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Bill Hufschmidt

BS - Botanical Sciences - Humboldt State University - 1991

200 YTT - Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health - 2001

Thai Yoga Therapy with Saul David Raye - 2003

Thai Certications from Thailand:  Wat Po and Lek "Mama" Chaiya - 2006

Thai Yoga Therapist Certificate with Saul David Raye - 2006

500 YTT - Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health - 2007

 

Visit Bill's Thai Massage page

 

Click here to sign-up for a Thai massage session with Bill

  

Read Bill's article in New Life Journal Sep 2008:  Sounds Like Yoga
Read Bill's article in New Life Journal Feb-March 2004:  Yoga for your Mind, On & Off the Mat.

 

 

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; caps 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, 0 Lord, Creator, Hallowed one, You still, hour by hour sustain it.

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--->  Here's the link for Bill's work with Thai Massage 

 

Check out these two articles I wrote for New Life Journal

 

Article in Sep 2008:  Sounds Like Yoga

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

 

 

 

Bill's Class Schedule - effective June 2009 through August 2009:

Simple Thai Massage
 ---Next dates - July 29 - Wed 7:30p

 

Sunday 7:30p - Nude Yoga - Men
A yoga practice for men that want to practice while not wearing clothing.  This class blends breathwork with vitalizing movements and restortative sequences to help you create flexibility and fluid strength. Previous Yoga experience recommended - not recommended as an introductory class.

Bill teaches:

• June 7
• July 5, 19, 26
• August 2 & 30

Chuck Brittain will be subbing the weeks that I'm out of town.

 

Monday 7:30p -  Yoga Basics   An 8-week Series
 -- Next dates - Fall 2009. 

 

Tuesday - 6:15p - Gravity Surfinig and Pretzel poses. 
A blend of pranayama, creative prop-play and fluid, dynamic or static asana sequences.  
This practice encourages taking off the training wheels and exploring a new possibility for living in this body.
WARNING - this is not a beginner class.  HOWEVER - this class will teach you how to move beyond beginner.

This class is intended for yoga students with prior yoga experience who want to learn postures to create more strength and opening for core, hips, shoulders and spine!

Chris Mastin will be covering this class, with Chuck Brittain as a back-up at least through Labor Day, 2009

 

Wednesday 7:30p - The Living Room
- Meet me in the Living Room for a mid-week body tune-up and check-in. 
Join me in a conversation about the practice and bringing your's to life. 
No prior yoga experience required - open to all. 
$Love - Give as your heart directs.

Schedule coming soon.

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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. 

 

 

 

 

 

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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.

 

 

 

 

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Trainings completed to date:

 

Thai Massage Trainings completed to date:

 

• Towards the One: An Introduction to Tantra and Expanded Male Orgasm with Ian Ellington Feb 2009
• Pranakriya 200 hour YTT - Aug2008-Feb2009
• Kripalu Yoga Teachers Assoc Annual Conference - Aug 2008
• Thai Yoga Therapy with Saul David Raye - Dec 2006, 2007, 2008
• Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training - 500 hour Module 3 - with Devarshi & Vidya - April 2008
• Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training with Tarika Diana Demilio & Naresh Ron King - 2004

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