Sarah Powers | Yoga Teacher | Yang Yin Yoga

Sarah Powers began teaching in 1987. She is the founder and author of Insight Yoga, which interweaves the insights and practices of Yoga, Buddhism, Taoism, and Transpersonal Psychology into an integral practice to discover and enliven the body, heart and mind. Her yoga style blends both a Yin sequence of floor poses to enhance the meridian and organ systems, combined with an alignment-based slow flow or Yang practice, influenced by Viniyoga, Ashtanga, Iyengar teachings, and QIgong. Sarah feels that enlivening the physical and pranic bodies, as well as learning to meet our psychological reactivity is paramount for preparing one to deepen and nourish insights into one's essential nature--a natural state of awareness. She draws from her studies in Transpersonal Psychology, as well as her in-depth training in the Vipassana, Tantric and Dzogchen practices of Buddhism. Her main influences have been Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Jennifer Welwood, Lama Tsultrim Allione, Bhante Gunaratana, Lama Pema Dorje, Stephen and Martine Batchelor and B. Alan Wallace. Sarah teaches trainings and silent retreats with her husband Ty. They live in Manhattan with their daughter Imani. Sarah's book is called Insight Yoga: Integrating Yin/Yang Yoga and Buddhist Meditation.

Ty Powers has been a yoga practitioner since 1987, facilitating and leading yoga and meditation retreats throughout the world with his wife Sarah Powers. Ty has been practicing Buddhism for many years, the last 15 under the guidance of Dzogchen teacher Tsoknyi Rinpoche, psychospiritual teacher Jennifer Welwood, John Welwood, B. Alan Wallace, Stephen and Martine Batchelor, Jack Kornfield, as well as many of the Spirit Rock teachers, most notably, Ajahn Amaro, having completed Spirit Rock's 2 1/2 year Community Dharma Leader training program in 2003. Ty has taught daylongs at Spirit Rock and other Dharma centers on issues concerning cultural diversity. Ty is also a mentor to several men and women around the globe.

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