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Heather

My name is Heather, and I love yoga, our students, our studio community, and our teachers. 

I began my journey towards yoga years ago while living in Seattle.  I was pregnant with my first child and my father had just been diagnosed with malignant melanoma.  In an effort to provide the best start for my newborn baby and support my father in his struggle with cancer, I discovered organic food, began integrating holistic health care into our family’s regular check ups, and dabbled in prenatal yoga.  Yoga had intrigued me for years – I knew I needed to “open up” in my hips and hamstrings – but it was not until much, much later that I discovered how to open through my heart center and find my breath.  In 2006, with my second child still an infant at home, I walked into our home studio, Evergreen Center for Yoga, looking for a midmorning class.  The schedule had changed and there was no class.  You may have experienced this scenario before – you psych yourself up for a class, get your gear together, pack it all into the studio, to discover that the class schedule has changed or the teacher you hoped to see is no longer teaching.  I broke into tears, Melanie gave me a big hug, and invited me to practice in the studio, alone.  I did, and found my roots plunging deep into the earth right there through our cork tile floor. 

“Change your body, change your life” was the slogan that lead me and my husband to the yoga challenge, where my body and, more surprisingly, my mind changed profoundly.  Practicing five days a week for nine weeks, I found clarity of mind, clarity of appetite, clarity of purpose, and total body strength and suppleness during the yoga challenge.

Two 200-hour certifications later, I am deeply honored to give back to our students, our Evergreen community, and our studio as an instructor at Evergreen Center for Yoga.  I hope to see you on the mat and in the studio soon.

Drawing from the inspiration of the great teachers that brought yoga to America, Paramhansa Yogananda, B.K.S. Iyengar, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and Bikram Choudhury, and the contemporary yogis that continue to inspire yoga in America, including Seane Corn, Shiva Rea, Baron Baptiste, Sharon Gannon and David Life (just to name a few of the stars in our universe that inspire my practice and my teaching) I hope to inspire you in your practice and shine a little light on your path as our paths cross.

Namaste –

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"By the power and truth of this practice may all beings have happiness and
the cause of happiness.  May all never be separated from the sacred happiness which is 
sorrowlessness, and may all beings live in equanimity without too much attachment and
too much aversion.  Live believing in the equality of all that lives."

- anonymous