Jarvis Chen
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About Jarvis Chen
Certified Iyengar Yoga teacher Jarvis Chen challenges his students to look beyond the superficial workings of the mind and into the intelligence of the body. "When I started yoga I was a very rational, scientific-minded person," says the Harvard scientist and yoga teacher. "But yoga helped me discover my bhakti qualities—compassion, love, and a connectedness to something bigger."
Chen is a social epidemiologist who conducts research at Harvard School of Public Health and brings his yoga to work every day. "I study health disparities in poor and disadvantaged communities, and my yoga helps me approach the subject with compassion. Even if you haven't lived in poverty, you can understand the want and fear that comes with deprivation because, as the Yoga Sutra teaches, fear is universal."
In the yoga room, Chen, whose primary teacher is Patricia Walden, loves working with beginners. He specifically enjoys the process of showing students how going from gross alignment instructions to subtle instructions brings greater fullness to the breath and focuses the mind. "The transformation from disintegration to integration happens over time, but even beginners can get a taste of it."
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