Kerry Porter Wills

Asana as Meditation

Kerry is certified in Dharma Yoga (Austin, TX), a style that emphasizes minfulness. She has also studied Ashtanga, Iyengar and Yin Yoga, as well as being currently enrolled in Leslie Kaminoff's online Yoga Anatomy Course. She studies the Yoga Sutras online with AG Mohan.

Kerry's teaching style stresses breath support and functional alignment, which allows each student to feel the internal forms of poses. Awareness in each posture tends to encourage more spacious movement and breath patterns. From this perspective, asana is a tool that facilitates increasing awareness of oneself.

She draws inspiration from Yogic and Buddhist philosophy, yet resonates most directly with the sciences of Neuroscience, Psychology and Evolutionary Theory (particulary the work of Steven Pinker, Oliver Sacks and Richard Dawkins). She teaches a naturalistic approach to this ancient practice.

Check out our interview with Kerry in our Teacher Feature April 2010. Check out her website at kerrywillsyoga.com.