Our students notice that each instructor has their own niche. For some, gentle flow. Others, meditation. Amir focuses on the body and on healing. Inspired by his own back pain 30 years ago, which therapeutic yoga helped cure, he offers a healing practice for life’s everyday brutality. “People are injuring themselves all day; they just don’t know it,” he says. “I want to get people to understand the basics: how to sit, stand, and walk. The poses put us through the challenges.”
Amir provides abundant and detailed instructions for how to move and takes his classes and workshops through the paces to practice alignment, energy movement, and clarity of mind. “Paying attention to the body is the hardest part,” he says. But when he’s dictating just exactly what to do with your shoulder blades – like leading with the blades in cat and cow, as opposed to the spine, as you might have always thought, or how to create space between each vertebra or what to do to stretch your connective tissue – the mind becomes laser-focused. He offers wisdom on anatomy and how to bring the lessons of healing into daily life – for knees, neck, back, shoulders, hips, and other parts that have been beaten down from work, injury, disease, aging, or disuse. He gives you the tools to practice these maneuvers at home and then wants you to go out there and live: play sports, climb mountains, expand your reach with a body that can.
~ Sue Eisenfeld
