Yoga Teaching
RYT 500 certified yoga instructor (200HR + 300HR), trained in the Universal Yoga system at Vikasa Yoga in Koh Samui. Taught at HiClimb in Hawaiʻi and at the World Expo 2025 in Osaka.
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Yoga is not separate from the rest of life — it is the practice of paying attention. The same attention I bring to calligraphy, freediving, or drawing a bow, I bring to the mat. Each asks the same thing: steady the breath, quiet the mind, and let the body find its own intelligence. The ancient literati understood this — that the arts of brush, string, board, and scroll were never separate disciplines, but a single cultivation viewed from different angles.
200HR Yoga Teacher Training at Vikasa Yoga in Koh Samui, Thailand, studying under Kosta Miachin, Mikey Lazano, Niki Lundberg, Michael Murray, and Alex Vyazovov. Followed by 300HR Universal Yoga Teacher Training under Andrey Lappa — a master with over 46 years of dedicated practice who studied with B.K.S. Iyengar and Pattabhi Jois.
Universal Yoga works with the idea that practice should touch every layer of the self — physical, energetic, emotional, and mental — not just one. The training moved through asana theory, bandhas and energy orbits, Shiva Nata (the Dance of Shiva, synchronizing spiral movements of the limbs with breath), vinyasa from Himalayan traditions, Bhagavad Gita and Yoga Sutras, and the mayakosha system of subtle anatomy.
Taught at HiClimb in Hawaiʻi and at the Portugal Pavilion during World Expo 2025 Osaka. Classes integrate asana, pranayama, and meditation, drawing on the Universal Yoga framework — systematic movement through all major planes of joint mobility, paired with breath and concentration to create balance across layers rather than targeting any one alone.
As a freediver, I have noticed many parallels between how yogis and freedivers train the breath and subtle body — both disciplines demand an expanding awareness across all layers of the self, not just the physical. With years of training in Hawaiʻi, the Blue Hole in Egypt, and Bohol in the Philippines, freediving has taught me that the work is the same whether thirty meters underwater or sitting on a mat — freedivers often descend in mahamudra, eyes half-open, gaze soft, withdrawing inward, stilling the breath, stilling the mind. I integrate this into my teaching, and often lead classes with no asana at all — only pranayama and meditation.
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