While doing everything I could to honor and respect the teachings of yoga, I began creating the Broga class I thought would work best-a combination of my hatha/vinyasa training, functional fitness postures and movements including lunges, squats, pushing, pulling, bending and twisting, and a form of cardio that was safe and still fit into the ‘yoga’ class but didn’t turn into a bootcamp situation. ![]() Broga couldn’t be boring, or focus too much on postures which required a ton of flexibility instruction would need to employ a language relevant to the average guy’s life and it would have to feel like a workout which would provide tangible results. ![]() Gathering all of the yoga sequencing I’d learned in my YTT, drawing on years of my personal exercise experience and my certification by NASM for Functional Movement training, I began to create programming, content, a language, and an overall feeling and experience one could have in a Broga class. Now at this point, not having a set focus on exactly ‘what I wanted to be when I grew up’ (I was an aspiring actor for several years), and being pulled in the direction of yoga more and more, it felt natural to take a Yoga Teacher Training. I went to classes often, and our family trips were built around yoga, and tropical locations. Around 1999, in a small house where Sivananda classes were held, I got hooked. I began to enjoy this new modality of movement. Every so often, because they were free at Crunch Fitness where I had a membership, I’d drop in. And I’ve always known where and how to find it: in my body, on the field, in the ocean, pulling or pushing my body around in yoga and so on.Īround 1996/7, while living in NYC, I began to explore yoga classes. Some people may refer to this state as ‘the zone.’ Either way, it’s a state of mind or being, I have craved my whole life. ![]() And I felt a sense of freedom, contentment I felt alive Looking at this through the lens of yoga, I would say I achieved states of pure bliss, or nirvana while playing. I was active because it felt great, and I enjoyed it! It brought me happiness, and energy. An active life wasn’t something I thought about consciously.
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