Michelle's daily yoga classes will be in English and Spanish, and you will find that following yoga instructions in Spanish will let the language sink into your cells and take the mind/body connection to a new level. The morning class will be Deep Flow, a combination of Vinyasa flow, Forrest techniques, core work and breath awareness. You will leave feeling rejuvenated, cleansed and alive. Then, after a full day of play and learning, a more restorative afternoon class will ground and center you. Afternoon sessions will begin with Yin Yoga, targeting the hips, pelvis, and lower back/spine, to stretch gently and rehabilitate the connective tissues - the perfect complement to the more rigorous morning session.

Patrick will teach two daily Spanish classes - one for beginners and another for intermediate students. The classes will include practical conversations, readings, and games. He will review grammar and syntax as needed, but the emphasis will be on really using the language. Please bring a Spanish/English dictionary and a notebook; all other materials will be provided.

About Patrick. . . .

Born in Costa Rica, Patrick Swett has been teaching Spanish since 1994. He studied Modern Dance and Political Sciences at the Universidad de Costa Rica graduating in 1995. He also completed studies in French and Italian in his native San José at the Alliance Française and at the Societa Dante Alighieri where he experienced for himself the challenges and difficulties of the adult learner, giving him a great passion for the instruction of foreign languages. In 1997 he moved to the United States. Patrick now lives in Seattle, where he has worked in the fields of dance and theater and has been teaching Spanish for Seattle Language Academy's adult and children's programs since 1999. www.sealang.org

About Michelle. . . .

Michelle brings over twelve years of yoga, bodywork and fitness experience to her yoga teaching. She is a graduate of three of the most highly respected Yoga Teacher Trainings in the country: the original Yogaworks Teacher Training Course (TTC) with Maty Ezraty and Lisa Walford, the Ana Forrest TTC, and Shiva Rea's Embodying the Flow TTC. Her primary influence and inspiration is Ana Forrest and the Forrest Yoga method; and she is a certified Forrest Yoga Instructor. Deeply committed to high quality instruction and to evolving her practice, Michelle continues to study with some of the most accomplished yoga masters in the world including: Ana Forrest, Shiva Rea, Sarah Powers and Angela Farmer. Michelle was born in California, but spent summers in the Dominican Republic - her mother's native country. As a result, Michelle was bilingual (Spanish and English) before she could read and write. Michelle majored in Romance Languages at Dartmouth College - she added French to her repertoire while at Dartmouth and lived with a French family for six months. In the years before becoming a full time yoga instructor, she worked as a bilingual health educator, a language teacher and a sales support representative to Latin America. While at Dartmouth, Michelle trained in the Rassias method of language aquisition and worked as a French and Spanish Conversation or "Drill" Instructor. Learn more about Michelle at YogaLuz.

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