Bex's Story



Rebecca Slovin Urban, "Bex", is a certified teacher of Pilates and Yoga.  Her approach focuses on developing an awareness of the breath as an essential connection between the mind, body and movement.  Her playful style emphasizes finding center, and balancing the body from the inside out.  She leads with enthusiasm, warmth, and a gentle sense of humor.  Bex lives in Marin with her family and teaches in the Bay Area.  (see schedule)

She began studying Yoga in 1994 and has taught yoga since 2000.  After taking a pilates mat class in 1998, she was hooked and started teaching in 2001.  When Bex discovered REIKI and felt the healing light, she practiced the modality and then completed all levels of the Reiki training and mastership. 


Bex first formal Yoga training was in the Ashtanga Vinyasa Flow system.  She has studied with many teachers.  Bex spent an intense month, September 2001, in New York City practicing with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois.  Her teaching is strongly influenced by Erich Schiffmann and Anusara yoga. 

 

 
Bex became aware of many spiritual teachers and guides at a young age.  Her father introduced her to Meditation at 4.  She visited the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, at 6.  This was her first experience meditating, she went so deep, she fell asleep on her cushion.  In 1983, Ram Dass came to her family's home to meet with a group of psychologists about a book he was writing.  At 12, Bex met the Dalai Lama at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.  

In 2004, with the very early arrival of her first son, she recommitted to a daily practice of yoga off the mat, motherhood.  Bex continues to instruct and be the mother of 2 boys and a girl, who teach her daily about
presence, love, and patience.

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