More about Orangecarbon collective and me;
Orangecarbon studio , is a private small in house studio, located at Kenmore Heights just few blocks north of Bothellway SR522.
My own understanding of yoga started years ego in NYC ABT and University of Tennessee where my group was required to do 20 miniuts of yoga for dance warm up before routines.
I had no idea about the more advanced effects of yoga and what it was doing to me intrinsically until much later.
Once I realized I dont need sedatives to go through my dental procedures and had tolerance for lots of things mental or physical, I realized that I have gone through an unusual transformation and empowering without my own knowledge.
My mind and body had separated from each other and operating as two independent entities..!
I could be in one or another or both.
Now at PNW, I have my own style and some people are listening and wanting to learn it.
I am trying to uproot yoga from its E.Indian roots and make it more earth-wide fusion practice.
Thus I have decided to create a fusion out of ancient yoga and contemporary form of it. It is lighter and less intimidating and can be applied to daily problems and issues without sounding so Indian. After all yoga has been around for over 5000 years and belongs to human race rather than just one nation. All earth people can claim it as their own..!
If you are around Bastyr , you can try their scene and find out.
I synopse between capital hill scene and Bastyr as well as Pacific-an Islands.
I set up yoga meetings with new people to talk and network. Since my house/studio is in a suitable location to do this, I get lots of responses but draining hesitations as well.. If someone is not familiar with yoga culture, it would be hard to get them interact or invest in something that doesnt look natural to them ( though yoga is incredibily natural) . There is a quite a bit of suspicion as well since some dont understand the appeal and devotion and may perceive it as contentious and cultish.
All they have to do is to look at their adored dogs and cats to see it being done daily.
My studio is open for anyone who wants to set up a meeting, just wants to plain talk or wants to do one on one yoga with me.
I am also set up to do yoga meetings and/or help if someone else wants to do it. It seldom happens now since we all got tiered of trying to convert hesitant and scared people to our little secret sect of cultish yoga heads..!
Fear of unkonwn is such a driving force here in PNW. No one gets tired of routine.
People rather be exposed to bloody violent movies than go discover new/old things.
If it is happening to others then it is not happening to them.
Fortunately, (to me) there are people who are interested in yoga due to their exposure, having to exercise it due to dance requirements or just plain study or keep up with whatever. Of course it is very hot and if you are good at it, all you have to do is visit a fashionable yoga studio in Seattle or any metropole in the world and if you are good at it, impress the hell out of the practitioners..
Voila..! you will have plenty of admiring friends right away.. a sudden social climb, instant group of friends...!
I get variety of students, mostly Bastyr students who want to have their own none main stream yoga set up. Then I also get new yogis who want to get a clue before going to studios and making confusing gestures.
I have VIP clients as well who have heard about my pushy but very effective attitude and then I have my own niche of corrective yoga which is more like physio-therapy than yoga. http://orangecarbon.net/yogatherapy.aspx
It helps to advance quickly specially if one has stopped doing it for a while or if their life style is abusive to their body and mind , this will reset it to natural jungle mode...:) It is interactive and kind of intimate looking but in reality it is as innocent as people wrestling to inter-stretch, adjust their bodies with each other.
Imagine intelligent human interactive Iengar props..!
Even if there is a physical inter-feeling since all my clients maybe female and I am male, it goes away after few times when we realize how uniquely helpful this is. Animals do this all the time, they wrestle and struggle, adjust to physical and mental health.
Additionally I train some to be practitioners and certify them when they are up to my expectations. I am training one student in Hawaii right now and have trained one other at PNW. Ask for more info by contacting me. masso