Biography

AMANI

Enteringa new dance with pain is how I began my journey with yoga. I spent 10 years trying to "fix" my scoliosis and eliminate pain from my psyche. I was sure that if I found the right person, the right treatment, the right posture...that I would be free of pain...I was wrong.

The process of healing for me was so much more in my perception that in my physical symptoms...and so my path meandered from farming to traveling, from sufi whirling to herbal concoctions, from massage school to yoga flows... all on a quest for enlightenment.

Opening "Yoga Rhythms" a few years ago was both a celebration and a commitment to this path. My teaching is a compilation of my personal work and my studies. Classes are a blend of:
• the alignment principles of Anusara Yoga
• the compassion of Kripalu Yoga (breathe, relax, feel, watch, allow)
• the ecstasy of sufi whirling
• the subtleties of feldenkrais and
• the spiral lines of my body work. It is in the integration of these worlds that my healing has taken place. It is from this healing that my heart has opened and from that opening that my work flows.

Pain is no longer a reality I run from but a sensation that keeps me humble,
bowing every day to the divine within.
Namaste — Amani