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  • Yogawaves March 2012
    February 2012

    Dear Friends in Yoga,


    After a few weeks of teaching in Europe, opening more doors in Belgium, England and France, I'm back to Rochester to launch the Essential Teacher Training, this year with more participants than ever (about 26) from all walks of life but all willing to read the Book of Life...


    Two weeks ago i was teaching at the invitation of my friend Mario Battistel, 87 years old, director of the yoga center of Niort, France, still teaching 10 classes a week!

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  • A Response the New York Times
    January 2012

    A recent New York Times article (“How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body,” January 5, 2012, by William J. Broad), although flawed by numerous inaccuracies, is stirring healthy debate in the yoga community. I offer the following observations in hope of shedding some light on the topic of yoga injuries. 

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  • Yogawaves January 2012
    January 2012

    Dear Friends in Yoga,


    Wishing you a radiant new year full of contentment and discovery, leaps of faith, early-morning practice, adventures, travels inside yourself on the pranic highways and outside to meet different cultures. Letting go of preconceived ideas about everything! Reclaiming your faith. Exploring how to live an ethical life with clear boundaries and precepts but also enjoyment and sensual pleasure, nature, art, music, sexuality, social life, cappuccinos, chai lattes, or tulsi teas (those are not mutually exclusive).

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  • Yogawaves November 2011
    October 2011

    Dear Friends in Yoga,

     

    So many openings and adventures on the Path.

     

    Fascinated by the Fibonacci series and the natural scale of harmonics. It changes how I practice breath and asanas, and how I look at the architecture of the world.

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  • Yogawaves September 2011
    September 2011

    Summer is almost over...Still writing, practicing, reflecting, zoning out!

     

    Here is the new news!

     

    SOUND: I completed an intense certification as a Sound Healer, started two years ago in Spain with Michele Averard and Nestor Kornblum, founders of the International Association of Sound Therapy. It's a complex subject including yoga of sound, tuning fork, sound bath, harmonic series, overtone chanting, mantra and group improvisation of shamanic music.

     

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