Paul Grilley | |
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| Born | (1958-11-11)November 11, 1958 (age 66) |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Yoga teacher |
| Known for | Yin Yoga |
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Paul Grilley (born November 11, 1958) is an American teacher ofmodern yoga known for helping, along withSarah Powers, to develop the slow-paced style,Yin Yoga. He and his wife Suzee Grilley train teachers in Yin Yoga.
Paul Grilley grew up inMartin City, Montana and is a graduate of Columbia Falls High School inColumbia Falls, Montana.[1] He began to practise yoga in 1979, starting to studyanatomy inMontana that same year. In 1982 he went on to study anatomy andkinesiology at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles. He gained hismaster's degree atSt John's College, Santa Fe in 2000. He was awarded an honorary Ph.D. by theCalifornia Institute for Human Science for his work on the relevance offascia, the sheets ofconnective tissue that hold the body together, to the practice of yoga asanas.[2][3]
Grilley studied the slow-paced, less aggressive form ofmodern yoga calledYin Yoga under its creator,Paulie Zink, and later assisted with its development.[4][5][6][7]
He taught yoga toSarah Powers, who devised the name "Yin Yoga" and went on to develop her own variant of it,Insight Yoga. Grilley had until then described the form as "Taoist Yoga".[8][9] He teaches Yin Yoga and trains yoga teachers with his wife Suzee Grilley. Their Yin Yoga curriculum covers thehuman anatomy of bones and muscles as well as sevenasanas that they describe asarchetypal,yoga andmeditation.[10] He serves as a master teacher at Pranamaya.[11] From his knowledge of anatomy, Grilley states that it is not possible for everyone to do all asanas, because of variations in the shapes of specific bones; for example, some people have a much longer neck on thefemur (thigh bone) than others, giving them, he argues, greater freedom of movement in thehip joint.[12]
Grilley has stated that Yin Yoga is not a franchise or hybrid like Aqua Yoga or Disco Yoga, and the use of the term is not restricted by copyright or trademark; instead, it is an additional way of practising.[13]
He has been interviewed and featured in magazines includingYoga Journal[13] andElephant Journal,[14] and in chapters of books such as Victoria Bailey's 2012Sharing Sadhana: Bailey describes him as both spiritual, as seen in his DVD onChakra Theory and Meditation, and knowledgeable about the anatomical basis of yoga.[15]
In 1984, Grilley marriedPatti Davis, daughter of US presidentRonald Reagan. They divorced in 1990.[16] He then married Suzee Grilley (born 1959); she is a Registered Yoga Teacher who has also taughtCapoeira andmodern dance.[17][18] They live inAshland, Oregon.[17]
'Yin yoga is joint rehabilitation,' says Paul Grilley, the godfather of the movement.
Paulie refers to his art as Yin and Yang yoga, but often uses the term 'Yin yoga' for short.
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