My Yoga Philosophy

I try to create a comfortable and laid back atmosphere in my classes and to strip yoga of some of its unfortunate stereotypes. What I like about yoga is that it connects the goings on of the brain with the goings on of the body. The technique is a well honed series of connections between our various bodily layers. Each student is able to gauge and to direct their own level of engagement. The spirituality and sense of soul or enlightened self are perhaps after effects of yoga. I'm definitely open to that possibility, but in the meantime the mechanics and the breath and smoothing out all of the transitions feels amazing and gives us increased ability to understand and deal with our own physical and mental selves.

My classes are inspired by my 9 years of training in Ashtanga Yoga, 19 years of training in dance (and various bodywork techniques) as well as my interest in psychology, anatomy and fluid alignment. By fluid alignment, I mean that there is nothing fixed and that we are in constant flux and readjustment, so what is fun in Yoga is to take a repetitive set of postures and to feel how we are different in them everyday. Instead of focusing on the aesthetics of the postures, I'm interested in the sensory change the body goes through while we are in each posture....keeping the curiosity alive.