Bernie Clark
With a bachelors degree in science from the University of Waterloo, Bernie Clark has been teaching yoga and meditation since 1998.
His combination of passion with scientific investigation creates a wholly unique approach that keep his students coming back. Calling Vancouver, Canada his home, Bernie regularly conducts workshops and teacher trainings through the year on top of his normal yoga and meditation classes at the Semperviva yoga Studios.
Bernie Clark's natural curiosity fuels his ongoing studies into mythology, comparative religions, and psychology. These avenues of exploration clarify his understanding and deepen his appreciation of the ancient Eastern practices of yoga and meditation. His teaching, workshops and books have helped many students broaden their own understanding of health, life and the source of true joy.
Bernie's yoga practice encompasses the hard, yang-styles, such as Ashtanga and Power yoga, and the softer, Yin-styles, as exemplified in Yin yoga. He is the author of YinSights: A Journey into the Philosophy & Practice of Yin Yoga, The Complete Guide to Yin Yoga, and From the Gita to the Grail.
35 classes found
Bernie Clark
Yin Yoga for Runners
Nourish and rebuild the muscles and joints, making them stronger, longer, and ready for your next run.
Bernie Clark
The Yin-Side of Letting Go
This insightful yin yoga practice provides space and time to let go of tension: physically, emotionally, and psychologically. By relaxing into yin poses for several minutes at a time interwoven with poignant, metaphorical stories, this class brings to light the value in finding stillness, in the body as well as the mind. Leave the practice feeling open in your hips, side body, and more important, peaceful in your mind.
Bernie Clark
What Stops Us?
Explore the two major causes of our edges in a yoga posture: tension and compression. Edges in yoga or in life are stopping points, places we just can’t seem to get past. Dive into the inquiry of “what is stopping me?” and discover how skillful action may not be to go further at all, but to accept where we already are.
Bernie Clark
Mindfulness Directed at the Body
Embody the "here and now" as you're guided through this fluid and supported yin practice.
Bernie Clark
Yin Yoga: A Rest and Digest Practice
This practice will explore how to use yoga and breath to turn off the stress and start to rest and recharge the body.
Bernie Clark
Yin and Yang for Your Hips
This practice from Bernie Clark uses both long-held yin yoga postures as well as more dynamic yang-style asanas to bring health into your hips. We need stress in our joints to keep them healthy, our hips are no exception.
The Balanced You
Day 20: Air
The three marks of existence - suffering, impermanence and selflessness - are motivating factors for many of life's decisions, whether or not we're conscious of it. In this opening Yin practice with Bernie Clark, he invites us to explore these characteristics of human life as we move through liberating hip openers and spinal flexion and extension. Get ready to go deep.
Bernie Clark
Mini Yin Yoga Practice for the Spine
This practice is for those who are short on time and still need a deep rest mentally. Work the energy lines along the back of the body and explore postures that include forward bends, backbends, and hip openers.
Bernie Clark
Mini Yin Yoga Practice for the Hips
This practice is great for people who are short of time and need a deep rest mentally, but also want to work to open the hips and lower back.
Bernie Clark
Yin Yoga for the Upper Body
Explore the benefits of yin yoga for the upper body, targeting the deeper connective tissues of the hands, arms, neck, and shoulders.
Bernie Clark
The Yin Side of Energy
Take time to direct your attention to your energy body, stimulating the flow of energy and removing blockages with flowing exercises and long-held postures. Enjoy a slow-paced meditation on energy combined with storytelling and science.
Bernie Clark
There's No Place Like Aum
Lie down, chill out, and enjoy this slow practice of deep relaxation. Discover what it means to find stillness, to listen to the universal sound of Aum, while supporting the spinal column.
Bernie Clark
Happy Yin Happy Hips
This Yin Yoga class with Bernie Clark is focused on the hips physically but will also offer an investigation into joy: its causes and misunderstandings. The intention will be to develop a path to joy during our practice, so that we can take this path anytime we wish.
Bernie Clark
Hanumanasana: The Splits
Bernie Clark leads this class which works towards the goal pose called Hanumanasana: the Splits. To perform the splits there are three main areas of the body that need to be woken up and warmed up: the hamstrings; the quadriceps and hip flexors; and the lower back. We will work these areas gently at first and then more deeply.
Bernie Clark
Warrior Two Family Yoga Poses
A mini workshop to explore postures that stem from warrior II, such as extended side angle and triangle pose. Learn proper alignment of these hip opening postures.
Bernie Clark
Exploration of Existence
This practice is physically focused on the hips and spine, but also offers an investigation of the Three Characteristics of Existence found in the Buddha’s teachings.
Bernie Clark
Loosen Up in Stages
Bernie Clark discusses the safety of Yoga and Desikachar’s philosophy of loosen up in stages before lingering in the stress of the pose’s final state. This video is intended to guide your deeper into your vinyasa practice to find safe and enjoyable poses.
Bernie Clark
Physical Benefits: Mobilizing and Lubricating the Joints
Looking at the Physical benefits of Yoga, Bernie Clark discusses how joints are made of connective tissues that have a tendency to contract: these are the yin-like tissues. Within 3 weeks of no stress, the tissues weaken, get reabsorbed and shrink. However too much stress can degenerate the joints, so we pay attention to engaging the muscles to reduce the yang kind of stress on joints.
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