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Amy's
Journey
In the early 90's she met Baron Baptiste, studied his 'Power Yoga' eventually going on to teach the technique, before branching out on her own. Along the way she studied many forms, including Kundalini, Iyengar, Power Yoga and finally Ashtanga. Settling into her Ashtanga practice, Amy felt she'd arrived home at last. Amy's "Yoga with a Heart" maintains the physical challenge of Ashtanga and mental focus of meditation without compromising the deep spiritual connection. She strives in her teaching to help each student embrace, accept, and love who they are. Amy feels her personal daily yoga practice helps her stay open and connected to her heart and her students. About Amy Amy has been teaching yoga for more than 20 years. She is certified in first and second degree Reiki (energy balancing) as well as in yoga. She is motivated by a desire to empower others to connect with their true selves. Regular yoga practice improves the quality of life through increased endurance, strength and flexibility. Amy’s teaching style creates an environment that enables students to release stress, meditate, and rediscover balance of mind, body and spirit! First studing yoga with Grace Stern while still in high school (1973) Amy has continued her Yoga practice, Pranayama and Transcendental Meditation.
Amy gives thanks to her many teachers and feels especially privileged to include among them, Pattabhi Jois (Guruji) :
Majoring in communications & dance at George Washington University, Amy studied ballet with Sondra Fortune and Diane Hunt of the Capital Ballet Company and performed with Maida Wither’s Modern Dance Company, "D.C. Construction Co." 1977-1978. She studied health care and nutrition at George Washington University Graduate School. She trained in the Laban dance/movement technique through a Temple Graduate Dance School program. Amy began creative movement, pre-ballet and yoga instruction to children at the Hegvik Music School in 1985, and went on to teach at 14 area schools. She has taught yoga to middle and upper school students of the Baldwin School as part of their phys ed. program, the teachers of the Notre Dame Academy, visually impaired students at the Associated Services for the Blind (A.S.B.) of Philadelphia, the Girl Scouts at Sacred Heart and Ithan Elementary, the Conestoga High School crew team, wheelchair bound students, and students with cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease adapting the practice to the students needs. Amy also works with the crew, lacrosse, track, and field hockey teams, the physical education dept. and the teachers of Radnor High School. Amy has taught yoga at the Lankenau and Bryn Mawr Hospitals through Women’s Health Source (a division of Jefferson Health Care). She has instructed rehabilitative gentle yoga to recovering heart patients and prenatal yoga at Bryn Mawr Hospital . She has led a one week yoga workshop each summer since 1992 at the International Kushi Institute Macrobiotic Summer Conference Children’s Camp in New England, and Camp Treetops in Lake Placid, N.Y. She has taught as a visiting guest artist at the Virginia Waters Cathedral in the UK and at the Power Yoga Club of New Hampshire. For the last eleven years, Amy has taught five yoga/dance classes to 120 energetic children of the Lane Montessori School in Wayne PA, Gladwyne Montessori School in Gladwyne PA, and The Learning Studio in Malvern PA. More recently Amy taught Yoga to the teachers & leaders of the National Youth Leadership Council at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in the Spring of 2006.
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