. Informed by multi-disciplines his approach is intelligent, passionate and insightful. I am a direct student of one of the last living greats, Dona Holleman. The yoga I share has purpose, intention, precision, intelligence and soul. It continues to be informed by all the inspirations in my life, past and current teachers, mentors, trailblazers and most importantly from the precious and essential time in my own daily Sadhana where ideas are incubated, experimented and processed. I teach long term practitioners, yoga teachers, yoga teacher teachers and those new to yoga with my partner Dory Walker.
"Having practised yoga for many years, it was a huge relief to find that your professionalism and approach to teaching was in synch with my own and I felt totally at ease and responsive with being a student under your careful and artful guidance. You both are yoga craftsmen."
Liz, Yoga Teacher
"To be guided along the path whilst connecting together in sangha finding our own way home is vital today. Thank you so much for being such knowledgeable and sincere guides offering what so many don’t”
Sona, Yoga Teacher
Location
Livestream via Zoom
Dates
Daily from Wednesday 15 June - Tuesday 21 June 2022
Timings (UK)
Weekdays (Monday - Friday): 6am start
Saturday & Sunday: 7am start
What to bring
These things would be good to have at hand although not essential:
Blocks, Strap, Blanket, Chair, Wall Space, Bolster.
Register for ‘Asana Sadhana’
£108 pp
FAQs
Is this programme suitable for me?
This programme is open to all who have a yoga asana practice.
This is not for complete beginners or those newer to yoga asana.
If you are unsure of this is suitable or would like to ask a question, please contact us.
What if I don’t practice certain postures?
There will be variations and options to either repeat a posture or rest if a particular asana isn’t suitable for you.
Will the practice sessions be available as a replay?
The intension behind this practice is to experience the effects of a systematic and complete asana practice, so we encourage you to attend live.
We appreciate that isn’t always possible so a recording of each day will be available for only 24 hours (so that you have a chance to practice later that day).
Refunds + Cancelations
This programme booking is non-refundable.