Pat Donaher
I began practicing yoga in 1996, in my last year of college. I was a saxophone performance major, and while I was good at many things on the saxophone (still am, I hope), I often sounded like a dying quail when I played. One of my mentors, Michael Cain, had started taking yoga, and thought it might help my sound, so I went. I enjoyed classes, my saxophone sound improved tremendously and I was generally more flexible, but I didn't quite "get yoga", and drifted in and out of a yoga practice through my twenties.
After grad school in Boston my practice was reignited when I found the Baptiste yoga studio and its excellent teachers, and my wonderful teacher David Vendetti. David sometimes describes his teaching as the Body Awakening; Baron Baptiste talks about personal revolution. Either set of words works. I found in yoga a new connection to and appreciation of my body and what it could do. I feel now that at 32, I'm physically in the best shape of my life.
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