About David Roche

	Backbending Workshop with David Roche
	This Backbending Workshop is designed to give the serious yoga student a deeper understanding of the techniques involved in accomplishing the more advanced backarch asanas. Experience derived from this workshop may be applied to backarching sequences in Ashtanga yoga or other styles of Hatha Yoga. David's workskhops include the use of specific imagery to aid focus, incorporating the imagination to guide the investigation of anti-gravity areas of lift within the human body, thereby assisting the student in finding an efficient use of breath and a higher level of awareness, rhythm, balance and flow in the execution of asanas.
	About David
	David has studied and taught movement for thirty-six years. His teaching incorporates the lessons gleaned from his career as a dancer, choreographer, artist and yogin. Classes focus on rhythm and flow, on correct body alignment and use of breath, on the importance of maintaining a daily discipline and accepting the blessing of change, and on the extended effects of hatha yoga toward finding balance throughout the seasons of one's life. David uses materials gained from the study of human anatomy, Feldenkrais, Body-Mind Centering, Ideokinesis, Jikkyo Jutsu and modern dance in presenting workshops. Most recently he has taught in Australia, India, Bali, France, the U.S.A., the U.K., Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and Canada. Major influences in his life's study include the tradition of Martha Graham in dance (as taught to him by 1st and 2nd generation disciples including Pearl Lang and Bertram Ross); the tradition of Masahiro Oki in yoga (as taught to him by Tatsumuro Sensei, Juzu Sensei, and Endoh Sensei); and the tradition of Sri T. Krishnamacharya in yoga (as taught to him by Sri Pattabhi Jois and grandson Sri Sharathchandra Rangaswamy, Tim Miller, Richard Freeman, and Eddie Stern, as well as 1st and 2nd generation disciples of Sri B.K.S. Iyengar, including Shandor Remete, Geeta and Prashant Iyengar, Ramanand Patel and Judith Lasater. His current weekly practice comprises Primary, Intermediate and Advanced A series' of Ashtanga Yoga. David returns yearly to Mysore, India to study with his beloved Guru, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. David teaches Ashtanga yoga with his Guru's authorization and blessing and is certified by the Ashtanga Yoga Reseach Institute of Mysore .