WEBINAR: Make Your Practice Smarter than Your Habits
WEBINARS BY URBAN YOGS
Viewing time: ONE WEEK VIEWER ACCESS from Sunday August 16 at 10am to Saturday August 22 at 10am (30-minute webinar).
FREE bi-monthly webinars hosted by Urban Yogis, created to offer a platform for open-minded discussion, exploration and inquiry. We’re breaking out of classroom-setting discussions about yoga to expand into thought-provoking communications that we hope you will be a part of. We’d like to engage you in a platform for intelligent exchange through topics that are not typically consumable in a regular class or workshop environment.
MAKE YOUR PRACTICE SMARTER THAN YOUR HABITS
An eye-opening conversation with Gernot Huber, whose approach to yoga is all about taking the middle path. Too much striving leads to a reinforcement of our stress patterns . Too little effort is also suboptimal because it does not allow us to learn how to disrupt those stress patterns.
Gernot’s teachings are informed by sound knowledge in anatomy and biomechanics and how they affect our mental patterns. In this webinar interview with Gernot, we discuss habitual patterns of movement that most people might identify with, and look further into how they sneakily make their way into our yoga practice. We move and express ourselves subconsciously in repetitive patterns. Why we like to engage certain muscles and not others; why we reach for certain goals; why we hit mental and physical plateaus. Our habits are persistent, but we don’t have to be slaves to them. Our yoga and movement practices don’t have to succumb to automation. Find out what it means to make your practice smarter than your habits in this engaging discussion with Gernot. We will be launching Gernot’s Academy course, Yoga Anatomy Toolkit this month. Tune in to this interview to get a glimpse into some of the insights that you’ll gain by taking this course.
Gernot holds a bachelor’s degree in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University and a master’s degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Cornell University. He brings a perfect balance of science and philosophy to his unique approach to yoga. (30-minute Webinar).
Speakers
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Gernot HuberUrban Yogis AcademyGernot was born in South Africa and grew up in Germany. He has spent most of his adult life in the US and Thailand. Drawing on a broad spectrum of life experiences, Gernot relates with natural ease to students from every walk of life. Gernot has worked in Silicon Valley and has conducted biological field work in Argentina. He has worked in a restaurant kitchen and has taught wildlife monitoring to inner city youth.
Gernot has been practicing and studying yoga since 1996. While working in Silicon Valley, he learned Ashtanga vinyasa and pranayama during lunch breaks from a co-worker. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. He also has a master’s degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Cornell University.
Gernot has developed a teaching style that incorporates techniques from Iyengar, Ashtanga, Anusara, Forrest, and Kripalu yoga. In his teaching he also incorporates insights from yogic and Buddhist philosophy and from anatomy, physiology, and neuroscience. He skillfully integrates down-to-earth discussions of breath, alignment, anatomy, and awareness in his classes and workshops. This integration enables him to convey key yoga philosophy concepts with clarity and humor to practitioners of all levels. Gernot helps his students maximize the benefits of their practice. He does this by emphasizing yoga’s mental dimensions as well as the physical, and the intricate connections between both.
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Julie MoksimCo-owner & Yoga Instructor
I’m Singaporean by birth, global citizen by lifestyle, having lived in Indonesia, Egypt and India as a child and young adult, and later in the United States, Laos and Myanmar. My spark for yoga began while I was living in Boston in 2003, but my calling to teach grew much later out of the joy that I developed as a teacher’s assistant at the studio that I attended regularly. After completing a teacher training in Bali with Rachel Hull, Anna Smallwood, Emil Wendel, James Newman and Dr. Sujatha Kekada in 2011, I moved to Laos and started a yoga cooperative called Luang Prabang Yoga. Both the yoga cooperative and the immersive retreat programs that I lead under Laos Yoga Retreats have in some ways, put Laos on the map as a destination for yoga. I also co-owned a yoga studio in Myanmar between 2017 and 2019. My partnership with Kathy and Urban Yogis has grown out of a collective purpose to share knowledge and bridge the gap between people of different cultures, languages and belief systems. I trust that when a group of people come together from all walks of life, the opportunity for learning is boundless. Yoga has been an essential platform for these gatherings and for experiences that create more open-minded humans. Today, the biggest influence in my practice and teachings is Edward Clark of Tripsichore Yoga. He reinforces the importance of authenticity in how we express ourselves in movement. Ultimately, this translates to authenticity in life. I’d like to say to people out there, don’t be afraid to find out who you are, and when you find that person, don’t be afraid to be the person that you are! Thank you for taking the time to read this and to browse our website and offerings.
