Date: Sundays March 5, 12, 19, 26
Time: 11:00 AM. - 12:30 ET 
Admission: $75 Patreon Members / $80 General Admission

PLEASE NOTE: All classes will also be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time, but it is highly recommended you attend the classes live for the richest experience.

In this 4-week class, we will spend our Sunday mornings together in study and movement. The bulk of each 90 minute session will be devoted to studying Hindu art, literature and scripture to help us understand the meaning behind the traditional yoga asanas (poses). Art historian and yoga instructor Brenda Edgar will provide detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to come into each of the poses as we move through the presentation. Next, we will move through a yoga practice designed to be accessible to all levels of experience, in which we make constellations of our bodies by taking the forms of the gods, goddesses, sages, heroes, and animals which we have have studied.

Join us as we marvel at the multitude of divine manifestations that populate the written and visual traditions of ancient India. Our goal is to gain a rich understanding of the stories and beliefs that the asanas represent, to learn the iconography of the Indian cultures from which the practices come, and to become living representations of that imagery.

No experience is required. There are infinite modifications that can be made to all of the poses we will learn, so the physical practice can adapt to your bodily needs. People from all religious backgrounds, or no religious background, are equally welcome.

A yoga mat is required, and a strap or scarf is highly recommended. A small blanket is optional. Please wear comfortable clothing and have some water handy.

Brenda Edgar is an Art Historian in Louisville, KY. Her research interests include relics and reliquaries, medieval medical manuscripts and depictions of disease in medieval art, as well as the historical role of altered states of consciousness in the creation of art.

She is also a poet whose work has most recently appeared in the literary journals Better Than Starbucks and Rust + Moth; her poetry will also be featured in 2022 issues of The Blue Mountain Review, The Main Street Rag, and Crosswinds.

When she isn’t reading or writing, Brenda is a New York Times Crossword Puzzle addict and an avid yogi.

Her free monthly public talk series, “Art History Illustrated,” is presented at the Carnegie Center for Art and History in New Albany, Indiana.

Images:

1) Shiva as Lord of the Dance, 10^th or 11^th century, bronze.  Art Institute of Chicago, Public Domain Dedication. 

2) Gajalakshmi Being Lustrated by Elephants, c. 1780, public domain.