Yoga Retreat
About Kim Roberts

Kim started practicing Ashtanga yoga with Richard Freeman in 1992 and spent 10 years studying and eventually teaching with him in Boulder, Colorado, USA. After spending a year studying with Sri Pattabhi Jois and his grandson Sharath Rangaswamy in Mysore, South India, she was authorized to teach the Ashtanga system. She taught privately in Paris for 4 years, then spent 6 months in southern Sri Lanka, leading retreats at a center there. Currently she is teaching and managing a studio in Hong Kong.

She completed both the basic and advanced Teacher Training courses offered by Richard Freeman and earned a teaching certificate from the White Lotus Institute in Santa Barbara, California. While in India, she hosted classes for Dr. Shankaranarayana Jois, a prominent Sanskrit scholar and Yoga Acharya, with the aim of helping western students in Mysore to understand the philosophical basis for yoga. Kim helped him edit his first book in English on yoga philosophy, Yoga Bhumika.

She has a Master's degree in Psychology from Naropa University, the only accredited Buddhist university in North America, founded by her teacher, the venerable Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. She was a practicing psychotherapist for 10 years and began teaching yoga in 1995 on dharma retreats as a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhist meditation. Due to her background as a practitioner of Buddhist meditation, her approach to Ashtanga takes on a contemplative quality. Rather than seeing each posture as a stepping stone (or barrier) to the next posture, she sees them all as opportunities to wake up to the truth of the present moment by coming back to the breath. In this way, each posture becomes a preparation for the final and most important posture of all: that of sitting for meditation. This approach makes the practice of Ashtanga available to all. For more information visit her website at www.papayayoga.com.

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