A message to my YogaDownload students:
My dear students, thank you so much for your enthusiasm and loyalty over the past few years that I’ve taught for this site. I absolutely love knowing that you are enjoying my classes from all around the world. My hope to is to keep my classes accessible and fun, while provoking curiosity and the drive to learn more about working with your body and mind. Please remember to have fun in your yoga practice, and not take it too seriously. Life is serious enough, right? Enjoy!
In your words, what is yoga?
Yoga has been defined as “the state of missing nothing.” I love this somewhat vague description because it opens up a couple different interpretations for me. The first is about contentment. When nothing is missing then everything is perfect and whole, and we can trust and have gratitude. The second is about awareness. When our observational skills are so honed that we miss no details, we are fully aware and perceptive. Combine the two, and yoga is the state of full awareness, trust and contentment.
What inspires your teaching?
The beginner’s mind inspires my teaching. I often invite my more experienced students to access their beginner’s mind, experiencing the asana as if it was their first time. In this way, the practice can stay fresh and we can bring to it an awareness that becomes almost meditative. I also thrive on teaching beginning students to access their breath and tune-in to their bodies in new ways. I often tell them how my grandmother began her yoga practice in her mid-50s. It’s never too late to start!
What is special about the style of yoga you teach?
I specialize in Yin Yoga, a practice that is just so wonderful for balancing out the more active types of asana classes, as well as the hectic pace of our modern life. I deeply believe in the importance of slowing down.
Elise Fabricant has been practicing yoga since 1993 and sharing her love of it by teaching since 2002. Her friendly, down-to-earth approach to teaching has helped make it accessible to hundreds of people of all ages and abilities. It is her aim as a yoga teacher to encourage her students to become body-aware, to establish a relationship with their breath, and to develop a compassionate and joyful attitude towards themselves and the world around them. Elise teaches many styles of yoga, but is especially drawn to teaching Yin for its sweet, nurturing qualities. Elise believes that Yin Yoga can help balance her students in physical, emotional and mental ways that no other yoga practice can. Elise takes the Yin principles into her massage practice, too, and joyfully offers bodywork in Denver, CO.
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