I founded The Yoga Wheel inspired by the practices of Yoga and Buddhist Dharma. This year marks our 25th anniversary!

I approach movement (Sanskrit: āsana and prāṇāyāma) through experiential anatomy and dynamic principles of movement, rather than through the mechanics of postures alone.

In yoga, we inquire into and explore two main pillars of practice: structural stability and effortlessness of body and mind (Sanskrit: sthira sukham āsanam).
Using mindfulness as a vehicle for practice, as somatic practitioners we “anchor” through three paradigms of the embodiment process: visualization, somatization, and embodiment.
In the first two, the witnessing mind is present. In the last, it becomes a direct experience, initiated from the cells themselves.

“The source of this process is Love.” — B. Bainbridge Cohen

Within the landscape of yoga practice, we inquire into deeper layers of the body—organs and bones—as well as the intricate web of fascia, the connective tissue that surrounds literally everything: from microscopic cells, to organs, bones, and muscles, to the adipose layer adhered to the skin, covering the entire body surface.

I hold a special curiosity for the movement patterns and sequences by which we humans were formed during embryogenesis—the first eight weeks of our mother’s pregnancy. From there, we follow the movements of the fetus around the umbilicus and placenta, as well as the movement processes of our own birth, postnatal care, and subsequent developmental stages: volitional limb movements, crawling and creeping, and finally walking on our own two feet—patterns that remain with us throughout life.

In a sense, the “goal” of the practice is the path itself. Through both stillness and movement, we are braiding a practice of wholeness, which in essence is the practice of Yoga.

Much like Tai Chi and Qi Gong, this approach to yoga stimulates the subtle flow of energy through the meridians, offering health benefits such as improved balance, coordination, agility, flexibility, and reflexes, while also helping to release stress, enhance the elimination of waste, and strengthen the immune system.

In my practice, I recommend regular Yoga and Prāṇāyāma as an adjunct to the therapeutic process.

See the schedule bellow and further appendix with  my lineages.