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PATH:
Yoga found me at the tail end of a nasty back injury.
I hurt myself performing in the Off-Broadway circus type show "De
La Guarda". After three years of physical therapy, a friend talked
me into taking a class at Jivamukti Yoga Center in NYC. I was hooked.
Gradually I could see myself growing stronger and becoming more flexible.
I was also becoming more aware of the connection between body and
mind, and was learning to look at my back pain instead reacting to
it.
I enrolled in a 10 day silent meditation course at The Vippasana Center
in Massachusetts. Everything has changed since then.
I returned from the Meditation course and enrolled in a 200 hour Yoga
Teacher Training program at the Sivananda Ashram in Woodbourne, NY.
I spent a month sleeping in my tent, studying The Bhagavad Gita, and
learning how Yoga is much much more than postures, strength, and flexibility.
It's a state of mind.
I started teaching right away, and soon after enrolled in the 500
hour Advanced Teacher Training also of the Sivananda lineage. Here
I studied Sanskrit, The Yoga Sutras, Pranayama, chanting, and Vedanta.
I learned advanced postures and deepened my practice in ways I hadn't
anticipated.
In addition to teaching and studying Yoga, I am also a licensed massage
therapist and a singer/songwriter with two CD's of original material.
I have a BFA in musical theater, and enjoyed a career of singing,
dancing, acting, and playing guitar for 10 years in NYC and Upstate
NY.
INSPIRATION:
I find abundant inspiration in music. I love jazz, musical theatre,
motown, and classics like Joni Mitchell, David Bowie and The Beatles.
I also find inspiration in comedy. I love laughing and remembering
not to take myself or anything too seriously. My sweetest and most
profound inspiration comes from my dog Strider.
FAVORITES FOR GROUNDING: Cleaning the house, watering and re-potting
the plants, playing guitar, singing, writing, walking in the woods,
hugging my dog, reading the Yoga sutras, massage, meditation and Yoga.
FAVORITES FOR KICKING IT: Movies, long distance phone calls to the
people I love, and anything that makes me laugh out loud.
PRACTICE: Yoga changes for me from day to day. I move from flowing
around for an hour to really hooking in on a few poses and just watching
the thoughts come up and go away. I tend to practice surrounded by
a lot of books to inspire me to try something new.
INTENTION: I want to remind people to slow down and breathe. I like
to teach students not to stress out about a perfect meditation or
a perfect posture; but to cultivate gratitude, awareness, and a light
playful quality around all of our edges and limitations. I hope to
encourage curiosity about the mind/body connection. I guide students
into meditations through a variety of postures and intentions that
enable them to explore the differences between ego and the inner observer.
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