Bio
Zach came to yoga as an emotionally and physically injured dancer, seeking a new way to build awareness of his body and to continually refine and improve his relationship with his physical body. Zach loves exploring new movements and discovering creative ways to stretch and strengthen specific areas of his body. Zach believes in both the emotionally and physically healing aspects of yoga, and believes that yoga classes should be an intense work out that targets the entire physical body as a route to peaceful and meditative emotional states. In the summer of 2008, Zach successfully completed Ana T. Forrest’s intensive teacher training. He aims to share his love for the pillars of Forrest Yoga—Breath, Strength, Integrity, and Spirit as well as to constantly search for new and exciting ways to move in his body.
Teaching Style
Zach’s yoga classes are accessible to and challenging for all levels of physical ability—they reach out to a broad range of fitness levels. Everybody will find themselves challenged. Zach brings a playful attitude to his classes since he thinks yoga should, perhaps above all, be fun—if it’s not fun, why do it? Zach’s classes rely on a core of basic and accessible movements and poses aimed to challenge students in new ways, and to cultivate the body awareness necessary to prevent and even heal injuries—whether they stem from sports or from structural and functional habits. Zach places an extra focus on intelligently strengthening the core to invite his students to live in their bodies in a stronger, more confident, yet compassionate way.