Yoga unites Mind, Body & Spirit no matter the flexibility, size, shape, or experience of those who come to the practice.
Yoga has brought me so many things, from mental clarity to recovery from a spinal injury and has given me the time and tools to look within. The classes I teach focus on blending the self-awareness and meditative elements of yoga with the movements of the body I see Yoga as so much more than just a form of exercise for sculpting a body that society calls “beautiful” or “fit”. You’ll find lots of posts here about non-normative body type friendly classes, yoga for the inflexible, and also yoga that is more about meditation than movement in addition to the more familiar offerings.
In recent years I’ve been loving Bhakti and Mantra Recitation and include them in my practices both personal and shared (taught). I play the Harmonium and Tanpura and love leading or participating in Kirtan practices.
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Yoga Teaching Bio.
Emily Schuhmann has been teaching creativity, flow, and expressive movement from swing dance, to art, and now yoga since the early 2000’s. Students of all levels can expect traditional as well as more playful approaches to Hatha, Vinyasa, and Yin styles of yoga blended with guided meditation. With specialized training in trauma, injury, and student empowerment classes focus less on perfected poses (asana) and predominantly on allowing participants to become more aware of the power they have to make each movement and breath work for them. Emily holds an MFA in contemporary theories and metalsmithing/jewelry design; she studied and completed her 200hr YTC at Yog Peeth in Rishikesh, India. A seasoned teacher: Emily’s taught at U of L, Bellarmine University, and Indiana University in addition to swing dance events all over the Midwest. In her spare time she sews, draws, sculpts, writes, dances, gardens, and is a voracious reader. She loves drawing similarities across disciplines for her students and especially enjoys sneaking in references to the stories from the Bhagavadgita and other yogic texts to give historical or inspirational context to her classes.
“With specialized training in trauma, injury, and student empowerment Emily’s classes focus less on perfected poses (asana) and predominantly on allowing participants to become more aware of the power they have to make each movement and breath work for them”
