David was in school studying comparative religion when he began seeking out practices and dogmas that would bring him ecstatic experiences. “Yoga was an obvious choice, plus there was a studio close to campus,” he says with a wink and a smile. After trying several different styles of yoga, the physicality and structure of Ashtanga drew him in, and it was the mysore-style of one-on-one teaching through self-directed practice that ultimately motivated him to become a teacher himself.
David found that one of the best things about self-directed practice for him was the silence. “I love the quiet,” David explains. “It lets me hear the chatter in my own head, and has helped me to find a perspective that is unmoved by each day’s ups and downs.”
David noticed that in Toronto, there wasn’t really a venue to teach traditional Ashtanga Yoga. The traditional mysore-style of teaching Ashtanga was a commercial risk that many studios were unable to make, so David decided to create his own venue and opened the Ashtanga Yoga Centre of Toronto.
