Robert Gray
Robert Gray has been a student of yoga and eastern philosophy for over thirty years. After being honorably discharged from the Navy Seabees in 1984, Robert began a period of higher education. He obtained a Bachelors degree in Architecture from U. C. Berkeley in 1989. During a downturn in the economy and at the urging of his primary teacher, Rodney Yee, Robert obtained his certificate to teach from the 1994 Yoga Room Teacher Training program. Robert has studied Asana and Pranayama extensively with Manuso Manos, and Tony Briggs. From the foundation of B.K.S. Iyengar, Robert has expanded his understanding of the physical and the spiritual with his MA from Holy Names College in Culture and Spirituality. This degree blended the wisdom of indigenous peoples, the insights of the eastern and western mystics, the sciences of evolution and cosmology. The academic portion of the degree was grounded with a daily practice of ritual and art making.
Robert has a passionate teaching style tempered with a solid foundation of respect and kindness. He is available for private posture instruction, meditation guidance, and the creation of specific routines for injuries and illnesses. Rates for private work vary from $60 to $85 per hour depending on time and location.
“I feel that through the practice of yoga postures one can travel to the edges of human perception. One can also use our knowledge of yoga postures to get a good nights sleep, or recover from an illness. Both the inner and outer journey require a strong and peaceful vessel. In my beginning classes a foundation of physical skills are established. These foundation skills are strong intelligent legs, contained but supple belly and waist, and an ability to lift the spine without excess shoulder tension. By attempting to understand the physical skills the mind is gently taught to focus in a steady way. With these basic capacities great progress can be made towards an integrated body and mind. ”