Meditative Yoga

Rhythm & Breath Yoga is Kundalini-based Yoga. Kundalini is creative energy that lies at the base of the spine and when is stimulated through yoga postures, breath work and hand positions, the energy and cerebro-spinal fluid in the spine is raised subsequently breaking blockages in the chakra system (energy vortices that lie along the spin). Luz will give an introduction to the origins of Kundalini Yoga in Ancient Egypt as well as basic yogic philosophy and science. Over the eight session course students will learn basic yoga postures and be introduced to Kundalini meditation for quieting the mind for an integrated heart, body and mind.

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About Luz Cañas:

Luz Emma Cañas Madrigal is a warrior, a healer and a storyteller. She graduated with highest honors from the Chicano Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara and was a Graduate Fellow in the Department of World Arts and Cultures, U.C.L.A., while attaining her Master's Degree in Dance Movement Therapy. She was certified by the Kundalini Research Institute (KRI) in Kundalini Yoga and has studied Sufi Healing in the Shadhiliyya Sufi Path for over sixteen years. She has led workshops on healing the mind-body interface at Columbia University, Harlem Hospital, and American Airlines and has worked with a wide variety of clientele ranging from pre-verbal children to recording artists. Luz is giving continuity to the Capoeira passed down to her by her deceased master and husband, Jorge Luiz de Souza Jesus, through Capoeira Muçurumim. The first Capoeira group to be founded, and directed, by a woman in the United States. In January 2021, Luz's three Sufi poetry books will be re-released in one collection, From him to Him, through Maximalist Press. Her forthcoming memoir, Martial Love, is also slated for release during the Summer in celebration of her 50th birthday.