September 22-25, 2023 | Roots to Sky Sanctuary | Oakland, Maryland
In the metaphysiology of hatha yoga, prana is the essential energy of life and is understood to flow throughout the body in channels called nadis. Water, of course, is also universally understood to be essential to life. You are invited to a workshop that will assist participants in engaging with the important similarities between how our bodies are animated by prana circulating through invisible rivers and how the land we live upon is vivified by the flow of the Potomac and its tributaries. This engagement will be holistic, imparting an understanding that is both cognitive and embodied. Students of yoga with advanced skills and teaching experience are encouraged. All intermediate and above students can benefit. This intensive retreat is not appropriate for beginning yoga students.
James Samkubam recently returned to the United States from his home country of Cameroon. In seeking to remove his family from a deteriorating political situation there, we have gained a rare chance to study with this accomplished and masterful yogi. James was pulled into the practice of yoga years ago to help rehabilitate from an injury while playing soccer at the University of Maryland. In the course of his studies, he found inspiration from Paramahansa Yogananda, Swami Rama Tirtha Pratisthan, Swami Sivananda, and others. Desiring more, he searched for the TRUTH, a Guru, and delved deep into the philosophy and practice of yoga and its associated metaphysics. James is a graduate of the Willow Street Yoga Center teacher training program, class of 2005, a Hatha yoga program in the Anusara style or tradition. He has also completed several master teacher training intensives in the Koshas, the Sutras, Tantra, Kundalini, and more. James and Thomas are both initiated into the Kriya yoga lineage of meditation, popularized in the West by Paramahansa Yogananda. James has taught yoga and meditation on different continents to a wide variety of students of different levels, cultures, and backgrounds. His ability to take his students deep into the essential experience of yoga is awe-inspiring. Cameroon has an abundance of rivers. The Sanaga is the longest, and the Wouri is the largest.
Dr. Thomas Stanley (a/k/a Bushmeat Sound) is a scholar, artist, and writer deeply committed to audio culture in the service of personal growth and social change. Dr. Stanley teaches sound as a freestanding and integrative expressive medium as an associate professor within GMU’s School of Art. The author of The Execution of Sun Ra and co-author of An Oral History of George Clinton and P-Funk is an integral member of a vibrant experimental music community along the Baltimore-Washington corridor. His work attempts to exploit the capacity of sound and music to anchor, frame and energize our subjective experience of macrotemporal texture (history). As a fellow in the Re-Storying the Potomac initiative, Dr. Stanley is hosting Rivers of Prana as part of an attempt to bring new and post-colonial perspectives to the narrative history of the Potomac River. Rivers that have been most important in the life of Bushmeat include the Ohio, the Potomac, the Patuxent, and the Mississippi.
The Site
Roots to Sky Sanctuary spans 125 pristine acres of agricultural fields, mature forests, and flowing springs, located in the southern tip of Western Maryland. The land is a stone’s throw from the headwaters of
the north branch of the Potomac River and is 3 hours from Washington DC. There is a dedicated space for yoga instruction (the shala) with a beautiful hardwood floor and ample mats and blankets.
Sleeping
Indoor sleeping is dormitory style. Beds are large; couples who wish to can share a bed. Camping is for sleeping. No open fires at campsites will be allowed. Campers have equal access to indoor kitchen, bathroom, and shower amenities.
Registration
Early Bird Indoor: $225
Late Indoor: $250
Early Bird Camping $125
Late Camping $150
(After September 4 is late.)
Evening meals are provided on Saturday and Sunday. A closing lunch is provided on Monday.
Students are expected to bring any other nutrition.
Registration is available through the form below.
“I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins…My soul has grown deep like the rivers.”
R I V E R S O F P R A N A
༄ؘ A YOGA INTENSIVE RETREAT ༄ؘ
September 22-25, 2023 | Roots to Sky Sanctuary | Oakland, Maryland
In the metaphysiology of hatha yoga, prana is the essential energy of life and is understood to flow throughout the body in channels called nadis. Water, of course, is also universally understood to be essential to life. You are invited to a workshop that will assist participants in engaging with the important similarities between how our bodies are animated by prana circulating through invisible rivers and how the land we live upon is vivified by the flow of the Potomac and its tributaries. This engagement will be holistic, imparting an understanding that is both cognitive and embodied. Students of yoga with advanced skills and teaching experience are encouraged. All intermediate and above students can benefit. This intensive retreat is not appropriate for beginning yoga students.
James Samkubam recently returned to the United States from his home country of Cameroon. In seeking to remove his family from a deteriorating political situation there, we have gained a rare chance to study with this accomplished and masterful yogi. James was pulled into the practice of yoga years ago to help rehabilitate from an injury while playing soccer at the University of Maryland. In the course of his studies, he found inspiration from Paramahansa Yogananda, Swami Rama Tirtha Pratisthan, Swami Sivananda, and others. Desiring more, he searched for the TRUTH, a Guru, and delved deep into the philosophy and practice of yoga and its associated metaphysics. James is a graduate of the Willow Street Yoga Center teacher training program, class of 2005, a Hatha yoga program in the Anusara style or tradition. He has also completed several master teacher training intensives in the Koshas, the Sutras, Tantra, Kundalini, and more. James and Thomas are both initiated into the Kriya yoga lineage of meditation, popularized in the West by Paramahansa Yogananda. James has taught yoga and meditation on different continents to a wide variety of students of different levels, cultures, and backgrounds. His ability to take his students deep into the essential experience of yoga is awe-inspiring. Cameroon has an abundance of rivers. The Sanaga is the longest, and the Wouri is the largest.
Dr. Thomas Stanley (a/k/a Bushmeat Sound) is a scholar, artist, and writer deeply committed to audio culture in the service of personal growth and social change. Dr. Stanley teaches sound as a freestanding and integrative expressive medium as an associate professor within GMU’s School of Art. The author of The Execution of Sun Ra and co-author of An Oral History of George Clinton and P-Funk is an integral member of a vibrant experimental music community along the Baltimore-Washington corridor. His work attempts to exploit the capacity of sound and music to anchor, frame and energize our subjective experience of macrotemporal texture (history). As a fellow in the Re-Storying the Potomac initiative, Dr. Stanley is hosting Rivers of Prana as part of an attempt to bring new and post-colonial perspectives to the narrative history of the Potomac River. Rivers that have been most important in the life of Bushmeat include the Ohio, the Potomac, the Patuxent, and the Mississippi.
The Site
Roots to Sky Sanctuary spans 125 pristine acres of agricultural fields, mature forests, and flowing springs, located in the southern tip of Western Maryland. The land is a stone’s throw from the headwaters of
the north branch of the Potomac River and is 3 hours from Washington DC. There is a dedicated space for yoga instruction (the shala) with a beautiful hardwood floor and ample mats and blankets.
Sleeping
Indoor sleeping is dormitory style. Beds are large; couples who wish to can share a bed. Camping is for sleeping. No open fires at campsites will be allowed. Campers have equal access to indoor kitchen, bathroom, and shower amenities.
Registration
Early Bird Indoor: $225
Late Indoor: $250
Early Bird Camping $125
Late Camping $150
(After September 4 is late.)
Evening meals are provided on Saturday and Sunday. A closing lunch is provided on Monday.
Students are expected to bring any other nutrition.
Registration is available through the form below.
“I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood
in human veins…My soul has grown deep like the rivers.”
Langston Hughes
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Oakland, MD 21550 United States + Google Map