Service Description

The second 2-week seminar will focus more on the Dhanda, a staff which has great significance in India. We will be using the Dhanda to emphasize more complicated postures. If you look closely at the American Medical Associations symbol it is a Dhanda or staff with a coiling serpent as a symbol of health. That is how the spine coils around the Dhanda or staff. As we experience the more difficult postures such as twisting the spine it is imperative to understand correct alignment. To train the muscles and nerves properly we will be using the coiling serpent series in Dhanda yoga. This twisting of the spine generates a wringing sensation or current. This is necessary to learn properly because it is used in the more complicated Hanthawaddy yoga forms. The use of the Dhanda and these forms are powerful for activating the trance state. This is the higher goal of yoga