About Detroit Yoga
Detroit Yoga was founded with an intention of making yoga accessible and understandable to all. In 2003, Jason Schramm began to offer Detroit natives a brand of hatha yoga born from its historical context of creating balance and health within the individual and combined with his own distinctive and uncomplicated method of teaching and practicing. A class at Detroit Yoga is a unique experience derived from a rather uncommon method; one that maintains relevance to the present tense and the socio-political framework that it is characteristic of, while simultaneously demonstrating yoga’s ancient principles in an accurate and uncontrived manner. It is a system that incorporates the new with the old, building on and perpetuating without ignoring or obliterating the tried and true legacy that yoga remains- a legacy replete with intuitive intelligence and profound understanding of human nature and that needn’t be replaced- it is an invaluable and timeless tool for personal growth and change.
Detroit Yoga Founder Jason Schramm in Side Mountain Posture
With a continued increase in the range of amenities that modern culture makes available for one to see, experience and own, one would think that the opportunity for personal development and change would be a simply found and executed task. This is simply not the case. While the choices appear to be complex, vast and increasing at warp speed, upon closer inspection, it becomes obvious that most of them point in the same direction- there aren’t really more choices, just more distractions.
The establishment of Detroit Yoga was the establishment of a real option. Offering people an alternative to the deadening cycle of consumption without cause, offering people the opportunity to develop mindfulness of self and other and consciousness of the rote patterns that have become the modus operandi of our culture. Yoga can ultimately facilitate an individual’s ability to discern these useless and at times harmful behavioral patterns, and can help them to instead choose more enlivening and beneficial modes of thought and action.
To Detroit Yoga, Jason has brought his impassioned commitment to the practice and principles that have first altered his own thinking and actions, and for which others, he now seeks to do the same.
About detroityoga.com
“My yoga practice began with an instructional video and my living room floor. It was 10:30 at night, right after my long drive home from an even longer day at work. I loved it instantly and continued to practice with this video until the gross movements, postures, breathing technique and sequences were committed to memory and I could then practice without the TV. Even as a novice I desired to teach and share what I was learning with friends, family and, quite frankly, anyone who would listen.Within a year of that first yoga experience, I decided to leave my job and instead teach yoga. With that intention in mind, I set out to master the postures that I had been practicing in my living room, basement, garage, really anywhere I could lay out a mat, so that I could properly teach anyone and everyone. I began practicing more and more with as many teachers as I could find, sometimes three or four different teachers a day. I would practice over and over, new postures and new sequencing as well as the ones with which I had begun, different perspectives and different approaches with every teacher I encountered as I found myself on my mat three or four hours a day for several years...
What I’m getting at with this biographical sketch, is that with detroityoga.com and its online classes, I am bringing the practice of yoga back to where I started, I’m bringing it home- hoping detroityoga.com can be for others what that first yoga video was for me. This time, however, while incorporating the invaluable information that I have acquired from the many and varied resources that I later encountered, the result is more than an instructional video, it is rather a highly refined tool and reference base for people to thoroughly learn from as they begin to practice yoga on their own living room floors.”
Jason Schramm
Founder of DETROIT YOGA and DETROITYOGA.COM