Maa yoga celebrates and supports the Ocean Film Festival by offering this free workshop for all those who buy a ticket to the festival through our website. During this workshop we will practice together honoring our oceans and flowing within ourselves aiming to Matsyasana.
Buy a ticket for the Ocean Film Festival with a special code here . Your ticket will give you access to the festival, and the workshop. You will also be supporting the Pacific Salmon Foundation and the Seymour Salmonid Society.
About the Ocean Film Festival
This year the Ocean Film Festival World tour celebrates 10 years of inspiring, educating and protecting oceans around the globe. The program showcasing films from independent filmmakers worldwide, has been hosted annually in 14 countries over a 10 year period, touching countless lives in and out of the ocean. Currently touring around the world North Vancouver is next to carry the baton for the first time. This year's carefully curated selection of short films will inspire everyone to get involved in more ocean activities for fun and to protect its wonders you will be taken on an international tour of spectacular stories that celebrate the beauty and power of the ocean and honour divers, surfers, oceanographers and marine life.
Visit the Festival & Watch the Trailer HERE
About Matsyasana
This yoga asana is dedicated to Matsya, the fish avatar of Lord Vishnu, who is the source and maintainer of the universe and all things. It’s related that once the whole earth was corrupt and was about to be overwhelmed by a universal flood. Lord Vishnu took the form of a fish and warned Manu (Hindu Adam) of impending calamity. The fish then carried Manu, his family and the seven great sages in a vessel, tied a horn to his head. It also saved the Vedas from floods.
Fish Pose (Matsyasana) is a beginner level backbend practiced in the supine position. Here the back is curved and the shoulders are pressed against the ground, deeply opening the chest. The crown of the head is gently rested, bringing a nice stretch in the front of the neck while the legs remain stretched straight, with the toes pointing outward. As a result, the pose targets the neck, throat, shoulders, chest, back, rib cage, and abdomen.
The name Matsyasana is derived from the Sanskrit words: Matsya meaning Fish and Asana meaning Pose. This pose allows the body to float quite easily like a fish, hence the name if carried out in the water.
About marta vergara
Marta is passionate about traveling. It is for her a way of apprehending herself in the world. Her very life has been a journey in which she has inhabited different territories.
As a Master of Public Policy, apprentice cook, outdoor enthusiastic and mountaineer and diver, a Certified (level 3) Iyengar yoga teacher and Tibetan Buddhism practitioner, and mother of three, she has sought to capture all the good in life.
Determinedly adventurous, curious, and eager to continue apprehending, she flows and finds meaning serving others, transforming her environment. On her encounter with yoga, she discovered another form of journey, the inner one towards self-discovery. Yoga as a path to the expansion of consciousness through work with the body, an experience that seeks to transcend in its teaching.
Ocean Film Festival ticket $28 + FREE workshop
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