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I had a childhood like most American kids: Winters sailing and scuba diving around the Indonesian and Philippine archipelago, summers in the Tibetan Highlands practicing shamanic breathing techniques under the guidance of Gyoto monks, springtime in Brazil playing drums in the batteria of Rio’s Escola De Samba, autumn in Kyoto, Japan composing haiku and practicing calligraphy. Wait a minute.....
That was (not quite) then, this is NOW! Teaching yoga, playing music, writing, traveling and scuba diving ARE my avocations and vocations. I feel very fortunate!
I’ve been practicing yoga for the past twenty years. Initially I was coerced into attending a yoga class to help alleviate various stresses and strains acquired during musical touring. I immediately fell in love with both the highly physical nature of the class as well as the meditative and contemplative components of the practice.
Continuing on the path of yoga I became an instructor trained in both the Iyengar and Ashtanga styles.
I’ve been teaching at Yoga Vida since 2002. I’m continually inspired and amazed by the physical, emotional, and spiritual transformations I see daily in our students .
To quote His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Under the bright sun, many of us are gathered together with different languages, different styles of dress, even different faiths. However, all of us are the same in being humans, and we all uniquely have the thought of "I," and we´re all the same in wanting happiness and in wanting to avoid suffering.
Or, in the words of Sister Sledge: We Are Family!
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