Meet renowned yoga instructor, studio owner and founder of Grounded Yoga, Krystal Gignac. She has trained hundreds of yoga teachers and has recently opened a studio in Orlando, Florida. In this episode, Gignac shares her ziz zag journey of studying yoga — from her tiny apartment with a Donna Farhi library book, to using yoga breathing techniques early in her career as a wildlife specialist to cope with the intensity of the African safari to opening a highly successful yoga school in Northern Ontario. Gignac shares insight on how she artfully weaves yoga philosophy into her classes. This episode is inspiring for new yoga teachers wanting to add layers of yoga history and language to their classes.
Suggested Books:
Yoga Mind Body & Spirit by Donna Farhi (and everything else by Donna Farhi!)
Moving Towards Balance by Nina Zolotow and Rodney Yee and Yoga, the Poetry of the Body by Rodney Yee
Perfectly Imperfect The Art and Soul of Yoga Practice by Baron Baptiste
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, by Sri Swami Satchidandanda
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