I’m an independent yoga teacher offering classes at The Yoga Shala in Fairfield, CT (1961 Post Rd). I teach three nourishing classes each week in this beautiful space. Whether you’re brand new to yoga or have been practicing for years, my classes invite you to rest deeply in your body while also exploring safe, intentional movement and just enough intensity to get the heart flowing.
Nothing would honor me more than to hold space for you.
Why I Teach Yoga
From as far back as I can remember, I was endlessly curious about love. I would watch the way people showed love to one another , the tenderness between parents and children, the way my friends’ parents treated eachother, even the small kindness or lack of it toward a waitress. Again and again, one question echoed in me: why do some people love more than others?
Growing up in an emotionally unavailable home, it’s no surprise my curiosity led me to study people so deeply. And now, after years of searching, I’ve discovered a piece of the answer: we can only give love to the extent that we love ourselves.
I’ve also come to see that a closed heart may be one of the most harmful choices a person can make over lengths of time. Not only for themselves, but for their family line and the world at large. Of course, there are seasons of pain and trauma when closing off feels necessary, even essential. But I believe one of life’s greatest lessons is learning how to reopen the heart, even after years or a lifetime of shutting it down. Healing ourselves is the most courageous act I’ve witnessed in another human being. The effects of a healed heart chakra ripples through generations. A mother who pours love into herself can pour love into her family. Her children will grow up knowing what love feels like, what it looks like, what to expect from a partner, and how to carry it forward into their own families. If those children too choose healing, the ripple rises higher, carrying love through the generations until it shapes the kind of world we all long to live in.
More than a decade ago, when I felt very lost and far from self-love, I found yoga. In the quiet of movement, in the softening, in the presence of a compassionate teacher, I felt love moving through me. My heart cracked open and to this day, yoga is one of the places I feel closest to God.
What I’ve learned is this: when we are connected to ourselves, to God within us, life rearranges itself to guide us toward our highest becoming. Sometimes it looks like people leaving, jobs ending, or doors closing. More often, it requires surrender, those humbling moments when we have no choice but to let go and let God. And it is there, in the surrender, that the true beauty of life begins to unfold.
Devote yourself to the God within you. Take inspired action each day, aiming your arrow toward the life you long for. And when your faith feels thin, return again. Let go, and let God.
These steps have saved me more times than I can count. I have known the heaviness of pain and suffering, but I have also felt the fierce, unshakable power of love, love for ourselves, for those we hold dear, and for a world aching to be healed. Love, I believe, is the most radical and transformative force we have. And for me, yoga has always been a short cut to accessing the greatest love inside of us.
This is the space I aim to hold in the yoga room: a space to discover the deep well inside you, to trust in life, to trust in love, and to remember that you are loved infinitely.
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Alyssa Romano @ The Yoga Shala
1961 Post Road, Fairfield, CT, USA
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