Fez Aswat has been teaching yoga and meditation in the Boston area since 2000. He has taught at a number of prominent Boston studios including O2Yoga, Back Bay Yoga, Samara Yoga, The Arlington Center for Yoga, Bow St. Yoga, Down Under Yoga, and The Yoga Studio where he taught for senior teacher, Barbara Benagh. He served as Teacher Mentor and Manager at YogaWorks Boston. He’s led First Friday’s for people of color at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, and will soon be leading the affinity group sangha for PoC at Boston Meditation Center. Fez mentors a number of students and teachers, and has taught meditation and yoga to groups at various institutions and to diverse populations including physicians, med students, college students, dancers, choreographers, writers, musicians, business owners, social workers, cancer patients, trauma survivors and people in recovery from addictions. With The Lionheart Foundation, Fez led a meditation program for Lionheart's Power Source Video - a documentary style teaching tool for youth at risk, students, staff and social workers filmed at ROCA in Chelsea, MA; developed a yoga curriculum for people in solitary confinement in the California State Prison System; and led meditations for teenaged inmates at the Bay State Youth Correctional Facility. . Currently, he teaches Insight Meditation at Asana Charlestown and Laughing Dog Yoga and runs his own classes on line through his website.
Fez has worked closely with his teacher, Tom Alden, since 2004 with a focus of meditation and yoga with therapeutic application. Fez has studied extensively with Barbara Benagh, Iyengar teachers, Patricia Walden and Arthur Kilmurray, and Jin Sung of Oakland Yoga Studio. His early yoga practice began with Insight Meditation and Ashtanga yoga. His meditation retreat experience is with the Vipassana Center in Shelbourne Falls, MA and the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA. He also continues to study Mahayana and Tibetan Buddhism.
Fez is a husband and a father, a musician, and a two time cancer survivor. His practice supported his recovery from his experiences with cancer and the loss of a dear friend at a younger age, and continues to be essential in helping show up for what he cares for most with care and a sense of meaning and purpose. These experiences and views combined with a healthy dose of humor are very present in how he teaches.