How would you describe yoga? To me, Yoga is the endless practice of self inquiry. This practice brings an understanding of our current experiences, while at the same time, pointing the way to our next experience. It provides an opportunity to change, to become more flexible, patient, and sensitive, which opens us up to a [...]
Teacher Feature: Katherine Oakes Englishman
How would you describe yoga? Ah! That's such a beautiful question. For me, I describe yoga as an expression and acknowledgement of being embodied—of having the gift of life. How did you find your way to yoga? The short version of the long story is that I came to yoga during the tail end of [...]
Teacher Feature: Caroline Ginsberg
How would you describe yoga? Yoga started for me as a physical practice, a way to listen and drop into the quieter corners of the body. A tool for finding connection to breath and noticing the patterns of the mind. These days, yoga feels so much bigger. A way of navigating the moments, bringing more [...]
Teacher Feature: Mary Badger
1. How would you describe yoga? To me, yoga is a tool to make sense of the world, and of all the patterns we take on as humans with bodies, living and moving through each day. The practice of yoga, (of the asanas, of pranayama, of meditation), provides an opportunity to observe what has been [...]
Teacher Feature: Christina Spencer
1. How would you describe yoga? For me, Yoga means developing an awareness of self - a deep personal connection to my own body, mind, patterns, stuck places, open places, etc...all with the hope of becoming more intimate with my own experience in my body. The more conscious I am of my self, the more [...]
Teacher Feature: Danielle Gismondi
1. How would you describe yoga? The second yoga sutra would generally describe yoga as the cessation of the modifications of the mind. In essence, what that means to me, is that when we stop, or cease, modifying what is happening in our mind, and just let it be, we are in a state of [...]
Teacher Feature: Sarah Whitridge
1. How would you describe yoga? A tool for navigating life. 2. How did you find your way to yoga? My father died when I was 14 and at that time my mum went to a meditation healing center near my home in the UK. As well as healing practices and meditation I was introduced [...]
Teacher Feature: Desirée Rumbaugh
1. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOGA? The cultivation of practices that develop our ability to observe how we think, speak and act in the world. With this ability to witness our thoughts, words and actions we can learn to skillfully recognize and then manage our suffering. As a result, we can spend more of our [...]
Teacher Feature: Valerie Costello
1. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOGA? We often think of yoga as simply being the asana practice, or the poses and movement practice, however, it’s much more than that. It’s a lifestyle- a way of showing up for the world around you. Yoga gives you the capacity to see the world and the people within [...]
Teacher Feature: Tracy Bleier
1. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOGA? Acknowledging, celebrating, remembering the privilege it is to be alive right now on this planet. 2. HOW DID YOU FIND YOUR WAY TO YOGA? A friend showed me dancer’s pose when I was on vacation and it was enough to intrigue me and get me to my first [...]