OM Teaching Staff
Brian in Utthita Trikonasana Brian and friend from Shambhala International
BRIAN LIEM
Brian Liem's basic interests are connecting the practices of mindfulness and kindness within the worldly issues of human rights and relationships through his living and work. Brian has been a meditator and a devoted yoga practitioner for more than fifteen years.
Brian is a senior teacher at OM yoga, teaches numerous weekly classes at OM and worked as OM's Director of Programming from 2001 to 2008. Brian's certifications include: OM yoga's 200-hour teacher training, Yoga Alliance, Relax & Renew and the Shambhala Buddhist meditation program.
Locally, Brian co-taught and led yoga and meditation at the Fire Island Retreat Experience, teaches a fifth year in 2008 at Omega Institute's Being Fearless conference, has taught three Tricycle Magazine's Change Your Mind Day and represented OM in 2004 at the Gay Spirit Culture Project’s conference at the Garrison Institute; a bringing together of over a hundred national and international gay spiritual leaders. Recently he and other OM senior teachers accompanied Cyndi Lee teaching workshops as part of 2007's Fit Yoga Conference.
He recently taught a week-long OM retreat in Ilha Grande, Brazil, has also co-taught OM yoga retreats in Utah and Costa Rica and assisted Cyndi Lee and David Nichtern at many locales including London, the Omega Institute and Kripalu. Upcoming he teaches the Heart of OM, an OM yoga Memorial Day Week retreat at Morgan’s Rock Ecolodge in Nicaragua, May 24-30, 2008. Recently voted by Travel + Leisure as one of the top 15 green hotels in the world; check out what the magazine says about an OM yoga retreat! http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/go-on-a-retreat/
He is included in Cyndi Lee's book Yoga Body, Buddha Mind, has been featured on the cover and in the Shambhala Sun magazine and featured on NBC's Nightly News representing OM yoga.
He thanks his primary teachers, Vincent & Evie Liem, Adam Gwosdof, his meditation instructor Acharya Eric Spiegel, and Cyndi Lee for her continued wisdom, generosity and humor. He is honored to be part of the multifaceted wakefulness of the OM yoga center mandala.