Yoga

I am sure you have heard about the benefits of yoga - euphoria, health, happiness… who wouldn't want these things?  

When I first came to yoga, I would have never guessed what a transformation it would bring to my life, how if would change my relationships, my career, and how I value and utilize time.  It wasn’t that yoga gave me a prescribed path, but it helped me recognize that yoga was a tool for self-discovery, compassion, refection and willpower. The more I practiced, the more obvious it became to me that I wanted to make yoga a central part of my life and to help bring it to others. I completed my yoga teacher training (200 hours) and I deliver classes designed to balance a physical and mental discipline with openness and ease, bringing these qualities together through mindful movement.

What exactly is yoga?

Yoga is part metaphysics and part philosophy with a strong physical base.  The literal meaning of the word yoga is “union” and is derived from the Sanskrit word meaning “to yoke” or “to unite”. Although yoga’s roots may be peppered with Hindu gods and goddesses, Yoga is not a religion.

Yoga is about seeking the universal truth through simple postures, body rituals, and techniques that tie into its fundamental theme of yoking (connecting) the body with the infinite spirit of the Universe.

It is believed that the Divine resides in each of us and as we connect with this inner Divine, our true self, we then realize the inter-connectedness with the greater Divine.

Most of us are accustomed to looking outside of ourselves for fulfillment. We are living in a world that conditions us to believe that outer attainments can give us what we want. Yet again and again our experiences show us that nothing external can completely fulfill the deep longing within for "something more."

Most of the time, however, we find ourselves striving toward that which always seems to lie just beyond our reach. We are caught up in doing rather than being, in action rather than awareness. It is hard for us to picture a state of complete calmness and repose in which thoughts and feelings cease to dance in perpetual motion. Yet it is through such a state of quietude that we can touch a level of joy and understanding impossible to achieve otherwise.