Shane Scaglione was born into a family of karate teachers. He started karate at age five & started teaching at the age of 13. He trained for 20 years & received a third degree black belt. He taught karate in NYC, FL, Denver, & Los Angeles. His father is a world wide karate lineage holder & his mother is one of the highest ranking women in their karate system.
Shane started his yoga practice in 1998 in NYC. Shane moved to Boulder, CO in 2001 to attend the Allen Ginsberg & Anne Waldman co-founded Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the only Buddhist inspired accredited University in North America called Naropa University. He is grateful for having professors that were part of the Beat Generation as Anne Waldman, Steven Taylor, & Anselm Hollo were important mentors. Also during that period he lived at the Buddhist Intentional Community Marpa House where he was the weekly vegan chef for the house & had meditation instruction in mindfulness meditation practice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Marpa House has been the part time residency of the Dalai Lama, Pattabhi Jois, & the 16th Karmapa where Marpa House hosted all three of these master teachers while in Boulder teaching their respected lineages.
In 2003 while living in Los Angeles working a high stress corporate job Shane started a daily yoga practice & was introduced to Ashtanga yoga by Richard Freeman. He started teaching yoga in Portland in 2004. Shane moved back to Boulder in 2005 to study with Richard Freeman at the Yoga Workshop. He was a scholarship recipient to Freeman’s month long Teacher Intensive in 2008 & took part in four other of his other Intensives. Shane went on to assist & teach Mysore style, & led classes at the Yoga Workshop. In Richard Freeman's teaching Shane found not only a teacher of a profound physical yoga postural practice, but a spiritual teacher whose philosophical wisdom continues to carry over into Shane's day to day life.
Shane has assisted Richard Freeman.
Shane has lived over three years abroad in India over eight winters studying with master teachers. He has completed more than half a dozen 10-day silent meditation retreats in the lineage of S.N. Goenka along w/ serving a few 10-day retreats. He sat a 20-day Vipassana meditation in Gujarat, India in 2015 where he did his first 10-day meditation in 2008. Meditation he finds is a great compliment to his yoga practice along with his pranayama practice.
Shane studied in Mysore with Pattabhi Jois when he was 91 years old, R. Sharath, Sarsawati, & Manju for two months in 2006 that was an experience that he is forever grateful for.
From 2007 to 2014 Shane spent two to four months each Winter abroad in India w/ senior Ashtanga Vinyasa teacher Rolf Naujokat & his wife Marci in Goa. Rolf left his homeland in German to live an ascetic lifestyle in India for many decades. He taught tireless from students who would come near & far to practice with him around the world. He spent three to six months a year over the course of 25 years with co-founder K. Pattabhi Jois of the Ashtanga Vinyasa tradition in Mysore, India. Over this time he spent over a year of daily Mysore style practice w/ Rolf & Marci who Shane considers his primary teachers. Rolf taught Shane classical Mysore style Ashtanga yoga eventually he learned the Primary series & the beginning of Intermediate series under the tutelage of them.
Besides his primary Mysore style teachers he also has learned much from some notable yoga instructors in the Ashtanga Tradition including: a month long Immersion with Iain Grysak in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, a month Mysore course with Louise Ellis in Rishikesh, workshops with Russell Case & Sally Evans in Oxford, England, Mysore classes in NYC w/ Guy Donahaye & Eddie Stern at their respected shalas, workshops w/ Ken the Rolfer, Mysore style w/ Casey Palmer at Near East Yoga in Portland, OR, Mysore style w/ Tim Feldmann at Miami Life Center & all the teachers at the Yoga Workshop in Boulder, CO notably Mary Taylor, Ashlee Dunn, Dan Michael, Billy Goldman, & Jen Peters.
Over many years he has spent much time in North India at an ashram with sadhus studying yoga, Tantra, Vedanta, and Ayurveda. He is grateful to be able to attend a Kumbha Mela in Hardiwar for two weeks while residing at an ashram.
Shane has taught both private & group classes abroad in India, Istanbul, Israel, & London. While he is grateful for all his travel experience in India, Asia, Europe, the UK, & the Middle East. He last lived nearly three years in Oakland where he taught yoga in the SF Bay Area including San Francisco, Oakland, & Berkeley to a large following of students. He loved the diversity & pace of big city living yet relocated back to Florida to be near his family after being away for many years.
He taught both Mysore & led classes in FL for nearly a year before relocating back to the Bay Area in August 2019 to live in San Francisco. He is happy to be living in the City sharing his knowledge.
For a description of what Mysore style is click on the "About" link. His led style class is a unique mix of combining Mysore style emphasis in a led class session tailoring the practice to the individual while keeping the integrity of the Ashtanga system as working from the inside out w/ the internal form or "feeling" of the posture w/ an emphasis on the breath that allows the practitioner to work at their own pace at the experiential level whether beginner or advanced in the external form of the posture.
Shane started his yoga practice in 1998 in NYC. Shane moved to Boulder, CO in 2001 to attend the Allen Ginsberg & Anne Waldman co-founded Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the only Buddhist inspired accredited University in North America called Naropa University. He is grateful for having professors that were part of the Beat Generation as Anne Waldman, Steven Taylor, & Anselm Hollo were important mentors. Also during that period he lived at the Buddhist Intentional Community Marpa House where he was the weekly vegan chef for the house & had meditation instruction in mindfulness meditation practice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Marpa House has been the part time residency of the Dalai Lama, Pattabhi Jois, & the 16th Karmapa where Marpa House hosted all three of these master teachers while in Boulder teaching their respected lineages.
In 2003 while living in Los Angeles working a high stress corporate job Shane started a daily yoga practice & was introduced to Ashtanga yoga by Richard Freeman. He started teaching yoga in Portland in 2004. Shane moved back to Boulder in 2005 to study with Richard Freeman at the Yoga Workshop. He was a scholarship recipient to Freeman’s month long Teacher Intensive in 2008 & took part in four other of his other Intensives. Shane went on to assist & teach Mysore style, & led classes at the Yoga Workshop. In Richard Freeman's teaching Shane found not only a teacher of a profound physical yoga postural practice, but a spiritual teacher whose philosophical wisdom continues to carry over into Shane's day to day life.
Shane has assisted Richard Freeman.
Shane has lived over three years abroad in India over eight winters studying with master teachers. He has completed more than half a dozen 10-day silent meditation retreats in the lineage of S.N. Goenka along w/ serving a few 10-day retreats. He sat a 20-day Vipassana meditation in Gujarat, India in 2015 where he did his first 10-day meditation in 2008. Meditation he finds is a great compliment to his yoga practice along with his pranayama practice.
Shane studied in Mysore with Pattabhi Jois when he was 91 years old, R. Sharath, Sarsawati, & Manju for two months in 2006 that was an experience that he is forever grateful for.
From 2007 to 2014 Shane spent two to four months each Winter abroad in India w/ senior Ashtanga Vinyasa teacher Rolf Naujokat & his wife Marci in Goa. Rolf left his homeland in German to live an ascetic lifestyle in India for many decades. He taught tireless from students who would come near & far to practice with him around the world. He spent three to six months a year over the course of 25 years with co-founder K. Pattabhi Jois of the Ashtanga Vinyasa tradition in Mysore, India. Over this time he spent over a year of daily Mysore style practice w/ Rolf & Marci who Shane considers his primary teachers. Rolf taught Shane classical Mysore style Ashtanga yoga eventually he learned the Primary series & the beginning of Intermediate series under the tutelage of them.
Besides his primary Mysore style teachers he also has learned much from some notable yoga instructors in the Ashtanga Tradition including: a month long Immersion with Iain Grysak in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, a month Mysore course with Louise Ellis in Rishikesh, workshops with Russell Case & Sally Evans in Oxford, England, Mysore classes in NYC w/ Guy Donahaye & Eddie Stern at their respected shalas, workshops w/ Ken the Rolfer, Mysore style w/ Casey Palmer at Near East Yoga in Portland, OR, Mysore style w/ Tim Feldmann at Miami Life Center & all the teachers at the Yoga Workshop in Boulder, CO notably Mary Taylor, Ashlee Dunn, Dan Michael, Billy Goldman, & Jen Peters.
Over many years he has spent much time in North India at an ashram with sadhus studying yoga, Tantra, Vedanta, and Ayurveda. He is grateful to be able to attend a Kumbha Mela in Hardiwar for two weeks while residing at an ashram.
Shane has taught both private & group classes abroad in India, Istanbul, Israel, & London. While he is grateful for all his travel experience in India, Asia, Europe, the UK, & the Middle East. He last lived nearly three years in Oakland where he taught yoga in the SF Bay Area including San Francisco, Oakland, & Berkeley to a large following of students. He loved the diversity & pace of big city living yet relocated back to Florida to be near his family after being away for many years.
He taught both Mysore & led classes in FL for nearly a year before relocating back to the Bay Area in August 2019 to live in San Francisco. He is happy to be living in the City sharing his knowledge.
For a description of what Mysore style is click on the "About" link. His led style class is a unique mix of combining Mysore style emphasis in a led class session tailoring the practice to the individual while keeping the integrity of the Ashtanga system as working from the inside out w/ the internal form or "feeling" of the posture w/ an emphasis on the breath that allows the practitioner to work at their own pace at the experiential level whether beginner or advanced in the external form of the posture.
