Yogaroots
Welcome
Yogaroots Online is an evolution from my small community yoga studio in Fort Langley BC. I have been a teaching 'Scaravelli' style of hatha yoga for 20 years.
Yogaroots Values
Commitment and Safety: Consistency, dedication, and commitment to you and to yoga. Quiet and reliable. We show up without judgement and welcome everyone equally. We focus on clear expectations and instruction and you are invited to practice in a way that feels safe for you. We teach mindful awareness of ourselves and our physical and mental limitations. You are responsible for your own body and we respect that completely.
Gravity: Working with the science of our body and the laws of physics yoga becomes natural. We are not fighting against our own nature, we are celebrating and finding strength in what we already are. Working this way, our body begins to crave movement and it is no longer work. Vanda Scaravelli taught yoga as a direct experience of gravity and the laws of the universe that we can discover through practice.
Breath: Using breath as a focus point we learn to read the signals from our body more clearly. We pay attention and we learn about ourselves and our dynamic way of being. Our breath also provides the rhythm and pace of our practice. We work with naturally arising movement of breath, amplified in asana. Vanda Scaravelli spoke about breath as a wave we can ride into every pose.
Movement and Asana: Instead of using your body to achieve a pose, use the tradition of yoga to free your body. In the end, we want to live without feeling limitations in our daily movement. We can use yoga to achieve that freedom. Discipline and dedication are required in your practice but the reward is worth it. We intentionally do not use strict alignment 'cues' but encourage you to take responsibility for discovering the poses through consistent practice.
About
Tara Blake
Tara is a senior yoga teacher who has been teaching yoga full time for 20 years. Trained in yoga by her most influential teacher Esther Myers, she also studied with Monica Voss and Sandra Sammartino. Her passion for yoga is the unfolding of movement through the breath and gravity as taught by Vanda Scaravelli. Tara's focus is on returning to naturalness and ease while moving through an exploration of posture and breathing, which is a challenging practice for beginner and advanced students alike. Using intelligent and dynamic practice and her approach to yoga is grounded in the eternal wisdom possible in each student.
Tara is the owner of Yogaroots and has led international yoga retreats. She has deveolped and led numerous workshops and in-depth Yoga Alliance registered 500+ hr Yoga Teacher Training Programs, all inspired by Vanda Scaravelli and Esther Myers.
Tara is also a Certified Counsellor working privately in Langley and Abbotsford, BC.
MC, RCC, CCC