Stephanie Keach | RYT Vinyasa Flow Yoga

Stephanie Keach | RYT Vinyasa Flow Yoga's Teacher Profile

Stephanie weaves an eclectic blend of styles into her teaching: Vinyasa Flow Yoga, Core Strengthening, Zen Philosophy, Compassionate Humor and Ecstatic Chanting. She honors the tradition of Yoga, yet feels a need to embrace new understandings due to our Western perspectives. She feels our conditioning has led us to unconscious thought, speech and behavior patterns. From a place of fear, we have armored and built layers around our heart, around our True Selves, around our bodies. Guided from a place of love, she encourages unfolding and awakening by looking at ourselves and our belief systems very closely. Hatha Yoga has never been a path for the weak of heart, yet by trusting our inner strength, we can allow the awakening to bubble to the surface as we learn to go with the flow of life.

Stephanie received her first “wake up call” from God at the age of 20. She had dropped out of the University of California, Santa Barbara because of her questioning nature. She was questioning the purpose of a degree and wanting to know the deeper meanings of life. So she traveled: to Europe several times and around the US. She was living high in the Rockies when she broke her back in a car accident. It could have been fatal, no seat belt, snow storm, tumbling down a shear rocky cliff, broken glass, etc. Miraculously Stephanie limped away from the accident with only a fracture at T-12. Choosing self-healing rather than conventional medicine, she began practicing visualization, meditation, deep breathing and yoga postures. She thought she was just making it up, alone with her imagination and creative intuition. A friend gave her Light on Yoga and she realized it was yoga, and she was hooked. Only 3 months of rehab and she was pain free, doing backbends and everything! Continue reading ›

Green Yoga

by Stephanie Keach on Jun 16, 2007 (0) Comments

Green Yoga
This is a strange title, because what exactly does “green” anything mean nowadays? Yoga itself means balance, and the implication of “green” in front of it might bring to mind: Environmental Yoga Studio, or, Environmentally Friendly Practices at the Studio, or Earth friendly Yoga Teachers. Our studio is sort of those things, and sort [...]

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