Sadhanaa Yoga
About
Amita is a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher, Introductory II. She passed her Iyengar certification assessment in October 2015. She completed her Yoga Alliance teacher training with Richard Schachtel in 2010 at the Center for Yoga of Seattle. She received a scholarship from the Iyengar Regional Association to attend the Iyengar Yoga Conference in September 2011. She has also attended workshops with senior Iyengar teachers from India including Devki Desai, Rajlaxmi Nidmarti and Raya UD. In 2013, she completed a yoga intensive with Gabriella Giubilaro, a senior Iyengar certified teacher from Italy. Since 2014, she has studied with her mentors, internationally recognized and senior Iyengar teachers Lois Steinberg and Rebecca Lerner. She lives to travel to Pune, India to study at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute and has for a cumulative of 4 months over the past 3 years.
She is devoted to continuing her education whenever possible and shadowed Dr. Loren Fishman, a physical medicine and rehabilitation doctor in Manhattan, to study his use of western medicine with yoga therapy in 2013 and again in 2014.
She is also interested in the healing power of yoga and Ayurveda for ailments and special conditions.