Join our next guest teacher Salvador Martinez for this useful and transformative class series of integrating bhavana, breath, and yoga. Take one or all three! Salvador used to teach at 2nd Story before moving to Oakland. We are delighted to have him back!

Bhavana has many meanings, but in this context bhavana is a state of visualization. In this practice, we are visualizing the object of focus in a specific manner. It is an intellectual mental process because we are imaging the object of focus in a different part of the body.

Breath-Centered Yoga is the process of engaging conscious breathing with the practice of yogic physical postures where we allow our breath to align our body. In this way what could be a purely physical exercise regimen becomes a 'holistic' one engaging body, breath, and mind. What distinguishes the teachings of yoga in this tradition is the utmost concern for the individual student's needs on all levels be that physical, energetic, mental, emotional, and spiritual.

Bio:

Salvador began is Hatha Yoga practice and training in 1993, exploring a variety of disciplines such as Ashtanga-vinyasa, Iyengar, Shadow, Therapeutic, and Vinyasa. While pursuing his studies, he lived in San Francisco, London, and New York City, where he began teaching in 2008 and became an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance.

Salvador offers a traditional Breath-Centered Yoga practice for the individual, based on the teachings of T. Krishnamacharya and his son TKV Desikachar. It is with a profound passion that the teachings and practice are offered, clarifying its relevance of ancient wisdom to contemporary life.

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