about her...

I’m a yoga student and have been for many years. My first yoga experience was all the way back in high school and the only thing I remember about it is the very last thing we did, which I now know to be Savasana. Lying on the carpet next to a coffee table, I closed my eyes and dropped into a deep stillness and a kind of silence I’d never experienced before. It seemed as if I was floating in space, engulfed in a comforting darkness lit only by stars. I can recall the sensations, the sights even now.

And then, as they will, years passed…

It took maybe about 9 of them to fly by before I made my way back to another class. This time I stuck with it, slowly at first, going to one class a week. But now I practice nearly every day.

And for the last 7 years, I’ve even been teaching.

This is really the story of both, being a student and being a teacher, and maybe a few other things, like being a wife to a husband who’s on his own yoga path….

My husband... He and I just returned from a month long yoga training (well, he was there a month. I was there 2.5 weeks). We both completed a Prajna Yoga 200 hour teacher training program. He did it all in one shot, while I’ve been studying with Tias and Surya Little since 2010, acquiring my hours slowly. Never, and I know one should never say never, but never did I think we’d do something like this together. And now that it’s done (well, almost done) I think, how could we not? So here we are, continuing the study if you will.

Part of our summer training includes something called a Svadhyaya project. Svadhyaya is a Sanskrit word that means self-study. Our assignment is to choose a means of self-study and create some kind of project around it. Just as the rest of our training, we're doing this together - together, yet separate...

And this blog is the record of our project, The Svadhyaya Project!