Here is the 3rd and final interview we did with David Robson from Ashtanga Yoga Toronto when he was in Vancouver at Chopra Yoga to teach a weekend workshop. In this interview I asked him what he loves about teaching, what he has done to make his Mysore program so successful (it's the largest outside of Mysore) and what his plans are moving forward. Read the transcript below or watch the video to see what he said. What do you enjoy about teaching yoga? I love seeing the transformation in people. I love when people, whether or not they recognize it, it starts to become this tool for them. You can see that people come in every day and they...
Before I started practicing, my lifestyle was very much one, I guess it was kind of standard, like Canadian-American guy lifestyle. But I was always very physical, into types of sports like snowboarding, rock climbing, mountain biking. I always loved being active.I heard about yoga as a type of, what I thought was just exercise, and I was trying to look at different forms of things that I could do to stay healthy. Actually, I was in Edmonton one day and I was walking past a yoga studio, and it said Ashtanga Yoga. I thought it was just a regular class. I went in there and it was Rameen Peyrow. He was running the Ashtanga program in Edmonton...
Ekaminhale came about almost accidentally, I would say. I wasn't happy with some of the yoga clothes out there for guys. None of it really resonated with me. I was like, "This isn't what I would like," so, I was like I'm just going to make my own tank top. I literally just went to the store, bought a tank top, and then went down to the screen printers and then found the Sri Yantra and I got this put on. I made the shirt and then I just started wearing it around town. That weekend, I had probably 15 people ask me if they could buy one. When I first started making the shirts, I was making them all...
Ekaminhale Interviews David Robson 2 (1) Here's part 2 of our Interview with David Robson - in this video he talks about how practicing yoga has changed his life. I was probably a fairly terrible person, you know. I was very irresponsible just, you know, searching, searching a lot. So hey, I spent a lot of time traveling when I was a kid, and usually, you know, I went to other countries. I would come home to Canada to work and then go away for a long period, like nine months or a year and then come back and do the same thing again.And then after a while I figured I was just running. I was always running...
