Ever since my initial thoughts of dotcomYOGA, in 2002, and teaching the online Yoga course for Tidewater Community College (TCC), I always wanted to be the guy on the DVDs that the students followed. However, during early 2000, this concept was not as easy as it is today, or at least, didn’t seem as easy. Many times, I looked into creating professional Yoga DVDs while living in Tallahassee, so I could be the guy on the DVDs. However, the video studios where charging an arm and a leg to create professional Yoga DVDs. I even looked into creating them myself: buying my own professional camera, a wireless mic, lights and all, but professional equipment was just too expensive. And in all honestly, the concept of just amateur Yoga videos did not even seem as doable in early 2000 as it does today, at least to me it didn’t. Then in 2008, during a TeLS's Winter Institute,
making Yoga DVDs seemed more doable.
In 2008, I was hired by Yavapai College (YC) as fulltime HPER faculty. And during my first year, I attended my first TeLS's Institute at YC. I took a workshop with YC’s video guy, Thatcher Bohrman. At the time, I didn’t know Thatcher was the video guy nor did I take the workshop because it was about videoing. Actually, I don't even think it was about videoing, but regardless, I took the workshop, and during the workshop, somehow, and I don’t remember exactly how, it became clear that this guy Thatcher was the guy to know if I wanted to create Yoga videos for a future online Yoga course for YC.
So after the workshop, I introduced myself to Thatcher, and we talked briefly about the possibility of creating Yoga videos for an online Yoga course at YC. I explained how I teach an online Yoga course in Virginia using commercial Yoga DVDs. I explained that I wanted the Yoga videos to be of me as the guy on the DVDs. And, in short, Thatcher agreed to make the videos. However, it took close to two years later to eventually have my dean, at the time, give me the OK to bring my online Yoga course to YC, and it was with one stipulation. I could not have student’s purchase any material for the course, which included commercial Yoga DVDs, and this one stipulation forced me to be the guy on the DVDs of dotcomYOGA.
"You have to dream before your dreams can come true."
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go."
- Dr. Seuss -
"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."