Aerobics

Yoga

Barre

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When I started doing yoga, over 20 years ago, I was VERY intimidated. I think that we can all pinpoint a moment where we felt intimidated in approaching yoga, or any fitness modality. I was in college, had a severely damaged body image, a heap of eating disorders, and there was what I considered to be a perfect body, speaking in Sanskrit, telling me to how bend my body and open my mind. It was like visiting a foreign land to me. I liked it, but I wasn’t comfortable there, and I didn’t speak the language. I tried different types of yoga over the years, even went to some studios and practices that were on the surface, more concerned about the look, the contortion, the show, versus teaching me how to show up on my mat for me. So, much like you do when a relationship doesn’t fit, I left for a while. Over the years, I moved to Uxbridge, married, had a kid, and recently added a giant fluffy dog named Enzo, to the mix. Looking for a better fit to help with some gnarly anxiety, I came back to yoga about 8 years ago, and fell back in love. This time, understanding that yoga is about me and my mat and my practice. And how I show up today, may not be how I show up tomorrow, or showed up yesterday; a pose I could do yesterday, may not be attainable for me today. But my mat doesn’t care, and yoga doesn’t care. Both are here for me, as I am. And that is when I realized I needed to teach yoga, to help other people find health and healing, resiliency through trauma and recovery, and help bring mindfulness to their lives. Truly, the only flexible muscle yoga requires, is your mind. My goal is to make classes accessible to wherever you are that day; physically, and energetically. Bring your mat, and join me to leave the week behind and start fresh. We’ll honor the place where you are in the moment. My focus is on intentional movement, breath work, meditation, and sometimes it all comes with a side of self-deprecating humor. I fully honor the space where we can be deeply flawed human beings and still be fabulous. Sometimes we just need someone to remind us to breathe like we mean it (and to help us open our root chakra and remove our crown chakra).

Demitria Comforti

Instructor at JTB Studios