Workshop Overview
This 3-hour workshop introduces rope work, or yoga korunta, which is an important part of the Iyengar practice. Rope work is both challenging and fun. This workshop is dedicated to learning how to use wall ropes and incorporate them into your practice. No prior rope experience is necessary. This workshop is suitable for students who have been practicing yoga for at least a few months or for teachers that want to incorporate rope work into their classes.

Wall ropes can be applied in standing poses, forward bends, back bends and inversions and in this workshop, you’ll explore the different ways you can use them to enhance your yoga practice. The first way wall ropes enhance your practice is because they can make a specific action or direction easier to understand. Secondly, since wall ropes help you isolate different parts of the body, they can be used as either support in a pose by providing traction or can help you strengthen an area by providing resistance. They can also be used as pulleys or extensions to help you lengthen your spine and elongate various muscles. Finally, wall ropes can help you to go deeper into a pose or to ease the challenge of a pose, which is why they are often used in restorative or therapeutic yoga.

Bring cycling or weightlifting gloves if you want.

About Betty
Betty Roi, a native of Paris, France, moved to the Bay area in June, 1983, to study jazz vocals and music. She then discovered yoga in 1986, and has been practicing and studying since then, and teaching internationally since 1989. She attended the advanced studies program at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in San Francisco, where she learned from many senior Iyengar teachers. Additionally, she has studied Astanga yoga since 1991, Anusara since 2001, and is a certified Integrative Yoga Therapist (1995).

Betty’s background includes 20 years of dance, theater and voice training, performing both in Europe and in the Bay area. She released her first cd entitled “Enchante” in 1999.

Betty’s teaching is richly influenced by her life experiences in the performing arts, as well as nourished by her lifelong commitment to being a student and to heal. Betty is also inspired by her practice of Buddhist vipassana meditation, primarily with Jack Kornfield and Ajahn Amaro. She has been blessed to study with many great teachers, including Ramanand Patel, Rodney Yee, Richard Freeman, T. K. V. Desikachar, Rod Stryker, Aadil Palkhivala, Donna Farhi, Sarah Powers, Judith Lasater, Patricia Walden, Ana Forrest, Joe LePage, Manouso Manos, Shandor Remete and Desiree Rumbaugh. Betty is currently a dedicated student of John Friend and Sianna Sherman.