Temple Parlor

Yoga instructor Kitty Wittkower’s web site.

temple: from the latin templum (6th Century), a sacred space as defined by a priest or augur, used to describe a house of worship for any number of religions. From the bible, the body is your temple.

parlor: from the French parler, or to talk. A front room for receiving visitors.

The history of Temple Parlor began in 1999 in a big Edwardian house on Queen Anne Hill in Seattle Washington.
The yoga studio was in the front room, the double parlor, Miss Blue my British shorthair loved it she would sit at the entrance to the studio and greet every student and they in turn would greet and pet Miss Blue.  Miss Blue had her own yoga and she at times she would imitate the class,  Blue liked all the supine poses best.  As a kitten Miss Blue came down with posterior paralysis she was 4 month old, and she wasted away; she was a little hand stand kitty.  I ran up a vet bill, and still no diagnosis. I took her to my acupuncture school where she was diagnosed with what would be polio in a human being, she was given herbs called tiger walking pills, acupuncture and the Acutonics or tuning fork treatments.  One day she found my son Augustine’s lunch with the half eaten turkey sandwich falling out onto the chair he was 6 years old at the time, this was her first food she had wanted in a while, she had been very sick.  So,  I fed her the best deli turkey because that’s all she was interested in eating she made a complete recovery and is now 12 years old!

At this time all my public yoga classes are at Home Yoga Seattle, in lower Queen Anne.

Maraha Dickens and I are offering classes at Home Yoga Seattle for beginners with a  intermediate class on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings at 7:30 p.m.   Maraha has been my student since 2002 and my days at Yogalife Queen Anne 2001.  Now Maraha has completed her certification with the inspired yoga Master Dona Holleman, a woman I greatly respect in her knowledge of yoga.  Maraha now a certified teacher, and the only certified teacher in the Northwest by Dona Holleman, makes the lovely Maraha a rare gem carrying on a tradition of the Women of Yoga.  Maraha is knowledgeable beyond her years, I am proud and thankful to have her with me in Yoga, to pass on my knowledge and to be my trusty Sub, to share this yoga adventure with.