About Mary

Mary Bruce has been practicing and teaching yoga for over 15 yrs. She is an ERYT 500 Registered Yoga Alliance teacher and Anusara Certified by John Friend. She is also a senior student of Rod Stryker's and a Level II Certified Para Yoga® Teacher. The synthesis of Anusara biomechanical principles of alignment along with heart-centered themes and the lineage and depth of knowledge of energetics of Tantric Hatha in the Para Yoga® style, is a complete yoga. All elements are present: Attention to detail (alignment), awareness of breath (pranayama), open to grace (attitude), intelligent sequencing (vinyasa krama), as well as Ayurveda, visualization, meditation and mantra. Both systems are based on the philosophy of Tantra, which is to blend, to weave, a treatise, a study in self, to thrive on all levels, to blend the material with the spiritual. It is the meeting of two oceans, powerful and deep, full and complete. She skillfully blends these two systems to create what she calls the perfect yoga for it allows you to see yourself as you are: already perfect and divine.

About Deborah

 Deborah Garland has been teaching yoga for  over 11 years.  She is a certified Registered Yoga Alliance RYT E-200 and RYT 500 teacher specializing in Yoga for Scoliosis and Yoga for Every Age and Body, utilizing the yoga rope wall.  She teaches in a fun, fluid style based in the classic traditions of yoga. Her classes incorporate breath (pranayama), alignment, fluid sequencing (krama vinyasa), meditation and energy movement (pranic flow). She encourages students to discover their highest sense of self-awareness, peace, and radiance from profound inner-knowing. Deborah's path in yoga, ayurveda and tantra has led her to many contemporary Master Teachers.  She has studied extensively with, and is eternally grateful to Shiva Rea, and to Swami Shankardev Saraswati of the Bihar School of Yoga (Satyananda Yoga).  Her teaching style and methods are also influenced by Erich Schiffman, Bhavani Maki, Elise Browning Miller, Gurmukh Khalsa, Dr. Vasant Lad, and Dr. David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri).When she is not studying or teaching yoga and ayurveda, Deborah is enjoying her two children, creating wood fired ceramics, gardening, hiking, traveling, and simply being.