Teachers

Patricia Walden

Patricia Walden was cited by the Yoga Journal as one of the “25 American Yoga Originals who are shaping yoga today”. She was featured in Time magazine for her work with yoga and healing. Patricia has a special interest in yoga for women and yoga for depression. In 1976, she met her teacher Yogacharya BKS [...]

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Laura Tyree

Laura brings sincere introspection infused with warm humor, dynamic energy, and tenacious perseverance as she encourages her students to utilize their yoga practice in a multitude of ways. Laura’s training began with the Iyengar Yoga method in 1986, and she began teaching in 1990. Please visit her website: www.dragonflyyoga.com for more information about Laura. Laura [...]

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Sierra Bender

At 32, Sierra Bender was pronounced dead. A misdiagnosed ectopic pregnancy ruptured her uterus causing her to bleed to death. Sierra survived thanks to a Vietnam vet doctor who used his knowledge of warfare medicine. Sierra’s survival is a miraculous triumph against incredible odds. Modern medicine may have saved her life, but her dance with death [...]

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Cora Wen

Cora Wen ERYT500, IAYT Cora Wen has taught Yoga since 1994, and is one of the first certified E-RYT500s with Yoga Alliance. She has been a dedicated student of Buddhism for over 30 years, and apprenticed with Judith Hanson Lasater in therapeutic and restorative Yoga since 1998. Cora assisted Erich Schiffmann and Rodney Yee extensively [...]

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JJ Gormley-Etchells

JJ is the founder of the Sun and Moon Yoga Studios in Virginia. She has a very diverse background having studied from many traditions since 1979, most recently the teachings of Desikachar. In 1989 she began teaching yoga and in 1993 opened her own yoga studio, which operated, out of her basement for two years [...]

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Sherri Baptiste

Sherri Baptiste was born into a rich heritage and family of pioneering yoga teachers, her parents Magaña and Walt Baptiste, who established yoga on the West Coast in the mid-1950s. Sherri has been teaching yoga since her her teens and is the founder of Baptiste Power of Yoga, and her yoga teacher-training program is recognized [...]

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Lilias Folan & Marti Glenn

Lilias Folan’s groundbreaking yoga series, Lilias!, is back on PBS throughout the USA. She’s featured in the new Barnes and Noble book, American Yoga, as one of 24 master yoga teachers who have made a contribution to yoga in America. She has shown continual dedication to making yoga accessible to the American public through her [...]

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Baxter Bell

Baxter Bell, MD, has been actively deepening his understanding of yoga and relaxation since making the stress-reducing move from a career as a busy family doctor to that of a yoga teacher and medical acupuncturist. Baxter is featured in Yoga Journal’s DVD, “Yoga for Stress” and has written articles for Yoga Journal, Yoga for Everybody, [...]

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Judith Hanson Lasater, Ph.D, PT

Judith Hanson Lasater has taught yoga since 1971. She holds a doctorate in East-West psychology and is a physical therapist. Judith is president of the California Yoga Teachers Association, and serves on the advisory boards of Yoga Journal and the Yoga Research and Education Center. Her yoga training includes study with B. K. S. Iyengar [...]

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Michele Hebert

Michele Hébert has been a global pioneer in the health and fitness industry in the area of mind-body-spirit integration for 25 years. She has been teaching the Walt Baptiste Method of Yoga for 27 years and is a former competitive bodybuilder. She applies her unique educational background in Raja Yoga, health & fitness, and nutrition [...]

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Mary Paffard

Mary Paffard began her yoga journey in Europe in the early 1970s. She has been teaching in rural Northern California, the Bay Area, and other parts of the United States and Europe since 1985. Mary’s yoga practice and teaching are influenced by her commitment to vipassana meditation and the desire to unearth the inner guru [...]

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Erich Schiffmann

Erich teaches a healing, opening style of yoga emphasizing moving into stillness while being guided from within. He blends five years experience at the Krishnamurti School in England with studies with B.K.S. Iyengar, T.K.V. Desikachar and Joel Kramer. He can be seen on the award-winning video, Yoga, Mind and Body with Ali McGraw, and is [...]

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Chalise Brooke Medicine Eagle

Chalise Brooke Medicine Eagle is a Native American metis – an Earth wisdom teacher and catalyst for healing, a visionary, sacred ecologist, harmonist and recording artist. She is the author of Buffalo Woman Comes Singing. Her website is www.MedicineEagle.com.

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Jean Shinoda Bolen

Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, author and activist, an internationally known speaker who draws from spiritual, feminist, Jungian, medical and personal wellsprings of experience. Her website is www.jeanbolen.com. Jean Shinoda Bolen’s Penny Whistle Story

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Richard Miller

Richard Miller, PhD, author of Yoga Nidra: The Meditative Heart of Yoga, is a contemporary spiritual teacher, honored by Yoga Journal and featured in American Yoga and Will Yoga and Meditation Really Change My Life? He is president of the Center of Timeless Being, past president and founding member of the Institute for Spirituality and [...]

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John Schumacher

John Schumacher is the founder and director of Unity Woods. He has practiced yoga for over 35 years and has taught in the Washington area since 1973. John has studied in India with B.K.S. Iyengar, the world’s foremost Yoga teacher, many times since 1981 and is a certified senior Iyengar Yoga teacher. He also spent [...]

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Dean & Rebecca Lerner

Dean Lerner, M.S.: co-director of the Center and advanced Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor, has been practicing Yoga since the mid-1970′s, teaching since 1980 and in the State College area since 1985. He has studied with Shri B.K. S. Iyengar on numerous occasions both in the USA and in India. Dean also teaches workshops nationally and [...]

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Marla Apt

Marla Apt, a certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher has been teaching yoga for over 15 years. Marla served as the President of both the Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States and the Iyengar Yoga Association of Southern California. She is currently on the National Certification committee and is an assessor for Iyengar Yoga teaching [...]

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