Max A

Playing hockey for nearly my entire life up until high school, I was recruited to play at Milton Academy in the graduating class of 2021. During my time at Milton, I transitioned from competitive sports into a yoga practice. COVID-19 allowed for my personal practice to expand during lockdowns and at-home schooling. After graduating from Milton in 2021, I invested time between high school and college into developing my yoga practice and my work with children and adolescents. During these two years after graduation, I worked with elementary and high school students within the Dartmouth public school system. In tandem, I continued diving deeply into the theory, history, and philosophy of yoga, receiving my 200hr yoga teacher training (YTT) as well as Energy for Life Coaching certifications from the Sva Ha Academy in New Bedford / Fairhaven, MA. During this developmental time, I discovered Naropa University, where Eastern wisdom and Western scholarship are integrated into a contemplative and holistic education. After an entrepreneurial summer in Orleans, MA during the summer of 2023, I moved to Boulder, CO. With an academic intention to study yoga in Naropa’s 1,000hr YTT, I intended to also experientially relate to myself and others within a mindful community on the path of presence. During my first semester at Naropa, with my yogic studies unfolding under the guidance of Nataraja Kallio, I met Dr. Travis Cox who introduced me to the deep ecology movement. Along with this pivotal experience studying ecopsychology and deep ecology, I discovered the Islamic mystical tradition of Sufism through a week-long intensive with Netanel Miles-Yépez. During my second semester, studying under Dr. Stephanie Yuhas in socially engaged spiritual activism, I worked closely with Alaya preschool and a personal mentorship in Waldorf education. With much gratitude for the experience, I transitioned into a summer stewardship program in 2024 at the Lama Foundation: a sustainable spiritual community and educational center dedicated to the awakening of consciousness, spiritual practice with respect for all traditions, service and stewardship of the land. During the program, I participated in a Theravada Buddhist ten-day silent retreat. I felt the path of presence was realized. After this experience on retreat with Bhante Rahula, I felt compelled to study this path more deeply. I entered into a two-month monastic training experience in Malaysia during the winter of 2024-2025. I have just recently returned home to Massachusetts. I am now committed to integrating all these experiences and skills into my offerings and services of yoga and child care, where I share my personal perspective through the disciplines I’ve developed. The path has been a joyous journey, and in many ways I feel I’m just beginning!

Sva Ha in Sanskrit the gift of the heart. Through my yoga and child care services, I am offering my heart.

This offering is an invitation: a way to reawaken into peace, joy, compassion, and love as well as a journey of remembrance to rediscover your true nature and infinite capacities. Infusing bioscalar activation and restorative yoga, I serve the wisdom of the heart and connect to the unified field. A peak into the class: Begin in a comfortable posture as you journey into connection with your radiant center. Find your breath and feel your heartbeat in resonance with the pulse of the drum. Using wise discernment, allow yourself to be guided into an expansive state, where you may encounter deep peace, dreams, intentions, guides, visions, and the healing potential all within you. Then gently integrate your discoveries, by embodying restorative movements and postures. Finally, conclude in gratitude. Before packing up and heading out, note any transformations or insights mentally or in your journal.

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