Yogini Valarie Devi* has been practicing Yoga for over 40 years, teaching for over 30.  Her unique gift is the ability to share her experience with students, translating four decades of practice into practical and applicable knowledge to further your personal practice.

She has both traditional Indian training and Western lineage school training, such as certifications in Sivananda Yoga, Ashtanga Vinyasa and Iyengar.  Additional she has trained in Jeet Kune Do, Bharatanatyam, and most recently, CrossFit.

Her classes are a wellspring of Traditional Yoga information, healing and recovery, deep breathing and mindfulness, of thriving potential, and a challenge to be more than you think we are!

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Kris Cole has been a student of Yoga since 1998; actively teaching for 4 years.  Her approach to teaching is spirited by her belief in being a student first and a teacher second.  Kris’s focus is to assist students in their desire to be present in the moment, to relax into each pose, and to simply breathe.

Kris is currently in training with Yogini Valarie Devi.  Yogini’s teachings emphasize a holistic exploration of the deeper meaning of Traditional Yoga.

For Kris, Yoga has been a gift in her life, and she wants nothing more than to share the joy and peace she has found.

~ The Shala ~

Traditional Hatha Yoga is an ancient practice of physical and spiritual
development.

Centuries before the modern revisions / 'schools', lineages of Western Yoga, there was Traditional Yoga .. a systematic method of self-discovery, mental acuity, and spiritual exploration.

Traditional Hatha Yoga, in its most traditional form, is Vinyasa Krama, or “breath-movement-sequence methodology”.

By integrating the functions of body, mind and breath - all at once - the Yoga student will experience the true joy of Yoga.

Garland of Breath!

Each of Traditional Hatha Yoga's asanas is practiced with many variations - based on individual ability - and each variation is threaded to the next
by a succession of specific transitional movements,
synchronized with the breath.

The mind will closely follow the deep, slow and deliberate Yogic breath, assuring the existence of true Yoga; which is the threading of mind and body - the ‘cart’ and the ‘horse’ - with the breath as the ‘harness’.

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