Sunday May 17th, 2026 Yoga Immersion with Rich Logan
Day 2: How to Grow Stronger, More Flexible, and More Relaxed
Personal Investment: $40 Single Session/$100 Full Day (3 session) or Full Weekend of Sessions $180 for six sessions!
Sunday May 17th Morning Practice: 9 AM to 12 PM
Finding our Power: Yoga for strengthening and stabilizing:
About this session: Flexible students are often unstable and need to stabilize joints and the spine. We can often discover weakness from side to side as well as in conditions like Scoliosis. We can get stronger and by moving in and out of certain poses that stress our weaknesses appropriately. Over time we get more stable and can hold more difficult poses for longer periods of time. It can be quite a positive ego building exercise to gain mastery over our physical weaknesses. And we can see some parallels of growing beyond emotional defaults that don't serve us well, as when we collapse. Come to explore safe methods using your own resistance. The course will include lecture, an invitation to discuss our own personal weaknesses, demonstrations and modifications.
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Sunday May 17th Afternoon Practice: 1 PM-4 PM
Yoga for Opening: Stretching the tensions:
For the stiff practitioner, yoga can feel frustrating. But it's usually the way we practice, the way we live, that is holding us back from safe flexibility and openness. Tension can come as much from the mind as any structural reality or muscular tension. Knowing the difference is important. Tight hamstrings may be as much about our difficulty to releasing the past than any muscular tightness. And how we approach the tighter side may ultimately be key to moving forward. A stiff low back may be holding onto insecurities and anger, that for whatever reason, helps us navigate our lives. But when we learn to positively express, even the most challenging emotions, we start to feel the body free as well. We'll explore the safe release of the nervous system that may be holding too much tension. We will compare that to connective tissue tension that requires more time and patience for lengthening. Also learning how to isolate the tight spot is most important. Some lecture and demonstration will be provided throughout that can be applied to any of our holding patterns. Practice, lecture, breath work and personal sharing will all be encouraged.
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Sunday May 17th Evening Practice: 6 PM- 9 PM
Resetting: The Restorative Postures:
The aim for this class will be deeply reset the nervous system by holding poses for at least 2 to 5 minutes. All poses will be supported by a liberal use of props. We will employ active techniques to engage the physical body and passive work to allow for deep relaxation of chronic holding patterns. All of this will be performed under the auspices of a deep spiritual practice. All levels and experience welcomed. We will have a brief discussion of how and why bodies are respond to this work. We'll do some breath work after the poses to further still the patterns of the mind. So come to intelligently activate our bodies to create deeper release not only muscularly but inviting the nervous system to release its hold on us when it has become overprotective. And the spiritual implications are, well... infinite. Savasana will include live music appropriate for release. We'll close class chanting kirtan to sustain our release before moving forward with a new awarenesses.
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About the Facilitator: Rich Logan has traveled the world studying and teaching massage therapy and Yoga. He has been on faculty at the Chicago School of Massage therapy and The Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. He has taught in the Indian based Teacher Training group Rishikul in their Nepal program. He has taught yoga anatomy for hundreds of teacher trainings in Chicagoland as well as workshops in the surrounding area. Rich has also been a guest speaker on Western massage techniques at the Ayurvedic College in Mysore, India. He has also taught adjustment and anatomy-oriented yoga courses for yoga teachers in Hamburg, Germany. He has presented at Wanderlust Chicago, teaching well over a thousand students in Grant Park. He was also a featured yoga presenter at Bhakti fest Midwest in Madison. He also has been performing with Kirtan groups in Chicago since 2002 as a guitarist and fronts his own group with a revolving band of world-class musicians called Akoustikirtan. A serious student of Yoga since 1998, teaching since 2001 and a meditation practitioner since 1978, Rich incorporates his knowledge of anatomy and physiology with a unique understanding of spirituality in the modern world. Rich has studied at the prestigious Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram in Madras, India with TKV Desikachar among others presiding, The Atma Vikasa in Mysore with Yogacharya V. Venkatesha and wife Acharye Hema, The Himalayan Iyengar Yoga Center near Dharamsala with Sharat Arora. Rich's significant teachers have been TKV Desikachar, Kim Schwartz, Tias Little, Aadil Palkhivala, and Anna Forrest. Rich has also assisted Tias Little in workshops as well as his Esalen retreat in 08. He continues to study under the tutelage of the enigmatic and brilliant Gabriel Halpern since 2002. Rich has been facilitating his on 200 and 300 hour trainings since 2012. A published author he is now embarking on writing a book on the Yoga sutras of Patañjali as well essays on Seeing Structure as it relates to yoga. Rich has an eclectic teaching style focusing on the seeming basics to allow for a deeper practice by sitting in some poses for extended periods and moving through other postures smoothly with deliberation attention on placing ourselves in the pose as opposed to habitual patterns and gravity running the show. A mindful practice is focused on, bringing us to the edge of ‘experience’ to ‘witness’ the moment unfolds and realize it is us who is the unfolding.