Natasha Korshak

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Natasha Korshak is a long time teacher of yoga meditation and mindfulness- she is also an ordained Interfaith Minister and a Vedic Astrologer  Natasha has been practicing yoga formally since  and has been blessed with many great teachers and opportunities to earn her livelihood as a teacher and trainer  Her approach to asana is gentle and integrated  Gentle meaning that we practice relaxing within the effort; and integrated meaning that movement breath and meditation are interconnected  Her deepest desire as a teacher is to convey the essence of yoga through simple awareness based practice  Natasha has taught in a wide variety of settings and has worked with people from all over the world  She worked at the Southern Arizona Cancer Care Center for years where she helped create holistic programs that complemented conventional cancer care  For years she worked at Miraval Life in Balance in Catalina Arizona where she managed the yoga and meditation programs and was Director of Mindfulness Education  In the Tucson community she contributed to the launching of the Mindful Veterans Project serving area veterans and their families dealing with stress and trauma  Natasha carries the highest level of yoga training certification via the National Yoga Alliance and is a graduate of the American College of Vedic Astrology   In addition to her yoga training Natasha is a graduate of the Interfaith Theological Seminary has done extensive professional training with the Center for Mindfulness and the Integrative Restoration Institute and has special training in grief processing  She is the owner and director of the Sol Center: A Body Mind Spirit Learning Community dedicated to furthering the application of contemplative wisdom in the world  Personal Teaching Philosophy: My primary teacher Rama Jyoti Vernon said thousands of things that I have taken to heart  Foremost is her assertion that teaching yoga is a privilege rather than a profession  I am privileged to have learned yoga from a master I am privileged to teach yoga to those who cross my path  I hold the belief that awakening and transformation can happen at any moment and that formal yoga practice accelerates the process  The manner I teach is best described as meditative mindful integrative careful articulate breath-oriented and heart-centered I am interested in the dynamic zone between relaxation and effort attention and flow discriminative thought and pure presence  I believe it is in these zones that energy prana and light are accessed and assimilated into our physical body and consciousness in beneficial ways  Yoga teaches that wisdom is within and that wholeness is our ground of being  My intention is to simply skillfully artfully joyfully humbly guide people to their own realization of these truths.