 | My wife had been after me for several months urging me to try a yoga class that she had been involved in. Being content with my in home cardio program and also combining outside pilates sessions, I felt like yoga would only interfere with my already excellent fitness regime. Boy was I wrong. After the first several classes I soon realized that yoga was much more than fitness for my aging body, it was medicine for my unbalanced inner body, something I had thought I was attentive to. By taking yoga I feel that I get even more out of my exercise efforts and more importantly, now have a growing connection with my inner self.
I couldn’t be more pleased.
Paul J. Yakel
January 2007 |
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| It’s been a very slow awakening for me as I’m in my mid-50’s and have been on an inward journey of sorts for about 25 years; the catalyst of which was a chronic disease. The health issue took me down the road of the mind-body connection and I developed a new respect for the powers of the mind. An underlying theme in much of what I read was the importance of meditation for good health and well being.
A little more than a year ago I came to the Omaha Yoga School for the first time—it seemed like the next logical step on my quest for better overall health. It’s difficult to explain how a person knows when they are in the right place at the right time but that’s just how it was when I climbed those stairs. The atmosphere was like an elixir for my mind and body.
The study of yoga has added so much more to my life than I ever imagined. The readings and discussions, so beautifully guided by Meredith, always leave me with a new or healthier perspective on the simplicity of what otherwise seem like the very complicated decisions in life, and the meditation practice has given me the tool to pry open the door to knowing—to “getting it.”
All of this before even mentioning the value of the postures and stretching exercises, which have allowed me to become so much more aware of, amazed by, and in union with my own body.
My disease and I became friends some time ago and I realize now that it was a gift that has ultimately led me to yoga; and the study of yoga is a path unto itself that I look forward to walking for a long, long time.
Terri Brown |
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| Omaha Yoga School teaches these traditions in their full context. All of their techniques from massage therapy to yoga and on have helped me greatly in my body, mind and outlook on life. It’s helped the back muscles I came in for, but has given me far more in terms of my physical and emotional health.
David Olsen
Feb 2007 |
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| For me, yoga was a last resort. I had come to a point in my life and the realization that I would have to live with some amount of pain in my back for the rest of it. Many of the professionals I had seen suggested I try yoga and while I feel I have an open mind, I was still apprehensive. I had a lot of pre-conceived ideas about what yoga was and couldn’t imagine it could help with some of the issues I had.
I finally made the call and opened myself to the Omaha Yoga School and what I found was so much more than I expected. I realized during the first class that this was completely different than what I had expected. From the time I went into my first pose, I realized how much my mind played a huge role in what I felt I could and could not do. I always avoided things that would put undo pressure or stress on my back and tried to do the same in yoga.
It was with Meredith’s kind and calming voice that I was able to lead myself into poses and stretches and allowed myself to see that I can do almost anything, if I just listen to what my body is telling me. To my surprise, I could immediately feel the results and have found yoga to be one of the only things I have done that has put me on the road to becoming pain free.
I look forward to my yoga class with the people, meditation and especially the calmness. I feel so fortunate to have had my eyes opened to this new experience and the wonderful teachings I have learned from Meredith. I hope others have the courage to open themselves to the universal energy around us and inside us through yoga.
Therese Yakel
January 2007
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| As an older student who also suffers from congestive heart failure, my yoga classes have been beneficial to me both physically and mentally. My teacher, Meredith, has such a vast knowlege of yoga that she eagerly shares and demonstrates to her class. Her patience and understanding that not all students are [physically] equal makes her classes a real joy to attend. Gary Wasinger
March 2007 |
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