Student Profiles
Joan Park: Yoga Mama
Joan Park: I do yoga just for me. My first class was six weeks after the birth of my third child. Having been a competitive swimmer, I always assumed yoga would be too easy for me (just a bunch of stretching exercises)! It was only when I felt completely out of shape, overweight and frazzled that I was willing to try it. Yoga is something I do just... (read more)
Jen Macagnone: Yoga Fashionista
Jen at her hair salon downstairs from Yoga Hawaii. For me, yoga is a beneficial postivie mindset. It helps me achieve more things in my life. Back in 1988, my hsband, Stuart, introduced me to Raquel Welch’s stolen routine from a Bikram yoga video. Now as I continued to practice yoga, I feel my boy, mind and spirit totally align and my love energy... (read more)
Greg Meredith: I find my whole world transforming…
A dedicated student in our morning Ashtanga Mysore program with Zachary Hitchcock, Greg Meredith offers his reflections on yoga in his life... My sciatic problem was at its worst ever this last summer. The sciatic pain was a spear piercing my lower back and exiting my abdomen, leaving my arms and legs numb. Sport-related injuries compounded with years... (read more)
John Harris: ‘I love how calm I feel’
When John Harris, 54, first started practicing yoga five years ago in Chicago, he was completely surprised by how peaceful he felt afterwards. He was immediately hooked. “The next day I told all my friends at work how great the class was,” he says. “I started going five to seven days a week after that.” His favorite thing about yoga is how calm... (read more)
David & Cookie Shimizu: If you do the practice, it will transform your life.
Like many men, David Shimizu, 53, began going to yoga four years ago at his wife Cookie’s request. “I had my own exercise regimen and a busy work schedule, so I was reluctant,” he says. “In the beginning, I was more concerned with the physical aspects of the practice; I thought the chanting was weird and savasana an inefficient use of time.... (read more)
Cyra Sherman: I couldn’t live without yoga
Cyra executes a difficult pose (ashtavakrasana) with a smile. When we asked long-time student and teacher Cyra Sherman about her experience with yoga, she wrote this beautiful essay which explains what her practice has meant to her… I have been practicing yoga for over 14 years. It has been an amazing adventure and journey into myself over the... (read more)