“It [yoga] does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.” ~ BKS Iyengar.
Keri Lee is a certified Iyengar yoga teacher.
She has assisted on research studies with UCLA for yoga and depression, anxiety and IBS. In addition, she has worked with veterans who have chronic headaches and migraines.
Her understanding of Iyengar yoga therapeutics comes from extensive training and experience over the last 15 years. Keri has been and is intensively studying yoga philosophy with Gitte Bechsgaard.
Her initial exposure to yoga began when she was performing in Broadway shows, her career prior to teaching yoga. Yoga classes were offered to interested cast members before the show. Keri gave it a whirl. About seven years later, she was in a yoga teacher training program and was asked to teach her first pose, adho mukha svanasana (downward facing dog). Keri’s experience as a professional dancer, her long term spiritual pursuit, a fascination with words and the 15 years of teaching dance and exercise classes seemed to meld together for her when she taught her first yoga pose. It was clear that she had finally found her long sought after new career and life pursuit.
Soon she started taking Iyengar yoga. The things that stood out to her were seeing people standing on their heads for extended amounts of time and noticing that every class was a different sequence. As Keri continues to study and teach Iyengar yoga she sees the enormous artistry which is required in the yoga practice and teaching, as well as the creativity and freedom it can unfold.
She is especially grateful for the influence of Martha Yoshida, the creator of the movement principles of The Yoshida Technique and her New York ballet teacher Finis Jhung.
Hopefully her precision, humor, compassion and devotion will begin to help students reap the benefits and transformation of yoga.
