How does one find yoga? This strange physical practice, this philosophy, this lifestyle, this community? The yogis have a saying, "If you come to find yoga in this life, you've known it before."
Yoga has come to me at different stages of my life, in different ways. Now, yoga is more prevalent, easier to come across with its own major magazines, chant musicians, slick ads, and yogi celebrities. Not so in 1992. I was working at the now defunct Waldenbooks as an assistant manager. We could check books out like a library, and I came across B.K.S. Iyengar's Light on Yoga. He is the real deal, swathed in nothing but a white cloth and his caste symbols, symbols of his lineage. I could not tell you what drew me to it, how I actually found it, or decided to bring it home, but I did.
I was living with my sister at the time. I opened the book and began to try to mimic the postures. Hilarity ensued. This man bent, twisted, and balanced his body in ways that seemed humanly impossible. I tried, we laughed. It was great fun. But, I realized quickly this level was beyond me. Not detoured, (I learned everything out of books then), I brought home a new book: Richard Hittleman's yoga: 28 Day Exercise Plan. The postures were much more accessible and laid out a nice plan of progression: not too much at once, not too little. I began to learn yoga, practicing at home, by myself. Not only did this book show the postures, but also included little snippets of philosophy to follow for then the modern person, which was 1970 or so. It was a bit outdated for me, but did begin the journey.
Yoga has come to me at different stages of my life, in different ways. Now, yoga is more prevalent, easier to come across with its own major magazines, chant musicians, slick ads, and yogi celebrities. Not so in 1992. I was working at the now defunct Waldenbooks as an assistant manager. We could check books out like a library, and I came across B.K.S. Iyengar's Light on Yoga. He is the real deal, swathed in nothing but a white cloth and his caste symbols, symbols of his lineage. I could not tell you what drew me to it, how I actually found it, or decided to bring it home, but I did.
I was living with my sister at the time. I opened the book and began to try to mimic the postures. Hilarity ensued. This man bent, twisted, and balanced his body in ways that seemed humanly impossible. I tried, we laughed. It was great fun. But, I realized quickly this level was beyond me. Not detoured, (I learned everything out of books then), I brought home a new book: Richard Hittleman's yoga: 28 Day Exercise Plan. The postures were much more accessible and laid out a nice plan of progression: not too much at once, not too little. I began to learn yoga, practicing at home, by myself. Not only did this book show the postures, but also included little snippets of philosophy to follow for then the modern person, which was 1970 or so. It was a bit outdated for me, but did begin the journey.
Carrie Hura, NCTMB, E-RYT 500 of Transform Yoga and Massage
Carrie is a Registered Yoga Teacher, (E-RYT 500), and Nationally Certified massage therapist, who began her interest in the healing arts and yoga over 15 years ago. While living in California, Carrie became interested in yoga and had
her first massage-she was hooked! She began her formal training in massage therapy at Irene's Myomassology Institute in Southfield, MI in 1998. There she studied aromatherapy, prenatal massage and became a Reiki Master. She went on to study through the Upledger Institute Craniosacral Therapy.
Carrie is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher through the Yoga Alliance, and a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, as well as the Associated Bodywork
and Massage Professionals.
Carrie teaches "Learn to Meditate," "Yoga Foundations I," Yoga Foundations II," in addition to Trauma Sensitive Restorative Yoga.
Carrie is a Registered Yoga Teacher, (E-RYT 500), and Nationally Certified massage therapist, who began her interest in the healing arts and yoga over 15 years ago. While living in California, Carrie became interested in yoga and had
her first massage-she was hooked! She began her formal training in massage therapy at Irene's Myomassology Institute in Southfield, MI in 1998. There she studied aromatherapy, prenatal massage and became a Reiki Master. She went on to study through the Upledger Institute Craniosacral Therapy.
Carrie is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher through the Yoga Alliance, and a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, as well as the Associated Bodywork
and Massage Professionals.
Carrie teaches "Learn to Meditate," "Yoga Foundations I," Yoga Foundations II," in addition to Trauma Sensitive Restorative Yoga.