Hamid Jabbar

My yoga and meditation practice developed at the perfect time--I was a young lawyer in Los Angeles at the top of my game, with every goal I had set achieved, but I was not happy. The physical practice reconnected me with my body and helped me regain my strength and flexibility that had vanished after seven years of schooling and working a desk job. The physical practice opened the door to the other limbs of yoga and further studies of meditation and subtle body energies. From the place of stillness I found through meditation, my life took a radical shift towards a life of teaching--a change that occurred simply because I started to flow with the currents of life instead of swimming against the tide. I began my more focused studies at Yogaworks in Los Angeles in the Vinyasa Flow and Restorative styles before completing my 200-hour certification at Urban Yoga in Phoenix and 300-hour advanced training with Dave and Cheryl Oliver in Ashtanga. I co-created and co-directed Urban Yoga's 200-hour teacher training program from 2014-2017, giving back the gifts that were so freely given to me when I needed them most. The best part of being a teacher is that I wake up every day with an overwhelming sense of gratitude to be able to do what I love and inspire change in my students' lives.