Yoga & Meditation
Creative/Advanced Vinyasa, Restorative Yoga & Visualization, Women's Healing, Creativity & Empowerment, Meditation, Yogic Philosophy, International Studies, Non-Profit Organizations & Social Entrepreneurship
- a work in progress new website-
Tradition, Discipline & Freedom
Creativity, Awareness & Self Study
Persistence & Dedication
Yoga for Runner's I-phone App:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/y4r/id471755050?mt=8
***This i-phone application includes perfect sequences for pre-run, post-run, and off-days, targeting problem areas such as the hips, outer thighs, hamstrings and more to balance a runner's body. Put together by a small linked cohert of active yoga instructors. Daysha completed the instructons for the entire application.
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INDIA Trip was incredible!!!
SolYoga is flew to India on December 3rd, 2011. Daysha was the guide for this trip, having lived and traveled throughout India for nearly a year in 2007. Diane Hudock, a California yoga instructor and frequent vistor to India and her teachers living in India, will be our SolYoga instructor, offering special Kriya Yoga teachings. On this unique yoga, culture and service trip to India, we will learn about ancient yoga, everyday life, ayurveda and beautiful coastal landscapes this inparalleled country offers. We will be staying in large silk Rajasthani tents and eating delicious local cuisine at Magic Eco Lodge, known as the finest of all eco-friendly yoga retreat places in Goa. Onward from Magic, we will explore the beaches, bazaars, villages, and nature reserves closeby. This will be a magical trip!
Advancing One's Yoga Practice - Workshop Series
Eight limbs of yoga, mudras, mantras, mandalas, chanting, pranayama techniques, meditation techniques of various traditions, ayurveda, yoga nidra, philosophy, along with 1-3 advanced asanas dissected each week (+variations)
Best of DC Reader's Poll:
Thank you all for voting! I am so grateful to all of my students; it is all of you that make teaching so worthwhile. Thank you for the nomination.
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*** Daysha's recent international ngo endeavor:
SMART- Connection
"Uniting body and mind with breath to restore peace after trauma" www.smartconnectionprogram.com_______________________________________________________________
6 nights at Yoga Magic
3 delicious gourmet meals daily
All classes with Diane
Kriya Teachings
All Transportation
Local Guides
Does not include: Airfare, tips, optional excursions, alcoholic beverages.
I along with 11 other teachers from across DC, came together at the GW University Yard on June 18th in 2011 from 12-2 pm to lead a powerful practice of 108 sun salutations near the time of the summer solstice. This event was a call to seva (selfless service). All of the funds will go to Haitian-run relief organizations creating sustainable solutions in Haiti where, more than a year after a devastating earthquake, the country is still struggling to recover. Visit www.tohaitiwithlovedc.org to register and learn more about the event and the partner organizations your donations will support.
http://solyogatrips.com/trips/india-yoga-adventure
Daysha is the Director of Africa and Asia/ Director or NGO Partnerships for SolYoga. She is also a SolYoga Teacher and Guide.
***Daysha taught yoga for the Nicaragua trip in August, and it was an absolutely amazing experience!!!
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DC Global Yoga Mala Event ~
On September 18, 2011, the DC Global Mala will celebrated its fifth birthday! Join DC yogis and activists of all traditions in 108 Sun Salutations to raise our community vibration beyond the borders of mat, studio, and style.
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Advancing One's Yoga Practice - Yoga Workshop Series
Eight limbs of yoga, mudras, mantras, mandalas, chanting, pranayama techniques, meditation techniques of various traditions, ayurveda, yoga nidra, philosophy, along with 1-3 advanced asanas dissected each week (+variations)
Please feel free to contact me if interested at daysha19@gmail.com
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Washington Sports Clubs - Columbia Heights ~ Hip Hop Vinyasa Yoga
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Namaste & Hari Om,
Thank you for your interest in my training, spiritually-driven world experiences & path to teaching yoga and meditation. I completed my training at Yoga Vidya Gurukul, an affiliate of the Bihar School of Yoga, which complies fully with U.S. Yoga Alliance 200 hr RYT standards in Nasik, India in July/August of 2007. I also took a week long Ayurveda course at Yoga Vidya Gurukul. I spent nine months on my trip through India. My main goals were to complete my yoga training, a silent meditation course & attend the Dalai Lama's teachings. I cannot say for certain how many different teachers I explored and yoga classes I attended on my travels through India, from the deep south of Kerala & Tamil Nadu to Rajasthan, while living with a family in Mumbai for over a month, to Rishikesh & the Himalayas. I have since sent many students to study with my teachers at Yoga Vidya Gurukul, and returned many times to assist with trainings, helped in organizing the International Festival of Traditional Yoga, and led students on trips to experience ashram life.
A few years before my trip to India, I lived in Thailand, where I met one of my closest teachers, Dr. Chatree, a venerable Thai Buddhist Monk, who has opened four meditation centers in Thailand and others around the world. He is currently running centers in Russia & often speaks at UN conferences and at the Annual International Buddhism Conference. I took his meditation courses, studied with him personally in his monasteries and returned to his Abbot's monastery in Thailand to complete a 2 week silent monastic meditation retreat with the intent of being prepared to teach Vipassana and other forms of meditation while exploring the monastic lifestyle.
I correspond regularly with Dr. Anagha and Ashutosh Yardi (the Ayurvedic doctors whose course I completed in India), and have included them in my online portion of the yoga teacher training I run in the US, along with bringing students to learn from them at their clinic in India.
I completed the prior annual Spring Teachings with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, and it was here that I took my Bodhisattva vows. During the Spring Teachings, I also took nightly courses with Dorgi Damdul, the Dalai Lama's main English translator. I have returned for many shorter teachings with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, and have been privileged to take other trainings with him in Mumai and Washington, D.C.
Having moved to Washington, DC from Boston, I felt so lucky to be integrated into the DC yoga community. Just before my arrival in DC, I had been teaching yoga full-time in Boston & Cambridge, MA. While taking a graduate semester at Harvard University, I was able to teach yoga in the area though Spotfire/Tibco Corp, Hult International Business School, Centro Corp., Cambridge After School Program, Art & Soul Studio, Healthworks, & share my yogic knowledge with many wonderful private clients. In Boston, I also practiced with Patricia Walden, B.K.S. Iyengar's Master Teacher, for some months through her classes for yoga teachers. I later was able to study albeit briefly with another B.K.S. Iyengar Master Teacher, John Schumacher, near Washington, D.C.
Prior to Boston, I first expanded my yoga teaching in Idaho Falls, ID for approximately one year. I had returned to Idaho Falls to be with my family after my intensive training in India prior to attending graduate school. During this year teaching yoga, I held & instructed several yoga workshops: Exploring the Yoga Path (focused on the eight limbs of yoga) & the Joyful Lotus Yoga Workshop (focused on advancing one's asana & meditation practices). I also taught The India Workshop, which I was asked to put on by the Apple Athletic Club for all of their yoga instructors; this workshop was mainly focused on Sanskrit, mudras, bandhas & chanting. In Idaho, I taught classes for kids at the Apple Athletic Club (8-12 years old) while also teaching a Gentle Yoga for Healing class at Namaste Yoga Studio to a group of women aged 50 and older. I also taught classes mainly conducted in chairs for seniors at Lincoln Court Retirement Center. I enjoyed instructing an array of drop-in classes at the studio, three of which were held in the park during lunch time in the summer months.
While I was teaching in Idaho this first year, I managed Namaste Yoga Studio, many years prior to returning to Idaho after graduate school where I taught at the White House and dozens of other government centers in DC. I have since worked with USSA ski and snowboard teams and several Olympic athletes, while running a large 3-4 community wellness and studio non-profit locations, which I founded in 2013. The "co-op's" have been beacons of health and wellness in our communities, from Idaho Falls, to Driggs/Victor, to Jackson, WY. We have hosted large wellness festivals, been vendors at local health and wellness festivals, and hosted over 200 events in our 11+ years of operation. With 300+ teachers, contractors, wellness practitioners and assistants, having served over 20,000 individuals in our communities, the co-op's effects are large. We have trained over 70 yoga instructors in the region, and have a wide network of non-profit partners regionally and internationally. From women's empowerment retreats, to regional retreats, to taking students to India and the International Festival of Traditional Yoga, the co-op's widespread influence spans oceans. We are honored to have played a central role in the lives and wellness of our community, and are grateful beyond words eternally for all of the support we have been offered.
Namaste & with loving kindness,
Hari Om Tat Sat
Daysha Hampton
Credits:
Sidebar and in Studio Pictures Copyright Aaron Rosenblatt 2008
Outdoor Center & Sidebar Pictures Copyright Trevor Cox 2009
Top Meditation Photo & Best of D.C. Reader's Poll Photo Copyright Gracy Obuchowitcz 2011
Dual Paddleboard Yoga Headstand with Jessika Jenson 2014
Paddleboard Yoga and Outdoor Photos Copyright Natalie Jenson 2017
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