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Friday, July 8, 2011 at 04:08PM 
My Little Yoga Lifestory
by Rhonda Uretzky
I was doing yoga back when yoga wasn’t cool...
..or hot. At 15, I was channel surfing (all 6 channels) and at 6:30AM I came upon Lilias Folan teaching yoga via cable TV (it was called UHF back then, not cable, with a round antenna that had to be placed just so to receive the station in my home in Rockaway Beach, NY).
I was hooked.
By 19, I was teaching yoga. My first gig was teaching Sun Salutations at an arts camp in upstate NY. In the decades since, I practiced and taught Sivananda, Iyengar, Vinyasa, Kundalini and Radiant Child Yoga and finally settled into the heat of Hot Yoga.
Today I am a designated E-RYT 200, an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance, as well as a certified Radiant Child Yoga Level 2 teacher. Adding it all up, I have taught yoga and practiced for almost 40 years...boy, that went fast.
And along the way, I've discovered yoga secrets that I'd like to share with all of you. Yoga, as it turns out, is a useful guide for life. Especially if you are an overworked working mother with who takes care of everyone and makes no time for herself...but needs and deserves to get the stress out and put the life back into your life. It IS possible. I promise.
I am a writer, an artist and a Buddhist practitioner. In my hot yoga classes, I use breathing (always useful), relaxing, and kick-your-butt enthusiasm (I was Captain of the Cheerleaders at Far Rockaway in High School...let the jokes begin) so yes, you will relax and meditate here, but you will also find your warrior in my yoga classes. And I will share all that I have learned and experienced during my yoga career, in the space between the poses.
Want more? Follow my Twitter and Riverflow Yoga Facebook Fan pages...and a new website coming soon, called MyYogaSecret.com.
I barely remember life without yoga. After all my years of practice, yoga has become the place I come from. Riverflow Yoga is more than the sum of the 26 poses; it's the hot secret that gives cool people a real life.
