Chris Preist
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Personal Information
- Area
- Bristol
- Membership status
- Practitioner
- Postcode
- BS6 5EH
- Telephone
- 0117 942 3396
- Qualifications and Experience
Vinyoga Practitioner program with Paul Harvey, completed 1994.
Viniyoga Postgraduate program with Paul Harvey, completed 1999.- About me
I have been practicing Yoga since 1987, and started working individually with Paul Harvey in 1989. I travelled to India for a 6 week stay at the KYM in 1989/1990, together with Dave Charlton, where we studied therapy with Dr Latha Satish and chanting with L.V.Sujaya. I continued my studies with Paul over a long period, through individual lessons, the practitioner and postgraduate programs, and working with Desikachar in India and the UK under Paul's guidance.
I started practicing Zen soon after encountering yoga, and received ordination in the Soto Zen lineage from Jean Shogen Baby in 1992. I am interested in the relationship between Buddhism and Yoga, and the role of practice in twenty first century life. I draw inspiration from the work of Ken Wilber, from ongoing engagement with a community of inquiry at the Centre for Action Research in Professional Practice, Bath University, from continued contact with teachers such as Peter Hersnack and Martyn Neal, and an ongoing relationship with my Zen teacher Mokuho Guy Mercier.
- Details of classes
I teach 1-1 lessons in Bristol and sometimes in London.
- Special Interests
Chanting.
Meditation.
Applying the yoga sutra to life as-it-is.
The relationship between Yoga and Buddhism.
The work of Ken Wilber.
Ecology and sustainability issues.