yoga

practice as if no one is watching, and as if the whole world depends on it...

A student of movement from an early age, Adi was introduced to yoga in 1995 as a practice that could help her to overcome various dance and sports related injuries. Yoga created not only a physical change in her body but the practice began to sprout a mental transformation as well. Adi became aware of her surroundings in all shapes and forms and she was suddenly tuning in to this bizarre concept called “breath”. Thanks to her first serious teacher, Deb Fernandez, Adi was introduced to Jivamukti yoga and began to practice regularly with the constant belief that yoga harnesses the potential to change the world we all share.

In 2002, after graduating from Skidmore College with a BA in mathematics and a minor in studio art and economics, Adi moved to NYC to pursue work as a designer. She found that NYC proves to be one of the most challenging environments for anyone trying to seek clarity and truth. Constantly surrounded by urban strife, violence and pollution Adi found herself once again on her yoga mat seeking a solution.

As karma would have it, she crossed paths with Seane Corn and was blessed to not only study with her but to also have the opportunity to travel with Seane as an assistant at teacher trainings and various workshops nationwide. Inspired in a major way by her work with Seane, Adi began to use her voice as a yoga teacher to raise awareness about all sorts of environmental issues with a focus on sustainability and reducing toxicity. She is most known for the workshops she created entitled the Detox series which combine her backgrounds in yoga, Pilates and herbalism to raise awareness about reducing various forms of toxicity in our bodies and in our planet. Through her platform as the NYC Ambassador to Pangea Organics, Adi also created the Detox series:surface workshop to educate about toxicity in skin care products and the link between many of these toxins and breast cancer. In 2007, these workshops were taught at yoga studios during the month of October as part of Pangea's Beyond the Pink Ribbon Campaign to help raise awareness about Breast Cancer and support for the Breast Cancer Fund and their efforts to educate about cancer prevention.

Through her endless travels as a student and teacher of new and unusual forms of yoga, Adi also crossed paths with the yoga slackers, who soon became her close friends and after a year and a half of her protesting it...they convinced her to (reluctantly) get up on a slackline. Slacklining requires the most intense form of mental focus that she had ever experienced and eventually Adi was convinced that even she could do it (and really like it). Slacklining has the unique ability to take yoga to such an unprecedented level of balance, concentration and intrigue that it re-defines the term "practice" in a really fun way. In addition to getting her hooked on slacking (in the "doing yoga on a slackline sense" not just being lazy), Paul, Jason and Sam also introduced her to AcroYoga and she soon found herself hooked on that as well.

AcroYoga proves to be the most unique and amazing way to use yoga as physical and emotional therapy and Adi is constantly inspired at the potential for AcroYoga to build trust and life long friendships between people crazy enough to try "flying" each other, their family members and even their pets. Adi is pleased to be a member of the AcroYoga family as a certified instructor and is always looking forward to the next flying adventure and circle ceremony throw down.

In addition to teaching, Adi also writes articles on sustainability for elephant magazine as a way to inspire change and present everyone with simple solutions to help save the world and inspire others to get involved with their personal forms of outreach. As a student of many schools of yoga including Jivamukti, Ashtanga, Iyengar, Vinyasa and Anusara, Adi is eternally grateful to all of the blissful beings that help her to see more clearly every day. She offers thanks to all of her teachers past, present and future including: Deb Fernandez, Sharon Gannon & David Live, Seane Corn, Dharma Mittra, Edward Clark, Geshe Michael Roach & Christie McNally and of course J2- the amazing presence of Jenny and Jason and all they have to offer the world through their unique teachings that comprise the AcroYoga experience. May we all continue to be fearless on a pursuit to change our world and create a state of peace for all beings everywhere.

OM SHANTI