DNS & YOGA 5 CLASS INTRO SERIES –

NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE!

The course is APPROPRIATE FOR BEGINNERS who are in reasonably good health.
This content of this course is intended to prepare a student of ANY LEVEL for practicing yoga in a way that is safe, effective and health promoting.
If you have concerns about whether the course is appropriate for you, PLEASE CONTACT ROBERT with your questions and concerns.
Anyone who pays the course fee is eligible for a discount on individual sessions (contacts me for details)
If you would like additional help during or after the course, I am available for one to one 30 or 60 minute sessions.

I’ve been teaching yoga now for over 25 years and have been studying and practicing yoga for closer to 30 years, and while I can’t claim to have made every mistake possible as a teacher and a student, I’ve certainly made my fair share. As one of the greatest teachers I’ve ever had the privilege to study with, the late Swami Dayananda would say, when we make a mistake the mature response is to ask ourselves “what can I learn from this?”

Learning from mistakes

Answering that question in most circumstances is never easy, but in yoga it can be particularly hard. Yoga is challenging and complicated, and there are very few teachers who have the special combination of knowledge, experience, insight and skill to effectively guide students in the right direction. Thus a common theme during my tenure as a yoga student and teacher has been a failure to understand what I should learn from my mistakes, and therefore a tendency to keep making them.

I spent many years in a fairly advanced yoga class with a teacher who does have that special combination of abilities, but even in that environment I saw students who’d been practicing for decades making mistakes that I’d been making and that I understood needed to be corrected. Ultimately I realized that I needed to take a new approach to yoga if I was going to learn the lessons I needed to learn and find my way forward.

When I began studying bio-mechanical alignment I realized something very important about yoga. When we as students start learning yoga, typically in a group class with an instructor whose abilities are unknown to us, we bring all of our bad habits into the class. It’s up to the teacher to reveal these habits and provide us with alternatives to them. It turns out that very few teachers are skilled at doing this, not because they don’t have the interest but because they typically don’t have the right training.

DNS & Yoga

Upon discovering Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization (DNS) I realized I’d found a methodology that fit yoga like a glove. The early developmental movement patterns that DNS employs through specific postures and movements are not new to us. The patterns that DNS helps to reawaken in us have, for the majority of us, always been there. This means that the changes we seek in our breath, body and mind are to a great extent a revealing of what’s already there and don’t require us to learn something completely new.

Over the past few years I have been tirelessly developing an approach to yoga that is fresh and exciting while rooted in a place fundamental to who we are as humans living in the world. Every day I find myself not so much learning something new but finally grasping postures and principles that I’ve had bits and pieces for a long time but was missing the key piece I’d needed for the unifying whole.

Learning DNS while relearning yoga has been endlessly engaging and enlightening for me as a student and as a teacher, and I am thrilled to have the opportunity to share it with you. This course is a culmination of decades of study and work. I hope you will consider taking it and recommending it to your friends and family.