SCHEDULE  
Sundays
8:30–10:00a

This class explores classical postures (asanas) and breathing techniques (pranayamas) to strengthen and open your body. Sequences are led in a meditative manner, interspersing movement with holding postures to generate strength and heat which encourage the body to release deep-seated tension. Beginners are welcome in this class.

   
 

Henry Scott

I understand yoga to be a practice of letting go of the temporal identity and moving into the transpersonal identity—a practice that allows one to recognize, through experience, the goodness of the life force that informs all existence. Though relatively new to the yoga scene, I have been facilitating movement and dance for more than 25 years and currently teach movement, dance and theatre at Kennesaw State University. I also work as a freelance director and choreographer in the Atlanta area.

My first introduction to a sun salutation took place at the Governor’s Honors Program when I was a 16-year-old theatre major. The lead instructor began each morning with a 45-minute physical/vocal warm-up. Since then, Namaskara A has been a part of my vocabulary and practice.

For a long time I experienced yoga on a purely physical level; it was a great way to warm, tone and stretch the body. Later in life, as questions of spirituality and personal relationship to the divine began to move to the top of the priority list, yoga began to reveal itself as a practice that created space for such exploration.

Yoga addresses the mind, body, breath, and spirit. As a holistic practice, it creates the space for one to feel into the essential nature of being—into the goodness that is at the center of all expression. It is in this engagement that true identification is possible.

I added yoga to my daily spiritual practice five years ago and profound changes have occurred in that time. My priorities have shifted and my career has been realigned. Three years ago I decided to deepen my practice and joined a 200-hour yoga teacher training at Peachtree Yoga with Graham Fowler and Ursula Nix. I have since received master level Reiki attunements and have begun the Pranakriya 500-hour teacher training with Yoganand Michael Carroll at Jai Shanti Yoga. I am so grateful to have this practice in my life and to be afforded the opportunity to share it with others.

Certifications

  • 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training - Peachtree Yoga, Atlanta
  • Working towards Pranakriya 500-Hour Professional Level Yoga Teacher certification