Yoga
I started out on this yoga path many years ago, 1986. I had fallen from my bike while training for a triathlon. It was a silly fall, trying to negotiate the new clip-less pedals at a stop light. Over I went and slid a bit down a gravel embankment. I managed to extract myself, and, of course, headed out for the 30 mile ride. The next day my back was cramping and my legs ached. College backpack, waiting tables, continuing to train all took their toll. I came limping into my first yoga class. Secretly humiliated and very hopeful it would fix me, so I could get back on the swim/bike/run merry-go-round.
I cried through my first class. Looking back I think it was the sting of my pride. Here were all these women who could have passed for my Mom, doing far more than I was. And that hurt far more than my back. I was devastated.
I cried on the drive home. But then something amazing happened. I slept. For the first time in months, I slept. I woke up after the first 4 hour chunk of sleep feeling like Supergirl. OMG I was sore. But I SLEPT!!
I went back to class that next day. Years later Jan Campbell told me she was shocked to see me return, after my shameless display of snot and tears.
That started a lifelong relationship with the practice. That same year I met Erich Schiffmann, in 1990 Rodney Yee. It took 8 years before I could begin pranayama, and another 2 years to quiet me enough to start meditating.
It's been a slow and often painful practice, but it revealed to me the heart of the practice, the one that is the foundation for the asana. They practice of the mind.
Yoga Teacher Training - Mississippi
Japan April 2012
Tennessee Retreat October 2012 Graybear Lodge
Ojai Yoga Crib October 2012
Laura Tyree e-ryt 500 :: cyt 700
Owner/Director Dragonfly Yoga Studies :: rys 200/500
How might one describe Laura Tyree? Sincere introspection infused with warm humor, dynamic energy, and tenacious perseverance are all trademarks of Laura and her teaching style.
Laura encourages her students to utilize their yoga practice in a multitude of ways. Many deepen their awareness of self and open fully to their unique beauty and strength, both inner and outer. Her teachings grow and blossom as her life transforms. Blend these cherished traits with her unique approach to the eight-limb path, mantra meditation, anatomy, and psychology and then one can grasp the full, organic richness of her yogic style. On this journey, she combines hand mudras with asana, linking the breath, mantra, energetic clarity, and spiritual concepts to flow richly into a timeless experience of yoga and the self.
Laura first trained with Jan Campbell and the rigorous Iyengar Yoga method in 1986, while recovering from a sports related injury in college. After meeting teachers Rodney Yee and Erich Schiffmann, she began teaching in 1990. Internal awareness, breath, and compassion gave her practice a larger purpose, leading her to deepen her yoga studies.
Co-founder of Yoga Source in Nashville TN (1996), she began to teach in earnest finding a deep love in sharing the knowledge of yoga. After many years of practice and study with Rodney, Erich and other dedicated and renowned teachers, Laura continues to hone her teaching skills and explore her own personal growth. Her current studies in yoga therapy are inspired by her teachers JJ Gormley-Etchells and Doug Keller. Both are frequent guest instructors for her Teacher Training Programs.
Laura opened the doors to Dragonfly Yoga Studies in FL (2001), consolidating her multiple training workshops into one 13-month teacher’s course. With her love of adventure and nature, Laura travels to facilitate yoga asana workshops and teacher trainings throughout the Southeast (Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, and Tennessee), co-teaches with JJ Gormley-Etchells the 700 hr Surya Chandra Healing Yoga Teacher Training at Dragonfly. While at home, she raises her son, Will, teaches weekly public classes, and directs her teacher training programs.
Laura is currently in study to complete her 1200 hr Therapeutic Yoga certification with JJ , (a dedicated student of TKV and Kausthub Desikachar). Her 2010 travels extend into California where she is a guest at The Ojai Yoga Crib, an eclectic yoga conference set in the beautiful California hills, into Montana at Feathered Pipe Ranch, North to Kripalu, teaching yoga therapy for the neural processes and memory, and South to the Yoga Journal Conference Miami.
Her recent introduction to Dr. Kausthub Desikachar ignited a fury of creativity that has launched a revision in her teacher training manual, spawned a slew of new poetries, and led to an increase in all things creative.
Squirrel!!
For more information about Laura and her programs go to www.dragonflyyoga.com
