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Yoga Instruction
I offer public classes in Felton, Santa Cruz and San Jose California. I also work privately with students to create a practice which is specific in addressing their needs.
Please email for current class schedules and workshops or to schedule a private session. BioSharre began her study of Hatha Yoga in 1986 and began teaching in 1998.Her primary instructor is Shandor Remete (Zhander) founder of the Shadow School of Yoga. She has been with him since 2005 and is a continuing student.
Sharre’s classes are now based on Shadow School yogic forms and principles. Her classes emphasize the harmonizing of the mental / emotional condition via the doorway of the physical body. Classes focus on exact alignments, rhythmic breathing and use of uddiyana bandha which stimulate the flow of prana and guide the mind to a state of calm and balance (sattva).
She has performed professionally with yoga dance troupe “Yoga Motion” (2002-04), performed pieces of her own choreography and appeared as "November" in 2005 Sacred Form Yoga Calendar I’m very grateful for the opportunity to have received the guidance of a variety of spiritual mentors who each in their own individual way have offered immeasurable support, inspiration and solace. My teachers include: Bhante Wellewatte Selagawesi of Sri Lanka, Leonard Jacobson, David Spero and Mother Meera. My current mentors are Adyashanti, and Sri Sai Kaleshwar Swami.” NAMASTE EssaysHarmonic Shapes in Hatha YogaYantra:
"Any instrument or machine" (i.e. that which is controlled or
controls.)
…..it can stand for symbols, processes…….machinery or anything that has
structure and organization….geometric figures….[which] are used in
Eastern mysticism to balance the mind or focus it on spiritual
concepts.” Asanas are representations of all the various species of living creatures. In Vedic myth, it is said that Lord Shiva took all the 84 hundred thousand possible positions and thus created all living species. The body it self is a yantra which can be tuned, harmonized, potentiated. This is the process of asana work in Hatha Yoga. Understanding the Body’s form The body’s form is a result of the flow of the 5 major vayus (primary wind currents or pathways of energy flow.) The shape of the body gives us information as to how the vayus (vital currents) are flowing and where they are blocked. This can be “read” by observing the body’s shape. A distorted body shape (as well as pain, dysfunction, and limitation) generally indicates that major vayus are disrupted and therefore flowing in a non-harmonic or chaotic pattern; 90% of the time due to mental or emotional tensions. The asanas of hatha yoga are harmonic shapes. They can be applied to the body as a medicine to clear and remove the obstructions which are blocking the flow of vayu, there by restoring it to its natural harmonic form. One’s natural ability to do a given asana merely shows that the channels required to assume that pose are already clear. The practice of the asana is a combing through one’s own tangles, of meeting one’s own past. It is the lack of assimilation of past experience, past trauma, past events which creates obstruction, distortion, pain. In the yogic journey, the voyager must meet him or herself on physical, mental, emotional, intellectual and karmic levels. It is in the meeting, the feeling, the allowing of what is there which enables energies which have been blocked up to be released. When this occurs life experience evolves, shifts, changes for the better. The practitioner can then access his or her inborn gifts that were always there but just buried in the murk of undigested life. To be successful you have to be willing to enter the domain of your un-digested past with eyes open and feelers up. And, you have to be willing to interrupt your unconscious, habitual motor pattern. The emotional place from which your nervous energy functions, the unconscious pattern of your movement. You have to be willing to listen, to feel, to notice that you have such a pattern and what it is. You have to become able to recognize it when it arises, to feel what it feels like. This unconscious, habitual motor pattern, is nothing more but a conditioned way that neurons are firing in your nervous system; a way that you respond to and approach life, a way that (in many of us) is usually associated with a certain degree of anxiety. Once you can notice this pattern, observe it, feel what it feels like, you become able to make another choice. The Hatha Yoga practice is a way to re-condition the nervous system via harmonizing body posture and rhythmic breath. Shallow erratic breath will always accompany a distorted movement pattern and a restless mind. The shape of an asana is a yantra; it is alive, it has the power of nature behind it. It has the ability to re-direct your energy if performed with presence, reverence, rhythmic breath (pranayama) and bandha. When approached with presence and reverence practice becomes a process of reprogramming your habitual, unconscious pattern of functioning. Practice is dynamic and static. When it is dynamic, blocked areas of the body (marma) are being churned, stimulated. Then, when you are still, the energy keeps moving, but it moves deep within you. When you are holding a pose and are still, the energy is directed in a very specific way; a harmonic way, a natural way, a healing way. As we practice, aim to feel the lines of energy in your body. Feel where they flow, and connect key points. It is the energetic connecting of certain key points which makes the lines; it is the lines which create the shape. The shape of the pose forces the vayu to travel along a harmonic pathway. This is the medicine. As this is repeated, the harmonic flow becomes the new habit pattern. The more we apply harmonic shapes to our body through practicing, the more our body will assume a harmonic shape which is free from blockage and pain. For example, some lines to work with in Parivrtta Trikonasa (revolved triangle)
Cultivate the awareness of these lines. They will hold you up, especially in balancing asanas. One of the promises of Hatha Yoga is a perfected body. This
“perfect” means not merely as an appearance but a reaching of the
potential which nature intended for us, just as a rose, a pine tree, or
an ocean wave reveal their own pattern of perfection. In the process of
yoga the purpose for perfecting the body is to enable it to be the “gati,”(pot)
a stong, viable container fit for the Primal Life Force or Kundalini
Shakti; the awakening of which is the result of the higher limbs of
Ashtanga Yoga. In order to contain this force, the body must
become “adamantine;” strong yet light and resilient and free of
obstruction.
For more info contact Sharre Young at 831-239-4089 |
With a
foundation of 13 years of practice in the Iyengar method, she then
received a Yoga Shikshak certification in India (2001) for her
studies with M.S. Vishwanath, nephew and student of Sri K. Pattabhi
Jois.
She
studies with