As the yoga came back so did the thought of teaching. The slow work of learning yoga stretches and poses again, began to take hold. Kathy vowed that if she was able to return to a yoga practice again she would make significant changes in her life so that she would not lose permanently what she grew to love-Yoga. It took months for her to come back to simple abilities let alone the complex. Her own yoga practice stopped and naturally so did the teaching.
#HATHA YOGA BOOK 1970 PROFESSIONAL#
She was unable to work in her professional capacity. On a Friday morning she had a trans-ischemic attack at work. In 2003, Kathy was working as the site supervisor and counselor of an outpatient Chemical Dependency Program. Her teaching opportunities consisted of a nursing home, various health clubs and gyms, a chiropractor’s office, the staff of People Incorporated, a half-way house for alcoholic/addicted men, the staff of WNY children’s development center, the staff at Baker Victory, and at NYS Parks (yoga on the beach in Hamburg). YTT certification and began teaching at various venues in WNY part time, while still working as a Chemical Dependency Counselor. Training took place in Bufflalo and also Honesdale, PA where she was exposed to many great teachers such as Rolf Sovik, Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, Sandra Anderson, Shari Friedrichsen, Jaime Schmitt, Lilias Folan, Srivatsa Ramaswami, and Rod Stryker. Her family wasn’t as convinced as she was of this “yogurt” practice, but she persisted.Īround 1998 Kathy started her teacher training at the Himalayan Institute of Buffalo. Yoga provided peace and calmness that could not be matched by working out in a health club or anywhere else. If it wasn’t for the yoga/meditation Kathy says, depression certainly would have set in and she would have had a difficult time continuing on.
#HATHA YOGA BOOK 1970 SKIN#
At this time Kathy also married off two sons, helped her best friend fight a two year losing battle with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma and also fought her own battle with Melanoma skin cancer. College was completed but now the career of Substance Abuse Counselor took hold and became all consuming. It wasn’t until the 1990’s that serious study of yoga began at the Himalayan Institute of Buffalo. Again yoga practice was through books and Lilias on PBS, classes were available but cost was prohibitive at that time.
#HATHA YOGA BOOK 1970 FULL#
Unlike now, there were not many yoga studios around the area.Īfter many life changes and many years of an off and on yoga practice, interest in yoga peaked again in the late 1980’s to relieve stress from a return to college and meeting its’ responsibilities, working full time, dealing with the grief and loss of her father, and raising two teenage boys as a single parent.
Lilias Folan had a show on PBS at the time. Kathy’s interest in yoga came early in the 1970’s after giving birth to her first child. Kathy teaches a yoga that is enjoyable and can also be a method of self-transformation. There is so much that yoga can do for people through stretches, postures, learning to breathe properly, and relaxation.
A lot of people are of the belief that one has to be flexible in order to do yoga, yet the opposite is true. Kathy’s mission statement is to help people learn about yoga and how it can help them improve their health and well-being.
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