It’s been 8 months since I made that video of my personal yoga practice, and to be completely transparent, my yoga practice is much more grounded now in daily movement and extended yoga practice several times per week. While I respect and admire traditional yoga lineages (I was actually trained in a post-lineage, post-guru way at Octopus Garden/Studio Be) and strive to continue to teach yoga with respect to the traditions that came before, I’m also open to discovering holistic integrative movement that includes yoga.
I’ve been exploring the intersection between functional movement, Laban/Bartenieff-related theories in Dance/Movement Therapy, affirmations, symbolic actions, and yoga postures. I’ll be releasing videos of mini-sequences connecting these elements soon!
I intend to teach both traditional yoga classes and fusion yoga classes to honour both of my impulses to respect the wisdom of tradition and to explore new horizons.
Do you have a movement practice? If so, I’m curious to learn about it! Let me know what you’ve been drawn to lately and how your practice has changed over the past year.
