Yoga
Listen to your body. Breathe. Still the fluctuations of your mind.
Come experience a yoga practice that is rooted in traditional yoga while also influenced by modern embodiment practices.
Abbi teaches beginner friendly yoga that also offers plenty of invitations for advanced practitioners.
Yoga Positionality Statement:
I have been a student of yoga since I was 18 (1999) and began teaching yoga a couple of years afterwards. I can still remember how it felt after my first yoga class, with my breath steady and calm in a way that has inspired me ever since. I studied Ashtanga Yoga and then Anusara Yoga. When I was 24 I had the honor to visit India and study yoga with the founder of Ashtanga yoga for a month, as well as volunteer teaching yoga in an orphanage. I humbly acknowledge my limitations in being a white Western woman teaching an Eastern practice/philosophy, and as such there is inherently something missed in my transmission of this practice because of my positionality. There is so much I do not know. Each time I study the history of yoga I learn something I didn't know. Yoga has been a foundational practice in my life and I wish to pass along the support yoga as taught me. I want to acknowledge the limitations of my positionality and my privilege as an act of resistance against cultural appropriation and the ways of whiteness and colonization. It is with great care, caution and devotion that I choose to share yoga, and I aim to do so with utmost integrity. I also acknowledge the abuse enacted by the founders of both Ashtanga Yoga and Anusara Yoga, and I stand with the students who experienced harm. Links coming soon for more information as well as a place I donate to in honor of the homeland of yoga, India.
"I want to say how much I enjoyed your class-- the best compliment I can give is that when I leave class I feel able to completely attend to myself and feel attuned to my environment. I am able to notice nature around me and how my body feels, and to more fully connect to the joy in it...It's such a gift, and I thank you!" ~E.M. Trauma Therapist
Come experience a yoga practice that is rooted in traditional yoga while also influenced by modern embodiment practices.
Abbi teaches beginner friendly yoga that also offers plenty of invitations for advanced practitioners.
Yoga Positionality Statement:
I have been a student of yoga since I was 18 (1999) and began teaching yoga a couple of years afterwards. I can still remember how it felt after my first yoga class, with my breath steady and calm in a way that has inspired me ever since. I studied Ashtanga Yoga and then Anusara Yoga. When I was 24 I had the honor to visit India and study yoga with the founder of Ashtanga yoga for a month, as well as volunteer teaching yoga in an orphanage. I humbly acknowledge my limitations in being a white Western woman teaching an Eastern practice/philosophy, and as such there is inherently something missed in my transmission of this practice because of my positionality. There is so much I do not know. Each time I study the history of yoga I learn something I didn't know. Yoga has been a foundational practice in my life and I wish to pass along the support yoga as taught me. I want to acknowledge the limitations of my positionality and my privilege as an act of resistance against cultural appropriation and the ways of whiteness and colonization. It is with great care, caution and devotion that I choose to share yoga, and I aim to do so with utmost integrity. I also acknowledge the abuse enacted by the founders of both Ashtanga Yoga and Anusara Yoga, and I stand with the students who experienced harm. Links coming soon for more information as well as a place I donate to in honor of the homeland of yoga, India.
"I want to say how much I enjoyed your class-- the best compliment I can give is that when I leave class I feel able to completely attend to myself and feel attuned to my environment. I am able to notice nature around me and how my body feels, and to more fully connect to the joy in it...It's such a gift, and I thank you!" ~E.M. Trauma Therapist