CULTIVATE
& ENHANCE YOUR VITALITY
in Sadhana Circle Online + Teachers Circle
Yoga Practice Community
with Elizabeth Brass
It's time to build healthy habits that support you
Strengthening your body and mind by integrating yoga into your daily life.
Reconnecting to your joy by practicing yoga in a way that confirms you're helping yourself.
Healing your pains, steadying your nerves, and improving your energy with yoga.
Trying to do it all alone is difficult
What if you could have a consistent yoga practice that fits into your busy life, giving you time and energy for the people and commitments you love?
What if you could get off the health roller-coaster, feeling run down and overwhelmed, and step onto the solid ground of knowledge of what you need?
What if you could feel confident because you understand how your yoga practice can help you stay balanced, when unexpected challenges, illnesses, or injuries strike?
What if you could explore the breath and depth of yoga, guided in a kind and supportive community?
If your answer is, "sounds great to me," then I'm happy to invite you to join Sadhana Circle Online, and if you're a yoga teacher, you can also join the Teachers Circle and start feeling better physically and mentally today!
BOOST ENERGY
Focus on your strength, flexibility, and mobility in asana and your energy will lift. Also, learn and practice pranayama
techniques to bolster and stabilize your life force.
SOOTH NERVES
Understand what yoga postures and sequences to do when life's challenges affect your body, mind, nerves, + heart. Therapeutic yoga will ease your recovery.
SUPPORT PLAN
Integrate yoga into everyday life with live + recorded classes, Q+A's, and a private Facebook Group. Your community will help you stay on the yoga path.
RESTORE HEALTH
You will learn tools for creating self-healing with Iyengar yoga therapy. Personal empowerment comes with targeted and thoughtful daily practice.
The way to weave yoga into your life
We live complicated lives and at the same time crave peace of mind and vibrant health.
From my 30 years of teaching Iyengar yoga, I've created this unique online yoga program for experienced yoga practitioners.
It includes:
- Monthly live 2-hour workshops,
- Monthly live 1-hour Q +A sessions,
- Weekly motivational emails,
- A membership portal filled with class recordings + resources,
- A private Facebook group.
Sadhana Circle and Teachers Circle will help you continually renew your love of yoga and have a more easeful relationship with life.
Over thirty years of teaching yoga experience
That's right - I've taught yoga for more than thirty years!
I started practicing yoga and teaching yoga, both in unremarkable ways. When I was nineteen-years old, a friend recommended her yoga teacher, saying, "she uses the Sanskrit names of the poses." At the time, I was studying Anthropology and Dance in New York City and was intrigued by an American yoga teacher using Sanskrit words. I thought that she must really know something if she knows Sanskrit!
My first yoga class was my introduction to Iyengar yoga, nearly forty years ago, and I haven't stopped since that day. I never thought about teaching yoga. When I was twenty-five years old, I was teaching dance to children, and the owner of the studio where I worked said, "You do yoga, right?' I said I did and she told me that the yoga teacher was pregnant and she needed someone to substitute while she was on maternity leave. I asked my yoga teacher if I could teach and she said, "sure." So I started teaching and then joined her yoga teacher's training.
I received my first yoga teaching certificate, Introductory (now called Level 1), in 1996 in the United States. In 2000, I moved to Berlin, Germany, (fell in love... why else?!) and have taken five more teaching exams, which included anatomy and physiology, yoga philosophy, yoga therapy, teaching skills, and the demonstration of asanas and pranayama. I have a Senior Intermediate 2 (Level 3) certificate and also mentor teachers and assess teaching exams in Germany and other countries in Europe. I'm also a certified yoga therapist with the International Association of Yoga Therapists.
When I think about why I've taught and practiced yoga all these years, I always think about something an old art teacher told me. He said that everything we do in life is by invitation. Either someone invites us or we invite ourselves. Years ago, I was invited by my friend to try yoga and by my old boss to teach yoga. Both times, I said yes. By saying yes, I changed the course of and joy in my life in countless ways.
And it's been my life's work, ever since, to send the invitation to yoga out.
A tool kit for healing and compassion
Iyengar yoga is both methodical and creative!
Within class and from class to class, the safe and systematic progression of asanas—demonstrated with specific teaching points, fosters intelligent action—developing each student’s strength, flexibility, stamina, and alignment.
Individual corrections, adjustments, and variations are one of the unique hallmarks of Iyengar yoga. Rather than emphasizing the outer appearance of the asana, my interest is in the inner experience of the practice. Alignment simply means balance, in body and mind. The teachings are there to guide us deeper on the yoga path, and closer to ourselves.
In the Sadhana Circle Online, you get, in addition to the monthly classes and Q + A sessions, extra resources, guidance, and personal feedback on your practice. There are opportunities to ask for individual help through private practice chats or private lessons. We stay in contact throughout the month in my weekly emails and, for those on Facebook, in a private group.
In the Teachers Circle, yoga teachers gather together to discuss topics like how to help students with specific problems and how to navigate teaching yoga in today's world and its varied challenges. It's a wonderfully supportive and international group of experienced yoga teachers.
Everything you'll need for the journey!
Strategy + Guidance
You will have a schedule for our monthly meetings planned for 2023. Throughout the month, you will have the chance to ask questions about your yoga practice and how to stay inspired and joyous with practice. You will get clear insight into how' to integrate yoga therapy into your daily routine and boost your vitality.
Accountability + Support
We will be in close contact throughout the month. In live classes, question and answer sessions, private Facebook Group, and via weekly emails, I will be there with you to meet your goals and needs. I will be checking in regularly to make sure that you're benefiting from the membership and feel connected to your practice.
Training + Sequences
Every month, we'll have a live class -either Saturday morning or Sunday afternoon. After the class there will be live Q +A. If you miss a live session, you can listen to the recordings and send your questions beforehand so you'll get your questions answered. You'll also get extra bonus sequences and motivations to keep you exploring your yoga.
When you join, you get these amazing bonuses!
Practice for Deep Depression for Experienced Students
There are many kinds of depression. Iyengar yoga takes into account these differences when designing a practice to lift spirits and balance your mood. Experienced yoga practitioners have the potential to adapt their yoga sequences and asanas significantly to address deep depression. This sequence and accompanying practice information will get you moving and raise you up when you need it.
Overview of Yoga for Women Cycles
Yoga for women, according to the Iyengar system, integrates women's cycles and all life stages. This 30+ page booklet will give you the basics you need on how to adapt your monthly practice cycle according to your hormones. Extra tips on PMS and menopause are given so you understand how yoga can help through all of life's cycles!
Sequences for General Back Care
At some point, we all need to learn about back care. Whether we sit at a desk for long hours or are on our feet all day, our back health, strength, and mobility are important. These easy-to follow sequences, one long and one short, are designed to help you understand how to maintain a healthy back and to care for it when pain or injury occurs.
Overview of Yoga for Women Cycles
Yoga for women, according to the Iyengar system, integrates women's cycles and all life stages. This overview will give you the basics you need about how to adapt your monthly practice cycle according to your hormones. Extra tips on PMS and menopause will be given so you understand how yoga can help through all of life's cycles!
Hear from your fellow yogis...
So you know that you're in good hands
"Sadhana Circle deepens my understanding of Yoga and gives me an insight into other peoples practices especially when practice needs to be adjusted. I love Elizabeth's knowledge, wisdom, kindness, openess, devotion, belief."
- Kris S
"Sadhana Circle motivates me to deepen my yoga practice. Elizabeth has an intake to yoga that stimulates to continue."
- Marja K
"I enjoy the accountability of meeting with a specific group each month and I love the realness and enthusiasm of Elizabeth's teaching."
- Athanasia Tsavalas
"I enjoy having the scheduled meetings and being able to go back to practice again and study and take notes. Also, it is very useful with the Q&A - and when you watch it offline afterwards. I feel my own practice has improved since I joined Sadhana Circle. It gives me a kind of anchor, and helps me not to dig into the rabbit holes of the internet with offers of practices, videos etc. It is easier for me to focus."
-Mette Olesen, Yoga Teacher, Denmark
"Thanks for your support. I particularly appreciate how compassionate you are, even when your lessons are challenging. I am learning a lot from you, and not only technically."
-Lorena Simonetto, Yoga Teacher, Italy
"It is indeed my yoga community, thanks to the energy created by Elizabeth in the first place! Practicing together once a month and discussing our issues is essential for me. Thank you for your knowledge, wisdom, empathy--and support!"
-Metka Zupančič, Yoga Teacher, Slovenia
"It's good to have a set date for the practice. It forces me to make time which I don't always do. My favourite part is learning more in depth about the poses. Elizabeth is a great empathic teacher who explains very well and she suggests variation for specific problems."
- Helen Weichmann
"Elizabeth's commitment and ability to meet the students genuinely creates this supportive community. Her experience and ability to guide from there. Her way of incorporating daily life into yoga practice, making yoga the holistic practice I deeply resonate with."
- Bente Elvemo
"I love Liz's emails, they really help me analyze some aspects of yoga and the ways it affects your life and, for a raw beginner like I am, it's sometimes tough. I love our sessions even though I don't participate all the time. Elizabeth is very sweet but also "strong" in her teaching. She listens to us and always gives us an alternative/a solution to our specific problem. The sharing after the lesson with the rest of the group is always a plus."
- Chiara Gennari
"Sadhana Circle is more than in normal class, I have the feeling of community and really appreciate your weekly emails. They continue to inspire me to stay with Yoga. I'm so grateful to have encountered you as a teacher. Only through your classes have I understood that Yoga is not about building physical skills but about getting in touch with myself. And I feel that I'm on this path now, which helps me in all kinds of situations."
-Anett Hein, Germany
"I have enjoyed every minute I have dedicated to the classes, and love receiving your e-mails every Monday! They are truly inspiring and always seem to be perfect for the moment I am going through. Just so grateful to have found you!"
-Elizabeth Harris, UK
"I find it is very supportive to know that we have meetings every month. Even though I practice otherwise, it gives another frame. Just to say thank you for this immense work you are doing, the energy you bring to your teaching is really inspiring. It makes sense of what yoga can bring to our lives."
-Nolwenn Le Martelot, Yoga Teacher, France
"My experience: the emails are a very good reminder. I like that they come weekly and I always read them. It gives a feeling of being part of the group on a regular basis, not just once a month for the classes. I appreciate the content that varies from pure yoga to life wisdom, which is the important connection or bridge I always look for. The variety of classes is very good, always such different focus areas, always expanding for me."
-Bente Elvemo, Yoga Teacher, Norway
"I enjoy seeing and being with everyone in the Sadhana Circle, it is always a highlight for me. It is inspiring and connects me on a deep level with myself, trusting myself, seeing how we as a group come together just by devotion and a shared vision of what we cherish in life, our Yoga practice (coming from all these different places)."
-Kristina Schroeder, Germany
Is the membership right for you?
Sadhana Circle Online is a good fit if...
- You've been studying yoga and want to deepen your practice.
- You want to learn how to adapt asanas and sequences according to different kinds of health conditions.
- You're open to getting feedback on your yoga poses and practice.
- You're ready to expand your horizon about on how yoga can impact your life, health, and wellbeing.
- You're love to commit more time to yoga and are ready to go for it.
- You want to think about how and what you practice and understand how it effects you.
Sadhana Circle Online is not a good fit if...
- You've never done yoga or have little experience.
- You want to practice the same yoga poses in the same way and order everyday.
- You want to do yoga without a lot of guidance or feedback.
- You're not really interested in yoga or working with yoga props.
- You want instant results. Iyengar yoga is a practice that requires time and patience.
- You're not really interested in the effects of different poses, you just want to do them.
Not sure if it's right for you? Ask before you join...
Your investment in your yoga journey is just...
The Sadhana Circle Monthly Rate
Pay 32 € per month (for as long as you stay in the membership)
Your investment includes:
- Monthly training, guidance, and inspiration for your yoga practice.
- Yoga sequences and modifications so you can both practice anytime and anywhere and know what poses are right for you.
- Live and recorded yoga classes focusing on diverse themes, question and answer sessions, and a private Facebook Group.
- Weekly Emails with tips and motivations for your yoga practice.
- A yoga community to support you.
The Teachers Circle Upgrade
Pay 17 € per month + your Sadhana Circle Monthly Rate
Your investment includes:
- Everything in Sadhana Circle + Monthly 1-hour Q&A just for teachers
- Feedback, support, and input for your teaching practice.
- Focus on methods to support yoga teachers that inspire and nourish.
- Discussions on questions and themes that affect new and experienced yoga teachers.
- A peer-driven group that meets the needs of the participants.
- A committed yoga teacher community.
Here's what my students think about the membership...
"I love your Monday morning letters! These thougts and feelings of being together with other practitioners over the world gives a feeling of not being alone.
Deep teaching about being not only a body but also mind and spirit."
- Kaisu
"I have no access to an Iyengar class or teacher where I live, so the Sadhana Circle provides that for me. I use the recordings as much as possible. It helps me to keep feeling like a student while being a teacher and keeps me curious. As a teacher I find Elizabeth very clear and easy to follow, I also really like her friendly, welcoming and inclusive energy. I love the weekly emails!!"
- Gita Wolhuter
"I love being a part of a community. I appreciate Elizabeth's expertise and welcoming attitude. Very skillful teaching and lovely approach. I also think the portal is really good."
- Ruth Galinsky
"It's supporting and inspiring my yoga practice. I like the community and the workshops and the possibility to ask questions. I like that Elizabeth is encouraging everybody to practice according to their conditions and their needs. I like the workshop character to dive deeper into a theme."
- Birgit
So what are you waiting for?
32€
monthly as long as you stay in the membership +
You can add on 17€ for the Teachers Circle when joining
FAQ's
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Do I need to have experience with yoga?
Yes. This membership is designed for people who have already learned yoga in-person with an experienced teacher for a minimum of one year consistent study.
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Do I need to have experience with Iyengar yoga?
It's recommended that you have prior experience of Iyengar yoga, also for a minimum one year consistent study. If you're not sure if your yoga experience is enough, please get in contact.
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What about if I injuries or health problems?
Please contact Elizabeth directly and let her know about your concerns or questions. We will discuss together if this membership is right for you.
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How much time will I need for the membership?
We have a 1x per month live 2-hour class + 1 hour question and answer session. Since it's online and everything will be recorded you can practice at your own pace. It's recommend though whenever possible to attend the live sessions and practice with the recordings as often as you can to make the most of the membership. You will also receive weekly support via email.
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When are the live sessions?
Our 1x month live classes are followed by question + answer sessions. We alternate monthly between Saturday morning, 9:00am-12:00pm CET and Sunday afternoon, 2:00-5:00pm CET to include people from many time zones. The Teachers Circle Q&A is always on Sunday evening, 7:30-8:30pm CET, the same weekend as the Sadhana Circle monthly workshop.
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What if I can't attend all the live sessions?
All sessions will be recorded so you can catch up at any time! And you can send in your questions so they'll get answered and recorded even if you miss a session.
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What is your refund policy?
Sadhana Circle Online is a membership that has a 3 month minimum commitment, before moving onto a rolling monthly membership that you can cancel at anytime.
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What if I'm not on Facebook, can I still particpate?
Yes! There is a private Facebook Group for Sadhana Circle Online members to access uploads and ask questions between classes. You will also receive everything via email and send any questions back that for support and have access to a membership portal that has everything you'll need.
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Do I need special yoga equipment at home?
Yes, you will need at least 1 yoga mat, a yoga belt, minimum 3 yoga blankets, 2 yoga blocks. If possible, a yoga bolster and yoga chair are also recommended.
Got More Questions?
Get in touch
If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to get in touch-I'd love to hear from you! I'm also available to chat over zoom or phone. Just fill out the below form or message me on Facebook here.
Transformation is sustained change and is achieved through practice - B.K.S. Iyengar
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