The founders of La Vie Boheme, Michaela Moryskova and Yvette Charlton, are helping yogis and yoginis everywhere express their inner light on their mat.
I have performed my music for several yoga events they offer on their beautiful mats. I recently had the opportunity to ask them a few questions. Here’s what they had to say about their mats.
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Wow! What a wonderful morning to celebrate The House of Yogi‘s Opening Day!
Enjoy these wonderful words from Lauren Autenrieth, the instructor, from Our Siddhi
“Filled with infinite gratitude for The House of Yogi and DTO for an amazing class. I’m so stoked to call this new, heartwarming studio home. Thank you to all who came out for our grand opening today!”
photo: Musician: DTO, Owner: Shaun Jenkins and Yoga Instructor: Lauren Autenrieth
Video coming soon from Andrew Benga
I have the honor to perform at opening and closing day of Yoga Rocks the Park for this season 2015. This is a an outdoor yoga + live music experience. I am very excited to perform my yoga soundtrack, Nameless Energy for you! Closing day, Sept 13, 2015, is a donation-based class to benefit the Sean O’Shea Foundation: event page HERE
Join us this First Friday of June for the healthiest night out ever! We’re going to have a yoga jam at yoga80!
Live music + yoga + snacks + more! Get your tickets today!
Join us for Candlelit Vinyasa + Live Music to begin a new month. Monday, June 1st from 7pm-8:15pm at re:form.
The talented, Trevor Hawkins, will be guiding the flow as I sprinkle in my sound waves from my forthcoming album, Nameless Energy. Enjoy some songs of my album at my music page.
Join DTO at Lightning in a Bottle for the Yoga Class, Nourish Your Soul with Cristi Christensen featuring DTO Live Music.
Sun. May 24, 2015 11:15am-12:30pm Namaste Camp
Yoga & Fundraising for a good cause– Pedal the Cause! Join Kenna in an all-levels, full-spectrum Vinyasa class to the mixed beats of DTO. Breathe, flow and open your body, mind and heart– proceeds donated to cancer research! Following the practice, Y6 will serve vino, providing a fun atmosphere to socialize and “wine” down your Saturday evening, May 16, 2015, 5:15pm-6:30pm – Yoga Six Carlsbad, CA, 1905 Calle Barcelona #238 Donation: $20 (all funds go to Pedal the Cause)
As a musician, I have always loved how music encourages the body to move. It wasn’t until Bhaktifest 2013 that I profoundly realized music could also have an extraordinary impact on my yoga practice. Yoga + Live Music is blossoming in classes, festivals, and events globally. As a musician and a yogi, I fully love this experience on the mat or behind the piano performing for you.
1. Setting the tone
As a yogi, listening to live music helps create a fresh ambience to inspire the practice. Music helps lift students during challenging sequences with upbeat music as well as creating a restorative vibe with calming music. A sensitive musician will truly make a difference in creating the perfect atmosphere for a class.
2. Being in the flow
Instructors have additional freedom to modify a class when there is a live musician following their guidance, e.i. wanting to stop and explain a pose to the student means the musician plays softer to accommodate the moment. Student learning increases when the message is able to be clearly communicated.
3. Going deeper
Listening to a live musician increases sensitivity to your own gifts. Like yogis, musicians practice for years to deepen their abilities. A daily practice means experiencing ups and downs of life and learning to accept ourselves for where we are and what we’re working toward. Listening to live music is a great reminder of the mantra practice, practice, practice…all is coming.
4. Being with community
Being a yogi provides a connection to self as well as a global movement of world peace. Attending a yoga class with local musicians is a unique opportunity to meet new people, rejuvenate the soul, and be inspired throughout the experience and off the mat. We are in this together!
5. Supporting local and global artists
The more live music offered in yoga classes, the more possibilities there shall be for yogi musicians to perform and make a living. Life-enhancing music that awakens and heals
is here for all to enjoy with your support! Thank you! Yes!
Contact me at 858-254-0764 to co-create yoga + live music. I look forward to connecting! See my tour schedule to join a class.
In gratitude,
DTO will have the honor to perform at Yoga for Hope 2015. This noble cause brings over 1,000 yogis per year to Petco Park. DTO will have available his upcoming album, Nameless Energy.
SCHEDULE:
7:00 a.m.– 8:00 a.m. Gates open/ Registration (DTO to perform)
8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Yoga for Hope Master Class (Aja Lee to perform)
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Yoga Marketplace (DTO to perform)
Join us for an all-levels Vinyasa Flow during Valentine’s weekend, February 13 from 7-8:30pm (details below). This will be a dynamic experience that explores the energy of live music and yoga to build energy in the body, calm the mind, and shake up your weekend! Facebook event link
