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Susan Amato is a certified massage therapist and bodyworker. While she is highly trained in many modalities, she specializes in Thai Yoga Therapy, Orthopedic Neuromuscular Therapy, and Integrated Body Therapy. In addition to receiving a B.A. in English and psychology from Lehigh University, she has also graduated from the 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training at Kula Heart Yoga Center, taught by Silver Kim, Florence Corcoran, Deborah Ketter, and wonderful guest teachers. She also completed a Restorative Yoga Teacher Training with Jillian Pransky and continues to expand upon her studies of yoga by devoting herself to her own practice as well as investing in continuing education.
Susan teaches yoga with attention to proper postural alignment and how to optimize the health and structure of the body and breath. She is delighted and honored to share yoga with her community, a practice that strengthens the body, clarifies the mind, opens the heart and illuminates the spirit.
Susan feels fortunate to be married to her best friend, who keeps her laughing, loved, and learning every day. With the unconditional support, and love from her family and friends, she knows that there is nothing that she cannot accomplish and experience. Living a life of service, with "a heart as wide as the world".
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| Carmen Bernal RYT 200 (a.k.a. Sargeant Bliss) is a native of Puerto Rico. In 2004, she moved from New Jersey to the Lehigh Valley and loved the place so much she decided to become an official Easton resident.
Carmen was first introduced to yoga at the age of eight. Her mom, siblings and herself used to attend yoga classes at the beach in PR. They attended classes for about 3 years and then family life and teenage years were far more important. In 2002, she was reintroduced to yoga via an Iyengar yoga DVD; not only was it love at first sight but it was the return to her nature and that place called home. She began practicing again and developed an indescribable love and discipline for her practice that inspired her to share with others.
She teaches yoga classes at Easton Yoga, Kula Heart Yoga and at her home studio. She used to teach yoga at Lafayette College in Easton PA and was the main yoga teacher for Lafayette Rowing team.
Carmen has been teaching yoga since 2006. She completed her 200-hour teacher training with Joan Thirion at Awareness Works, in Tafton, PA. Her training was a integration of Ashtanga, Iyengar, Vinyasa, Viniyoga, Kripalu and Kundalini traditions. In 2007, she completed a 40-hour Ashtanga teaching training with David Swenson; Iyengar workshops with with senior Iyengar teacher Dean Lerner; and breathing and yoga training with Max Strom. She took more Ashtanga workshops with James Brown and she recently finished Yoga Therapy training of Anusara yoga with Bruce Bowditch and bhakti yoga teaching training with Sean Johnson from the Wild Lotus Band. She has also attended workshops with Todd Norian, and John Levis. She is currently working towards her 500-hour certification and also to complete all other stages of Anusara yoga teaching certification.
Carmen's classes are energetic and very creative--having fun is her mojo. Her main focus is to help students find inner bliss, teach them what yoga can do for them and heal their bodies. Carmen's sensitivity, intuition and great sense of humor give her the ability to connect with each student, and make her teachings personal and transformative.
When not teaching or working you can find her taking long walks along the Delaware River with her terror chocolate labrador Valentine Russell and her saint German shepperd Dakota Marie or meditating with her cats king Dartagean and princess Anastacia.
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| Char Brummundt is a Ron Fletcher Qualified Teacher. She has 2000+ hours of classroom and intense physical training. Char has been teaching her craft since January of 2010 and has found that teaching Pilates is one of the most rewarding and inspiring things she has ever done. Ron Fletcher Pilates is like no other Pilates method out there. Ron Fletcher is a Pilates Teacher Elder, who studied with Joe and Clara Pilates in New York City. He has brought his own style to Pilates along with his movement background and work with Martha Graham. It was the coupling of these two gifted people, that influenced and developed the Ron Fletcher Work. You will experience movement and breath that will only be found in a Ron Fletcher Pilates class.
Char also does primitive and folkart painting and had a home based shop for 10 years as she was home raising her 2 boys. She found Kula Heart Yoga at the end of summer last year and came in to take some classes to help keep her own body moving. What she found was a warm and inviting haven that re-awakened her heart which was going through a rough patch. With each class she found her way back to the person that she was and decided to keep that heart open to all the future possibilities with learning and growing with this new found love of movement in Yoga.
With her passion for Pilates, and new love of Yoga, she will be bringing you a unique class experience and will also be doing Private Reformer classes. She is happy to become part of the Kula Heart Yoga family and looks forward to meeting and working with you all.
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Florence Corcoran was introduced to Yoga in 1989, but has practiced and studied in earnest since 2002. She has practiced many different styles, including Sivananda, Kripalu, Dynamic Yoga, Ashtanga, Iyengar and Anusara. Florence completed her 200 hour RYT Teacher Training through The Yoga Loft of Bethlehem in 2007 with Silver Kim and Jessie Thompson and is completing the Yoga Loft’s 500 hour Advanced Teacher Training program with Jessie Thompson and James Brown.
As so many students are, Florence was initially drawn to Yoga for its physical benefits but has continued to expand and deepen her practice for the mental and emotional benefits it provides. "Yoga creates a calm stability that carries you...it has a quiet, peaceful effect. You realize through practice that you choose what to pay attention to on and off the mat. It really makes you feel better and makes you more effective in all aspects of your life." Florence’s classes focus on sound physical alignment presented through clear and concise descriptions and demonstrations, though not at the expense of humor; Yoga is important but it doesn’t have to be so serious. She truly believes that if you teach students to move well, many other things will fall into place.
Florence is an Orthopedic Physical Therapist who specializes in spine care. The fusion of her human anatomy and yoga asana knowledge has helped her develop both her Yoga and Physical Therapy practices and gives her a unique teaching perspective on yoga asana. "Posture, strength and mobility are so critical to musculoskeletal health and our daily pain-free function and Yoga, taught and practiced correctly, is an excellent tool for gaining and maintaining all three. Few other disciplines offer this."
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Lori Hallman, CYT has been practicing yoga since 2002. She completed her 200 hr RYT teacher training through the Yoga Loft of Bethlehem, a Yoga Alliance registered school. Lori discovered her passion in yoga from Michael Lear, founder of Easton Yoga and continued her journey by studying with Silver Kim and Jessie Thompson, along with Natasha Rizopoulis, Dharma Mittra, Seane Corne, Desiree Rumbaugh and David Swenson, among others. She considers herself a constant student eager to learn more about this beautiful practice which has changed her life and she wants to share its joy with others. She feels everybody can practice some form of yoga, if they'd just try it! Lori hopes to instill compassion to her Ashtanga inspired style linking breath with movement in a vinyasa flow focusing on body alignment which leaves a student feeling challenged, invigorated and peaceful.
Lori is employed as a plant operator at PPL, enjoys traveling, spending time in the great outdoors, swimming, biking and taking long walks with her husband, Jim, and her beautiful "fox" of a dog, Rosie.
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Ravi Hari Kaur, aka Janice Bourdage, MSW, LSW, is a certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor, psychotherapist, and licensed social worker (PA & NY). With a quarter century of experience as a yoga instructor, she has held long-term teaching positions in Manhattan at such notable venues as the United Nations, H.B. Acting Studios, Universal Force Yoga, and Kundalini Yoga East. She continues to be a guest instructor at Golden Bridge NYC and remains on the faculty of the renowned New York Open Center, where she has taught classes and conducted workshops continuously over the course of 16 years.
Ravi Hari currently lives in Bethlehem, PA, where she teaches yoga, maintains a private psychotherapy practice, lectures about wellness, and counsels adolescents in the public school system. With her background as a writer, professional modern dancer, animal rights activist, performance artist, and physical comedienne, Ravi Hari brings to her classes a love of communication, movement, words, and the workings of the human mind. She is intrigued with the notion of how people learn and is constantly looking for ways to help each individual master the basic building blocks of whatever discipline she is teaching. She believes that while everyone can learn, teaching is for those who can remember a time in their lives when that special someone took the time, had the patience, and then, let go. and watched with joy as you took flight!
Ravi Hari is very grateful and excited to be a part of the Kula Heart Community and, through the Grace of the Infinite, hopes to plant the seed of Sat Nam (Truth is Your Name) wherever she goes.
www.lehighvalleycounselingandyoga.com
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| Rachael Kelly completed her 200hr yoga teacher training at Kula Heart Yoga, with additional trainings in Children's Yoga (Asana Alphabet - Ann Robideaux, and ChildPlay Yoga - Gurudass Kaur Khalsa) and Restorative Yoga (Jillian Pransky). She studied Family and Child Development at the University of Central Oklahoma, and spent her summers as a counselor and Leadership Training Director at a children's camp in northern Minnesota working with children from the ages of 6-17, teaching diverse activities such as sailing, horseback riding, riflery, archery, and basket weaving (seriously!) She has worked with children of all ages, having also taught preschool before her first child was born.
Having always been an athlete, Rachael was curious about yoga, but was always too intimidated to walk into a class. Fortunately, soon after Kula Heart opened its doors, she took the Foundations of Yoga series with Silver, and was hooked. She is fascinated by the mind-body connection, and has found her yoga practice to be physically, mentally, and spiritually healing and is eager to share her love of yoga with people of all ages.
Rachael is a constant observer of life, nature, and people - you will often find her with camera in hand. She enjoys photography, writing, reading and gardening. At home, Rachael lives, loves and laughs with Andrew, her four lively kiddos, 2 dogs and 2 cats. |
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| Sandra Kessel moved to the United States in 1998 and embraced the challenge to leave the security of her home, family, and friends. An interesting and winding path - some might say chaotic :-) - opened for her. She had no idea she would sit here today writing her bio as a yoga teacher. From her background as Geologist/Paleontologist she changed fields to become a silversmith, deepening her education in Arts/Design to work at the Neue Galerie New York in NYC. Within that time she moved back to Germany twice. Being uprooted was harder than she thought. During her last stay in Munich, she stumbled into a beautiful yoga studio - Airyoga. It was there that she was introduced to Anusara yoga, a method upon which she still bases her own practice as well as teaching.
Once back in the United States, Sandra searched for a studio with a similar feel and came across Yogaphoria in New Hope. Almost immediately she signed up for their 200hr teacher training with Anusara senior certified teachers Sue Elkind and Naime Jezzeny. She will always be grateful to Sue and Naime to have instilled within her a deep appreciation for the beauty of Anusara. A method so precise and logical, it provides a beautiful entryway for the workings of the physical body. Yet so profound and deep, it allows one to penetrate into deeper, more subtle layers of your ‘self’.
So here she is, an eternal student at heart, enjoying and basking in the good fortune of continuing her study of yoga with wonderful teachers; Sue and Naime, Douglas Brooks, Sianna Sherman, Amy Ippoliti, Christina Sell.
Sandra thanks Jessie Thompson for giving her a first teaching opportunity and to James Brown for teaching her how to develop my home-practice.
Each time she steps on her mat she feels more clear, more solid, more real. For her students she wants to hold a safe space, so each time they practice they can explore and experiment with what yoga holds true for them.
See you on the mat - hurray!
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Silver Kim:Owner and Director of the Yoga Teacher Training Program: E-RYT, CYT in both the Ashtanga and Anusara methods, with additional certifications in Restorative and Prenatal Yoga. She has over 1000 hours of teaching experience and continues her path as a life long student of yoga, reiki, & art of living. She co-designed and taught the Teacher Training Program at the Yoga Loft from conception in 2006 and continues her love of teaching and inspiring new teachers in Kula Heart Yoga's YTT programs. She is honored to be invited to teach workshops in PA and NJ and part of the teaching staff of the NJ Transformational Yoga Conference www.njtyc.com and the Shanthi Project www.shanthiproject.org . She is also honored to assist Master Anusara Teachers, Todd Norian, Elena Brower, and Bruce Bowditch. She has a BS in Sports Management and Marketing, and an AAS in Textile Development and Marketing.
After working in the textile and garment industry for over 10 years, Silver began her journey towards bringing more meaning into her spiritual and personal life. She has been involved in sports/fitness as an athlete, instructor and marketing & promotion director for more than 20 years, and has practiced various forms of yoga since 1998. Her style of teaching is eclectic and compassionate, and draws upon her diverse experiences, travels and constant interest in different forms of yoga. She has studied with David Swenson (Ashtanga) , Seane Corn(Vinyasa Flow), John Friend (Anusara), Abbey Brewer (Kundalini & Vinyasa) , Brooke Meyers and Gail Wegodsky (Iyengar), Carrie Parker-Gastilu (Pre-natal) , Jillian Pransky (Restorative) and more. In 2006 Silver recieved her Anusara Affiliated teacher certification with Naime Jezzeny and Sue Elkind. Her Anusara training included a Therapeutics module with Naime and Sianna Sherman, as well as Tantric philosophy studies with Dr. Douglas Brooks. She views herself as a constant student always wanting to explore and grow in all aspects of her life. She is currently studying with Elena Brower, and Todd Norian.
She is a pragmatist, a romantic and a lover of life. She loves the beaches, mountains, hiking, swimming and traveling. She respects and embraces diversity - living a life that is about learning, connecting and loving (mind, body and heart,) and bringing harmonious union into her life as a mother of two beautiful boys, teacher, and friend.
"Yoga is a spiritual art, living and breathing in harmonious balance and alignment, uniting with oneself, with others and God, fulfilling life's purpose and finding the divine, peace and love in one and all." |
| Joelyn Kish first approached yoga in 2001 when an injury forced her to reconsider her exercise routine. Yoga for her started as a physical activity. Sshortly after her first practice, she realized that yoga was much more powerful than just the poses (asanas). She discovered that yoga was therapeutic for the mind and soul as well as the physical body.
Joelyn completed the 200 Hour Yoga Teaching Training at Kula Heart Yoga in May 2011. In addition, she received training in Restorative Yoga with Jillian Pransky and Yoga Therapy with Bruce Bowditch. Through the years, she practiced different styles of yoga including Ashtanga, Hatha, Power and Anusara.
Joelyn feels blessed with three wonderful children, two sons and a daughter. Her other interests include cooking, gardening, and walking with her dogs. Her passion is to share the amazing benefits of yoga beyond the physical benefits that have helped her to find peace and inner strength.
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| Traye Lovejoy has an eclectic background in Fine Art, Anthropology and Special Education. She studied at several schools including Savannah College of Art and Design and the University of Nevada, Reno. Traye has always been passionate about volunteer work, and has followed that passion all over the country, working with a great variety of organizations to benefit animals, people with disabilities, and other populations in need.
Traye became interested in Yoga after attending a class for teens with special needs while serving with AmeriCorps at a camp in Reno, Nevada. After graduation from AmeriCorps, Traye continued to work with youth with special needs through various agencies including VSA Arts, where she taught art classes in schools and recreation programs throughout Northern Nevada. Traye is also a practicing Martial Artist, who currently coaches a Karate class for children and adults with developmental disabilities. Traye continues to work with mentally challenged adults in a Supported Living program, helping them thrive and enjoy life in their own homes, and maintain independence.
Kula Heart’s 200 Hour Teacher Training appealed to Traye because of the positive impact attending classes at Kula had on her personally. She wanted to learn to share this joy with others. Through Yoga practice, Traye hopes to help others, of any age or ability, achieve their shining personal best. | |
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| Danette Missmer completed her 200 hour yoga teacher training at Kula Heart Yoga, and has additional trainings in Restorative Yoga (Jillian Pransky), Prenatal Yoga (Sue Elkind), and Yoga Therapy (Bruce Bowditch). She works as an occupational therapist and has 2 specialties - Certified Hand Therapist (CHT) and Certified Lymphedema Therapist (CLT). She enjoys incorporating her yoga trainings into her treatments.
Danette began practicing yoga shortly after her second son was born. Initially yoga was a way to get exercise and a night out with friends.
As her practice progressed, it evolved to a practice of centering herself. This centering assists her to find more balance, inner peace and contentment in her busy and sometimes hectic life.
Danette feels very blessed for her supportive family and friends and all the opportunities life has given her to continue to learn, grow, and share her expanding knowledge with others. |
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Holly Roth was first introduced to Yoga in 1998 after losing her mother to cancer. After surviving her own battle with Breast Cancer and then loosing her father to cancer she took a vow to become more healthy and make positive changes in her life. Never did she imagine the path would lead to practicing Yoga with such amazing teachers like Bruce Bowditch, Todd Norian, Jillian Pransky and Silver Kim. Completing her Yoga Teacher Certification at Kula Heart Yoga in May of 2011, finally becoming a teacher herself.
Over the past 10 years, Holly has had the privilege of working with children who are faced with both mental and physical challenges while working at KidsPeace. Holly lives in Northampton with her 2 beautiful daughters Isabella and Emma along with her husband and best friend, Michael.
Holly enjoys days at the beach and playing in her garden. Since both of her parents have passed and living long distances from her two brothers, she is grateful to receive such a warm welcome into the Yogi family at Kula Heart. She is excited to begin her new journey....
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Jeanne Smith graduated from Penn State with a BS in Nutrition and a minor in Exercise Physiology. She has been practicing yoga since 2001. Fitness and health have always been a priority in her life. In fact, she began practicing yoga solely for the physical benefits. Over the years, there has been a shift in the goal. As with many people who enjoy yoga, delving into the mind-body-spirit connection soon became the focus. The desire to share this with those in her life led her to become a yoga teacher.
It just seems natural to combine this love of yoga with her degree in nutrition. The obesity epidemic in the U.S. is very disturbing to many, but especially to dietitions. Jeanne wants to help those that are interested make healthy food choices. She is available for private consultaion with clients interested in counseling on modified diets or weight reduction, or sports nutrition.
When Jeanne is not practicing yoga, she can be found hanging out with her fun husband in Forks Township, shuttling their three beautiful kids to their various activities, playing a little tennis, or running with their Tibetan Terrior.
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| Ann Marie Serfass has been in and out of yoga for the last 7 years. She began her teacher training journey without even the intention of being a "teacher".
After her mom passed away in 2007 & suddenly finding herself pregnant, she felt a shock to her soul. She & her mom were very close and the loss took a part of her heart that was hard to refill. She begain looking for Mommy & Me yoga classes & after a few months signed up for a class with her son Jonah. Ann Marie & her son had a great bonding experience practicing yoga together with Silver Kim and felt these little pieces of her experiences leading her into yoga brought back some of the warmth and joy she had lost when her mom passed away.
Ann Marie begain taking a few classes and began to feel more rested from her inner unrest. After seeing an ad for a 200 hour yoga teacher training at Kula she thought maybe I am supposed to look into this. After quietly praying about it, she felt a warm gentle feeling come over her. She signed up for the training that day. Ann Marie feels this has been an awakening experience and her heart is beginning to again be refilled.
Ann Marie has completed her 200hr yoga teacher training at Kula Heart Yoga, she is also a Speech Therapist working with children from kindergarten to 4th grade along with a population of children on the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
She & her husband Brian have 2 children, Jonah (age 9) and Ella Rose (age 3). Joys in her life are enjoying time outside with family, reading/journaling, exploring different places with family and just hanging out with friends/family for good food, fellowship and some laughter.
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Deb Biro found herself going to a chiropractor on a routine basis at the age of 21 after a car accident. About 10 years ago a chiropractor suggested Deb try yoga to ease her neck and back pain. Deb began her yoga practice at home using, VHS tapes (remember those!). Then in 2008, when Silver opened Kula Heart Yoga, Deb was thrilled to have a Yoga Studio here in Nazareth and became a regular at Saturday morning yoga practice. Seeing how yoga helped Deb with her back and neck pain, Deb began taking yoga workshops and developed a strong connection to yoga. In addition to the physical changes, she was seeing mental and spiritual changes too. Deb says that, Yoga created a ‘peaceful’ place where she felt safe.
Deb’s love of yoga guided her to take the teacher’s training program at the Yoga Loft in Bethlehem, where she recently completed her 200 hour certification. Deb timed completion of her training to coincide with her 50th birthday. Deb believes in life one must continue to grow and challenge oneself.
Deb is a Demand Planner at Crayola and the mother of a wonderful daughter, Rachel. Both Deb and Rachel reside in Nazareth. In addition to Yoga, you can see Deb swimming at the Nazareth “Y” or walking around Nazareth with her boyfriend Manny.
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John Cosgrove recently completed his 200 hour RYT Teacher Training through The Yoga Loft of Bethlehem, a Yoga Alliance Registered School. His fascination with yoga began in 2004 after taking his first class at Easton Yoga. He says, "I walked out of that class feeling so at ease and peaceful that I just sat in my car for a while not wanting to start the engine for fear it would compromise the feeling". Since then he has practiced regularly at Easton Yoga, Olde Mill Yoga, Yoga Loft, and semi-privately with Silver Kim.
John is retired from a 31 year career teaching high school science, mostly Physics. His curiosity about the natural world and an ensuing sense of wonder energized his teaching of Physics and now flavors his yoga practice as well as his writing and his spirituality.
John's fascination with poetry began in 2002 after he attended a 6 week Dodge Poetry Foundation workshop. At the conclusion of the workshop several of the participants formed a writers group that has continued to meet regularly. He has also continued attendance at the annual Dodge workshops. "I was somewhat surprised that someone with a science background could actually write decent poetry". John hopes to share his love of writing and reading poetry with others via the new Yoga and Poetry workshop at the Kula Heart Yoga center. |
Marcy Dahl has been interested in yoga over the course of many years, but it was the discovery of Anusara yoga through a foundations workshop which ignited a passion for yoga in her life. Initially interested in deepening her own practice, she completed a 200hour intensive RYT teacher training program at the YogaLoft of Bethlehem in 2007.
Inspired to share yoga and to share her passion with others, she began teaching as a way of guiding others through the wonderful experience that the practice creates mentally, Physically and emotionally.
Marcy is an energetic, yet gentle, teacher who believes in combining different yoga styles to create a well balanced, safe and comprehensive practice which is accessible to everyone. Her teaching style is tailored to the students' need, incorporating a series of yoga postures which have been mindfully sequenced and linked with breath. Marcy loves to share yoga as a way of life which connects us to finding joy in all things.
Marcy worked in the travel industry since May 1983 and has had the blessing of meeting and knowing many people of different cultures. "I honor the spirit in you which is also in me". Marcy lives in Easton with her wonderful husband Tryg. |
Cindy Gibson, Manager of Nazareth Studio, has 14 years of experience teaching in the field of early childhood education. Completed The Child Development Associate National Credentialing Program through Northampton County College. Cindy has over 120 hours of formal education and over 12 hours of child care training. She has attended seminars through Lehigh Carbon Community College and is certified in CPR, Pediatric First Aid, Blood Borne Pathogen, Fire Safety, and Food Allergy training.
During her free time she is an avid reader, enjoys gardening, traveling, and spending time with her husband Jim, active sons Alex and Nick, and elderly cat Kaylee. |
John Levis is a Certified Anusara® Yoga Instructor. He has studied extensively with Anusara founder, John Friend as well as many senior Anusara instructors. John began teaching in 2003 and completed his initial 400 hour teacher training with Todd Norian and has since assisted Todd's Immersion and teacher training. John also had the privilege of traveling to India with Desiree Rumbaugh and assisted her while teaching at the International Yoga Festival in Rishikesh in 2007.
John began playing ice-hockey at the age of six and played throughout high school. In college, he got heavily into weight-training. In 1999 he was introduced to yoga and left the gym for good the following year. He found that yoga offered a much better work out without all the strain on the body and actually grew over an inch at the age of 30!
Since finding Anusara® Yoga in 2002, he has remained dedicated to The Universal Principles of Alignment™ and no longer needs to see the chiropractor. Combining an amazing, therapeutic workout with a life enhancing, heart opening practice inspired by a tantric philosophy of intrinsic goodness, John has found his path. John feels that this practice is a way to awaken to the full spectrum of life and to inspire and heal others to align with their greatest potential thus raising the vibration for all. The inspiration of this practice has taken John to India , Egypt , Costa Rica and all over the States as he loves to travel and explore different cultures and perspectives of life.
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