by Abbie and Adrian Galvin My favourite mother and son team posted this piece on dear friend Dan Wilf’s site, YOGANONYMOUS, on January 20th, 2015. Studying with Abbie and other teachers at Katonah since late 2013 has granted me great strength, length, dimensionality and self-love through the practices, and you’ll be seeing more of my […]
Abbie & Adrian Galvin
Adrian Galvin: I grew up in Katonah, NY. Yoga for me was first an intellectual practice. I had a physical practice in numerous sports and dance and rollerblading but they all lacked a kind of intellectual base. As I became interested in more philosophy and sacred geometry, I began studying everything from theories of physical coercion and discipline, to ideas on the limitations of a reductionist culture. As I began to see the body differently, as not just a “temple”, but a person’s entire story, a political tool, a sexual object, a corporate investment, I became interested in working with the body as a way to work on issues in ones life, in the political sphere, in the market etc. Coming to Yoga through its intellectual basis allowed me to have a very functional relationship with my practice and the way I teach. I teach so people can have better operating organs, so that people have bigger lungs, longer backs, cleaner folds, smoother lives. Yoga’s true magic is its practicality. Connect with Adrian on Facebook and the web here and here. Peep his Katonah Yoga bio and check him out on Soundcloud. Abbie Galvin: My yoga instruction is informed by my own creative process as a filmmaker and from my exploration of the therapeutic process from psychoanalytic training. I have learned over and over that truly participating in any formal process of self-exploration leads to transformation whether it be physical, psychological or intellectual. My goal is to engage students of yoga in the dialogue between their conscious and their unconscious selves. It is through that effort that we potentiate ourselves. It is my intention as a teacher to cajole each student in that most rigorous effort to be grounded, to grow upwards, and to open one’s heart in order to create their best self. Connect with Abbie on Facebook, the web, and peep her Katonah Yoga bio here. See more at: http://yoganonymous.com/pattern-paradox-and-katonah-yoga#sthash.KRxyHx8u.dpuf