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Schedule and pricing:

Class descriptions

Opening Shoulders (For Teachers and Experienced Students)
Friday, January 20 (Sorry this event has passed)
Teacher’s Class

Shoulders are subject to strain, pain and dysfunction due to the great range of motion in the shoulder. This class details ways to release the upper arm and shoulder. We practice techniques to stabilize the bicep/tricep balance, to unglue the rotator cuff muscles and free the shoulder joint. We will practice supine, seated and inverted poses that prepare the shoulder joint for weight bearing.

Yoga, Prana and the Bloodstream
Friday, January 20 (Sorry this event has passed)

This class is designed to help irrigate blood and lymph throughout the body in order to oxygenate and revitalize the bodily tissues. Our aim is to soak, rinse and drain the internal organs through dynamic an supported postures.

Every Pose is a Mountain
Saturday, January 21 (Sorry this event has passed)

Tadasana, the mountain pose is the foundation for all the poses in yoga. In this class the emphasis is on embodying the mountain within each pose in order to achieve stability, ease and spaciousness within.

The Hip Joint Elixir
Saturday, January 21 (Sorry this event has passed)

The name for the hip socket in Greek is acetabulum, which means "wine cup". This class will explore ways to generate fluidity in the hips through both mobilization and stabilization techniques.

Skillful Vinyasa
Sunday, January 22 (Sorry this event has passed)

Vinyasa suggests a flow of movement forms, in the way that choreography in dance creates continuity of movement. In yoga practice, vinyasa is when breath and movement ate integrated together. This junction of breath and movement is characterized by ease, fluidity and no-force. This class will explore the essence of vinyasa through a variety of movements. We look at “micro-vinyasa” that involves small and slow movements and we practice vinyasa as the seamless flow between poses.

The Art of Savasana
Sunday, January 22 (Sorry this event has passed)

Savasana requires profound letting go of one’s body and mind, and of all the yoga poses it is the most essential in order to remain relaxed inside. You would think that savasana is simply about lying down on the floor--yet in order to effectively let go, much preparation is needed. This class features movements and openings that prepare for savasana. We emphasis release within the joints (especially around the spine), dropping the bones, softening the breath and emptying the mind.

Tias Little was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Throughout his growing years, he was an athlete playing competitive soccer. He graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts with a BA in English and was elected an All-American Division III soccer player. At Amherst Tias was a student of Robert Thurman taking courses in Buddhist psychology. Upon graduation in 1988, Tias was an active member of a modern dance troupe in Tucson, Arizona.

In 1985, he began practicing yoga in the Inyengar method. In 1989, he went to Mysore South India to study Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga for six months with K. Pattabhi Jois. He returned to Mysore in 1995 completing primary, intermediate and half of the advanced series of Ashtanga Yoga.

Tias moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1990 and completed massage training in 1996 from the New Mexico Academy of Healing Arts. In 1998, he earned a Masters in Eastern Philosophy from St. John’s College. Tias has trained extensively in manual therapy within cranial-sacral (Michael Shea and the Upledger Institute), somatics (Thomas Hanna’s work). He is influenced by the work of Ida Rolf (studying with Jan Sultan and Tom Myers), and he is also a student of Peter Levine’s work in trauma and healing.

Since 1992, Tias has been a long time student of Buddhist practice studying Vipassana meditation and Zen (Upaya Zen Center and Roshi Joan Halifax). He began studying Dzogchen and Mahamudra within Tibetan Buddhism in 2003 under the guidance of Tsoknyi Rinpoche. Tias currently is a student of koan study in the Rinzai school of Zen practice studying with Roshi Joan Sutherland. In 2000, Tias and his wife, Surya, founded and directed the Yoga Source studio in Santa Fe. They sold the studio in 2006, and currently they both continue to offer public classes there. Tias is author of two books: The Thread of Breath and Meditations on a Dewdrop.

(Taken from the Prajna Yoga website http://www.prajnayoga.net/.)

Save the dates:
Friday, January 20, 2012
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Sunday, January 22, 2012

IMPORTANT:
Register and pay with Mind Body Online
or
Fill out Registration form here.
Please fill out, print out, make check payable to and send with registration to:
YogaSource
1500 South Big Bend Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63117

Workshop location:
Shrewsbury Community Center
5200 Shrewsbury Ave
St. Louis, MO 63119

For more information, call the studio at
(314) 645-YOGA (9642) 
or
email

Testimonials

"Tias is the quintessential teacher...his teachings are deep, thorough, exacting, and profoundly spiritual, but he maintains a lightness and modernity about his views as well, making them 'user friendly' and accessible."
–Heidi Harris, yoga instructor

"Tias can speak to the new practitioner and the person who has been practicing for many years with everyone learning something new for their yoga practice. I have been to several of his trainings and they are all different and inspiring. I look forward to his return to St. Louis and thank him for sharing his profound knowledge of the true practice of Yoga.

"When the student is ready...the teacher will appear."

–Mary Ann Buck, February 2011

"Tias' Prajna Yoga is really very therapeutic – healing for both mind and body."
– Michael Webb, yoga instructor

Prajna Yoga Web site: http://www.prajnayoga.net/

Tias Little "Unwinding, Gravity & The Middle Way" 2011 – If you are unable to view the videos below, click here for vimeo.