My work was my exercise until I accidentally discovered yoga in 1997. I immediately saw its personal value and began doing simple yoga postures daily.  When I began classes, I made a commitment to myself not to miss a class for six months.  By then, I reasoned, yoga would be a habit so that then if I missed it would be the exception rather than the rule. By six months yoga was a part of my life, and I began to notice some things I hadn’t expected: lower heart rate, and blood pressure, sleeping better, calmer and more relaxed – less stressed. Today I realize it is the path I had been seeking all my life.

After five years, I wanted to give yoga to others and took a YogaFit certification course, so I could begin teaching basic yoga classes at the ViQuest Center. I also taught at the Unitarian-Universalist church.  I have also taught classes for teenage substance abusers. 
Today, I am the Program Coordinator for Mind-Body classes at ViQuest Wellness Center where I also teaches hatha yoga classes as well as a yoga class for people with multiple sclerosis. 

In the meantime, I have taken training sessions and workshops in asana (posture work) whenever possible from such noted teachers as: Sandra Anderson, Swami Asokananda, Barbara Benagh, Frank Jude Boccio, Stephen Cope, K. Desikachar, Mary Dunn, Maty Ezraty, Donna Farhi, Lilias Folan, Richard Freeman, JJ Gormley, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, Gary Kraftsow, Cindi Lee, Tias Little, Shiva Rea, Rod Stryker, David Swenson, Patricia Walden, Joan White, and Frank Jude Bocccio. When visiting our daughters in Boston and Los Angeles, I go to Baron Baptiste’s (“hot yoga”) studio in Boston and the Center for Yoga or Karuna Yoga, a small Kundalini Yoga studio) in LA.

Articles I have written include: AVOIDING COMPUTER VORTEXES AND OTHER HAZARDS OF MODERN LIFE – Dealing with Addictions: An Examination of Some Parallels Between AA’s Twelve Step Program & Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras – February 2006, and
MINDFUL POSTURES: Learning Spinal Care the Hard Way – July 2006