Pamela
Pamela - Instructor
Pamela started practicing Bikram Yoga in 2004, while looking for a physically challenging discipline. She started practicing because she wanted to improve herself physically. When she realized how much it decreased stress in her everyday life she started coming every day. As a result of her practice she says she became a much happier person. She was living in a stressful situation and the yoga made her mind and emotions calm and steady. After yoga she felt like nothing would steal her peace. Her body began to transform, becoming stronger and more flexible and she lost weight. If she got injured she found the yoga would speed up the healing process. The yoga has made her feel so good she cannot imagine living without it! In fall of 2006 Pamela attended teacher training in Los Angeles after having a lot of teachers encourage her to become a teacher. Eventually their faith in her was internalized and she wanted to share the healing benefits she had experienced through yoga with others. Pamela believes our happiness is interconnected with each other, so the more people take care of themselves and feel good, the more they will spread their happiness to others. In Pamela’s own words “I wanted to save the world one spine at a time.”
Pamela’s two favorite postures are triangle and camel because they open the heart chakra and are a perfect marriage between the heart and the lungs. Her least favorite postures are separate leg and head to knee as well as locust pose, as these have always been the postures she has struggled with the most. Locust would hurt the most, but also feel the best once it is done, and she knows that these are the postures she needs the most.
Pamela focuses on teaching an energetic dialogue based class. She wants to give people precise words they can trust so they can heal themselves. Her wish is to provide the inspiration and motivation necessary to work hard, with integrity throughout the class. As in Bikram’s words people come to a class with a dead battery, ready to give up, and it’s my job to jump start them back to life. Pamela believes as a teacher her job is to get out of the way and guide people to see their true selves in the mirror, self realization. One yoga tip Pamela would like to share is to breathe. We always underestimate ourselves because of lack of self realization. No judgment or expectation is needed, once you love yourself your body will change.
Outside of yoga Pamela enjoys art, especially drawing and painting, music, African history, Reiki and traveling.
