Richard Rosen on his humble and humorous beginning…<\/p>\n
I taught the first class on Monday, March 15, 1987. I had two students, which was double the number I had for the second class. Since then by my rough estimate I\u2019ve taught over 6500 public classes at PYS. <\/p>\n
When we started the school back in 1987, none of us really thought we could make a living teaching yoga. But we agreed that we would do everything we could to make yoga enjoyable and accessible to as many people as possible. <\/p>\n
We\u2019ve always prided ourselves on being a little bit different than other yoga schools,… over the years we\u2019ve hosted classes for disabled students, cancer survivors, people with Parkinson\u2019s, seniors, toddlers, and teens, for people with back problems. We\u2019ve supported low fee community classes, a training program for disabled students to become teachers themselves, and of course our own teacher training program has launched the careers of any number of current teachers here and around the country.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Richard Rosen on his favorite pose:<\/p>\n
\u201cMany years ago when I first began yoga practice in the early 1980s, my least favorite yoga pose was shavasana, usually interpreted as the Corpse Pose. I couldn\u2019t see the point of lying around and doing nothing, it seemed a huge waste of time. But I think now the real reason I objected to it \u200bwas that it made me feel very nervous, vulnerable, after a vigorous asana practice my inner life was too exposed and I wasn\u2019t ready to look at it that closely. But now, that\u2019s all changed and shava is by far my favorite pose. Shava is a retreat and a refuge, an essential daily \u201ctime out,\u201d when I give myself the permission to \u201cdo nothing,\u201d figuratively and literally, which is of course the ultimate yoga practice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lump in the throat – Just sheer respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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