The Big Yoga Guys are coming to town

As a budding owner of the very small, cozy and quaint Sunrise Yoga studio of Kalamazoo, where I often find classes filled with two or three people, where sometimes no one shows at all, where I often sit alone in lotus, with candles, meditating, chanting, doing a private practice, I feel the power of yoga growing within me and around me.

I am instilled with faith in what Sunrise Yoga has to offer, and what Sunrise will continue to grow to offer. I've come to realize the space at Sunrise Yoga in Kalamazoo is small, very small, maybe the smallest yoga studio around. Six spaces fill the room and one must embrace this intimate setting as being part of the practice itself.

It is an intimate place for sharing. I have practiced for many years in big studios such as the one I heard of that is coming to the area just this morning. The Big Yoga Guys are coming to town. I'm sure they will offer Teacher Trainings, something I do not. They will offer their yogi's many teachers, for now there is only me. And they will offer something I will never be able to give, a big yoga space. They will offer all the things a big yoga studio is able to offer, all the creature comforts, the professionalism that makes a yoga studio successful. But I have faith that Mom and Pop studios, like Sunrise Yoga in Kalamazoo, will thrive. There is room for us all to thrive and the Big Guys coming here lets me know, yoga is growing and I'm honored in being part of that growth.

I plan to return to India in August of 2011 for more training in the Krishnamacharya lineage. I will continue to learn how to help others in more personal ways, in more intimate settings, promoting and spreading that which is healing, that which is powerful and positive.

True growth isn't defined by the outward space, but rather by making and creating more inward space so that we may grow externally more brighter and lighter.

I am humbled by the journey, honored in having a healthy body so that I may continue to do what I love the most, practice, teach, and learn more about yoga thereby learning more about myself and others. Peace be, in and out, and all around. Till next time.

First class is free with a canned good donation.

www.Sunriseyogakzoo.com for details on classes.