#63 ADAM HOCKE - YOGA TEACHER, EDUCATOR & WRITER
Adam Hocke (Adam_hocke) is a London based, American born, yoga teacher and teacher trainer, who blends yoga tradition with contemporary understanding of body and mind. He leads in-person and online teacher trainings, workshops, and immersions and offers comprehensive home practice resources through his Yoga with Adam podcast and streaming classes for Movement for Modern Life. In London, his beginner courses, weekly classes, and workshops have begun and inspired the yoga journeys of thousands of students. Adam’s teaching has been featured in The Guardian, Huffington Post, Yogaland and numerous publications and podcasts. He holds a BFA (2002) and MA (2008) from New York University, where he was awarded the Newington-Cropsey Fellowship for emerging artists and scholars.
Adam Hocke, Adam Husler and Jasmin Bahia will be teaching the in-person section of Jason Crandell’s 200hr training. Sign up by the first in-person module. commencing July. More info here.
WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT
-Thoughts on visiting extremes in yoga
-Finding softness in our practice
-What it means to stay in our comfort zone
-Helping students to make their own decisions on the mat
-Heart, mind and body alignment
-Exploring intention
-Navigating students who ‘do their own thing’ in class
-Online vs in real life teaching
-How to present yoga to new students
-What is enlightenment?
-Pillars of wellness
-Learning to be comfortable with who you are
QUOTES
‘You can do things for the love of it!’
‘The longer you spend in your comfort zone, the smaller it gets.’
‘I don’t mind pushing buttons a little bit!’
‘Most people don’t care about what their shoulders are doing… They care about feeling better.’
‘I don’t know what enlightenment is. I think I know what glimpses of it is.’
‘Enlightenment is to be with life without resisting.’
REFERENCES
-Oliver Burkeman, ‘4000 Weeks’ (book)
-‘The Earthing Movie’ (YouTube documentary)
-Ocean Vuong, ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ (book)
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THE HOSTS
@adamhusler - Drawing from a variety of lives lived off the mat, Adam Husler brings a unique perspective to those who seek more from yoga than making pretty shapes. He offers creative, effective and clearly-sequenced teachings that focus on balancing flexibility and strength; physically and mentally. Educated by globally renown teachers, including Jason Crandell and Michael Stone, Adam specialises in a signature style of Alignment-Based Vinyasa— fuelled by a fascination with anatomy and a desire to ask ‘why?’.
Based in London, Adam teaches a robust schedule in one of the worlds top yoga studios, Triyoga, and world leading gym, Equinox. On top of this, Adam leads workshops, trainings and teaches festivals continuously around the world, leaving him with thousands of teaching hours under his belt and plenty of appearances in national and international media.
For workshops, trainings, events and retreats, find out more here.
@iamhollyhusler - From belting out original pop tunes at the London O2 stage to 20,000 people, whilst supporting Westlife, to singing healing mantras and playing magical instruments, to seas of sleeping yogis, at events and studios across the globe; Holly’s journey has led to a deep desire to help people find conscious connection and their own inner peace.
For trainings, workshops, music, events and retreats, find out more here.
