about
Welcome to Yoga with Janet! I’m very excited to be connected here in cyberspace, and I hope for the opportunity to connect with all of you in person one day…hopefully, for the purpose of practicing yoga! I’d love to know about resources you’ve found helpful, books that have inspired you, classes that rocked your world, and practices you could not do without. Check out my blog for ideas that are influencing my practice right now, and stay tuned to the events page for yoga happenings worth happening upon!
A little bit about me…
Janet Casson has been a teacher since long before she was old enough to have a career as one. She has used her skills as an educator to teach drama, music, and yoga to students of all ages. Janet completed her 200-hour and her prenatal yoga teacher certifications through Om Yoga in NYC. She is also a certified children’s yoga instructor through Karma Kids Yoga.
Janet’s yoga practice offers her a sense of ease and clarity in her relationship with her physical, mental, and spiritual self. To share with her students and fellow practitioners this ease and clarity is her purpose as a yoga teacher, and she accomplishes this by emphasizing the playfulness and joy that are inherent in the practice of yoga.
Vinyasa yoga is my kind of practice…right now, anyway. I am a big believer in the idea that, just as our bodies change throughout our lives, so must the way we relate to them. What works for our bodies at one point in our lives, may not be the one and only way always. Perhaps, if we are closely in tune with our body’s needs, we will discover it wants to move in different ways every day. Vinyasa one day, Iyengar the next, Anusara the third, maybe a nice, long run the fourth, and an even nicer, longer nap on the fifth!
Vinyasa-style yoga is a flowing practice that links breath and movement. As my teacher Cyndi Lee says of yoga, “It’s like taking a shower from the inside out.” It warms and cleanses the body and the mind and offers an opportunity to start fresh as you step off your mat and on to the next moment of vivacious living!
