“Have a great life.”

Yoga holds one simple promise for me. One idea, one focus and one hope. It is the idea that my life, this life, can be great.

In this great life, I can choose to inhabit excellence based on truth. I can manifest peace through my thoughts, words, deeds and actions. I can be free from expectations that I am anything more than a human being working to live in tranquility, and humility, with others and with myself

Through this great life, I am invited to be responsible for my choices and to create my life with virtue and purity as my teachers. In this life of choice, my achievements and setbacks are chances to put philosophy into action and to enjoy the fruit of my actions with every breath I take.

In this work, every student is a teacher; every teacher is a student. This is how we serve one another and how we serve ourselves.

Dharmashakti

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Dharmashakti is the Director of the Nob Hill Yoga Center, The Nob Hill Yoga Teaching School, and The Center for Grooviness in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A teacher, philosopher, minister and musician he brings heart, mind and joyfulness to his love of the teachings and compassion for the struggle we all find in seeking to live a more peaceful life.

As a musician, Dharmashakti has performed jazz, pop, experimental and new music in venues across the USA and around the world.  He has released several CDs and is the recipient of a 2001 Mabel R. Dodge Fellowship at Music Omi (an international musicians' residency), two Australian Green Awards for musical direction, and an OMA award as Outstanding Outmusician of the Year.

He discovered Kirtan while studying at the Integral Yoga Institute of New York and began writing his own chants as study aids, finding that others enjoyed them and used them to remember Yogic lessons. Although he had nearly retired from music, Dharmashakti was given an opportunity to lead Kirtan and transformed his musical life into one of based on sharing the principles of Yoga as an extension of his role as teacher. Presently, he tours the USA about twice each year blending chanting with other Yoga workshops, talks and lectures.

He is a certified Hatha Yoga and Therapeutic Yoga instructor and is recognized as an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT) by the international Yoga Alliance™.

After 15 years in New York, he now resides in New Mexico and travels extensively.