Yoga

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Welcome to the Yoga page!  This page is designed to offer you more information about what I do, my approach, and why I believe yoga is a valuable addition to anyone’s plan for good health.

Yoga concerns itself with connecting: our minds to our bodies, our selves to the seasons and places in which we live and to each other. It traditionally has eight ‘limbs’, or avenues of practice. Most of us are familiar with the physical practice, or Hatha yoga, and meditation, and these are what I will briefly describe here.

Yoga is perhaps best known in the West for it’s ‘asanas’, or physical postures. It can be excellent for posture, strength, flexibility, and above all, if it is practiced as originally intended, for the cultivation of compassionate awareness, kindness, and peace. There are many different schools of yoga, and my own studies have included many teachers over the years, but I have been most touched by the teachings of Swami Kripalu, who was the inspiration for what came to be called Kripalu yoga, and for the Health and Wellness Center of the same name in Lenox, MA, now the largest year round yoga facility in the US.

Swami Kripalu, like the Dalai Lama, said that his path was the path of kindness, the path of love. Increasingly, my experience is that this is what we are all most in need of. And so this is the heart of my practice and teaching. This is also true for the other areas in which i work, and my intention for my life.

I work with individuals and offer classes. No experience is needed for beginner classes. Gentle and moderate classes are adapted to students’ abilities and needs. My classes are informed by my studies of other fitness and health disciplines, and safety, mindfulness and enjoyment are fundamental to all classes. All levels of experience and fitness are welcome, and we often have people with chronic conditions in classes.