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Kibutz Ketora

Kibbutz Ketura offers rustic accommodation in a pastoral desert atmosphere for groups, families and couples, from Israel and from abroad. In the kibbutz’s guesthouse “Keren Kolot” (“Ray of Sounds”) there are 44 spacious and cozy guestrooms – couples’ rooms, family rooms, suites and large apartments for rent. The rooms are designed and furnished for the guests’ comfort. Each room has an accessorized kitchenette with a coffee kit, milk, cookies and seasonal fruit, a bedroom with a comfortable double bed, cable TV, and a spacious and cozy bathroom. The exit to the resort’s courtyard leads to wide lawns and cozy shaded sitting corners. The lobby of “Keren Kolot” offers the guests free wireless internet connection, a “Cup’o’Joe” coffee shop which serves high quality cakes, home-made cookies, soft drinks, snacks, ice cream and light meals. The lobby also serves as a gallery with photographs, jewelry and atmosphere lamps, all made by the artists of the kibbutz. The resort guests are welcome to a walk around the kibbutz, to the swimming pool (during the season), to the sports courts, and to the amusement rides for kids. The meals are served at the kibbutz’s communal dining room. Also at Ketura – a solar energy park with various devices for producing energy from the sun.

The vital principals of Yoga as a Rubik’s cube

The Seven vital Principles of Yoga - Relaxation, Quieting of the mind, Intent, Rooting, Connecting, Breathing, Elongation and Expansion, are the pillars of the Vijanana Yoga practice.
At the same time, they stands as pillars for any other well-made Yoga practice, regardless of systems and names.
There is logic behind the order of appearance of the principals, which helps us reach alignment and a certain body-mind state.
However, is this necessarily the only possible order? The number of ways to solve a Rubik’s (Hungarian) Cube is enormous and for the solution, we use qualities of observation, curiosity, thought and play.
In the practice of Yoga, The body itself becomes a Rubik’s cube.
Playing is the quality that prevents the practice from falling into areas of boredom and rigid patterns.
During the workshop, this playing quality will be applied to all parts of the practice: sitting, breathing and asana. Practitioners who are not familiar with the principles will gain significant tools to enhance their personal practice.
In addition to the practice, we will have a philosophical class about the Subject (the observer) and Object through quotations from various texsts from different periods.

Language: Hebrew and English

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Mindfulness through a flow
Our day to day is one never-ending movement of gestures, behaviors and decisions. The movement pulls us forward, meets us with moments that are happening around us and allows us to respond to them. Life in the western world has taught us to do the opposite: shut down, gather in, put on an armor until anger rages. We have all learned to "hold our breath" whenever we are uncomfortable, not simply with the moment presented to us. Try for a moment now, while reading,to take a deep breath: Notice how much work went into that moment, and how the body responded to this gesture you made. For it / For you. We will explore this breath through integrated Vinyasa exercises with Mindfulness. Mindfulness is the discourse we have with ourselves, as we practice inner conversation, introspection, we can encounter moments we produce instead of feeling the moments and impulses controlling us. We will examine yogis ideas and paradigms in the prism of western every day life. Sometimes we let yoga become a physical exercise and forget that the Asanas are actually a window to a much deeper mental and spiritual work. How our ability to teach ourselves to move within the body, produce listening, produce conscious, compassionate and breathing, can help us not only on the mat but also (and perhaps mostly) outside the mat. In the workshop, we will look at our ability to take the basics of yoga and assimilate them into our day to day: stressed day at work, meeting traffic jams, family and couple life, inviting abundance and more. In the workshop we will delve into the following content:

* Endless movement, the ability to produce vigorously integrated Vinyasa and produce conscious breathing within intense movement.

* Investigation of the Asanas, posture, proper work within the postures. Sometimes habit causes us to make movements out of the body's desire to want and not feel. Let's look at the difference between them.

* Yama and Nyama, the yogic principles and "laws". How "laws" written thousands of years ago are significant to our daily lives here and now.

* Work on strength and flexibility: In yoga we must do a joint work of strength and flexibility in order to produce correct and useful Asanas. We will understand the connection and listening required for this.

* 8 limbs of yoga by Patanjali, the way in which the Ashtanga Yoga was created as we know it today. We will explore the origins and non-necessarily physical contexts of yoga.

* Gathering in as meditation, gratitude as meditation
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