Meet Still Salty Escape Retreat Leader: Adam Friedman
By: Maria Muntaner
Curiosity, movement, health, consciousness and growth: five keywords that provide a foundation for Adam’s Friedman practice. Adam is a professional photographer, a breath-work facilitator, YTT 200 hrs certificated yoga teacher and a FRC Mobility instructor.
“Yoga became a part of my life through Dafna, my romantic partner”, he explains. She was already a yoga teacher and experienced practitioner when they met, so he started practicing with her step by step. It took him four years to really enjoy asana! And nowadays, for Adam, yoga is way more than asana: “it’s a practice of life”.
After some time Adam noticed how much mind freedom the practice gave him, as well as peacefulness in his life. That’s the reason why he allowed himself to go deeper into what felt good. As he explains, “it felt healthy and I wanted to learn more to be able to teach others and to teach myself”.
It was a year and a half ago when he started teaching, currently he focuses on yin yoga, mobility and what he calls conscious breathing, a combination of pranayama and breath-work. In his teachings he prioritizes having a balanced combination between science and spirit more than yoga and asana. Adam believes that from the many things that humans can focus on, this one is the one that is healing. He is positive when he says it healed him, so “why not stick to something that’s healing instead of something that takes away your consciousness?”.
What Adam loves most about the different teaching settings are retreats. For him, a retreat experience is like when you have a container that can be built, because the teachings are way more profound and you’re able to go deeper with the experience, as there are less distractions from life and the environment is just right for change, healing and growth. This is why he chose to do a retreat with us here at Still Salty Escape!
Savasana is his favorite asana. He describes it as the hardest one because it can be the most challenging one, like every limb of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Adam believes that every aspect is a practice of awareness. On the other side, the asana that he finds more resistant towards is Pincha Mayaurasana, also known as peacock feather pose, since he can do handstands easily but this one is, physically, too challenging for him.
To keep up with Adam follow him on Instagram, or visit his website.
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