Teacher Feature: Farah Naz Gokturk

Farah Naz has been teaching yoga since 2009.   As a young child born and raised in a Turkish-Armenian immigrant family in New York City, her personal experience was deeply inspired and defined by exploring balance and the place “the world is too full to talk about.  Ideas, language, even the phrase each other, Doesn’t make any sense.” (Rumi). The city’s rhythm was a rich and omnipresent one. If untended, it could easily overshadow one’s own.  She was eager to cultivate an ability to tap into her inner guidance system while meeting life’s changes, shifts, and turns with compassion, strength, sensitivity and grace.  It was along this journey that she discovered yoga, a discipline and practice that provided the spirituality, creativity, movement, and philosophy for life-long study in action.

Her classes integrate elements of meditation, yoga asana, and dynamic movement with an additional focus exploring personal breath and rhythm patterns, self-massage, music, readings and poetry.  Farah is passionate about her family & motherhood, nature, homemaking, urban homesteading, slow-living and environmental sustainability.  She is a Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT-200, YACEP), Health Coach, and American Red Cross Water Safety Instructor & Lifeguard.