Inga Knudson2011 – Yoga Educational Seminars with Joyce Anue
2013 – Hatha Yoga Shala, Advanced Studies with Mark Horner 2017 – UCSC, BA Feminist Studies 2018 – Art of Yoga Project - Training for using art and yoga to empower at risk teen girls 2018 – Domestic Violence Advocate, Walnut Ave |
Like many people, I came to my first yoga class after other methods to release physical pain failed. Along this path I have found yoga to be much more than a release of physical pain. I used to practice as a doorway to escape, and now I have found yoga to be a doorway-in.
I began practicing yoga 18 years ago beginning with vinyasa-style classes in the East Bay. After moving to the Santa Cruz Mountains in 2005 I began practicing hatha yoga. In 2011 I completed a nine-month teacher training program with teacher and mentor, Joyce Anue. In 2013 I completed an 18-month advance studies program focusing on shadow yoga which is steeped in the systems of traditional hatha yoga, dance and martial arts. I followed up with another nine-month training program then decided to take a bit of a U-turn and head back to college. I continued teaching at various locations in the SC mountains until I transferred to UCSC (Fall 2015) and took a hiatus from teaching to focus on school work. I graduated from UCSC last June (2017 – as a re-entry student and mom of three kids!) This past fall I entered a Master’s program at the University of San Francisco for Counseling Psychology. Thankfully my graduate studies are much more flexible than undergrad work and I found myself yearning to return to teaching. |
My method of teaching is informed by my trainings and my experience, both on and off the mat. You will find elements of my practice in my teachings and I primarily teach hatha and restorative classes.