Private Session
60 min
From$120.00
Cory discovered yoga shortly after 9/11, while living in NYC —initially through a soft introduction at the Integral Hatha Yoga Institute in the West Village and then with the mind-blowing, tapas-inducing experience of Jivamukti Yoga. Since that time, pretty much everything about the way he views the world has been challenged, bringing with it transformation from a goal-oriented, judgmental, high-tempered, career-driven person to the more even-minded, compassionate person he humbly aspires to be today.
Cory began teaching yoga at Flow Yoga Center in Washington, DC, in 2008 after completing teacher training at Flow in 2007 and Jivamukti in 2008. In the years that followed, his commitment to practice and teaching continually deepened, and in December 2015, he resigned from an international food policy position at the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to pursue yoga study, practice and teaching full-time. He lives in East Nashville with his husband Richard and their rescue dogs Buddy, Bella & Puja.
Cory’s own practice is an integration of Tibetan Buddhism (of the Kagyu-Nyingma lineage of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche) and Ashtanga Yoga. His main teachers are Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche and his brother Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche — both sons of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche — along with Khenpo Tokpa Tulku and Any Gyan Tara (of Nagi Gompa Nunnery) all in Nepal. His study and practice of Ashtanga Yoga has been supported by Tim Feldmann, Jen René, Michael Joel Hall, Maggie Lively, Tim Miller and David Garrigues. He completed Tim Miller’s 2nd Series TT in 2016, and David Garrigues’ 2nd Series Intensive and 10-day Teacher’s Intensive in 2017 followed by 2 years of apprenticeship. David Life, Sharon Gannon, Ruth Lauer Manenti, Andrea Boyd, Jill Abelson and Alanna Kaivalya of Jivamukti Yoga were his early teachers and mentors and he attributes much of his understanding of yoga to them. Cory practices and teaches the Primary (Yoga Chikitsa) and Intermediate (Nadi Shodana) Series of Ashtanga Yoga.
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Nashville, Davidson County, TN, United States
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