About
This is the blog/website of a real life modern day yogini. I work full time in an office, ride my bike, and sometimes eat too much queso dip. I have wine with dinner, I sometimes lose myself in difficult situations, and am loving the way yoga has helped me navigate this thing we call life. Check out my random yoga stories, where and when I’m teaching yoga around SLO, and other yoga related info and happenings. With this website I hope to create a resource of yummy yoga goodness that inspires everyone in some way. The links in the blogroll at right are many great yoga resources, my favorite teachers, books, and websites. Thanks for visiting!
My Personal Inspiration Statement
I practice yoga because it hurts so good. It makes me feel at home in my own skin. When I practice I am able to be present, in the “now” moment. Yoga is one of the few activities in life where I can turn off my overactive mind, stop living in the past or future, stop thinking about coulda shoulda woulda. Yoga has brought changes in my body and mind that I can’t really describe in words. I feel more joy in my life now than I ever have before and I know that yoga has helped make that happen. It makes me want to be a better version of myself. It makes me smile. It makes me love better. It is teaching me how to be more authentic and honest in my life. I love that I get to share something I love with those around me. It has helped me realize that I am truly blessed. It has shown me the difference between conversing and authentic listening. It has given me the opportunity to gaze into the eyes of one hundred complete strangers and feel complete compassion and love for them that I didn’t know was possible.
Bio of a Roxtar
Originally from Michigan, I (Roxtar) have been practicing yoga of various styles and frequency for over 8 years. It has been a slow, yet steady love affair, starting with beginner’s classes once a week until I moved to California in 2004 and discovered Bikram Yoga. The repetition of the sequence and low cost helped me realize that maybe this was more than a short term love affair, maybe yoga was more than a phase or a trend for me. It changed my body, my relationships, my mind, and I found that my favorite place was the yoga studio, whether I was sick, tired, broken hearted, struggling with grad school, or struggling with life in general. I was lucky to be able to attend classes at Yoga Journal Conferences for work and try many styles of yoga which pushed me to my edge and made me more sore than I knew was possible. Some of the most amazing teachers I’ve ever practiced with stole my heart for good. I eventually ended up in my first teacher training where I studied Iyengar and Purna Yoga with Camille Thom in Boise, Idaho. I recently returned from a Power Vinyasa Yoga training with Baron Baptiste in Hawaii. I enjoy fusing together the styles I have studied for an all encompassing class that challenges your body, moves your stuck emotional energy, clears your mind, and inspires you to seek and live in truth…it can be a catalyst for amazing growth. I believe that yoga is the answer to good mental and physical health, whether your practice it once in a while, once a week, or once a day, it helps. It has complemented everything else I do in my life, physically and mentally, and I believe it can do this for anyone. Why run, stretch, and lift weights when you can get all the physical benefits and more with yoga? I teach Power Yoga at Yoga Centre, Vinyasa Yoga at Smiling Dog, and some free yoga classes to my fellow desk jockeys at MINDBODY, Inc.
