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Plasha Yoga Studio was voted the Best Yoga Studio in Erie 2007-2008 and again in 2008-2009 by the Erie Choice Awards! 2007 was the first time voting was open to the public for the yoga studio category so it was truly an Erie choice. I thank you for your support, in some cases for over ten years!
I completed Ayurveda and Yoga teacher training with Dr. David Frawley, internationally recognized as the foremost western scholar of Ayurveda in Nov. 2007. We studied a 400 page manual and read six books! This is equivalent to a previous 300 hour long distance program. Many teacher trainings for teaching beginner hatha yoga are only 200 hours which typically produces posture teachers and not yoga teachers. Frawley says limiting one's yoga practice to only asana creates more attachments to the body that we are trying to transcend! I agree! My intention for taking this training is to serve you even better and to help support you in going deeper in your practices. I am only one of 24 in the world to have taken this training.
I have been hired by Gannon University as an Adjunct Instructor of Classical Yoga to teach the two credit Introduction to Classical Yoga in the Sport and Exercise Program in the College of Science, Engineering and Health Science. I have also been hired by Flow Yoga Center in Washington, DC to assist them in their teacher training. In addition, I continue my relationship as a teacher trainer with the Samyama TT also in DC.
Karma Yoga is the Yoga of Selfless Service. Plasha Yoga has given countless free classes in yoga for over 25 years in many community settings as a way to introduce yoga to the masses including folks who might not be able to afford it. This service started in my living room in 1982!
I have recently published an article in Integral Yoga magazine titled When Hatha Meets Raja. You can read an excerpt at http://www.iymagazine.org/. Other authors include nationally known teachers such as Stephen Cope, Pema Chodron, Dr. David Frawley, Nischala Joy Devi and Rama Jyoti Vernon.
My wife, Allison and I led a weekend workshop in Yogaville, Virginia Feb. 9-11, 2007 titled Celebrate Your Soul Mate: A Valentine's Day Celebration. It was a wonderful time and included a couple who have been married 52 years and are best friends with poet Coleman Barks!
Our next one there was July 27-29, 2007 and titled The Supreme Adventure: Realizing Your Full Potential. We returned for a similar program June 20-22, 2008. Go to www.plashayoga.com/workshops.html for details. I also gave a workshop at Schoolhouse Yoga in Pittsburgh April 28, 2007 titled Practicing Asana as a Context for Healing the Mental/Emotional Body. Their web site is http://www.schoolhouseyoga.com/.
I led another workshop at Schoolhouse Yoga in Pittsburgh on November 3, 2007. The title is: The Supreme Adventure: Hatha Yoga as a Spiritual Practice.
Since we tend to know ourselves as physical bodies, many students of yoga practice for physical reasons. But the masters of Yoga designed the science of Hatha Yoga within the context of Raja Yoga- the eight limbed methodology of reuniting with the Self and feeling our oneness with everything and everyone. Learn key practices from Raja during a two hour intermediate level vinyasa class. Experience many asanas for the mind and spirit as well as the body!
I was interviewed for the cable show Amazing Grace on the benefits of yoga to people over 50. The scheduled air dates were March 5 and 7, 2007 at 10:30 am, 3:00 pm and 8:00 pm on city cable channel 2 or county channel 19.
Yoga for Pregnancy began again in February. For more details, go to www.plashayoga.com/workshops.html. I am the only person in Erie with prenatal yoga certification. This was a 10 day training and earned 130 Yoga Alliance hours. Some prenatal yoga trainings are only one day! Yoga students be aware of flimsy certifications. Always ask teachers details about their certifications and trainings and read the blog on Finding a Great Yoga Teacher. I am also available for private lessons.
Yoga Day USA 2007 was a big success raising money for the Erie Peace and Justice Center whose philosophy is a wonderful example of ahimsa, the great vow in yoga of non-violence. May their work go well. Yoga Day USA 2008 introduced yoga to many new people and I was featured on the WSEE progam Insider Erie with Kelly Gaughn as a way to promote it. Erie Yoga teachers chose Plasha Yoga studio to host the 2009 Yoga Day celebration.
If you would like to receive regular updates and join my growing e mail list, just write me at rhadeya@plashayoga.com
Many blessings,
Michael Plasha E-RYT 500
Plasha Yoga Studio is Erie's Yoga studio that honors the classical tradition of Yoga with the highest level of training and experience available locally. Feel the difference experience makes!
Plasha Yoga Studio was voted the Best Yoga Studio in Erie 2007-2008 and again in 2008-2009 by the Erie Choice Awards! 2007 was the first time voting was open to the public for the yoga studio category so it was truly an Erie choice. I thank you for your support, in some cases for over ten years!
I completed Ayurveda and Yoga teacher training with Dr. David Frawley, internationally recognized as the foremost western scholar of Ayurveda in Nov. 2007. We studied a 400 page manual and read six books! This is equivalent to a previous 300 hour long distance program. Many teacher trainings for teaching beginner hatha yoga are only 200 hours which typically produces posture teachers and not yoga teachers. Frawley says limiting one's yoga practice to only asana creates more attachments to the body that we are trying to transcend! I agree! My intention for taking this training is to serve you even better and to help support you in going deeper in your practices. I am only one of 24 in the world to have taken this training.
I have been hired by Gannon University as an Adjunct Instructor of Classical Yoga to teach the two credit Introduction to Classical Yoga in the Sport and Exercise Program in the College of Science, Engineering and Health Science. I have also been hired by Flow Yoga Center in Washington, DC to assist them in their teacher training. In addition, I continue my relationship as a teacher trainer with the Samyama TT also in DC.
Karma Yoga is the Yoga of Selfless Service. Plasha Yoga has given countless free classes in yoga for over 25 years in many community settings as a way to introduce yoga to the masses including folks who might not be able to afford it. This service started in my living room in 1982!
I have recently published an article in Integral Yoga magazine titled When Hatha Meets Raja. You can read an excerpt at http://www.iymagazine.org/. Other authors include nationally known teachers such as Stephen Cope, Pema Chodron, Dr. David Frawley, Nischala Joy Devi and Rama Jyoti Vernon.
My wife, Allison and I led a weekend workshop in Yogaville, Virginia Feb. 9-11, 2007 titled Celebrate Your Soul Mate: A Valentine's Day Celebration. It was a wonderful time and included a couple who have been married 52 years and are best friends with poet Coleman Barks!
Our next one there was July 27-29, 2007 and titled The Supreme Adventure: Realizing Your Full Potential. We returned for a similar program June 20-22, 2008. Go to www.plashayoga.com/workshops.html for details. I also gave a workshop at Schoolhouse Yoga in Pittsburgh April 28, 2007 titled Practicing Asana as a Context for Healing the Mental/Emotional Body. Their web site is http://www.schoolhouseyoga.com/.
I led another workshop at Schoolhouse Yoga in Pittsburgh on November 3, 2007. The title is: The Supreme Adventure: Hatha Yoga as a Spiritual Practice.
Since we tend to know ourselves as physical bodies, many students of yoga practice for physical reasons. But the masters of Yoga designed the science of Hatha Yoga within the context of Raja Yoga- the eight limbed methodology of reuniting with the Self and feeling our oneness with everything and everyone. Learn key practices from Raja during a two hour intermediate level vinyasa class. Experience many asanas for the mind and spirit as well as the body!
I was interviewed for the cable show Amazing Grace on the benefits of yoga to people over 50. The scheduled air dates were March 5 and 7, 2007 at 10:30 am, 3:00 pm and 8:00 pm on city cable channel 2 or county channel 19.
Yoga for Pregnancy began again in February. For more details, go to www.plashayoga.com/workshops.html. I am the only person in Erie with prenatal yoga certification. This was a 10 day training and earned 130 Yoga Alliance hours. Some prenatal yoga trainings are only one day! Yoga students be aware of flimsy certifications. Always ask teachers details about their certifications and trainings and read the blog on Finding a Great Yoga Teacher. I am also available for private lessons.
Yoga Day USA 2007 was a big success raising money for the Erie Peace and Justice Center whose philosophy is a wonderful example of ahimsa, the great vow in yoga of non-violence. May their work go well. Yoga Day USA 2008 introduced yoga to many new people and I was featured on the WSEE progam Insider Erie with Kelly Gaughn as a way to promote it. Erie Yoga teachers chose Plasha Yoga studio to host the 2009 Yoga Day celebration.
If you would like to receive regular updates and join my growing e mail list, just write me at rhadeya@plashayoga.com
Many blessings,
Michael Plasha E-RYT 500
Plasha Yoga Studio is Erie's Yoga studio that honors the classical tradition of Yoga with the highest level of training and experience available locally. Feel the difference experience makes!
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