Yoga & Tai Chi/Expert Profile

Expertise

I teach Yoga philosophy, meditation, pranayama and yoga asanas. I am the Director of Yoga at the Ananda Portland center. I teach Teacher Training Programs that are certified with Yoga Alliance. I can not answer questions about medical conditions that have not been evaluated by a doctor. I have been teaching classical Yoga for 14 years.

Experience in the area

I served on the teaching staff of Ananda's Expanding Light Retreat Center, and teach the following classes: Intermediate, Beginners, Yoga for Seniors, Yoga for Special Needs, Extra Gentle Yoga and direct the Ananda Teacher Training program . I am registered with the National Yoga Alliance as a E-RYT 500 Director of Ananda Yoga Have over 3000 hours of teaching experience. Listed below are some of the courses I have attended:

Ananda Yoga Teacher Training, 200 hours

Advanced Ananda Yoga Teacher Training, 48 hours

Nischala Joy Devi's Yoga of the Heart, Cardiac Teacher Training, 80 hours

Ananda Yoga Teacher Level Two Training, 300 hours

Ananda Assistantship, 80 hours

Therapeutic Yoga, 40 hours

What do you like about this subject?

I believe yoga should give rise to profound changes in your life. In the years that I have taught yoga,I have seen people become more joyful peaceful and loving. The goal of yoga is to draw ever nearer to that inner center of peace, joy, wisdom, love, and energy.

What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field?

My goal is to help others experience the power of yoga, so they can learn to experience their true nature.

Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:

The yoga postures are not only a series of physical positions, but exercises in mental awareness. The yogi must be very deliberate in every movement. He must feel every muscle. Above all, he must try to become conscious of the energy as it directs the muscular movements. He must try to develop an awareness of his body as consisting primarily of energy. Swami Kriyananda, founder of Ananda Yoga

Something controversial or provocative about this subject

Like many arts and sciences that are profound, beautiful, and powerful, yoga has suffered from the spiritual poverty of the modern world. It has been trivialized, watered down, or reduced to cliches.... At the hands of some, yoga has been reduced to the status of just another exercise program. Bhole Prabhu, a yogi, poet and philosopher