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Meet The Teachers.....Our Senior Teachers (12 or more
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Lee (Shambo) - Founder of YogaHealth
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YogaHealth started 15 years ago after I became involved in a car accident.
I was a professional dancer at the time and devastated to be crippled at the age of 30 years old.
I began to look for ways to get back on my feet. I had already been practicing yoga for many years while training with Yogoda Satsanga Society in India and studying Tibetan Yoga with
Namgyal Rinpoche. Now my studies became more intense as I was continuously researching modern stress relief discoveries. This has sparkled a deep fascination with the miraculous bio-mechanical
functioning of the human body that continues today.
A year later I had four students for my first class. Today we have fifty classes a week in WA, as well as classes in Nepal, India, Canada and Indonesia.
What has accomplished this amazing expansion is the wonderful people that I have around me, principally my wife Uma and our children, as well as our larger family of YogaHealth teachers,
each one of whom adds their own unique flavour to our mix. I am also grateful to all of our students who support us in so many ways and to my advisor and beloved friend, Shantimayi. Namaste.
I love teaching.
It is an opportunity to put aside my own 'story' and to really be present for the benefit of others. The main actor
in the story has a different role for an hour or two. When entering into the stillness of ‘being for
others’ we begin to notice that we are really just ‘being’ rather than being
this or that. In the same way a flower...or an apple...or a tree. No doubt trees
have their own stories....
I am discovering that being present is not a static state but rather it is more like the "aaaah" of diving into a cool pond on a hot day. When the
'story of me and mine' is interrupted or put on hold, there seems to be such vast space. For a long time I filled that
space with instructions and only recently am I discovering the unplumbed depths of that emptiness which seems to almost
tremble in anticipation of yet deeper discovery. It can take a while to be comfortable with silence, whether it is the
silence in class at the end of the meditation, or the simple silences that can happen between close companions where there is no need to speak.
I notice the silence in my own house only when we have visitors,
and I recall that our culture does not prepare us for silence...that it is seen as somewhat pregnant.
As humans we have taken the symbols of our inner life-words and made of them a substitute for the actual sensations of the inner landscape, which has
become a silent and scary place for some of us - thus the habitual vocal noises.
When we begin to pay attention to the background silence....
when we can continue to flow with that moment... then we slip silently out of that role as ourselves and join the dance of existence itself…
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