MY JOURNEY

I started my journey about 35 years ago in college.  This was the late seventies so yoga was it was only considered an amazing practice by the hippies! I enjoyed the class but it was primarily a physical yoga class and I didnt do another yoga class until the 90's. This yoga class got my attention! This yoga class had the physical practice but the hook for me was the breathing practice!!!! Like a lot of working mothers I was really felt like I was missing something. This was the beginning of learning about all the methodologies available. I chose Kripalu yoga because this is the class that had brought me back to yoga and because their methodology was each person can pursue their practice just for their body, not perfection, not just certain poses but whatever works for their body!
So after practicing for a few years I really wanted to become a yoga teacher. This task was not as easy as it is now with trainings everywhere but I continued looking. One day I saw an advertisement in the paper which stated"Train to be a kripalu yoga teacher." I knew I had to take this training. I began my teaching career and what I seemed to hear at every class was that many students had health issues . I really felt I needed more education.  I decided to become a certified yoga therapistand was  trained by Integrative Yoga Therapy. In between all the trainings I had to deal with my own health issue (breast cancer) and felt especially fortunate to have the tools to help myself and also to know what it feels like when you are dealing with a serious health issue.I feel very qualified to assist people with all the tools of  Yoga therapy and because I know firsthand what my yoga practice has done for me.