whitney-leming-salisbury

RYT 200 | VINYASA

Whitney completed her 200-hour through the Yoga Center Retreat.

Whitney began practicing yoga in 2021 as a way to integrate new beliefs and behavior patterns revealed in trauma therapy. She originally became interested in yogic philosophy when she took a weekend Yin Yoga certification class in 2022 at Up Yoga, where I was introduced to a practice centered around allowing the body to generate space, and trusting that space to nourish and reveal what you need. She entered the 230-hour yoga teacher training program at The Yoga Center Retreat in the summer of 2022 as a way of furthering her personal practice. She did not see herself teaching until recently, and is so thankful to share this learning experience with you!

Her yoga lineage follows that of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, whose students include BKS Iyengar, Sri K Pattabhi Jois, and TKV Desikachar. Her practice and teaching is heavily influenced by their foundational knowledge, although she is not a direct-lineage teacher. In addition to their pedagogy, she is specifically interested in practices that focus on the realm of the subtle body, such as Yin, Tantra, Somatics, and Viniyoga, which she has been practicing daily for the past
year under her mentor Celia McCoy.

In no small way, practicing yoga has changed her life and capacity for healing and joy. Whitney believes that freeing and fully embodying our true selves happens through the body at play – that the body, mind, spirit are not separate things, but a whole interdependent system requiring only curiosity for total access. When we can meet ourselves in the spaces we create within our bodies, when we can see ourselves and ask questions in that wholeness, magic is created. This is the space where both effort and effortlessness, strength and softness, lightness and
heaviness, emptiness and fullness can all exist without resistance. A place where we can heal. “I’ll meet you there. Let’s play!”

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