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about: diane's yoga  Diane is a passionate teacher who intuitively guides her students towards their own edge while encouraging them to deeply listen to their inner wisdom. Whether teaching a restorative class, a more physically demanding practice, or working one-on-one with a student, Diane is committed to inspiring her students to drop into the present moment as completely as possible. Her classes weave together her knowledge of Ayurveda, asana, breath work, meditation, yin and yang yoga. Diane is a curious, inquisitive person with a passion for living well, she is fiercely committed to her own evolution and encourages that in her friends, family and students. One of the major events that shaped Diane’s life and yoga practice was a car accident in 1999 in which she was hit broadside as a pedestrian. From that point forward, yoga became her rehabilitation path. Three months after the accident she was walking into yoga classes with a cane and sitting on 2 bolsters in virasana. It’s been a long and humbling road to relearn flexibility, and accept the limitations of the body. Rehabilitating from her accident has given Diane a wide birth of compassion for everyone who comes to yoga for the first time feeling stiff, injured, not very “in their body.” She understands the patience required to stick with the yogic path, especially as people recover from injuries and illness. In 2010 Diane began teaching yoga in prison at Airway Heights Corrections Center in Spokane, WA. She offers two weekly classes to inmates focusing on asana practice as well as yoga philosophy and cultivating a compassionate way of being in the world. Teaching in prison has inspired Diane’s own inquiry into the nature of inner freedom. She’s interested in inner liberation for all beings. read more... Diane has been blessed with amazing teachers along the way. Her primary influences have been Donald Moyer, Sarah Powers and Scott Blossom. From them she learned a combination of precise alignment, yin yoga, sitting meditation and Ayurvedic principals. She also studied Ayurveda at Mount Madonna Institute and has a diploma in Ayurvedic Lifestyle Counseling. She is deeply grateful to her teachers and all they have shared along the way as well as their own dedication to their paths. Other inspirations to Diane are Pema Chodron, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Diane teaches classes and leads workshops in Spokane WA, and in the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds a Master’s in Arts and Consciousness from JFK University. Diane recently moved from Oakland, CA to Spokane, WA where she lives with her husband and creative partner, Erez Batat. |
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