Kim Weeks / Owner, Instructor
kim weeks has been devoted to yoga since 1994, stumbling into it with a hamstring injury she sustained while training for the new york marathon. encouraged by a co-worker at JPMorgan and her sister in Santa Cruz, she looked up yoga in the yellow pages and chose Integral Yoga® because it sounded like an "integrated" approach to a word she wanted to know more about. during the deep relaxation period of her first class, she felt changed.
after spending much of the late 90's in asia and europe with her wall street job, kim left the corporate world in in 2002 to start boundless yoga, a washington, dc-based yoga studio that honors all forms of yoga. classes at boundless draw specifically on the krishnamachariya tradition and focus on one student at a time. kim believes that yoga is evolving rapidly as we enter the 21st century full-swing--and that it is a form of solace and inspiration in stressful times.
kim is a trained Integral Yoga teacher and has continued extensive study with jj gormley, erich schiffmann, rodney yee, sarah powers, jinsung, and, most recently, paul grilley and ramanand patel. in 2004 she lived in oakland, california to take part in rodney's advanced studies program at piedmont yoga studio.
kim focuses on the body as a constantly changing object in time and space, encouraging her asana students to experience delight and forgiveness as they observe their bodies, with simultaneous discrimination and non-judgment, according to the breath's direction. she also has a private energy practice and believes deeply in the innate healing capacity of the body, which she seeks to honor with each client.
for more information on private yoga, energy work, or the boundless yoga teacher training program, email kim@boundlessyoga.com.
April 15th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Yes, and money changes yoga, too. A discussion is long oversue of the many ways American-style yoga has succummbed to the pressures and influences of marketplace at the same time that it offers - or purports to offer - a critique of our materialistic culture and lifestyle - or at least, a respite from them. There are purists who suggest that the current yoga wave - some would say fad - has co-opted and polluted the spiritual essence of yoga, while others believe that a blend of yoga with material pursuits and concerns - weight loss, fashion, beauty, etc. - should not only be tolerated, but celebrated.
Even having this debate and discussion would require the yoga community to engage in real discernment and reflection, which is rather hard to do when yoga is encouraging you to chill out, turn off your mind, and listen only to your body. Frankly, this is the problem when women dominate any social or cultural pursuit as pervasively as they dominate yoga. How are studios like Boundless encouraging a tradition of yogic reflection that gets us beyond the tendency to uncriticially accept of all that is occurring within today’s highly contradictory yoga “movement”?
Frankly, as a man fully and actively engaged in life with BOTH mind and body, intellect and feeling, it is hard to find a critical point of entry into today’s gyno-centric Yoga world. The celebration of the body over and above all else - naturally aided and abetted by the female ethos that dominates US yoga, we are arriving at a new form of idol worship - a kind of “gyno-fascism” that is creating a ever-expanding demographic of mindless OMMERS anxious to find a way back into their bikinis by July.
I know, it’s only yoga. Be happy!! OMMMMMMMM!!!
April 20th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
“money changes everything” was originally done by a band called the brains. http://www.allmusicguide.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kzfixql5ldke