Samantha Cameron

About Samantha Cameron

500 E-RYT Yoga Instructor Yoga, like love, opens closed doors. Yoga, as spirit, opens doors to willingness. Yoga, as a physical Practice, opens the unique connective-doors of body/mind/emotion waiting within each being. My work, my sustenance as a teacher is opening Yoga’s many doorways in order to nurture, support, and expand a life. This alchemical transformation of the mat is linked time and again to that off the mat. Here, we learn courage to take the next step ~ be it a headstand, a longer Pranayama, an arm balance. It is like a new job, a new relationship, or a big move. We are unearthing vulnerability, resilience and a regenerative capacity to grow.When students enter the studio door, I ask ~ ”What are you seeking? What do you need? What are you will- ing to try?” My desire is to make their Yoga-Journey not only joyous, expansive, and couragous, but to offer a unique structure to their needs. A student once said my classes were like a prayer. I return to this time and again to listen and observe without judgment, offering to meet a body where it is, not where it thinks it should be.I instruct beginners through advanced. I am committed to a strongly physical Vinyasa Practice with anatomical alignment, and injury-free movement. Class doorways include: Asana, Pranayama, mudra, mantra, and connecting to the earth in her seasons, and solar/lunar cycles. The art of Shakti Dances, with their emphasis of uniquely linking Asanas that dance the mat are often part of class offerings, along with the responsibility of accepting the body’s needs, limitations, and g••••••••@gmail.comdailybreathjournal.comhttp://shaktidances.com

Experience

1. Modern & Jazz Instructor, Choreographer and Advisor to Wellesley College Dancers

   Wellesley College

   Jan 2005 — Present

   Love teaching the dance-dolls to point their toes and leap the dance-distance. It\'s a joy to connect them to dance, to other arts, as well as bring a wider life-POV to connecting their bodies/minds & emotions.

Education

• UCLA

  Master's degree, dance & choreography

• 500 RYT graduate of Yoga of Energy Flow, Arlington Center, MA.

  E-500 RYT, Yoga

  2010 — 2012

• UCLA

  MA, Dance/choreography/teaching

• UCLA

  Master's degree, choreography & dance, A

  1971 — 1973

Skills

• Pilates
• Storytelling
• Training
• Books
• Healing
• Stress Management
• Meditation
• Art
• Newsletters
• Fitness
• Dance
• Arts
• Acting
• Contemporary Dance
• Ballet
• Theatre
• Improvisation
• Astrology
• Lifestyle Coaching
• Research
• Holistic Health
• Proofreading
• Performing Arts
• Editing
• Music
• Blogging
• Musical Theatre
• Hatha Yoga
• Art History
• Writing
• Grant Writing
• Leadership
• Yoga
• Event Management
• Modern Dance
• Teaching
• Wellness
• Creative Writing
• Choreography
• Wellness Coaching