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HOW
DID I COME UP WITH EVERYBODIES YOGA?
Simple.
In Ayurveda the practitioner treats each patient according to his/her constitution
or dosha.
What works for a Vata constitution changes for a Pitta or Kapha. The practitioner
has to learn and know the specific needs for each dosha , for each body. One
protocol can’t be given.
In yoga we have to adapt and know our students and be able to work with every
body type (which includes emotional body, physical body as well as spiritual).
In 1986 I opened up my first Studio for Dance Fitness and called it Everybodies
Aerobics. Everybodies Aerobics was a studio where only teachers with proper training
in anatomy and knowledge in working with injuries and adapting classes to suit
a wide variety of students would teach.
With 23 years working as a Massage Therapist, teaching and running Dance Fitness
Studios, and an ongoing training in the Iyengar style of Yoga (17 years) I approach
my classes with deep humility and awareness, helping students with injuries and
hoping to inspire all students to work at a level that is safe and mindfull.
Serious students of Yoga do best to choose one style with one primary teacher
who can watch them evolve and work with them, see their progress, their limitations
etc.
In my classes I find I have some very serious students who want to learn asana,
the sanskrit, the sequences while others want to come in and just unwind. Others
arrive with injuries hoping to find some solutions to avoid reinjury. Then there
are the tourists who come to Cape Cod and “drop in” to classes. In
other words.. Every BODY type shows up to study.
Everybodies Yoga is my attempt to create a class where there is something for
everyone. I modulate my classes to the students who are there in front of me
for that hour and a half.
I may come into class with a specific idea to work on standing poses... and depending
on who is in the room before me, I decide where we will go at that moment.
I teach from my experience with my teacher Aadil Palkhivalah, the wonderful influence
of Tias Little, Theresa Elliot, Angela Farmer, Rod Stryker and Shiva Rea. Rooted
in alignment and committed to avoiding injury I strive to attend to every-body
in a kind and compassionate and most of all responsible way.
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