Blake’s style is influenced by Angela Farmer and Victor Van Kooten, Erich Schiffmann, Kripalu and Integral Yoga systems, and Ti Harmony. Blake digs classical yoga and alignment but is finding that feeling deeper into the body, playing with energy and the breath, and feeling and allowing emotions to surface all during the physical practice is where the healing really begins to take place. Blake survived a plane crash in the mountains of Colorado at 16 and has found yoga and meditation to be the most powerful and empowering tool for dealing with the effects of trauma, stress, pain and change. Blake completed teacher training with Ti Harmony in 2010 and is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT®) with the Yoga Alliance.

Blake is also the host of the Full Lotus Kirtan Show on Carrboro's community radio station, WCOM 103.5 FM, featuring music from yoga's devotional side. Read more about and from him in this Spotlight on Blake.

CLASSES: Deep Roots Yoga, Tuesdays, 5:45–7:00 p.m; Thursdays, 7:15–8:30 p.m.

Blake's teaching style is unique, funny, heart warming, and powerful. While his teaching style has become his own, he has certainly been influenced by Angela Farmer and Victor Van Kooten, Judith Lasater, Gary Kraftsow, B. K. S. Iyengar, Anusara Yoga, Integral Yoga, Kripalu yoga, yin yoga, restorative yoga, and Ti Harmony and Molly Drake (local legends in Chapel Hill, NC). Blake will use whatever tools are at his disposal for any given class from ecstatic movement to yin postures to flowing sequences to qi gong to Native American ritual to chanting and so on. Key to his approach is that the poses are "medicines" and we must stop "doing" so much within them. We must receive these medicines that remove unnecessary fear from our bodies and lives. We must show up. His classes are part yoga class, part intervention, using the context and practice of yoga to awaken all of us out of the tight, fear-driven lives of our evolutionary past and into the emerging global consciousness of love. The full manifestation of this teaching he calls Deep Roots Yoga and offers classes and workshops in this approach. Blake completed yoga teacher training from Ti Harmony's Go Deep Training in 2010, Judith Lasater's Relax and Renew Restorative Yoga Teacher Training in 2011, and has studied with many great teachers. He is a registered teacher with the Yoga Alliance (RYT). Blake is also the host of radio shows Rise and Shine and the internationally popular Full Lotus Kirtan Show on WCOM 103.5FM in Carrboro, NC. Visit his website, BlakeTedder.net.