Arthur began teaching in 1981, in 1984 became a member of the teacher training faculty of the Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco and taught public and teacher training classes there until his move to Boston in 1992. From 1982 – 1989, he served as the President of the BKS Iyengar Yoga Association of Northern California, helping to organize the first International Iyengar Yoga Convention in 1984 and studied with B.K. S. Iyengar in Pune, India in 1982, 1986, 1988 and 1989, as well as on Iyengar’s visits to the US in 1984, 1987, 1990, and 1993. He was a frequent contributor and contributing editor to the Yoga Journal Magazine from 1982 – 1992 and the editor of the Iyengar Yoga Institute Review, a quarterly newsletter, from 1988 – 1992.
In 1993, he and his wife Kate opened Mystic River Yoga in Medford and offered a whole spectrum of classes to the local community. After 13 years, Mystic River Yoga closed at the end of 2006 and Arthur is now teaching regular classes in Arlington and Watertown and workshops around Boston and the rest of the country.
In addition to his strong Iyengar background, augmented by 29 years of study with Ramanand Patel, Arthur’s teaching also integrates his many years of Vedanta study with Swami Dayananda and his explorations on the nature of sound and breath based on his studies with Mukesh Desai, master artist and teacher of classical Indian vocal music and Ramanand’s partner in “Yoga and Sound”. His personal studies with movement pioneers Emilie Conrad, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Caryn McHose and Susan Harper have greatly broadened his perspective on how the classical poses truly arise out of our cellular fluid aliveness. Thomas Berry, Brian Swimme and Ken Wilber provide a cosmic perspective for understanding the historical moment and the role of yoga in the unfolding of new possibilities in human consciousness. Arthur sees the yoga poses as vehicles to embody the spiritual connectedness of our own embodied existence with Mother Earth and the Living Kosmos and as an entry point into the Great Awakening.
Yoga Awakening Tuesdays, 9:30 – 11:30 am in the Skylight Yoga Studio, $25/class, discount for full series.
Whatever style of hatha yoga you practice, from rigorous and sweaty to slow and meditative, there are some universal principles, applicable to all students, that are the foundation of a mature and grounded approach to yoga as a spiritual practice. Articulated in both the spiritual and scientific traditions, these principles are both simple to understand and yet difficult to put into practice.
In this ongoing Tuesday morning class, and the monthly Saturday afternoon workshops, we experience how integrating mindfulness, attention to flow and the allowing of gravity to flow through the body creates an inner environment of aliveness and spontaneity that is the heart of spiritual awakening and facilitates a seamless flow of embodied awareness from class/practice into your 24/7 life.
These yoga classes are for students who are comfortable in yoga (or with any form of embodied practice) and want to awaken to deeper dimensions of the human experience.
For more information, please call 781-643-0117
