Moment to Moment: Practice Presence

This mellow strength-building practice provides space for inquiry in each posture, with enough variety in the transitions to keep you paying attention. As you move through the class, return to the question, “how am I going to do this pose today?”

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Mindfulness is a big buzzword in these days, and for good reason! It is a simple practice that can be applied in all corners of life. Are there certain poses that have a tendency to take you out of the moment? Perhaps they stir up anxious memories of an old injury, or trigger a self-critical narrative based on what you feel you should be able to do. Whatever the case, thoughts that pull us into the past or future leave little room for examining the sensations our bodies are experiencing in the present. This mellow strength-building practice provides space for inquiry in each posture, with enough variety in the transitions to keep you paying attention. As you move through the class, return to the question, “how am I going to do this pose today?” Have a couple of blocks handy.

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Lenth (minutes)	61
Difficulty	Beginner
Focus	Balancing Poses, Twists
Style	Anusara

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Teacher

Adam Ballenger

Adam Ballenger, 500 HR ERYT, Utah School of Yoga Director Certified Anusara Yoga Instructor, Teacher Trainer and Subject Matter Specialist B.S. Exercise Science/Kinesiology, (currently working) on M.S. Kinesiology International Yoga Teacher/Trainer, Subject Specialist

Adam Ballenger has been practicing yoga since the early 1990’s and teaching since the mid 1990’s. His history of working on his own physical trauma and emotional wellbeing has spanned more than a quarter of a century. Today, Adam is a father, a husband, a local yoga teacher as well as a traveling yoga instructor and student as well. He regularly presents and teaches in Europe, Central and South America and Asia as well as at home in Salt Lake City, UT.

In his early years of practice, Adam enjoyed a playful, therapeutic and sometimes a wild and challenging yoga practice. Today, Adam still enjoys a challenging yoga practice but works to help others develop movement skills, sustainable body mechanics and mindfulness through asana practice. Adams “Active Aging” Yoga with older populations has been a long time passion as well. Through working with older populations, Adam has developed his concept of movement needs and compassion insights. Even if you aren’t a senior yet you may still catch these concepts as Adam weaves them into all his classes, developing these skills before their need is known. Don’t let Adam’s body wise fool you either, his 20 plus years of studying yoga tradition and philosophy becomes evident in his easy to follow and easy to use, modern day usage of Yoga and Buddhist teachings.

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