Limited Capacity seats available
Land Excursion with Taylor Kurz - note: this is a paid excursion. If your pass includes an On the Land experience go to "On the Land" (green) sessions and choose one. If you would like to add an excursion to your weekend please visit www.sedonayogafestival.com/purchase-tickets and register for a single excursion.
Session Description:
Kundalini yoga is an ancient science that purifies the channels, strengthens the nervous system, brings endocrine balance, and sharpens the intuition. It is a powerful tool for everyone that endeavors to come into a palpable resonance of the frequency of truth, love, joy, and dharma. Access the experience of your full potential to feel lighter, brighter, inspired, more joy and vitality. Let's clear out out any density that may cause oscillation in moods, energy levels, and sense of purpose. If it is a challenge to be consistent with choices that promote the genuine best and highest for yourself, the reason is because the vast majority of what we do is based on our habits (many of which don't serve). We must de-hypnotize our programming through our attention, devotion, and discipline. We do this by consciously working with the breath, body, and psyche to make a substantive change in life. In bringing life force to the density, and keeping up with the practice, we realize the deep place of understanding and contentment that is always the undercurrent of our experience- even when life offers us painful or challenging times. This give us tools to keep up, therefore not give up, and see things through to the other side in grace. By changing the life force environment, the energy of creation, vitality, balance, and pure potential circulates through to de-hypnotize and reprogram the psyche, and thus, instilling an direct connection to the intuitive nature, and release the distraction to anything that pulls us out of our center. Navigate with ease and trust, experience why you have come forth in this life, purify stagnancy, uplift the heart, clarify the mind, stand with majesty, and realize this life is sanctified.
Bio: Taylor Kurz, Kirtan Gopal Kaur (E-RYT 200, RYT-500) has been a student of yoga since 2002 and is currently studying as an Ayurvedic Practioner with an emphasis in Pancha Karma and clinical yoga therapy. Taylor leads sadhana along side of being a coteacher in Seven Centers yoga teacher trainings. As an initiate into the Sivananda linage, she received her first 200 hour Hatha Yoga Teacher certification in Uttarakhand, India, in 2010. Upon returning to the United States, she had the honor of being a karma yogi at Seven Centers, to later study and complete their 200 hour Hatha program. Her studies continued with the center, completing her 500 hour certification, encompassing an Ayurvedic and therapeutic emphasis; this was followed by a 200 hour Kundalini teacher certification. Taylor is an outdoor enthusiast, perpetual student, plant and animal lover, hiking guide, chanter, and artist. Her passions lie in yoga, Auyrveda, plant medicine, Eastern Philosophy and Vedic Science, astrology, and somatics. The foundation of her classes, depending on what style is taught, are either Hatha-based, or Kundalini, as taught by Yogi Bhajan, and Tantric Kundalini, as taught by Swami Satyananda Sataswati. She values sharing from her personal experience to bestow an integral, and Sattvic approach and discipline to practicing and teaching. In pursuit of sharing sacred knowledge and integrating the teachings, we can use this spark to illumine the brilliance of bringing balance to the physical and esoteric bodies. There is a cyclical interplay of working with the body to gain control of the mind and prana, to experience the unchanging truth that is within and without each of us eternally. She is honored to be both a vessel for the teachings, and a student of her students.
Requirements & Preparation: Mobility & fitness level: All participants must be capable of hiking 2-3 miles on uneven surfaces as well as navigate various gradients of terrain without the assistance of a walking aid or third party. Each participant must maintain a current health level that is conducive to hiking at 4000 + elevation without preexisting health conditions that could jeopardize the safety of self or others.