Deborah Felmeth
Yoga
I attended my first yoga class in 1975 and loved it, yet the practice did not become truly important to me until I moved to the Middle East in 1991. Then it saved my life, centered me, gave me strength and calm in the face of confusion and overwhelm. I completed my first 200 hour training in 1996 with Don & Amba Stapleton in order to be able to take the practice as a teacher to Damascus, Syria where there weren't any yoga teachers. I still happily teach there 6 months of each year. The other six months I am here teaching in beloved Vermont.
Teaching and living are both eclectic arts as far as I am concerned. My background includes some study of Mind Body Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge, a 200 hour training with Donna Farhi, and workshops with some truly great teachers such as Erich Schiffman, Rod Stryker and Angela Farmer. Grounded in love for the divine I seek to incorporate my deep love of nature, my profound respect for the individual paths which each and every student travels and my sense of wonder at the intricacy of the physical body into classes for every one who is interested in balance, in love, in wholeness and in light heartedness. Sometimes it works!*
For The Sake of God is a class based each week on one of the 99 names of God as spoken in Arabic! The 99 names, or the Most Beautiful Names as they are called, are qualities and attributes of the divine. Using them as foundations for practice gives a framework for meditation which underlies asana and pranayama and becomes part of the Samkalpa or intention for that practice, that day, that week, that strand in the weaving of life.
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Yoga
I attended my first yoga class in 1975 and loved it, yet the practice did not become truly important to me until I moved to the Middle East in 1991. Then it saved my life, centered me, gave me strength and calm in the face of confusion and overwhelm. I completed my first 200 hour training in 1996 with Don & Amba Stapleton in order to be able to take the practice as a teacher to Damascus, Syria where there weren't any yoga teachers. I still happily teach there 6 months of each year. The other six months I am here teaching in beloved Vermont.
Teaching and living are both eclectic arts as far as I am concerned. My background includes some study of Mind Body Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge, a 200 hour training with Donna Farhi, and workshops with some truly great teachers such as Erich Schiffman, Rod Stryker and Angela Farmer. Grounded in love for the divine I seek to incorporate my deep love of nature, my profound respect for the individual paths which each and every student travels and my sense of wonder at the intricacy of the physical body into classes for every one who is interested in balance, in love, in wholeness and in light heartedness. Sometimes it works!*
For The Sake of God is a class based each week on one of the 99 names of God as spoken in Arabic! The 99 names, or the Most Beautiful Names as they are called, are qualities and attributes of the divine. Using them as foundations for practice gives a framework for meditation which underlies asana and pranayama and becomes part of the Samkalpa or intention for that practice, that day, that week, that strand in the weaving of life.
[email protected]