Yoga
With
Eugene
Lewins
Free Videos -
An accessible yoga flow with twists and heart opening - Basic Flow
A great strengthening flow - Zig Zag Pose
A balancing sequence - Crane Flow
A refreshing standing pose to bring ease to your day, Standing Bow Hunter
A gentle ten minute yoga warm up in the studio
Sharing a poem while walking in the woods, Camping at Fall River
Start Your Day with breathing practice by the Siuslaw River
Start Your Day with a Mountain Morning at the Colorado Flat Irons
I am teaching Saturday 9am , Wednesday 8am and Thursday 5:30 pm classes at https://www.allheartyogastudio.com/
It´s a beautiful studio in Portland NW 23rd district, and the owner is a good friend. I would love to welcome you to the space.
Questions - mailto:yogawitheugene@gmail.com
Wow, it's been an amazing ride, over twenty years of learning, teaching and sharing yoga. Now, when I am asked what kind of yoga I teach, I wonder how to answer? Here is my best shot - the core influences of my practice.
My first elevator speech was that I wanted to Study Yoga in an Authentic Indian Tradition and then Learn to Apply it to the Western Body. So I took teacher training for two years with Aadil Palkhivala, who had grown up with legendary Yoga master B.K.S. Iyengar. His teaching was rigorous, thorough, and imbued with a deep sense of the tradition of Hatha Yoga as a vehicle to prepare the body for resilience, compassion and spiritual growth. Back in Portland, I took classes with Physical Therapist and author of Yoga Journal's Anatomy articles, Julie Gudmestad. After a few years, I found that I wanted a more tangible sense of the human body's movement and potential, and worked my way through the 500 hour program at East West College to become a Licensed Massage Therapist.
Ten years into teaching, I was injured in a climbing fall that broke my spine and heel. The process of more than full recovery was scary, painful - and my biggest learning opportunity. I feel stronger, deeper, calmer, more open now than ever before in my life. I celebrated that recovery with a solo hike along the John Muir Trail, 200 miles along the Sierra Nevada crest, and publishing the story as Poems for the Journey. I teach now to share the tools and the experience of self healing.
Co-leading a Mazamas trip to circumnavigate Mount Kailash, I got to visit the bleak and stunning landscape in Tibet where Krishnamacharya, the grandfather of modern yoga, hiked into in the 1920s and spent years living in a cave above Lake Mansarovar and studying with authentic Tibetan yogis. Such stories had felt like myths to me. Being there in person brought a reality and a humanity to all the study I had done earlier.
Becoming a tango dancer, as a non-dance guy with two left feet, was an incredibly humbling re-entry at the sub-basement level of a long learning journey! It called me into a whole new level of awareness of alignment and presence. In that journey, I have become a student of Alexander Technique, moving me away from learning new outer postures, and instead deepening my kinesthetic understanding of the human body.
Being moved, heart-broken and inspired by the journeys and challenges and successes of my students over the decades.
My massage business is accessed at www.MassageWithEugene.com
My next weekend yoga retreat is at Mazama Lodge, Mt Hood, Oct 30th thru Nov 1st, 2020
Contact me at - yogawitheugene@gmail.com
Eugene Lewins