Bill Hufschmidt

 

Primary Wonder - Denise Levertov

Days pass when I forget the mystery.
Problems insoluble and problems offering
their own ignored solutions
jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber
along with a host of diversions, my courtiers, wearing
their colored clothes; cap and bells.  
                                          
And then
once more the quiet mystery
is present to me, the throng's clamor
recedes:   the mystery
that there is anything, anything at all,
let alone cosmos, joy, memory, everything,
rather than void:   
and that,
O Lord,
Creator,
Hallowed One,
hour by hour,
sustain it.

 

Bill's Class Schedule - effective Jan 2008:

 

Sunday 3:30p-5p - Poi Spinning with Pete Audano.
Series starts Jan 6:  Jan 6 & 20 (fire play option), Feb 3 & 17 (fire play option), Mar 9.
Series starts Apr 6:  Apr 6 & 20 (fire play option), May 4 & 18 (fire play option), Jun 1.

 

Sunday 7:30p - Nude Yoga - Men - For men that want to practice without clothes on.  The class structure blends breathwork with vitalizing movements and restortative sequences to help you simultaneously create flexibility and fluid strength.  For All Levels.

 

Monday 4:30p - Yoga Flow - for All Levels

 

Monday 6:15p - Breathwork & Meditation - for All Levels $5-15

 

Monday 7:30p - Thai Massage & Partner Yoga  - for All Levels $25 or $40 for two.
2nd Mondays - January 14, February 11, March 10

 

Tuesday 10:30a - Adaptive Yoga $5-15 - starts on 8Jan2008. 
Adapting your yoga practice with help from a chair and other props.

Please come join us if you are living with and recovering from illness, medical procedures, injury, PTSD, plus the regular life challenges that require more attention to how you strengthen and stretch your body.   

 

The studio is wheel-chair, walker, crutch and cane accessible. 

 

 

Tuesday - 6:15p - Soul Yoga - intended for yoga students with some prior yoga experience.  A blend of pranayama, philosophy, with fluid asana sequences.  This practice encourages taking off the training wheels and exploring a new possibility for living in this body.

 

Wednesday 8p - The Living Room - Meet me in the Living Room for a mid-week body tune-up and check-in.  Drawing inspiration from Donna Farhi's book, Bringing Yoga to Life, we'll explore an hour of movement, breathwork, seated meditation and deep relaxation.  Afterwards from 9-9:30p,  join me in a conversation about the practice and bringing your's to life.  No prior yoga experience required - open to all.  $5-15


 

Thoughts from Bill:  During the past 20 years that I have traveled around this sun, I have studied yoga & meditation as my primary physical and spiritual fitness practice.  Since the year 2001, I have been fortunate to make my living sharing what I have learned and how I understand the practice so far.  In April, 2003, I opened the doors to Jai Shanti Yoga, the yoga studio that I have been stewarding and evolving in Atlanta’s historic Candler Park.  Yoga has helped me find both comfort and understanding, and more contradiction and

confusion as welll  For me, this path is an exciting journey towards understanding myself and standing under the potentials we humans possess for learning to express love and compassion.  My classes are sometimes unconventional, and are always offered with an intention of love and spiritual growth. 

 

What & Why I teach:  Yoga philosophy teaches us that everything in the universe is made of two things:  energy and consciousness.  In my classes, I strive to give participants the opportunity to experience a deep and evolving, conscious connection with their own Life Force energy.  We’ll explore the nature of breathing and how you can use breath to enhance daily living.  While we are breathing, we’ll use different body postures and movements to awaken energy flow in your body to learn the richness of subtlety and compassion.  My goal for teaching is to inspire in my students a self-curiosity to learn to see and then move beyond stuck-areas of thinking, emotional processing, and physical challenges.  We are all capable of living a life “Fully Alive” to manifest our highest potentials. Yoga is a powerful tool for creating change

I teach yoga as a practice for Every Body that comes into the room.  I enjoy working with students representing all shapes and abilities.  Whether you are in perfect health, or working with physical challenges and dis-ease, yoga can offer you something to enhance your health and improve your quality of life.  Our bodies are a reflecting expressions of our thoughts and our experiences.  Through the practice of yoga and body therapies like Thai Yoga Therapy, we can learn how to process and release physical, emotional and spiritual injuries and scars.  We can also change the course of our lives and effect the evolution of our health, our physical shape and our evolution as spiritual beings.   Thanks for letting me share my experience with you.

Trainings completed to date:

Article in New LIfe Journal Feb-March 2004:  Yoga for your Mind, On & Off the Mat.


  Trainings that I have Assisted:

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Bill Hufschmidt, Owner, Jai Shanti Yoga, Atlanta GA 30307