Big Bridge Over Water — Rocket Yoga Academy

Big Bridge Over Water
So the title of this post is a reference to the saying “water under the bridge”, but when I said it to a friend, it came out, “a big bridge over water”. My deep feeling is that life is about letting go of the past to make way for the future. A BIG bridge over water and it also reminds me of San Francisco where all this got started.. Well kind of;-)

It’s been 12 years since Larry took his Maha Samdahi into the big cosmic energy in the universe. Every year I, as Rocket Girl, write something during this time that Larry passed and in addition to the “Larry’s last breath” posts, I have written 100’s of blog posts about the rocket, Larry, Ashtanga yoga and the connections between different students and cities. All I can say is it's been a wild rocket ride.

Since Larry has passed I’ve been growing my rocket program at my studio Yoga ah as well as have offered rocket trainings all around the world, including three trainings in England as welll as workshops and classes in Ireland, two rocket trainings in Costa Rica, one in Nicaragua as well as training in Canada and the US.

The rocket has been a gift in my life for sure but it's more than the rocket, it is also the teachings of ashtanga yoga that I have been so fortunate to have studied alongside building my rocket practice. I have definitely moved away from practicing Primary series and have moved more towards practicing mini rocket routines called “Bottle Rockets”.

Bottle Rockets are based in teaching and practicing this stuff for 23 years, one hour classes and practices work for most people, working on consistency over intensity. While I still teach “classical rocket 1,2 and 3” I find most of my day to day classes are “Bottle Rocket Mixed Levels”, so what exactly am I teaching!! Hahaah , well I do what works. Each Bottle Rocket has two to three opportunities for dolphin or elbow stand as well as “rocket splits”, one set of “rocket abs” and at the end one handstand.

I am working on laying out exactly what a “Rocket Girl Yoga Training” or “ Yoga ah” is as I too have continued to change and adapt my teaching and practice to meet the needs of the students.

My latest endeavor is taking the rocket on the road and combining traveling to Rome and Florence with instructing Bottle Rocket at San Lorenzo, Yoga Lab in Rome and possibly giving lectures or classes at Moodra in Florence. This is a good time to pave the way for the future but also a time to be present with all the energy around us.

Amber Jean-Marie practicing handstands in Ireland

I was in Ireland this past September and the trips are connected and that's for another blog!

The main thing is that I am continuing to share my passion and trust in yoga. “That's Yoga!” That's yoga when you are in a flow and you end up in places you could only dream of, that's yoga when you have amazing connections along the way, that's yoga!

So here we go! I look forward to sharing more soon, in the meanwhile enjoy some of the photos I added from my travels to Ireland this past year as well as me teaching in Cincinnati. Once a rocket girl always a rocket girl, it's my ride or die! Amber Jean xx