Life with Yoga

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    It was 1969, the year of the Woodstock Music Festival. Swami Satchidananda opened up this historic event with a unifying OM, vocalized by thousands of participants. Although I was not there, this is the spiritual revolution era that influenced my yoga practice. I was a young 15 year old hippie and attended a kundalini yoga class in New York. The depth of relaxation experienced in savasana was the spark igniting my path. I found deep peace during a turbulent time in a teenagers life.

It's been over 40 years since I first stepped onto the yoga mat. There have been numerous luminaries and instructors along the way. Early in my search for some meaning to Life's challenges, I was introduced to Swami Satchidananda's book Integral Yoga Hatha. I still hold this old book in my library as the origin of my yoga path.

 In 1976, I attended a retreat with Amrit Desai. His teaching was based on a personal kundalini rising experience. On his mat the postures suddenly revealed them self in sequence without his direction. He had tapped into a higher source. Amrit Desai then taught an approach called Meditation in Motion, trusting the body to move in a smooth sequential order, based on divine guidance. Amrit Desai is founder of Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in Lenox, MA, named after his guru Swami Kripalu.

 It was also during this time that Ram Dass came to the University of Florida. I was an art education student there but seeking as much information as I could on the vegetarian diet and spirituality. Ram Dass had recently returned from India, from his guru Neem Karoli Baba. He shared Hindu chanting with us and the power of OM. I followed Ram Dass  on retreat and satsangs while living on the east coast.  It was my first encounter with chanting and hearing the names of the Hindu deities.

The student becomes teacher. I am now offering classes for 25 years rooted in traditional Hatha Yoga. It's a meditative asana flow focusing on the mind/body unity, breathing and the subtle anatomy.

Being a previous special events organizer, I hosted the annual Bisbee Yoga Expo in southern Arizona (2005-2010) and served as the President of the Arizona Yoga Association (2007 -2009). Now a new resident of the Big Island for nearly three years, Hatha Yoga classes are currently offered  at our hOMe studio in Kalapana Seaview Estates. 

Blessed to be the wife of John Galleher for four decades, mother of David, Crystal and Jesse and to be 'Nani' to our sweet, smart, sparkling granddaughter Kiva. 

I love to dance, love the Hawaiian ocean and enjoy the importance of being a gardener. 

I am an artist and a pisces.

~ OM ~

No afternoon classes at this time. 

Will resume at a later date.  <>  4:30 pm - 5:45 pm 

WEDNESDAYS <>  Chair Yoga Flow  

10:15 am - 11:15 am

THURSDAYS  <>  Hatha Yoga

8:30 am - 9:45 am

hOMe Yoga Studio in Kalapana Seaview Estates

12-6989 Kamoamoa Street

Donation $8 

Open to students of all levels

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 " Your ability to verbally describe the various postures, where we might still be holding and how to release more deeply is very specific and helpful.  I especially like coming to your studio for the smaller classes. You are providing a wonderful service to our community.  We are very fortunate to have you. Mahalo! "   Isla 

 " I took yoga with you about 20 years ago. I would like to get back into yoga and wondered if you had your CD and cassettes. If either are available I would like to purchase one or both of them.

I recently joined the gym and am trying to go there 3 days a week and do yoga 3 days a week. They have yoga classes but so far they just don’t match the practice I had with you!  You’re the best!  "  Dori  (February 2019)

 Marcia Galleher (mar-see-ah) E-RYT 500 is registered with Yoga Alliance, 'grandmothered' in 2006 by documenting 5,000 hours of teaching experience prior to December 31st, 2002. 

  After many years living and teaching in Bisbee, a small town in southern Arizona, Marcia and her family moved to the Big Island in 2015.  She was an instructor at Kalani Honua before it closed in May of this year. Marcia continues to teach classes rooted in Hatha Yoga at her hOMe studio in Kalapana Seaview Estates. 

  Marcia's intuitive based teaching emphasizes inner awareness, the union of mind/body, conscious breathing and the subtle anatomy offered in a meditative asana flow. Postures (asana) are held still and also practiced in a slow moving sequence. Attention is on the ease and steadiness of mind and body.
 Practice on your own 'island' (own mat) in a safe and comfortable environment.

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 " You were the best yoga teacher I ever had. I tried several teachers, but none resonated with me like you did."  Jan 

" I am so grateful for your classes..They are like pure honey to my soul."  Zenne