| I began taking yoga when I was working in Silicon Valley as a Product
Marketing Manager with an MBA at Intel about 30 years ago. Over time,
I became more involved with yoga and left Silicon Valley. My path
lead me to Judith Hanson Lasater and the Iyengar Yoga Institute in San
Francisco. I graduated from the Institute's teacher training program
in 1989 and became a Certified Iyengar Teacher in 1989.
While at the Institute I assisted in Judith's classes twice a week for
three years and also traveled with her for workshops in other locations
for about 5 years. Her classes in anatomy and kinesiology were extremely
helpful as well as her class on the philosophy of the sutras combined with
restorative poses and pranayama.
Since 1990 I've taught yoga in Seattle. Until 2004 I had the Community
Yoga Circle with several teachers, located in the University District.
That year I moved my classes to my home. This year (2006) I'm changing
the name to Iyengar Yoga with Joanne Pearson.
Since I have been practicing yoga for about 30 years and teaching about
20 years, I've been around for awhile and noticed how people slump, lose
bone density, lose range of motion, and muscles lose tone. Although
these phenomena are part of getting older, do we have the ability to fight
against the inevitable changes. I'm finding it is possible to make
positive changes against the path of nature. I'm going along with
Clint Eastwood's philosophy that as you get older you need to do more,
not less. For example, one pose we do in almost every class, with
care and support of a belt, is chaturanga dandasana, to build up our upper
body strength. Don't you wish you were there? |
