Pam Toomey
I’m a yoga teacher in the Boston area and teach Ropes Yoga, Slow Flow, and Chair Yoga. My teaching style is alignment-based and focuses on breath, energy, and imagination. My philosophy is simple: how to move so as to create space in the body and calmness in the mind, or conversely, space in the mind and calmness in the body.
I have had the benefit of learning from outstanding teachers. I completed my 500-hr. Vinyasa training at Down Under School of Yoga with Natasha Rizopoulos, whose precision and clarity in action and language I strive hard to emulate. My teaching is heavily influenced by Natasha, by Barbara Benagh, by Patricia Walden, and by Tristan Boyer Binns, all of whom I continue to study with gratefully and fruitfully. I consider my teaching style to be most closely aligned with Barbara Benagh’s: kindling the imagination to stimulate space and fluidity and self-awareness, including engaging patiently and intelligently with fascia in order to form healthier postural habits that allow us to move more comfortably through life. Although I had never studied with him, I am also mightily inspired and influenced by the teachings and books of B.K.S. Iyengar, and am honored to study with Patricia Walden, one of his most senior Iyengar teachers in the United States.
My CPR training certification is up-to-date.
I graduated from Regis College in Weston, MA with a B.A. in Fine Art. Over the years I have fed my curiosity and imagination at the Harvard Extension School – taking classes that range from dead and living languages, to Shakespeare’s works, to world religions, to geopolitics. I am shamelessly addicted to murder mysteries.