Barn Yoga

Kaiut Yoga Online and in Person Classes in Boulder

With Gratitude to Pam

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Our dear teacher Pam Novotny is spreading her wings and flying northward to Fort Collins!

From her earliest days as a new student at the barn, througout her teacher training, and in her time as part of Barn Yoga teaching team, it has been a pleasure and a privilege to have Pam as a member of our community.  We wish her great success in her exciting new venture and look forward to hearing her updates.

Pam’s farewell message:

It was inevitable this day would come. Now that it’s here, I have very mixed feelings. Still, it is time for me to say farewell to my teaching days at the beautiful Barn Yoga community.

As many of you know, my husband and I moved to Fort Collins a year and a half ago, and I found there was no Kaiut Yoga in Fort Collins! No community for me to jump into, no studio where I could attend class. What was I to do?

Well, I’ve started my own yoga studio. It’s called Kind Yoga NoCo, and I offer Kaiut Yoga classes to northern Colorado.I’m happy to say that each person who has tried a class has stayed, and my student base is slowly growing. 

If you’re going to be in Fort Collins, come to a class! Text me to register. (No Punchpass yet.) If you have friends in Fort Collins or the surrounding towns (Loveland, Timnath, Windsor, Severance, etc.) please let them know I’m here!

I’m grateful to Wendy for giving me the opportunity to be a part of the wonderful Barn Yoga teaching team. I feel I am friends with many of you, and I’ll miss you! I hope to attend class online, but maybe not as often as before.

Please reach out to me if you wish: [email protected] or 720-217-3910.

Namaste,

Pam

Meet Our Teacher – Pam Novotny

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Pam had already been practicing Kaiut Yoga when she ran into Barn Yoga student Barbralu Cohen who recommended she try some classes at the barn. Pam was just at the point where her Kaiut Yoga practice was helping her ankle improve dramatically after many surgeries and many months off her feet.  Seeking even more of the calm that  her yoga practice was bringing to her nervous system and more of the healing it was bringing to her body, she was increasing the number of classes she took each week.

Someone told me once that it’s easy to come to crave Kaiut Yoga, and that’s what was happening to me.

But something was still missing.

I wanted to practice closer to the source, closer to Francisco Kaiut’s influence, to really understand what made the practice work.

When she came to the barn, Pam found a community that filled that need.  When Francisco came to Colorado that year,  she signed up for his teacher training, thinking that it would only be an opportunity to continue to deepen her understanding.  By the time she finished 100 hours of training, Barn Yoga’s founding teacher Wendy asked her to consider teaching at the barn in the future.  A light bulb went off for Pam.

I’d always taught the things I loved.  I’m a writer with a long career writing books, and writing for newspapers and magazines.  For decades I’ve taught magazine writing, non-fiction book proposals and the writing of those books, journalism and reporting.  Now I’ve become a developmental editor, helping writers more clearly visualize and write what they desire.  And loving language as I do, I also teach English to immigrants through Intercambio, a fine Boulder organization.  Why wouldn’t I teach Kaiut Yoga?  

Pam has lived in Boulder with her family for more than 30 years.  She and her husband have five grown children, two of whom live with their families in Fort Collins.  Pam and her husband are in the process of moving there to be closer to kids and grandkids, and she is especially happy to be able to continue to teach Kaiut Yoga on Zoom.  If we are ever able to meet in person again, she looks forward to bringing Kaiut Yoga to Fort Collins — where there is not yet a single Kaiut Yoga class!