by SyteraYoga | Mar 24, 2018
At an art class at the Corcoran in 2005, Carolee Jakes knew that her life’s direction was about to change. Before then, she had been a career nurse, a stay-at-home mom, and “a person who did a lot of PTA activities,” she explained.
At that class, the first of many, she felt like she belonged. She quickly enrolled in art school and then she discovered yoga. The two pursuits would soon become linked. (more…)
by SyteraYoga | Feb 26, 2018
Everyone has a different reason for beginning yoga. In the case of SyteraYoga teacher Kathy Low, it was a colicky baby.
Kathy had taken many styles of yoga since 1998, but it wasn’t until she ended up in an Ashtanga yoga class in 2007 that she began to see the light at the end of the baby tunnel. She found Ashtanga to be a quiet, less complicated and, therefore, more centering yoga practice. (more…)
by SyteraYoga | Feb 3, 2018
Not everyone’s husband will join them on a weeklong, mostly-female, vegan yoga retreat. But SyteraYoga student Mary Saunders is lucky. Her husband Rick did just that. A career Army officer and former national security advisor to the Vice President, Rick had just recently cut back on his consulting work and started taking more yoga classes when she suggested that they go. (more…)
