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Dr. Wm Alejandro Martin, PhD
Dr. Wm Alejandro Martin, PhD

Dr. William Alejandro Martin began teaching yoga in 2010 after completing his PhD from McMaster University in 2005 and yoga teacher training in 2009-2010. His yoga philosophy focuses on adjustments that generate empathy between teacher and student, the spiritual and mood-lifting effects of music, and the community experience of collective breath and stretching in a meditative practice.

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BIO: Dr. William Alejandro Martin moved to Windsor in 2005 to teach at the University of Windsor, subsequent to completing his PhD the previous year from McMaster University. Attempting to stay active while juggling an overwhelming research schedule, with an even more stressful academic teaching workload, he began his yoga practise @ Downtown Yoga studio in 2006. William began his Certified Yoga Alliance Yoga Teacher Training in 2009 at The Walkerville Yoga Loft (Windsor), and graduated (after numerous "feedbacks") in 2010, with the desire to honour his teaching lineage through practise. William's Yogic Philosophy: Moving meditation (adjustments, music, community) Adjustments - For me, the teacher-student yogic relationship reaches its most profound aspect through adjustments; where the teacher holds, straightens, aids, a student breathe deeper into a pose. When done optimally, I believe, adjustments generate empathogenic or inter-relational sensitivity in both parties, making it as wonderful for the teacher as for the student. Music - My own spiritual universe is eternally immersed in music, not least because of its incredible capacity to transform our (often, confused, depressed) minds back into their more cheerful, optimistic, selves. Music is the dream from which we pray never to awaken! Ohm! Community - Whereas, the practise of yoga is simply a series of stretches and poses, held for different amounts of time, one's yoga practise is an intimately moving, spiritual meditation; a stunning, collective affectivity, revived on a daily basis, through their ritualized sharing of intensive breath, therapeutic stretching, profundity of community. See all of you on your mats; metta, William

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  • 1. BIO: Dr. William Alejandro Martin moved to Windsor in 2005 to teach at the University of Windsor, subsequent to completing his PhD the previous year from McMaster University. Attempting to stay active while juggling an overwhelming research schedule, with an even more stressful academic teaching workload, he began his yoga practise @ Downtown Yoga studio in 2006. William began his Certified Yoga Alliance Yoga Teacher Training in 2009 at The Walkerville Yoga Loft (Windsor), and graduated (after numerous "feedbacks") in 2010, with the desire to honour his teaching lineage through practise. William's Yogic Philosophy: Moving meditation (adjustments, music, community) Adjustments - For me, the teacher-student yogic relationship reaches its most profound aspect through adjustments; where the teacher holds, straightens, aids, a student breathe deeper into a pose. When done optimally, I believe, adjustments generate empathogenic or inter-relational sensitivity in both parties, making it as wonderful for the teacher as for the student. Music - My own spiritual universe is eternally immersed in music, not least because of its incredible capacity to transform our (often, confused, depressed) minds back into their more cheerful, optimistic, selves. Music is the dream from which we pray never to awaken! Ohm! Community - Whereas, the practise of yoga is simply a series of stretches and poses, held for different amounts of time, one's yoga practise is an intimately moving, spiritual meditation; a stunning, collective affectivity, revived on a daily basis, through their ritualized sharing of intensive breath, therapeutic stretching, profundity of community. See all of you on your mats; metta, William