A Classic View of Yoga

Its Ethics, Practices and Beliefs

Thursday, September 21, 2023 | 5 PM | in the Chapel

With Certified Yoga Instructors, Roberta Strickler &
Sandra Orndorff

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Perhaps you are curious about the mysteries and lifestyle of a yogi. Maybe you understand that yoga is more than the ability to twist one’s body into an outrageous pretzel shape, but don’t know what that really means. Or, perhaps you’ve participated in some studies of classic Indian or Hindu texts such as the Bhagavad Gita and want to know more about this notion of yoga.

Whatever your motivation, you can learn about the yogic framework that the sage Patanjali laid out over 2000 years ago which still is in use today. That framework, known as The 8 Limbs of Classical Yoga, enables yogis all over the world to

  • Live their inner and outer lives with a perspective on doing good both for themselves and others
  • Understand for yourself and to share with others, the concepts of contentment, concentration, truthfulness, self-study and constant awareness of a higher reality - to name just a few.

For this evening, come dressed in comfortable clothes, be prepared to sit, listen, discuss and perhaps move around a bit. And, to continue the conversation and build your own connections with like-minded people, please join us for a wonderful Bhutanese dinner at Norbu* Restaurant immediately following the workshop.

*Dinner at Norbu includes choice of protein, lentil soup, 3 veggie sides, 2 chutneys and onion rings, rice and poppadum and drink: $23, including tax and gratuity.

About Roberta Strickler

Roberta has been teaching yoga as therapy, mindfulness meditation, and Ayurveda in central Pennsylvania since 1995. That same year, she earned her first certificate as a yoga teacher from the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, MA. For the next 12 years, she continued her yoga studies to include Anusara Yoga, a Iyengar-based style of yoga known for its elegant language and therapeutic principles of alignment. She has also studied mindfulness meditation with Jon Kabat-Zinn.

Roberta sees the goal of modern yoga to be the relaxation of the body, so the mind can be stilled for the practice of meditation. She has taught yoga for mindfulness-based stress reduction and yoga for breast cancer survivors, other cancers and cardiac events.

Her approach to yoga and meditation integration along side of Ayurveda, balance, physical rehabilitation, and well being, have dominated her private teaching throughout the past ten years.