25 Things About Meaghan:
1. I'm riding my bicycle cross country next summer for charity.
2. I love raw foods
3. Slacklining is a new passion
4. Mountains, beach, park-M the beach, F the mountains, C the park
5. Juicing the rind of a cantelope is unbelievably amazing...thanks Lauren!
6. Hula-hooping= fun and sexy
7. Finds it interesting when you kneel down and look at the world from a childs eye level-it's very grounding
8. It's all about perspective
9. Is scared....a lot....but I do it anyway. Fear is good fuel.
10. Grace with every step I take, my personal mantra
11. Loves popcorn
12. Pesto is one my most favorite foods
13. Finding it funny that many of these things I am writing about contain food
14. I think compassion is my strongest virtue
15. I procrastinate a lot- planning on working on that
16 I miss eating burgers
17. Is easliy distracted
18. Sometimes standing on your head and going upside down is the only way to see right side up
19. Dream car-1957 Ford Pickup
20. Can't wait to have a pet pig
21. Smoked for 13 years, something like that, denied it all the way
22. Once you feel you are wasting your time you lose the lesson
23. Unity
24. Love
25. Namaste
I found yoga about 10 years ago through a phys ed requirement in college. Throughout the next 5 or so years I dabbled in the practice. It wasn't until I graduated college in 2006 that I was reunited with my mat in a much more intimate way.
I practiced 5 days a week, various styles like Power Vinyasa, Forrest, Vinyasa Flow, and Ashtanga. The more I practiced, the more interested I became in doing a teacher training. My intention was not to become a teacher, but to immerse myself deeper into the transformation that was beginning to take shape. This person that I was becoming, I liked. Soon I realized, that it wasn't that I was becoming something I wasn't already, the yoga just revealed to me the beauty and strength that already existed, inherent in my own being.
My training took place at Nosara Yoga Institute in January of 2007 with Don and Amba Stapleton. After receiving my 200 hour Interdisciplinary Teacher Training Certificate, I decided that I wanted to share with others what the practice had and continues to show me. A note about Interdisciplinary Yoga: it is a vinyasa based (linking breath and movement) practice that draws from different disciplines of yoga and meditation where the true teacher in the practice is your own experience.
Since my 200 hour training I have also completed a month long intensive with Ana Forrest; immersions with Shiva Rea and Coral Brown in Prana Flow Yoga; immersions with Anne Greene and Todd Norian in Anusara Yoga. I have also done workshops with Richard Freeman, David Swenson, Alanna Kaivalya and the Yogaslackers. My teaching style is a vinyasa flow based practice that infuses wisdom from all these disciplines using the breath as the guiding force to move and create space in the body. Coupled with a strong emphasis on physical alignment, I teach with compassion and encouragement to listen to the wisdom of your body.
"The body has an intelligence all its own that the mind has yet to fathom." -Anodea Judith
Currently I reside in Southeastern, CT teaching at Blissworks Yoga and Healing Arts www.blissworksyoga.org and Mystic Yoga Shala www.mysticyogashala.com. I also teach international retreats. Check out upcoming retreats .
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