I recently had the great good fortune to attend the Toronto Yoga Conference, an experience that I am still not finished digesting. People came from far and wide to attend this conference. In fact I was in the minority, being a local.   I felt lucky to be able to return to the comfort of my own bed at the end of each of three exhausting days.  Yes, three whole days.  Did I mention I’m a yoga nut?

It was hard to decide which workshops to sign up for and I changed my mind many times.  The choices seemed endless. Seane Corn was one of the biggest pulls for this conference.  You  may have seen her on the cover of the conference guide.  She is a yoga celebrity.

 

 

 

 

Apart from her hair….he he he, one of the things I like about Seane is her sincerity.  She wears her emotions on her sleeve.  She isn’t above delving into her difficult past when describing her journey to yoga and she realizes that ultimately the goal of yoga is not to impress with perfectly executed poses, but something just a bit deeper.  What that might be is different for everyone.  For Seane, one of the things it means is a non-profit organization called Off the Mat and Into the World , of which she is the founder.  From the OTM website: OTM uses the power of yoga to inspire conscious, sustainable activism and ignite grassroots social change. We do this by facilitating personal empowerment through leadership trainings, fostering community collaboration, and initiating local and global service projects.  Great stuff.

We have one of Seane’s yoga DVDs in our collections and it is a good one, called Detox Flow:

 

 

Click on the link to place a hold on a copy.

 

 

 

In the end I didn’t register for any of Seane’s workshops.  Maybe next time.  One of the best things about yoga is that you get better at it over time, and teachers get better at teaching it too.  So if I do see her at another conference she will be even more awesome.  🙂