"I am a 64 year old metallurgical engineer and a Certified Level 3 Ski Instructor and 33 year member of PSIA (Professional Ski Instructors of America). The combination of training in engineering and ski instruction combined with experience in teaching people to ski has given me an appreciation for how the body must work to perform a sport efficiently.
Good ski technique must be performed from a stable core to develop optimal power, balance and refined performance. Hallie stresses alignment to actuate the core properly. Lights were turning on for me from the first class -- how to relax my facial, shoulder, and pelvic muscles, and how to align my joints to perform movements using the core.
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, American novelist and professor of philosophy. Humanist of the Year; Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Guggenheim Fellow; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; MacArthur Fellow; Graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College, receiving the Montague Prize for Excellence in Philosophy; while at Princeton University, she was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship; Whiting Foundation Fellowship.
“I am not a person who usually goes in for either yoga or meditation.
All my previous experiences in these domains had left me cold and skeptical. But I was visiting as a scholar at the Santa Fe Institute for three months, and someone I met praised Hallie Love to me so highly that I thought I’d suspend my disbelief and go see her, at least once.
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