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Let each breath be a reminder that you are still here, you are still alive, and you are still capable of continuing to do amazing things with this life.

Adam Whiting is a full-time traveling yoga teacher (E-RYT 200) based in Charlotte, North Carolina where he teaches packed classes and sold-out workshops in studios throughout the city and beyond. Adam credits his 10-year personal yoga and meditation practice with alleviating the debilitating symptoms of his post-9/11 PTSD and anxiety disorder. His hope is to share this transformational practice with as many students as possible. As a voracious student of yogic theory and practice, Adam has studied and practiced with Rod Stryker, Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, Tiffany Cruikshank, Dice Iida-Klein, Briohny Smyth and Baron Baptiste. The resulting culmination of his diverse yoga study is a teaching style that artfully blends anatomical precision with powerful, energetic emotion and yogic tradition. In 2013, Adam traveled to India with Yogarupa Rod Stryker to witness and participate in the world’s largest religious pilgrimage, the Kumbha Mela. While there, he was initiated into Styker’s Para Yoga lineage and is honored to call Yogarupa his teacher. Adam loves the playfulness and creative freedom found in crafting an intelligently sequenced vinyasa flow class. When he’s not leading a meditation, you can find him cracking jokes and calling poses to the soundtrack of an upbeat, energetic playlist in his challenging but empowering vinyasa flow classes. Adam is also partial to breaking down and inverting the flow with a focus on advanced arm balances and inversions. Watch a video of Arm Balances and Inversions with Adam Whiting to see why he is so passionate about practicing and teaching these poses. Off the mat, Adam teaches music and works with Playing for Others, a non-profit organization that empowers teens through the arts. He is also an ambassador at lululemon Southpark and the founder of Big Horizon Yoga where he curates creative outdoor yoga experiences to raise money for charitable causes.

Workshops & Events

Big Horizon Yoga joined forces with Discovery Place in Charlotte to bring an all-‐levels vinyasa class inside of the Van Gogh Alive exhibit. The event was so successful that after selling out the first evening, an encore event was scheduled. Both events sold out and raised enough money to bring in 120 homeless children into the Discovery Place to ignite their imagination and offer them hope for the future.

Vinyasa & Van Gogh | Charlotte, NC

“1: Find your dharma. 2: Follow it with your whole heart. 3: Quit obsessing over the outcome - The words of the Gita AND Van Gogh BUT delivered by an amazingly well executed sequence and landing by Adam Whiting. Thank you for sharing it - I think you have found your dharma, Adam!” – Amy Morris

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Off-‐Center brings asymmetrical asana to a whole new level. We learn to find balance and calm in any situation as we flip and flow our way through some not-‐so-‐familiar poses. We move through standard inversions and arm-‐balance, and then learn how to add asymmetry to continually challenge ourselves while keeping a light heart and a playful spirit.

Off Center | Charlottesville, VA

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Advancing Your Inverted Flow takes inversion workshops to the next level. After reaffirming the foundations of a safe and powerful inverted practice, we investigate the endless possibilities of integrating those inversions into a seamless flow.

Advancing Your Inverted Flow| Charlotte, NC

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Training

200 Hour Teacher Training with Johnna Smith | April 2011

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200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training with focus on: Ashtanga Yoga Power VInyasa Yoga Tantra Yoga Anatomy Sequencing Assisting Meditation Pranayama

Para Yoga & Sri Vidya Tantra Immersion | February 2013

Pilgrimage to India with: Yogarupa Rod Stryker: Founder of Para Yoga Pandit Rajmani Tigunait: Himalayan Institute Rolf Slovik: Himalayan Institute Allahabad, India: Witnessing and Partaking in the Kumbha Mela Studying the history of Tantra Yoga Meditation and Hatha Yoga Practice Khajuraho, India: Consecration of Tantric Shrine Meditation and Hatha Yoga Practice Touring and Study of Holy Sites

Additional Workshops and Trainings with:

Baron Baptiste Tiffany Cruikshank Dice Iida-‐Klein Briohny Smyth Kathryn Budig Jason Crandell Sarah Faircloth

Lead Instructor at Y2 Yoga Position Responsibilities: Create and Maintain a Successful and Seamless Class Schedule Provide Coaching and Feedback to Studio Teachers Create Class Templates, Titles and Guidelines Bi-‐Annual Meetings with Studio Teachers Analysis of Class and Studio Attendance Field and Respond to Client Feedback

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