Tantra, Bhakti, Earth yoga & Ayurveda with Joseph Lofthouse

Teaching Style

I teach balanced yoga. Each practice begins and ends with meditation. Then depending on the needs of the people, breath work, movement, stretching, or ethics may be added. Aromatherapy and chanting are common, and beloved by the participants. If it works for the students, I do hands-on adjustments during practice, especially during savasana.My temperament is most suited to teaching gentle yoga: ethics, mindfulness, stretching, soft flows, ecstatic dance, chanting, and drum circles.

Tantra Yoga

Holistic weaving together of all things and all fields of study into radical self-awareness and self-acceptance, leading to expansion of all states of consciousness, and directly experiencing our divine nature and the divinity of everyone and everything around us.

Bhakti Yoga

Expressing love and devotion to all: Loving ourselves, each other, and everything around us. Finding beauty in the mundane. Sharing love and beauty through food, song, dance, chanting, service, and art.

Earth Yoga & Ayurveda

Loving mother Earth, and acknowledging that we are all her children, and part of her divine nature and cycles. Exploring earth, water, fire, air, ether, life, and the balance and flows between them. Working with nature to maintain balance and health.  Delightful, nourishing food that changes with the seasons, and massage with herb infused oils bring joy and health.

Gentleness

The first principle of yoga is sometimes called non-violence. I prefer to call it gentleness. Aspiring, as we practice (and live) to be kind to our bodies, minds, and emotions. Not mistreating the body by forcing it into poses that are painful or that might lead to injury. Not mistreating the mind with negative self talk. (And then not beating ourselves up for beating ourselves up!) Eating healthy foods, and participating in healthy daily routines.

Books

Author of Hundred Hour Yoga Teacher Training: A self-paced introduction to multi-style Yoga as a way of life, and Landrace Gardening: Food security through biodiversity and promiscuous pollination, and Semences paysannes métissées : La souveraineté alimentaire sans acheter ni semences ni engrais ni pesticid. Published a photo reprint of Sushruta Samhita, a founding text of Ayurveda, the natural healing system of India.

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