​No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. John 15:15 ESV

Friend of Jesus – that is what I am.  I didn't know how to identify myself after I surrendered to the lordship of Christ Jesus during my first semester of college. It didn't occur in a church. I was by myself. It was the middle of the night. I called myself a Christian and Pentecostal (that is how I was raised) when I was a child.

In the time since that epic moment, I also learned how to pray. It was a precise moment. In fact, it was an answered prayer - a revelation becoming a deliberate meditation practice that I can do without sitting cross-legged or even kneeling down.  

I started asana practice in 2002 and specifically the classic 26x2 (26 poses & 2 breathing exercises) in 2004. Asana means yoga pose. I specify asana practice because my surrender to God, study of the Bible, celibacy, and meditation are branches of yoga. I didn’t think of my life experience in the context of yoga until I did my first Yoga Teacher Training in New York City  in 2017 and learned about the 8 limbs of yoga. I realized that I had been practicing yoga before I ever set foot on a mat!  

In 2019, I completed advanced Yoga Teacher Training in Bali, Indonesia. I launched largos shortly after and just before the pandemic of 2020 reached the United States. Initially, there was a store page with products that I recommend to supplement teaching yoga online. Since then I have  included a skincare page in response to my encounters with students with acne in my work as a teacher of middle and high school students.

I have endeavored to leverage my work as an educator to include yoga into the HOPE (Health Opportunities through Physical Education) curriculum for high school students and aspire to remove  the usual fears surrounding yoga for Christians and Christian parents.

What is in a name?  I chose to go with a one word, easily pronounced and recognizable name for my online yoga presence. It draws on the Italian tempo marking in music meaning slowly. It resonates with the way most things move by contrast to the way we might like them to - be it progress in a pose, longsuffering, or even slow food.  I like the connection to the turtle and to the sea; bearing in mind the Navy Seal philosophy that slow is smooth and smooth is fast.​  
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