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It took her several years to make yoga a daily commitment, but with the stresses of her financial career and the physical abuses her body suffered from mountain biking, she found herself gradually making space in her life for this new practice.
In 1995, she was exposed to Ashtanga yoga and that quickly became a substitute for mountain biking. Her initial mind-set was that it was an efficient means to achieve fitness and calm her nerves… but in a very gentle way.
In her type “A” fashion, she wanted to learn more about the roots of this system and followed the lineage to Krishnamacharya and two of his popular students BKS Iyengar and Pattabhi Jois. She studied with Pattabhi Jois in 2001 in New York and again in 2002 in Mysore, India. She has also studied with senior Iyengar teachers.
In 2000, Lois began her studies with her principal teacher – Richard Freeman. Her approach reflects the core of Richard’s teachings including: a focus on the internal and meditative qualities of the practice to direct the student toward the “middle path”; and adherence to Iyengar alignment principles with therapeutic adaptations of postures/sequencing as needed.
In 2004, Lois moved herself and her business to Boulder, Colorado to study with Richard directly at his studio. While in Boulder, Lois delved into Buddhist, Zen and Vipassana meditation as well as continuing her inquiries into the philosophies of yoga and Ayurveda. Tiring of the snow and missing the ocean, Lois moved to Santa Monica in 2007, but continues to travel to Boulder for training intensives with Richard Freeman.
As a teacher, her goal is to transmit the essence of the ancient wisdom of yoga and Ayurveda as she has learned from her teachers and their teachers before them. She continually refreshes her teachings by making them applicable to the immediate condition of her student’s bodies, minds and cultures.
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