Helen Cassidy
Helen Cassidy is a Licensed Massage Therapist and a Certified Yoga Therapist Candidate. She studied Ashtanga Yoga with several teachers including Pattabhi Jois in Mysore, India. She also began her study of Yoga Therapy in Mysore. Helen is currently working with physical therapists in New Orleans and North Carolina towards certification in Yoga Therapy. She is also studying Iyengar’s wholistic approach to yoga with Bruno Teyssandier at Yoga 108.
As a body worker, Helen has studied many forms of healing arts including Thai Massage, Reflexology, Shiatsu, Neuromuscular Therapy and Ayreveda. She has worked for over ten years privately as a personal massage therapist and worked at the Windsor Court as a massage therapist for 5 years. Before her training in body work, Helen was a dancer and gymnast. She is a certified French Teacher and taught French and English as a foreign language. She traveled, lived and studied healing arts and yoga in France, Japan, India, Mexico and Thailand.
Philosophy
The practice of yoga is much more than a physical exercise. We do yoga to heal the body so that we may know the self. There are eight petals of yoga that reveal themselves. These are eternal, ethical ways of living (yama), self-observation (niyama), poses (asana), breath control (pranayama), sense withdrawal (prat yahara), concentration (dharana), meditation (dhyana) and peaceful absorption (samadhi). Yoga which is executed with only asana in mind only leads to more egoism and a misuse of power. If a student is humble and committed, all of these limbs or petals may be experienced during the practice of asana (poses), leading to the peace of self-understanding and the higher qualities of joy, union and generosity. Wow! Namaste.
As a body worker, Helen has studied many forms of healing arts including Thai Massage, Reflexology, Shiatsu, Neuromuscular Therapy and Ayreveda. She has worked for over ten years privately as a personal massage therapist and worked at the Windsor Court as a massage therapist for 5 years. Before her training in body work, Helen was a dancer and gymnast. She is a certified French Teacher and taught French and English as a foreign language. She traveled, lived and studied healing arts and yoga in France, Japan, India, Mexico and Thailand.
Philosophy
The practice of yoga is much more than a physical exercise. We do yoga to heal the body so that we may know the self. There are eight petals of yoga that reveal themselves. These are eternal, ethical ways of living (yama), self-observation (niyama), poses (asana), breath control (pranayama), sense withdrawal (prat yahara), concentration (dharana), meditation (dhyana) and peaceful absorption (samadhi). Yoga which is executed with only asana in mind only leads to more egoism and a misuse of power. If a student is humble and committed, all of these limbs or petals may be experienced during the practice of asana (poses), leading to the peace of self-understanding and the higher qualities of joy, union and generosity. Wow! Namaste.
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