Movement is life, without movement the flow and glow of life seem to lose their luster. Even though I am deeply passionate about how I study and teach yoga, I must admit that arriving on the mat is sometimes challenging. Over the last 15 years I have gone from immersive practices to relapses of no yoga. I am tasked with finding balance daily.  At times, we find ourselves pulled in many directions, and at other times it can be mute – no direction, or plateau.   The one saving grace is that yoga has shown consistently to be the one true medicine, I can rely on.  It heals both the body and the heart. It anchors and inspires.  My mat is my haven but I must coach myself there all the time.  It’s like getting children out of the house on a rainy day and into the woods, they resist, and then they rejoice.

Over the past two years I have also been returning to another sanctuary, your very own Breathing Space community.  The yoga practitioners here always make me feel, welcomed and in ‘alignment’.  So now I am joining the team official with two regular classes.  My approach is to debunk old myths, about the self and the body (“I am not flexible enough to do yoga”, and “no pain no gain”).  I offer participants softer approaches to asana with techniques in prop support, and mindful movement.

I hold over 500 hours of Yoga Teacher Training and am still a novice in terms of my teachers, Ty Chandler, Lauren Cox, Donna Martin, Gioa Irwin, and Sandra Shotton. I have played in everyone’s camp from Psoma yoga, Iyengar, Vijnana yoga and Ayurveda. From this quilted background my classes are an eclectic blend of all things Sthira and Sukha (steadiness and ease).  It brings me great joy to know we have a wonderful space to practice together.

Namaste,

Jenny Berg