Greetings Yogis!

It has been a while but I am back in Los Angeles teaching yoga!!!! I am teaching a Summer Solstice Workshop on JUNE 22nd from 1-3pm at Yoga Daya in Culver City. Early Bird rate (before June 8th) is $35, and $45 after June 8th. Space is limited so secure your spot by calling Yoga Daya at (310)-558-YOGA[9642] or sign-up online and click the "Workshops" tab at the top of the page.

Hello All!

I am happy to say I am back in Los Angeles after a 2-month stint of working with the San Diego Opera! What a tremendous experience it was working with extremely talented dancers and a fantastic choreographer. Samson & Delilah was the first opera and Aida was the opera I just concluded.

Hello All! It has been a long time since I have blogged, but I am starting up again. I recently finished performing in San Diego Opera's production of Samson & Delilah. What an amazing experience with amazing dancers! I will be performing with San Diego Opera again in April in their production of Aida.

To purchase discounted* tickets for Aida please click here.

*Please note that discounted tickets only apply to Tuesday and Friday evening performances.

I apologize for the recent absence of posts. I have been incredibly busy with teaching ballet and performing. For upcoming performances click here.

As the holiday season quickly approaches, I implore you to please check out the City of Angels Ballet's campaign by clicking here to get talented inner city youth on stage. Click here to learn more about the City of Angels Ballet.

CAB is an incredible organization that provides FREE ballet trainng and performance opportunities to young people from under served communities in Los Angeles. Our goal is to raise $50,000 by Christmas Eve. In exchange for your generosity, CAB will offer "perks" for the various donation levels. 

Please help us in this very important mission to preserve the integrity of classical ballet here in Los Angeles and to continue inspiring talented youth!!!

Once again, please click here to view our campaign!!!!

“Let go,” “release,” and “undo,” are terms loosely thrown around by many yoga instructors. Are we really spending $20 per class to have someone tell us to relax? No wonder I can’t get rich! The theory goes that if you are able to momentarily step away from the outside world placing it on hold and turn your attention inward that you will finally tap into that inner child that you so dearly miss. As a yoga instructor I agree with this theory only somewhat because then there are those of us who “do” in order to “be.” Somehow through all of this “doing” or “undoing” (which is still doing something) you will supposedly find your true creative spirit.  Isn’t going to your local yoga studio and practicing yoga in and of itself doing something, even if you are laying in Savasana (Corpse Pose)? My point is we cannot NOT do.

Brilliant minds unlock invaluable information that you and I take for granted. One of those brilliant minds is Stephen Hawking. The man needs no introduction.

Several months back I wrote Existence, A Verifiable Reality where I discussed the nature of existence. My main reference for this post Steven Hawking.

A few days ago a team of people building a graphic dedicated to Mr. Hawking and his achievements approached me. I was asked to provide my personal feedback on this graphic. If you are reading this post, then I would also like to ask you for your feedback on this graphic. If anyone is a shining example of "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you deal with it..." its MR. HAWKING.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL GRAPHIC DEDICATED TO MR. HAWKING. PLEASE PROVIDE YOUR FEEDBACK IN THE COMMENTS SECTION OF THIS POST. YOUR FEEDBACK IS APPRECIATED

In addition to my Friday evening 5:00-6:20pm Relax, Restore, Rejuvenate class, I am now offering a Friday Morning Yoga Flow group class beginning this Friday April 6, 2012.

Location: International Sportsmedicine Institute

3283 Motor Avenue

2nd Flr (above Elizabeth Taylor's Aquadic Center)

West Los Angeles, CA 90034

COST: $15/Class (CASH or CHECKS ONLY)

I invite all of you to enjoy your Friday mornings with me at this lovely space. Investing $15 for a one hour and fifteen minute yoga class where you will learn to move with maximum efficiency and minimum risk for injury is a drop in the bucket

Don't think for a second that yoga instructors are some ethereal form of human. We are just regular people engaging in regular people behavior. The yoga industry is booming here in the Yoga Mecca we know and love as Los Angeles. Warning: Yoga instructor (Me) is about to get judgemental, but only for a few paragraphs.

A surplus of yoga instructors pervades our tinsel-town, many of which have no business teaching and molding bodies in the first place. If you add up all these variable you get something very "unyogic" : COMPETITION. Competition is good just like Darwin said because it eliminates the weak and the talentless from the strong and talented. We are not all created equal in all respects. Some people are better than others at certain things. A yoga instructor who relies only their yoga teacher-training education program and their passion for could be a good instructor. However, when a lifetime dedicated to training for a career in professional dance, athletics, sportsmedicine, etc... is coupled with a yoga teacher-training education program the end result is a first-class instructor! Any regular Joe can sign up for yoga teacher-training courses, pay the money, and take the classes. It's not rocket science. What is a science is having a solid understanding of how to apply movement principles into action, and who better to teach these principles than people who move FOR A LIVING! I call these people, myself included, Movement Specialists.

Why search for inspiration anywhere else other than nature. This is an actual lemon from a tree in my backyard. Only nature could design something as awesome as this!!!! To me it looks like a mother with her child in her lap... or Buddha?

What does it look like to you? Tweet your answers to @SYTYCY or post them to our facebook page for So You Think You Can Yoga?

Dear Yogis, Dancers, and Lovers of the Movement Arts,

It is my pleasure to personally extend this invitation to all of you. I have been involved with the City of Angels Ballet for almost two years and what a truly remarkable experience it has been. Since the inception of City of Angels Ballet nearly 20 years ago, Artistic Director Mario Nugara has been providing selected youth from underprivileged communities in Los Angeles with professional level ballet training, shoes, leotards, and tights at no cost to the children's families. I am on the faculty at CAB in addition to being a dancer with the company. After two successful Nutcracker seasons under Mr. Nugara's artistic direction (and under the name California Riverside Ballet) we are hopeful of adding a Spring repertoire. This would provide professionals like myself with a quality repertoire in Los Angeles and allow the children from our school more opportunities to perform.