Clayton horton
San Francisco yoga teacher Clayton Horton’s Greenpath Studio on Lombard Street has been a showcase of what it means to maintain a sustainable and joyful practice since it opened in 2001. Offering
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Since beginning his own study and practice of Ashtanga, Clayton has traveled to India five times to practice at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute at the feet of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. In 2003 he received the blessing of becoming an Authorized Ashtanga Teacher from Jois. Clayton recently returned from a teaching tour of Asia with stops in the Philippines, Tokyo and Hong Kong. He also participates in an annual yoga conference in Brazil. “Seeing different cultures and communicating without words has taught me how to be with people.”
“It’s been a long road from a beginning teacher to who I am now,” he continued. “I still view myself as a young teacher, but I have had several years of getting my ego and personality out the way and standing in the fire to come into more of a place of presence and compassion.”
The result is a committed teaching schedule: hosting weekly kirtan chanting along with David Lurey, the assistant director of Greenpath; playing an instrumental role in launching the Green Yoga Association; and now spearheading “Teenpath Yoga” to help direct students to an after-school yoga program through scholarship and sponsors.
Despite his busy global and Bay Area teaching schedule, Clayton hasn’t forgotten his Midwestern roots. On his 40th birthday, he traveled back to his hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma to lead a class, 20 years after he first came to the Bay Area.
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