COURTNEY ROHAN YOGA

Taking yoga classes all over the country over the years incites me.  In each class, almost regardless of yoga style, one can locate several staples. You will always find some form of prop. Props were not always so important, but now the majority of Western yoga students would not be comfortable without them. I do not believe props a bad thing. However, I do contemplate:  What makes us so in need of what has become many Westerns only way to touch their toes?   Yoga is for every body and therefore should be accessible, but I also believe in working hard to create a quality yoga practice, so as not to be attached to our props like crutches that never go away. There is something magical about locating the full experience and magical moment when a challenging pose becomes one's own.  In yoga classes or studios, yoga paraphernalia is profound: beads, pictures, incense, statues, gongs, cymbals, yoga mats or rugs, or yoga clothing (with cute “third eye” sayings) and the list goes on. And,

Searching the corners of every class I take, I look for what I present to the world. This is not just with Yoga, but when pursuing singing, years ago, I found myself looking for my particular style, somewhere to fit or call home. No matter what I find, I find that my style, in every part of my being, is full. Who really could ask for more, but I still have the urges to locate my origin. While rewriting my resume recently, I pressed myself to come up with a clearer philosophy. I am evolving. My philosophy can not take a backseat to this change, as it must inevitably grow too. I discovered that my philosophy is about "the dance of life". This is not a new idea but rather another piece of the origin puzzle. Though what I am sharing here in this posting is not about dance per se; this is about how another piece of my beginning is revealing itself and how it was discovered in what I already do. I teach yoga. I practice Thai Massage and present from the heart, body-awareness moveme

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