Kim Nietch . Greater-Cincinnati’s Authorized Ashtanga yoga teacher
Teaching with care, keen direction, and an eye for seeing the individual needs
Mysore Shala teacher, Authorized to teach this program by R Sharath Jois [SYC/KPJAYI]
Building a yoga community takes dedication, skill, and hard-work, which are also the elements put forth developing an Ashtanga yoga practice. A depth of experience created from longtime practice readies a teacher to hold space and teach from that depth in the setting of a Mysore Room. Years of honing practice and teaching tools results in a skillset of receptive teaching, intuitive practical adjustments, and the caring approach to offer honest practice. A more quiet teaching that gives way to holding space for students’ practice, and a relationship filled with purpose and promise.
Conveyance and Vande Gurunam: Grateful to the way Ashtanga yoga has been traditionally taught for decades by the Jois family, as a remarkable system for wellness and personal development, and how it remains vital, available and accessible to all here in our Mysore Room. This is the way of honoring my time in the held space of Pattabhi jois, Saraswati, and still Sharath teaching, and my first teacher of this practice Wendy Green, and recent years of apprentice-mentorship with Angela Jamison, as well as hosting Dominic Corigliano to our shala annually.
Continuing this Path: As a long time teacher of Ashtanga yoga, I make this statement to uphold this method to the highest professional degree and continue to learn and teach and heal with the worldwide ashtanga community now that part of its history contains abuse of power from its founder. Through grief and disappointment, we must find trust and faith for a system that has always been important, beneficial, and at the forefront of modern yoga. Safe sound space is here.
Chris Nietch. apprentice
Assists the Room Fridays. Hands down the cleanest counted vinyasa, 1x Sunday of the month, Primary series. Apprentice assistance since 2014
Christy Dorger. apprentice
Assists the Room Wednesdays. Many years of teaching yoga in Greater Cincinnati and many years in the shala as a practitioner, began assisting in the Mysore Room summer 2023
Gabriela Mier y Teran
Gaby leads the new moon Meditation and Sound Bath Meditation
Joe Smitherman . apprentice
Continued presence, holds the zoom-commune-room, and thankful apprentice assistance since 2014
Meredith Blackmore. apprentice
Apprentice support and assistance since 2014, seventh series leave
