The Alexander Technique is way of bringing greater freedom to all of our actions. When applied to the Art of Yoga it can bring a wealth of ease to the physical practice, allowing the healthful benefits of poses to be experienced more fully while lessening the effort needed to achieve them. The Technique can be an essential tool to learning Yoga safely.

Instructor:
Daria T. Okugawa has been a certified Hatha Yoga teacher since 1983. Along with her Alexander practice, she has been teaching weekly Yoga classes for the past 25 years. Her early exposure to Yoga was through her mother, Priscilla Okugawa, who trained with Indra Devi in the early 70’s and who has been teaching Yoga privately for close to 40 years (still teaching today at the age of 76).

Daria was further influenced by her theatre training, which included Yoga for the Actor as part of her undergraduate and graduate studies. While training as an Alexander Teacher in London, she continued her studies with Ray Evans, a certified Yoga instructor and member of the British Wheel of Yoga as well as a STAT certified Alexander Technique Teacher. This combination impressed her greatly and inspired her to receive Yoga teacher certification herself from Samata International in Los Angeles.

Over the past 20 years she has taken many workshops with such renowned teachers as Judith Lasater, Richard Freeman, and Desikachar and exposed herself to many styles of Yoga such as Ashtanga, Anusara, Bikram, Iyengar, Kudalini, Phoenix Rising, Kripaulu, Integral and Sivananda and others.

Her aim is to provide a beginner to intermediate level class that is infused in the language, principles and hands on support of the Alexander Technique as a means to create a safe, fluid and enjoyable practice style that can than go with students comfortably into personal practice or as a base for more advanced classes with other teachers. Many students stay in her classes for many years as a way of practicing with ease.