About Dylan
Let’s see… I started practicing yoga in 2003 when I was 25. People kept telling me I should try yoga and one day all my roommates were gone and I spotted a “Yoga for Dummies” dvd lying around. I tried it and immediately I felt taller and more relaxed and still got a bit of a work-out. I was hooked from the very first time- the one time my addictive personality worked in my favor. I practiced for about a year on my own from “The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga” by Swami Vivekananda. 2004 I decided to dedicate myself to learning and teaching yoga because of the many awesome benefits both expected and unexpected.
Luckily I found two…adjectives are failing me… fantastic, wonderful, knowledgeable, fun, integrity filled, master teachers: Theresa Elliott and Kathryn Payne, with whom I still regularly study.
I try to be myself at all times when I teach, no fake soothing yoga teacher voice, no bells and incense. My teaching places primary importance on safety, learning how to do the poses properly so eventually you don’t need to come to class if you don’t want.
I teach Hatha yoga. Mostly all of the yoga around Seattle is Hatha. It is a very broad description. All yoga involving poses falls under the category Hatha. Vinyasa (flow) is a type of Hatha, so is Birkram (hot yoga) and power yoga. They are all slices of Hatha. By keeping my style broad, we can do whatever we want in class. We can do flow, or we can spend the whole class on three or four poses. Doing the same thing every class is pointless and silly. Silly in a bad way, not the fun kind of silly.
Outside of yoga I enjoy making films with my friends, hanging out with my fiancee, black coffee and good tequila.
