Yoga Styles & Influences
Yoga starts for me, by creating a safe space to practice. That space and the feelings it creates allows me to become more grounded and go deeper inside, freeing the body and mind from thought patterns that often leave us feeling stuck. Yoga used for what ever reason is a gift. Many people come up to me at the end of the lesson and ask "What was the style of yoga they had just practiced?"
A short answer is HATHA YOGA as documented in the Hatha Yoga Pradipika. Each class involves asanas (poses) Pranayama (breath) and other aspects of Hatha yoga. If you want a longer answer I would describe my classes as a fusion of ideas from different schools under the yoga umbrella. With the ideas of Vanda Scaravelli bringing them together.
Vanda was in a position to work with Mr Iyengar, Krishnamurti and Desikachar. She went on to develope her own technique or yoga refusing to give her name to a particular school of yoga, prefering not to label her practice.
I myself never met or worked with Vanda while she was alive. But have the guidence of those who did and for that I am grateful.
The truth is that here in the West we are free to work with many teachers and can be influenced by all of them rather than following ine school or Guru. We can combine approaches, ideas and bring our own loife experience into our work making each class based on our own practice allowing us and our students evolve together.
I still enjoy my practice with friends of many differents schools and traditions including Kundalini, Sivananda, Iyengar and Satyananda and thank them for their insight and wisdom.
