Yoga East Meets West

 This semester will be a unique challenge. Online learning is not an ideal delivery system (for most), so we need to take special care to get the most out of synchronous meetings and resources. Know that I have spent the summer doing my best to create digital material that will assist you, but so much more is asked of YOU if we are going to have a successful semester.  ZOOM We are meeting in real time each week on ZOOM. You need to be proficient in navigating the ZOOM app (phone) or system (on your computer).  This PDF from Humboldt University is really useful for preparing you to navigate ZOOM, and use it successfully during class.   https://media.screensteps.com/exported/humboldt/12966/163556/How_do_students_use_Zoom_.pdf Other ZOOM requirements: Please put a picture of yourself up when you set up your profile AND make sure your full name is on your camera Image (this can be set up in your profile or once you are on). ZOOM Meetings are required. Please contact me ASAP at 6092146596 (

What is Yoga?   (that depends on who you ask) "The stilling of the movements of the mind" (YS 1.2)-  Yoga is a meditative technique that brings stillness and connects one to the divine force "Skill in Action" (BG 4.22) - Yoga is one's ability to perform one's action with the utmost skill so that one might always "act" properly "Yoga is a technique which stops death"(HYP 2.16) - yogic techniques are meant to stop the natural processes of time and have one experience the eternal divine force. "Yoga is the practice of non attachment" (BG 6.15) -Yoga is the ability to perform a ll actions according to one's purpose (dharma) without regard to the consequences of these actions. "Yoga is a form of exercise which  p ractice a designed to empower you with the focus, training and insight you need to achieve consistent results in the most important areas of your life." (Baron Baptiste)-  Yoga is a form of physical culture whi

You will be REQUIRED to practice AT LEAST once a week OUTSIDE OF CLASS. Free classes are available at Yoga Nine ONLINE (Zoom) but there are many other options. After practices in class and on your own, please complete a  REFLECTIVE JOURNAL  after each practice. Here are some general questions you might consider when doing your WEEKLY journaling. Journals are submitted via your personal BLOG. You can make a blog on this format (blogger for free with a google/gmail account), or any other format. Please email me your blog address so that I can post it in this blog. If you would like your blog to be private (not available to the rest of class), please "close" access to your blog, but allow me in as a reader (you must give me access) . Blog addresses are due to me via email by September 15. Blog posts are due every FRIDAY by midnight. Each week on your syllabus, you will be given a prompt which is reflective of the class topical material, but please feel free to comment on anythin

GIS 4636 Yoga: East Meets West Laurie Greene ZOOM T/TH 10:30-12:30                             Office: ZOOM Hours: by appointment Email: laurie.greene@stockton.edu Phone: 609.214.6596 (cell)           Topic: Yoga East Meets West           Time: Sep 8, 2020 04:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)                   Every week on Tue, Thu, until Dec 17, 2020, 30 occurrence(s)           Join Zoom Meeting           https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89966497416?pwd=cjhEMGV5aWpXazA2a1dWYm9IWmE1UT09           Meeting ID: 899 6649 7416           Passcode: 456805 Summary: This course will focus on the history of Yoga in the East and its journey to the West and back again in this “age of globalization”. The course will contain six basic emphases: History and Philosophy of Traditional Yoga: The Vedas Through The Tantras Syncretism in Modern Postural Practice: East Meets West and Back again Yoga as Medicine: ayurveda, kinesiology & healing applications Mind and the Social