
Right now it is luminous.Īn Open Heart- Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life Yoga is designed for a vast and profound purpose, and for it to be truly called yoga, its essence must be embodied."Īlways changing. Yoga doesn't care about what you have been yoga cares about the person you are becoming. Yoga is not to be performed yoga is to be lived. Then it was quite sporadic and more of a gymnastic mind set for me than the way I've viewed my practice since 1992.Īadil Palkhivala said this and it inspires me every single day: "True yoga is not about the shape of your body but the shape of your life. I am somewhat resigned to never experiencing this posture in full, along with a few others, due to shoulder injuries. With that said, I am experiencing a special fondness for inversions lately. I give my best effort at loving which ever pose I am in, at any given moment. What is your favorite pose at the moment? I have been with Asheville Yoga Center since they opened, in 1996. I have taught in various studios in Asheville over the years, as well as Warren Wilson College. We left DC in 1994 adn did some traveling, arriving in Asheville in 1995. I began sharing the practice at Ahimsa Ashram in Washington, DC in 1992.

Yoga has been the path to the altar within my own heart- to think that I could illuminate that path in any way, however small, for another person is my reason for teaching. If we are lucky, the time on our mats is a remembering of a way back to our true selves, a way to experience our infinity, as well as our accord not only with ourselves but with all life. It seems to me that we are yoga that the union of body, mind and spirit is our true state.
