Dharma Meghah Yoga
Dharma Meghah Yoga
Offering the teaching of Yogastha Sadhana
through private and semi-private instruction in Louisville, KY
Karley Lott
Karley Lott has been studying and practicing yoga for over 2 decades. She has been teaching over the past 10 years. She has studied with her teacher, Todd Geiser, during which time she has maintained a daily commitment to the development of her asana/vinyasa practice, including pranayama, meditation, and all 8 limbs of the path of yoga. Her life is dedicated to the personal growth found on the physical, mental and spiritual level through the practice of yoga.
The path of a traditional yoga practice
Yogastha Sadhana is the yoga practice Karley teaches. It is a new system anchored in age-old, traditional yoga practices and teachings. Yogastha Sadhana is based on the lineage of teachings through Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, including his students - particularly Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and B.K.S. Iyengar. These two student’s of Krishnamacharya, among others, brought a world-wide popularity to the practice of yoga by honoring the knowledge bestowed to them from the yoga master who was their teacher. For us to say we are on any sort of a path is to acknowledge those who have come before us to make it such. We can be grateful to honor those who have helped pave the way to an ever evolving path of yoga.
Krishnamachrya’s teachings were first and foremost the teachings of the yoga of Patanjali - the classical system of Raja Yoga established through an 8 limb practice. Asana, specifically with vinyasa, are essential practices for the yogi to remove the knots of contraction which are very real blocks and encumbrances held at the physical level. The physical practice was an important cornerstone for any aspirant working with Krishnamacharya - along with an exactness of breath and body movement in what he called Vinyasa Krama...to arrange the movement of breath and body in a specific way. It is this approach that distinguishes yoga from a routine of calisthenics. It is the emphasis of a mind, breath, body configuration that turns yoga into a practice explored as a moving meditation.
In this tradition, the physical practice of yoga must provide better bodily health for us while still pointing to the power and wisdom found in the vital breath. And energy of the breath must provide support for a more sattvic energy in the advance of understanding the true nature of mind. And the practice of meditation, accessing a state of peace and equanimity of mind, will infuse the practitioner with a spiritual oxygen the brings to life an awakening beyond the transient, daily routine. The understanding of how the physical and energetic practices of yoga translates into an experiential knowledge of the deepest truths within our very own being is the time honored tradition of the yoga path from start to finish.