Featured SAVY Yogi of the Month – Aricia Haywood
My name is Aricia.
Badha Parsvokonasana
I’m a 23 year old west coaster (from Victoria BC).
Tadasana
Uttanasana
I have been practicing yoga on and off from about the age of 8.
Utthitta Hasta Padangushthasana
Growing up, I saw Yoga as a big part of my mother’s life.
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I faded in and out of my own personal practice.
Veerbhadrasana I
Approximately two years ago I found a new appreciation for yoga while searching for anything that would help my anxiety and to help me with the stresses of everyday life.
Utthitta Parsvokonasana
I was searching for something to calm my mind and heal myself with. I found it in yoga.
Parivratta Trikonasana
I usually practice moderately active flow style yoga, but have experimented with hatha, hot yoga, bikram, ashtanga, kundalini and other styles.
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After almost two years of practicing (almost) every day, I decided it was time to take my practice to a new level, and begin to share yoga with those around me so that I can help others find what I found in yoga.
Parivratta Janushirasana
Paripurna Navasana
I flew across the country, in February, to a bitterly cold and snowy London, to attend SAVY international’s two-week yoga teacher training program to become a registered yoga teacher.
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The training was fascinating, all-encompassing and in depth.
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Salamba Sarvangsamasana
The instruction was very encouraging, and really helped me to understand physical postures and find confidence in poses that I never thought I would progress in.
Karnapeedasana
Jathara Parivritti
Bhujangasana
During my training I grew to appreciate the depth of yoga, its history and philosophy.
Ek Pada Adhomukha Shvanasana
Chaturanga Dandasana
Bakasana
Parshva Bakasana
Ek Pada Chakrasana
At the end of two weeks, exhausted, inspired and frozen solid, I dragged myself onto the airplane that would take me home, inwardly beaming at my accomplishment.
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Utkatasana
Chakrasana
Adhomukha Vrikshasana
Ashtavakrasana
I left SAVY feeling inspired, confident and super-excited to share yoga with those around me.
A note from the President’s desk
In this now very popular Featured SAVY Yogi of the Month series, we present SAVY Yogis who have been learning the right kind of true, traditional yoga with correct techniques, have done wonderfully well for themselves and are a guiding light and a source of great inspiration for others.
In this month marking the onset of spring, it’s my pleasure to introduce Aricia Haywood, our new savvy SAVY Yogi for the month of March. She completed her RYT 200 Yoga Teacher Training with me in February, 2015 and is a Yoga Alliance, USA registered Yoga Teacher now. She’ll be completing her DSBH Breathing Educator (DBE-I) training soon. A dedicated and devoted Yogi to the hilt with the freshness of a blossoming spring flower, a bold explorer who loves to meet challenges head on, she is blessed with a compassionate heart, a strong, sinewy, lithe, sculpted and flexible yoga body and a steely grit. She braved the merciless freezing cold and dipping temperatures to come and join us here at SAVY for Registered Yoga Teacher Training and ruffled the brutal February cold weather in London with the whiff of freshness and warmth of spring air all the way down from Victoria, BC! Always up to the demands of the rigorous, intensive training and the ruthless 16-hour routine for two weeks straight she chose to join us for, she seemed to thoroughly enjoy every moment of her encounter with the intense challenges and met each one of them head on! Her attitude, devotion and professionalism made the extreme weather conditions look like nothing more than a mere minor inconvenience. She had done traditional yoga before and enjoyed her re-encounter and rediscovery of authentic traditional yoga at SAVY Studio. She showed a very keen interest in learning new yoga poses. She is an avid learner of her new-found passion of Yogic breathing exercises and newer meditation techniques, and what they can do for her. Day in and day out, she worked her way through the routines with great dedication. She has a keen sense of inquiry, is quick to learn, came out with flying colors in the training, and is bound to do great for herself. She is certainly going to be a source of enormous inspiration for her future students.
All the best, Aricia! Keep it up.
– Jitender
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