Portland Yoga KulaThe practice of yoga is a practice of relationships. It is an exploration, through conscious movement, of the ways we relate to our bodies and minds that can inform the way we relate to ourselves. We become more flexible, more spacious, more grounded in the truth of who we are. What if we took this information out into the world, into our relationships with one another? Kula is Sanskrit for community, and is one of the distinguishing features of Anusara Yoga. Below you'll find an an ever-expanding listing of Portland Yoga Kula - Anusara and Ausara-inspired™ class offerings that I can recommend. I have also included a few friends of the Anusara method, who I feel are worth mentioning for one reason or another.
Upcoming Portland Yoga eventsWorkshops at CMC, visiting senior teachers, musical events and more.check it out The PracticeThe Practice or The Tigress Practice is an exploration and a celebration of the full spectrum of the Anusara method. We use as a template a modification of the eye of the Tiger sequence, developed by John friend. The wide variety of poses explored offers a deep well of insight into the Universal Principles of Alignment. The open, mutually supportive environment naturally fosters the sweet spirit of Kula, or community. see my schedule for timesLisa Keayes (Anusara®) SouthwestLisa Keayes, a certified Anusara® teacher who probably holds the record for earliest exposure to the method - she met John Friend when she was 14, and took his workshop when he was still a certified Iyengar instructor. Needless to say, her knowledge is well integrated into her being, and her radiant strength is sweetened by her simple and modest manner. John Friend emailed me (imagine!) when I moved to Portland and suggested I look her up. Thanks, John. She is a lovely person and a new friend.Lisa teaches at
Amrita Yoga Sanctuary
Still Moving Yoga (Anusara-inspired™) SouthwestThe teachers here are also the owners, Jim and Lynea GillenI Met Jim Gillen at my first Portland yoga event, when I was assisting at a workshop taught by Darren Rhodes in the Spring of 2007. He is a lovely, lovely man, and has been very helpful and supportive to me in all my endeavors here. He and his wife, Lynea, teach out of a perfect little yoga room nestled in their Garden in residential Southwest Portland. Most of the students live in the neighborhood. Jim is an Anusara- inspired™ teacher who has busied himself lately with co-writing a book, also with Lynea, about the yoga method they have developed for teaching children, called Yoga Calm. I have the book, and am very impressed with its thoroughness and depth. It has all the games and pretty pictures that the other kid's yoga books have, but it also has clear and valuable content about working with children, from behavior issues to developmental issues to emotional ones. Yoga Calm is now becoming a movement of its own, with teacher trainings being offered in many states, and even one in Italy.
Melonie at Vancouver Yoga Center (Anusara-inspired™)Coming SoonNicole Di Picciotto at the CO OP (aspiring to Anusara-inspired™)Nicole Di Picciotto, an Anusara trained but not quite yet liscenced teacher of tremendous insight and articulation, teaches a free class every other Monday morning at 7am at People's CoOp in Southeast Portland.She rocks. I believe you have to be a member to participate. Yoga Union Comunity Wellness Center (friend of Anusara) SoutheastHistorically a center focusing on hot Yoga and Power Vinyasa, Yoga union has built a thriving community based on sound, student centric principles and all around good will. The owners, Annie and Todd, have recently become dedicated to their own Anusara studies, choosing as their primary teacher the ever graceful and true Sianna Sherman, currently living in San Francisco. Unwilling to disrespect their current students and teachers, Annie and Todd have chosen to maintain the programs the have always offered, slowly adding "community flow" classes to the schedule that reflect their new found personal vision. Annie and Todd are both very near to completing their Anusara-inspired™ teaching status.Having recently welcomed a new yogi into the world, Both teachers are on temporary hiatus as of January 2010. I am filling in for Todd's community flow class on Mondays at 9am until further notice.
Amrita Yoga SanctuarySarahjoy Marsh, the owner and director of Amrita Sanctuary, was one of the early group of students of my teacher, John Friend. Grounded and focused, with unmistakable inner strength, she has a strong community of devoted students around her. She is warm and gently funny, and technically astute.Her style is her own - Sarahjoy no longer teaches Anusara Yoga. There are some points of the bio-mechanical principles with which she disagrees, and the flavor of the practice she leads is more contemplative than celebratory. However, I have the deepest respect for her personally, and I honor her dedication to using her personal experience to inform her teaching and practice. Sarahjoy is also the founder of Living Yoga, a beautiful organization that brings yoga to under served populations such as homeless youth and prisoners. Amrita holds many events and workshops in their beautiful Southwest space.
The Yoga Space (friend of Anusara) SoutheastTeachers here are from a variety of disciplines, with a focus on vinyasa flow.It was good luck that led me to Michelle Loew, the owner and director of the Yoga Space. She is blessing to Portland yoga seekers - a strong teacher with a true yogi's heart. She is not an Anusari, but has shown a deep appreciation for what I do, even attending classes when she can. While her main teacher is ahtanga master Richard Freeman, Michelle has also studied with Doug Keller, a renowned teacher of therapeutic yoga, who, while no longer a certified Anusara Yoga® teacher, has his foundation in the alignment principles of the Anusara® method.
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