Natalie Stawsky
Artist Bio:
Natalie Stawsky is a passionate yoga practitioner and teacher. In her early years, she worked as a journalist and radio producer. This is the time when she began transforming herself spiritually as well as physically. She studied under the guidance of teachers like Shiva Rea, Saul David Raye, Erich Schiffmann and Max Strom. She received her first Teacher's Certification from the White Lotus Foundation located in Santa Barbara, California. She then completed her second Teachers' Training at Sacred Movement Center for Yoga and Healing with teachers Max Strom, Saul David Raye, Shiva Rea and Sherry Brourman. She started studying at the Golden Bridge Center under the guidance of Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, from whom she received her certification in Prenatal Yoga The Khalsa Way. She got her certification in yoga for kids and arranged yoga classes for children and teenagers. She taught them the yogic conducts and values through the practice of yoga, besides having fun through creative activities. Towards the end of the year 2004, she finished a Teacher's Workshop for the Incarcerated Youth held by the Yoga for Youth organization.
Natalie Stawsky worked with Impact Foundation and Imagine Yoga for Kids. She has been associated with non-profit organizations that offered yoga classes to inner city youth. She worked with students and teachers at Camino Nuevo Charter Academy, Dolores Mission High School, Burlington Elementary School , First street elementary school and many others. Through the practice of yoga, visualization exercises, arts and creative writing, these young students received the ways that helped them to frame their life in positive direction. She also taught at TAS (The Accelerated School ) in South Central Los Angeles, where yoga was part of the school curriculum.
Currently, Natalie teaches (both in English and Spanish) in Culver City 's Goda Yoga. In this studio she teaches Beginning and Intermediate yoga as well as Mommy & Me classes. She also teaches yoga classes at Immanuel Presbyterian Church, in Los Angeles . Natalie has received a grant to teach yoga at California Hospital. Natalie works with several groups and organizations in hospitals, shelters, churches and rehabilitation centers in the United States and abroad in order to bring the practice of yoga to people in need. Her extensive training allowed her to work with people of all ages and fitness level. In collaboration with California Hospital , UCLA and residents of Central Los Angeles, Natalie holds a weekly yoga class for low-income mothers and teenagers at Hope Street Family Center , in Downtown, Los Angeles. Natalie also conducts trainings and workshops at the Hospital, empowering teachers, doctors and parents with the tools of yoga, creativity, self care and various techniques she had learnt and shared throughout the years.
Teachings of Natalie Stawsky meets a variety of Yogic and spiritual traditions. In her teachings, she incorporated elements of Iyengar, Anusara, Viniyoga, Vinyasa Yoga and Lotus Flow. Her classes are centered on the breath, the search for fluid movements, the spirit generating internal peace and the finding of a unique and individual expression of each body and soul. Natalie is also a certified Reiki practitioner and a certified Massage Therapist. She propogates �hands on healing� techniques as a way to optimize the flow of energy in the body.