Micah Springer

As with many yogis, Micah’s yoga practice began with her curiosity and ability for introspection and truth seeking. The practice of asana came much later. These same traits encouraged her travel to Africa, India, Polynesia and Indonesia, where she saw herself in others’ reflection; people with different language, spiritual and cultural conditioning.

Asana and meditation have provided a method for discovering the witness for Micah, and a desire to introduce this practice to others has led to the co-ownership of two yoga studios and a lifetime of teaching and learning. “When we are witnessing we are no longer bound by the drama of our thoughts and actions, but free to choose, and freedom is one of yoga’s basic tenets.”

Micah was certified to teach in 1998 and enjoys all styles of yoga and the discovery of both the physical anatomy, and metaphysical mystery of the human body. Her classes are thought provoking, inspirational, and often humorous, as Micah believes laughing at our conditioning, and the choices we make as a result of this conditioning, is essential healing for our collective consciousness. She is knowledgeable about many facets of a yoga practice including the ancient healing science of Ayurveda, and seeks opportunities to help her students heal holistically.

Micah co-facilitates Vital Yoga’s bi-yearly cleanses in the spring and fall. In an effort to expand cultural awareness, Micah has created a nomadic village in Northern Kenya, and leads yoga trips there twice a year.

Teaching Schedule

Vital Yoga Highlands

Wednesday 9-10:30am – Vital Roots

Saturday 8-9:30 – Vital Roots

Vital Yoga Golden

Thursday 7-8 – Vital Roots
Sunday 8-9:30 – Vital Roots

Vital Roots Description:

Vital Yoga’s Signature Class is a Hatha based series designed to address the body’s misalignment tendencies. The class provides alignment education, hip opening, spine strengthening and steadfast balancing poses, and quiet for mediation and relaxation. Practiced in a heated room, the series facilitates the body’s natural detoxification process. Suitable for beginning and advanced practitioners alike. Vital Roots is both therapeutic and cardiovascular, appealing to cross-training athletes, as well as people wanting an antidote to increasing sedentary lifestyles. Vital Roots was created by Micah and her sister Desi.

Micah is currently finished with the first draft of her memoir titled The Keepers of the Story, recounting her tales and love of the nomads of Northern Kenya, whom she befriended when she was twenty. She is still connected to a family who thinks of her as their daughter and who keep a home for her for when she visits each year.

Retreats

Join Micah on an adventurous, African safari where you will live as nomads in traditional homes, beside a riverbed where elephants roam in search of water. Expect to see Kenya’s wildlife, live with the Samburu, a semi-nomadic pastoral people, trek up river on a two night camel safari, dance and sing by the light of the moon, and reinvigorate your spirit of community in the global village.

Trip duration: 2 weeks
Approx. Cost $3,000, includes all food, lodging, transport, and safari park fees.
Next trip: July2-15th 2011

If interested in attending a retreat, please email Micah: micah@vitalyoga.org

Events

Vital Roots and Vinyasa Teacher Training – October 2012

Ayurvedic Spring Cleanse – Wednesdays 2/29-3/14/2012

Ayurvedic Fall Cleanse – Fall 2012 (dates to be determined)

Practiced for thousands of years, please join Micah in our Spring Cleanse for dosha balancing and education of food allergies.