Welcome to LEVITYoga

Hi, my name is Peter Stereus and welcome to Levity Yoga. Levity Yoga, the name Levity Yoga has evolved over about 10 years and I've only started using it as a way to describe the yoga that I teach in the last year. What I'm trying to do is develop comfort in your practice with mystery, to have a little bit of, well, I'm not sure which way to go here and it's really a trial and error process. We access the creative parts of the brain through curiosity, through some recognition where we, in a way, abandon any kind of external influence of what we should do or what a teacher telling us how to do something and look inside of ourselves for our own guidance, our own intuitive curiosity to how to create this movement in hatha yoga. In a way, this is one of the hardest things to do in Levity Yoga as a teacher is how do I guide my students into an experience of themselves and keep them safe and allow them to go through like a child growing up, how do I allow them to make their own mistakes in a safe way and learn from those mistakes to create a truly personal practice.

Begin to trust, surrender, begin to trust your own intuition, your own trial and error and process and do it in a safe way and the safe way of doing it is, you know, the first step of being safe in yoga is maintaining a slow rhythm to your breath and if you're not maintaining that slow rhythm in your breath, chances are your attention is slightly out of the present moment and so my encouragement for you as you do some of the sequences on this show, can you make a priority of maintaining your attention present with slow breathing and even when the poses get challenging, if you lose that connection, back out a little bit. You should find a practice that serves you, doesn't serve the convenience of the teacher, it doesn't conserve the community that you're in, it has to serve you and the first step to that frankly is having a relationship with your teacher and in this day and age of let's say internet instruction, the beautiful thing about yoga on any time is that you're having an opportunity to listen to the teacher's talk about their practice and to share experiences that gives you a very personal feel for who that teacher is you're studying with online. That's what I'm trying to create for your experience either through demonstration, watching for instance these episodes on yoga anytime. I would spend some time just watching them and even the practices watch them and see if you can feel what I'm feeling when I'm practicing and in a way this is the way I learned with my teacher. So how to use these episodes that we've created here on yoga anytime.

I've designed these episodes so that you can view some of the lectures and some of the clinics to give you a basis of understanding for the practice and particularly the practice principles. I would encourage you to watch that before any attempt at practicing the other episodes and then as you get comfortable you can go through some of the exercises in that practice principle episode, practice those principles and then as you get more confidence in those principles begin with say the opening sequence and these episodes are designed to fit seamlessly with each other or if you want to if you're limited with your time each day you can just do them individually and I would leave it up to you to apply your own intuition and creativity to how you use these episodes for your own practice, how to support your practice.