Teaching Style
Bo's teaching style is a product of years of study, teaching, and observation of her students. Her teaching is continually expanding to incorporate her discoveries in her private work as well as her personal practice. From her years of teaching and practice she has developed a unique style of yoga, Elemental Yoga
Bo teaches with focus and exuberance, helping students discover the joy of awareness in both stillness and movement. Her classes are rich in metaphor and speak to the emotional body, facilitating greater freedom in body, mind, and spirit. While Elemental Yoga classes are challenging on the physical level, Bo's focus on anatomy and alignment makes them accessible and safe for practitioners of all levels, including beginning practitioners.
Bo's teaching style transcends the physical form of the postures, igniting the quest for self-awareness and transformation. Marrying intention with the life force of the breath, Bo's classes help students move beyond barriers of thought, emotion, and action to cultivate the seeds of transformation. Elemental Yoga unites the physical, emotional, mental, philosophical, and energetic elements of yoga, providing a truly integrative yoga experience.
Bo also teaches Restorative Yoga for injury prevention and rehabilitation, relaxation, anxiety, insomnia, and depression.
Elemental Yoga
Elemental Yoga is a fusion of vinyasa yoga and bodywork featuring frequent isometric stretches, innovative use of props for the generation of awareness and release of tight fascia and muscles, and creative sequencing. A synergy of long holds, a slow flow of poses seamlessly linked by the breath, and extensive alignment instruction and anatomical detail, Elemental Yoga is designed to promote myofascial release and expansion while enhancing students' self-knowledge and body awareness.
Elemental Yoga is grounded in the art of anatomy and alignment, helping students experience the richness of each pose within the framework of their own bodies. Its longer holds and slower flow allow more time for students to move thoughtfully through layers of physical, mental, and emotional resistance, shifting long-held patterns of thought and movement.
Elemental Yoga is grounded in the art of anatomy and alignment, helping students experience the richness of each pose within the framework of their own bodies. Its longer holds and slower flow allow more time for students to move thoughtfully through layers of physical, mental, and emotional resistance, shifting long-held patterns of thought and movement.
Restorative Yoga
Restorative Yoga involves gentle and passive stretching of the entire body while supported by yoga props such as bolsters and blankets. Muscular contractions are absent, which maximizes physical comfort and quiets the nervous system. This quieting of the nervous system helps set the stage for balancing the emotional body, calming the mind, activating inner wisdom, and facilitating the body‚s capacity for healing. Because Restorative Yoga creates new neural pathways to the parasympathetic nervous system, it deepens the relaxation response, reduces anxiety and stress, increases students' subjective sense of calm, and helps stimulate restful sleep.
Beginners
If you are taking yoga, or vinyasa yoga, for the first time, come prepared to listen to your body and rest when you need to. Listening to your body and respecting its limits will enable your body to better process the yoga experience, and will help make your yoga journey a long and fruitful one. Many of Bo's classes have assistants that have been trained by Bo and are available to help correct alignment and offer props (assisted classes are at Healthworks, The Arlington Center, and Yoga in the Square).