A profound, intelligent, and transformative
practice of yoga especially for you.
About Amy
Prior to embarking on the path of yoga, Amy studied Soil Science and Economics with the goal of working to shape environmental policy and make the world a better place. While working as a research and outreach associate for a non-profit organization in New York, Amy began to see human connection to the world we inhabit as central to creating a sustainable environment for ourselves and future generations.
To better understand how to create that connection for others, she endeavored to learn how to strengthen that connection for herself, and started attending yoga class during her lunch breaks. Since these first eye and mind opening classes, she has devoted herself to this practice of unifying body, breath, mind, and soul. She enrolled in her first teacher training program and began teaching others eventually becoming an Experienced-Registered Yoga Teacher and Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance as well as a Continuing Education Provider.
Amy began studying Iyengar Yoga regularly in 2011 with Karen Allgire and completed her apprenticeship program in 2016. She also studies with senior teacher Laurie Blakeney routinely in Ann Arbor. In addition to a great curiosity for yogic philosophy, she has developed a keen interest in anatomy, physiology, and the therapeutic applications of yoga, earning an Associates Degree and Physical Therapy Assisting in 2018 and more recently taking part in the Yoga Therapy Trainings of Stephanie Quirk.
She is a Level 2 Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher and strives to pass along some of the immeasurable knowledge, compassion, and wisdom her teachers have shared with her. Amy lives in Shaker Heights with her husband, Patrick, and along with her continued yogic studies, is kept busy by their inquisitive teens, their dog Shelby, and Dobby the house cat.
Why Iyengar Yoga?
Certified Iyengar Yoga Teachers are held to unusually rigorous standards, earning their certification after years of dedicated practice, training, and evaluations by trained, qualified assessors. They know how to guide students of all ages and abilities. Deep-seated understanding and experience of the yoga asanas (postures) allow instructors to teach appropriately to the group in front of them, whether they are younger, older, athletic, or have physical limitations.
From the beginning, Iyengar Yoga develops strength, stamina, concentration, coordination, flexibility, and more. The yoga asanas and Pranayama (the control of the breath) create the springboard that allows students to penetrate beyod the outer, physical layers and explore the inner layers of mind, energy, and spirit. The two quests of the physical and the spiritual are not seraprate but interdependent parts of a total approach to self-mastery and enlightened living.
Using physical alignment as a starting point, Iyengar Yoga encourages the spread of intelligence throughout the body, the growth of self awareness, and an epxerience of the asanas as a form of "meditation in action."
Sunday
Level 1
10-11:30 a.m.
Tuesday
Gentle Level 2
10-11:30 a.m.
Wednesday
Level 1
6-7:30 p.m.