Yoga with Ruth Fisk, Certified Iyengar Teacher of 25 Years

About Ruth Fisk
 

Ruth Fisk founded the first yoga center in the greater Lansing area-Center for Yoga, 13 years ago. A visionary leader, and owner of the CFY, Ruth Fisk began studying yoga in 1980, and has been teaching for 27 years now. She remains spirited and passionate in her delivery of this ancient art and science, and is dedicated to the teaching of yoga in traditional and kind way with abundant humor and self-reflection. Ruth is the only Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher in the area who is authorized to teach BKS Iyengar's method. Her teaching of yoga and the continual expansion the Center for Yoga over the years has been instrumental to the growth of the yoga community of teachers and students in Mid-Michigan over the last 13 years. Generous by nature, Ruth provides an environment at the Center that is safe and caring with the intention to help students find the right place, right teacher to grow and heal through yoga.

Everyone comes to yoga for their own reasons, Ruth's was a dance injury. Little did she know it would turn out to be a life altering journey of self-discovery and a career filled with giving and heart centered work. For 30 years now she has practiced yoga and studied the art of teaching. Along with being the only teacher Certified in the tradition of BKS Iyengar she is also an E-RYT 500 with Yoga Alliance and the founder of the KhagayaSchool of Yoga for teacher training.

Ruth moved to Michigan 17 years ago where she had been teaching at her first yoga center she opened; Yoga Center Santa Cruz. It too was the first yoga center in that area! Then after moving to East Lansing she implemented and began developing the yoga program at the Michigan Athletic Club and taught there for many years. Finally in 1997, she opened The Center for Yoga in East Lansing, Michigan. Her original reason for opening the center grew out of a desire to teach in an environment that supported the broad nature of yoga and it has since grown to fulfill one of her greatest dreams-which is to provide a space for teachers and students to uphold the traditions of yoga and fully bring them into their lives as a profession and a lifestyle. One of Ruth's greatest joys in teaching is to observe that the practice of yoga has touched and inspired a person to resolve issues, on many levels, as well as make a commitment to their health and life's purpose.

At Center for Yoga we embody the breadth of yoga traditions to support people in their movement toward wholeness. We are unique among yoga centers for offering such a wide variety of styles in yoga. It is just this feature that allows us to meet the broad range of needs our students and clients have by helping them find the style of yoga class that is best for them.

To quote my teacher BKS Iyengar... “As honey is sweet from any part of the honeycomb, so is yoga.  It enables every part of the human system to become attuned to its essence, the conscious seer within.  Yoga alone enables the practitioner to perceive and experience the world within and around themselves, and to touch the divine joy of all creation, and then to share that nectar of divine wealth and happiness with their fellow beings.”