This little light of mine
Welcome to Airstream Yoga.
I'm Helen, and I am living my dreams. I live in an Airstream travel trailer on 11 acres of Texas Hill Country with my husband and 3 cats, and since 2009 I've been passionately growing yoga in the Wimberley Valley. I've got an over-abundance of energy and a focus on service, so I keep busy spreading it around. My teaching schedule is below. Occasionally, I have time to write about my life. Click the good life blog or facebook to keep tabs. Helen's Schedule
Monday
The Yoga You Need @ 7:30 - 8:30 am The Yoga You Need @ 9:00 - 10:00 am Tuesday Wednesday The Yoga You Need @ 7:30 - 8:30 am The Yoga You Need @ 9:00 - 10:00 am Thursday The Yoga You Need @ 10:30 - 11:30 am Wimberley Hot Yoga @ 4:30 - 5:45 pm Friday The Yoga You Need @ 7:30 - 8:30 am The Yoga You Need @ 9:00 - 10:15 am Saturday Wimberley Hot Yoga @ 9:30 - 10:45 am * Teaching Teachers
Camp Utopia
is a Yoga Alliance recognized school (RYS200 & RYS300) and I am an experienced registered yoga teacher at the 500 hour level (E-RYT500). I created this program in 2009 and have been working with small, intimate groups ever since. More than 40 teachers have graduated from the program. It's a mix of weekends and self selected study, and you come out the other side a good teacher with lots of skills. We start again in January 2016. Need more info? |
I'm gonna let it shine
Teaching yoga
The Yoga You Need I volunteered to teach a yoga class at a church retreat early in 2010. With 18 mats in the back of my car, I drove the winding roads to a camp in the woods, and taught to more than 30 women in a cramped, musty meeting room. During the long and peaceful relaxation, I rubbed their necks and shoulders with a soothing oil, rubbed their feet, stretched their backs. Afterwards, they prayed on me, and a woman emerged from the crowd and offered me a job teaching seniors. Sometimes, your path leads you where you didn't know you were going, but it fits just right once you get there. I was scared to teach seniors. I don't like the ridiculously hard poses of yoga very much, it was easy to discard them from the plan. But I like the every day hard poses delivered hard. I feel better working a strong yoga practice, and I ache in a typical "gentle" yoga practice, which tends to indulge in deep passive stretching and long passive holds. I didn't want to hurt anyone. So I challenged them instead, without any poses where the risk was higher than the benefit, or the pose inaccessible to everyone outside the Cirque de Soleil. There were 8 students there the first class, 18 the second, 20 the third, and they were requesting a second class per week. After 8 months, we outgrew the kitchen floor we'd been using for class and moved in to the ballroom of the Wimberley Community Center. Two classes a week became 3, and then 5, and the numbers just kept growing. In a town of less than 3000 residents, more than 80 attend the Monday morning class of The Yoga You Need each week. The combination of challenge with risk management, maximizing benefits specific to their needs and educating them on the benefits of each movement worked. They felt better after every class, and then every day. For me it was like rounding a corner on my chosen path and finding a neon billboard proclaiming: YOUR NICHE YOUR NICHE YOUR NICHE in brilliant flashing light. Never bored of it, never tired of it, never grumpy about it. The Yoga You Need is what I was made for. Hill Country Hot Yoga / Wimberley Hot Yoga I love the hot and power yoga that first brought me to the table. It's a longer story, with lots of love and light and service, a few heartbreaks and betrayals. It's the story of helping other people become teachers, become good, get paid. It's the stubborn refusal to give up when classes and pockets are empty; it's the overflowing basket of dirty wet towels left in the doorway. It's the long haul of karma, the outcome still far in the distance. For now, it's 4 classes a week at the Sanctuary in the Village in Wimberley. It's moderate heat, outrageous power, and sweaty, exuberant love. |
"I'm gonna pretend this is heaven, babe, you know, just in case, I get up to the gates, and they don't recognize my face." ~ The Pines
