Victoria's Roots
For more than ten years, Victoria Garcia Drago has
practiced and taught yoga in the Boston area, inspiring herself and her students to cultivate a
deeper mind and body connection. Victoria instructs her students in Slow Flow Yoga,
a slower form of Vinyasa Yoga, which allows students to deeply experience traditional
yoga poses by incorporating innovative and original
sequences into the practice. Slow Flow yoga focuses on opening up physical as
well as mental blockages while integrating yoga discipline with contemplative breath
and practice. Students explore their mind and body while cultivating the
connection between the two. Victoria instructs for all levels, allowing even
the most timid and inflexible beginner to mindfully practice and discover their
body’s outer limits.
Victoria came to yoga while seeking a deeper
connection between her body and mind. This quest grew out of her adolescent struggle
with body image. She used yoga, alternative medicine, and healthy living habits
to overcome her distorted body image. Eventually, Victoria realized her
physical self was not her whole identity, but the carrier for her soul and her
true self. This revelation allowed Victoria not only to treat her body with
respect, but to teach others to do the same.
Victoria continues to cultivate the connection between
body, mind and spirit. This connection enabled Victoria to discover that
through music and movement, her spirit would lift to the point of experiencing
endless joy and freedom. This insight led Victoria to embrace Zumba® as a
balance to her meditative side. Victoria received her certification to teach
Zumba®, and uses simple yet fun and uplifting choreographies to encourage her
students to feel alive and connected to their bodies while still nurturing the
mind-body connection.
Certified through the Yoga Studio of Barbara Benagh,
Victoria is an advanced student of Ms. Benagh and still attends classes with
her on a weekly basis. Other teachers that have inspired Victoria include Shiva
Rea and Tias Little.
In 2010, Victoria produced “Yoga: Beyond the Basics with Victoria Garcia Drago”, a bilingual English-Spanish DVD. Victoria
received her BS in Holistic Nutrition from Clayton College of Natural Health
and is currently working on getting her MS. Victoria is also a certified
Medical Interpreter and Translator. Victoria's latest addition to her resume is that she is now part of the research team at Boston Medical Center: Yoga for Low Back Pain. Victoria leads and assists in Yoga classes taught to participants in the research who suffer from chronic low back pain. The aim of this four year research is to give Yoga enough credibility as to be prescribed by doctors as an alternative for back pain instead of pain medication.
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