Certifications:
o Street Yoga Training, Spring 2008 (20 hours), yoga and trauma and homelessness.
o YogaLife Institute, Devon, PA, Certification in Yoga Teaching, August 2008, 200 hours.
o Curvy Yoga (Anna Guest-Jelly), Certification in Curvy Yoga (modifications for plus sized bodies), Fall 2015.
o JRI, Boston, MA, Certification in Trauma Informed Yoga, July 2009, three days.
o Enso, Media, PA Certification in Yoga Teaching, March 2015, 200 hours.
o I have also had special classes in prenatal yoga, including 8 hours with Bec Conant in New York, NY.
o I developed and ran a training program on yoga for eating disorders, with input from nutritionists, therapists and others.
I've been doing yoga for 23 years. I decided to create this little blog about everything I love, am thinking about, am inspired about and am doing with yoga. I teach. I write.
Background & Bio:
I started practicing yoga at age 17, encouraged by my mother who thought it might settle her anxious daughter down a little. My practice waxed and waned for a little while, but after a serious back injury caused by repetitive stress from work, I found myself practicing everyday in 2001. Since then, my weight has ranged between 60 lbs; I’ve practiced with bones pressing into the hard floor, and I’ve practiced with frustration at not knowing how to move my curvier body.
In 2008 I founded a nonprofit focused on uniting those working on eating disorder awareness and treatment and those in the yoga community working on mindfulness and meditation. The motto of that now wound down organization was that “everyone, everywhere deserves to feel at ease with themselves and their bodies.” I have found through my years of teaching that many students feel like yoga is not for them because of their shape or size. I want to make sure every one has an opportunity to experience yoga and determine if it is for them.
o Street Yoga Training, Spring 2008 (20 hours), yoga and trauma and homelessness.
o YogaLife Institute, Devon, PA, Certification in Yoga Teaching, August 2008, 200 hours.
o Curvy Yoga (Anna Guest-Jelly), Certification in Curvy Yoga (modifications for plus sized bodies), Fall 2015.
o JRI, Boston, MA, Certification in Trauma Informed Yoga, July 2009, three days.
o Enso, Media, PA Certification in Yoga Teaching, March 2015, 200 hours.
o I have also had special classes in prenatal yoga, including 8 hours with Bec Conant in New York, NY.
o I developed and ran a training program on yoga for eating disorders, with input from nutritionists, therapists and others.
I've been doing yoga for 23 years. I decided to create this little blog about everything I love, am thinking about, am inspired about and am doing with yoga. I teach. I write.
Background & Bio:
I started practicing yoga at age 17, encouraged by my mother who thought it might settle her anxious daughter down a little. My practice waxed and waned for a little while, but after a serious back injury caused by repetitive stress from work, I found myself practicing everyday in 2001. Since then, my weight has ranged between 60 lbs; I’ve practiced with bones pressing into the hard floor, and I’ve practiced with frustration at not knowing how to move my curvier body.
In 2008 I founded a nonprofit focused on uniting those working on eating disorder awareness and treatment and those in the yoga community working on mindfulness and meditation. The motto of that now wound down organization was that “everyone, everywhere deserves to feel at ease with themselves and their bodies.” I have found through my years of teaching that many students feel like yoga is not for them because of their shape or size. I want to make sure every one has an opportunity to experience yoga and determine if it is for them.