Shiran Beck

I began to practice Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga with Miri and Gilad Harouvi more than ten years ago.

I completed the three-year teacher training program under their guidance and have been teaching at the Shala since 2006.

I still feel like I am at the beginning of the road, the road of liberation that is yoga, which is not known in advance to those who travel it, and which requires devotion, moderation, openness, and an especially long breath. I continue to experiment and investigate, both on and off the mat, in workshops worldwide as well as independently, expanding my knowledge of anatomy and physiology, the philosophy of yoga and the history of its incarnations in India and in the West.

In my teaching I insist on continuity and flow together with precision in asana. I take a pragmatic, rational, and non-dogmatic approach to the practice. Through repetition there arises the need to question and reexamine old habits, rather than do by rote and surrender to the self-evident.