“A Jivamukti Yoga class with Michele is physically and spiritually uplifting; she teaches yoga as a means to enlightenment, and awakens your remembrance of what is eternally beautiful and absolutely peaceful.” – Sharon Gannon: Co-founder and Guru of Jivamukti Yoga
Contact Michele: Michele@swanriveryoga.com
Keith Porteous: Co-Owner of all Swan River Yoga Locations
Born in New Orleans, Alexandra Keith Porteous (who has always been called Keith) attended Trinity School,just down the street from Swan River Yoga Shala. Trinity’sexcellent music program helped fuel her fascination with music, largelyinspired by her immensely talented Grandmother, “BigKeith”. She left New Orleans for boarding school followedby college at Princeton University, where she was a history major (witha focus in Medieval Studies). She moved to New York City aftercollege in the hopes of pursuing a singing career (once again,encouraged by Big Keith, who attended her first New York performance ina bar on Bleecker Street). Working during the day and auditioningor performing at night, stress began to take its toll. Afterbeing introduced to the daily yoga classes at the Jivamukti Center onLafayette Street, she knew she had found the one thing that could keepher glued together. Beginning with her first class in 1999(Kristina Pao Cheng brought her to a class instructed by Kelly Morris)she became a constant student.
After the events of both September 11th and Hurricane Katrina, it became apparent to her that she wanted to do something to help those affected by these traumas, but she felt ill-equipped to do so. After her father’s death from cancer in 2006, she realized that what she could do was share what had been most helpful to her, yoga, with others. She attended the Jivamukti Teacher Training in 2007 under the mentorship of her teacher and dear friend Kristina Pao Cheng. She’s happier than ever to be home in New Orleans, sharing what she loves and once again singing at Trinity, this time as a member of the Yellowdog Prophet Choir under the instruction of Albinas Prizgintas. In addition to Jivamukti classes, she teaches a special yoga class inspired by the “Labyrinth” event at Trinity every Tuesday evening. See class descriptions.
She is deeply thankful to Michele Baker, to Sharon Gannon and David Life, the founders of Jivamukti Yoga,to all her family, with reverence for her recently departed father andgrandmother, and to Kristina Cheng, without whom none of this everwould have happened.
Keith is also a new proud mother to Hanuman Arthur Meade October 9, 2008, and a mother to be in March, 2011.
In 2009 Keith completed the Advanced Swan River Yoga Traning.
Contact Keith: Keith@swanriveryoga.com
About Kim Martin: Co--Director of our Yoga For The People! Community Outreach program.
Kim Martin began her practice of yoga in 2004 and considers herself extraordinarily lucky to have begun that sacred study with Michele Baker at various locations throughout New Orleans. After practicing for a very short time, Kim felt such an improved state of well-being—spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically—that she knew a serious yoga practice would encompass the rest of her life. She often says, “Yoga has saved my life at least three times over,” and she shares her stories at length with anyone who will listen.
A Florida native, Kim did her graduate studies in gender, race and class issues in American literature at University of Florida in Gainesville. In 1998, she developed a strong interest in working with graduates of underperforming inner-city high schools. It was then that she visited New Orleans for the first time and was so moved by the city that she relocated within the year. Having taught and worked here since, she considers New Orleans home and has not been able to stay away for any significant period without knowing intensely what it means to miss New Orleans. The city’s travails have only strengthened her fierce love of the place and the people here.
Kim completed the Swan River Yoga Trainings and currently teaches community yoga classes in the Lower 9th Ward, as well as at Swan River Yoga Shala, and her priority is to further facilitate the study of yoga in areas of the city that have been underserved.
Contact Kim@swanriveryoga.com
Laura Sheffield; Aerial Yoga
Laura studied yoga off and on for 12 years until taking one of Michele's classes, where she then became highly devoted and aconstistant participant in the yoga teachings. This inspiringexperience led her to develop aserious practice. She then went on to receive her certificationfrom the SivanandaAshram in the mountains of Val Morin, Canada, a 200 challenging Teacher Training course with extensive discipline of asana, pranayama, jnana, raja, and bhakti yoga. Laura is currently working towards her Anusara certification, and hascompleted numerous workshops and Immersions with the likes of Jordan Bloom and Kelly Haas. She frequently works with students who are newto yoga, or those who have limitations due to injury. Laura alsoteaches yoga at The New Orleans Athletic Club, in local elementary schools and a women's shelter.
About Aaron Lind; Swan River Yoga Mentor, Kirtan Musician, and Workstudy Manager
Aaron Lind M.A., is an Anusara Inspired Teacher as of 2011 and completed Swan River Yoga training in 2008 developed by Michele Baker.. He has also studied alignment and body mechanics extensively with Cat McCarthy, Zhenja LaRosa, and Jordan Bloom of Anusara Yoga, and completed Martin Kirk's Anusara anatomy training for yoga teachers in Chapel Hill, NC. He is incredibly grateful to all his teachers for sharing incredible healing wisdom that has brought him much relief and joy, which he wishes to share as a teacher. He is very excited to share his knowledge of yoga in its many forms with the wonderful New Orleans community. Aaron actively engages yoga as form of service, and strives to provide students with a skillful blend of intelligent alignment, flowing vinyasa, and deep yogic philosophy.
A native of Boise, ID Aaron moved to New Orleans in 2001 to participate in the incredible local music scene and complete Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Jazz Guitar from the University of New Orleans. He brings his musical experience to Swan River in the form of Kirtan events, Mantra classes, and uplifting chants in yoga classes. Aaron's intention for teaching yoga is to provide students with an opportunity to deepen their experience of life on and off the mat by creatively engaging bodies, hearts, and minds to flow more gracefully in the currents of our everyday experiences. Namaste!
Contact Aaron@swanriveryoga.com
About Addy Meisenheimer
Addy discovered yoga in 1999. As a college student, yoga brought her a sense of strength and balance to be prepared to deal with many of life’s challenges. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of New Orleans in General Studies with a focus in Women Studies and Anthropology with the hopes of studying birth from a cross-cultural perspective.
Addy’s mother was a midwife who taught her to have respect for and fascination with the world of birth. Exposed to pregnant women her whole life, Addy’s attraction to the world of birth has only deepened throughout her life. She feels so grateful for being born into this world of women and babies.
In 2007 she attended a 200hr yoga teacher training in Sedona, Arizona and there realized that her two passions could become one; yoga and birth. As a prenatal teacher Addy wants the women to recognize and learn through pregnancy and birth their personal inner strengths and beauty by using yoga as a tool. Addy completed the Advanced Swan River Yoga Training, and is currently training as a DONA certified doula and nurse.
Contact Addy@swanriveryoga.com
About Lauren Shepley
Lauren completed the first Swan River Yoga training in October, 2008, under the direction of Michele Baker. She took her first class in High school and found herself being continuously drawn to classes throughout college, after which she decided that she wanted to share yoga by teaching. After moving to New Orleans in 2003 to attend Tulane, Lauren fell in love with the music, people, and vitality of the city, unveiling her rebel nature and revealing the explosive possibilities of life. At Tulane Lauren studied psychology and Latin American Studies and taught english as a second language. Her greatest passion is traveling, a time when all of her interests merge and unity exists.
Contact: Lauren@swanriveryoga.com
Lindsey Crow
Lindsey is a local actor and improv comedian who moonlights as a law student at Loyola University College of Law. She is a native New Orleanian and spent time teaching in Orleans Parish public schools. She has recently begun teaching yoga at schools in our community. Lindsey has been passionately practicing the art of yoga for 4 years and loves nothing more. She completed the Swan River Yoga training.
Contact Lindsey@swanriveryoga.com
Tony Cassatt: Founder of 12 Step Yoga
Tony complete the Swan River Yoga training and is devoted yogi who has studied consistantly with Michele Baker since the year 2000 when he came into class with tremendous pain and scepticism, which instantly turned into surrender and being one of Michele's most devoted students and friend. He now has an incredible yoga and meditation practice, taking his devotion of practice and service very seriously. Tony just started the first "12 Step Yoga Program" ever in New Orleans similiar to the 12 Step of A.A., which will focus on assisting those with addictive tendancies. in our city and turning them into healing life affirming traits. We are very proud to have this program at Swan River Yoga.Tony will also assist a yoga program specializing on reaching out to Veterans of war as his passion for the topic of Ahimsa increases, and those that have been through the challenging experience of loss of love ones passing on.
Being a Bhakti Yogi, Tony is an avid dancer who can tear it up all night with his dancing shoes on in celebration. He is a huge supporter of local music and second lining in the community, and a Fine Art collector, being of the infamous Mary Cassatt family lineage. Tony has also just announced his engagement to his beloved Natalie to take her hand in marriage!
Tony@swanriveryoga.com
Jim Baird: Co-Caretaker of our Downtown Marigny Location
Jim first fell in love with Hatha Yoga many years ago, but it took the events surrounding Katrina to ignite his passion. Under the watchful eye of his teacher, Michele Baker, his practice blossomed and he realized his path was to share his joy with others. With his recent training from Swan River Yoga he is determined to bring his knowledge and enthusiasm to those beginning or renewing their practice of Hatha Yoga. Jim co-owns a popular New Orleans restaurant, making him mindful of the difficulties and benefits of making Yoga a part of your daily regimen.
Contact Jim@swanriveryoga.com
Stephanie Smith
Having practiced Yoga for 9 years, with the last six (6) as a student of Michele Baker and Jivamukti, Steph deeply understands the transformational aspects of Yoga and brings this awareness into her class. As a devoted kundalini Yoga student, she interweaves breathing exercises (pranayama) from this style of practice to offer additional benefits. Her background is diverse and covers a range of experiences, such as: collegiate athlete at Michigan State University, Masters Degree in Coastal Ecology from LSU, designed and developed the West Nile Virus Surveillance System for the Louisiana Office of Public Health, which has won international and national recognition for Louisiana. Her passions include film making with an emphasis on educational DVD’s, environmental/social issues, and herbal medicine. The goal of her class is to blend metaphysical themes with the physical experience to encourage perspective shifts for a joyful and steady connection with our environment, community, self and beyond. Starting 2010 she will design her class to focus on the chakra system to bring insight to areas that need liberation. It will run as a continuous series.
Contact Stephanie@swanriveryoga.com
Lori Tipton
Lori loves yoga so much that she doesn’t even care if you mock her about it. After several years of a very tumultuous relationship with yoga, in 2006 she became dedicated to a serious practice. Under the guidance of the future guru, Michelle Baker, yoga became less of something she did for exercise and anger management, and more of a way of life. In 2009 shecompleted Michelle Baker’s Swan River Teacher Training. In retrospect, she feels this certification was just as important and challenging as her degree in Psychology from Tulane University. Prior to her yoga training, Lori studied Psychology and Sociology at Tulane and was involved in such eclectic and fun organizations as the Big Easy Roller Girls (Whore T. Culture) and the WhirlyBones Circus Variety Collective. She is eternally grateful to all those teachers, friends, naysayers and life lessons which have helped to make her the person she is today!
Lori plans to bring meaning, laughter, hard work and good music to her Swan River Yoga classes. She is developing her own style of “Awesome-asana” using the valuable tenets of Michelle’s teaching. She and Jacksun Slaughter are also planning the first practice of “Yoga on the Rocks” which involves neither physical asana or literal rocks but lots of laughter, soul searching and Bhav-ka (Bhav + Vodka). She feels so lucky to live in a city as beautifully diverse as New Orleans, and looks forward to sharing all aspects of yoga with her community.
Lori’s heart is bursting with love and gratitude for her father, Billy Tipton; her guru, Michelle Baker; her personal Vishnu, Andy Overslaugh; her partner in crime, Jacksun Slaughter, and her beloved pups, Brando & Harlow.
XOXO
“Everybody knows that there is a place which is totally fulfilling. Not a desperate flick of fulfillment, it is a state of fulfillment. You may experience despair that you’ll never know that. Good! Because through that despair comes surrender and through that surrender you get closer to it.” - Ram Dass
Contact Lori@swanriveryoga.com
Cassie Segal
Cassie Segal is a yoga teacher in Swan River Yoga style developed by Michele Baker. She has also studied alignment and body mechanics extensively with Cat McCarthy, Laura Flora, Scotta Brady, Zhenja LaRosa, Kelly Haas and Jordan Bloom of Anusara Yoga. She has 50 hours of Anusara level one teacher training. She began to practice yoga in 2003 with Kelly Panus, Cheryl Golich and Sean Johnson. In 2008, she began studying with Michele Baker, ERYT. She has 16 total hours of training in Thai Massage from Michael Buck (aka Mukti) and Saul David Raye. "I am incredibly grateful to all my teachers for sharing this incredible healing wisdom that has brought me much joy and for their love and support throughout my budding practice. I wish to share this wisdom as a teacher." She strives to provide students with a skillful blend of intelligent alignment, flowing vinyasa, and deep yogic philosophy.
Contact Cassie@swanriveryoga.com
Haiyan Khan; Co-Owner Swan River Yoga Community Center: Yoga and Seva in Arabi, LA (w Michele Baker and Keith Porteous) and Swan River Yoga Mentor.
Haiyan’s first introduction to yoga was through an old raggedy book in the library of a dusty Chicago building in 2003. The book titled “12 Lessons in Raja Yoga” engulfed him and he spent the next few months meditating on the first lesson. Though he never went past the first lesson, the book changed his life direction! (wonder what would have happened if he had read the rest of the 11 lessons!)
It was not long after that he was introduced to Hatha Yoga. While he initially struggled with this aspect of yoga, over time a sweet harmony was created between the physical and meditative aspects of yoga
While continuing the study of meditation, through various Buddhist traditions and recently through self Inquiry, he joined the Swan River Yoga Training in 2009. Under Michelle’s guidance he has learned the basics of yoga and embodying the teachings. He is very grateful for the opportunity to share the gift of yoga with anyone who is interested.
Curious by nature, Haiyan loves to play in and explore this crazy, lunatic,illusary and yet adorable experience called life.
Contact Haiyan@swanriveryoga.com
Tess Monaghan
Tess Monaghan feels extremely lucky to have found the special community that is Swan River Yoga shortly after moving to New Orleans from New York in January of 2008. She completed the Swan training in 2009 When she is not practicing yoga, Tess heads up Build Now, a non-profit organization that constructs new houses for families who lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina. She has found yoga to be a powerful and inspiring complement to this work and is excited to have the opportunity to share the benefits of yoga with others. Tess is grateful for all of her teachers -- everyone at Swan River Yoga; her clients and colleagues at Build Now; friends and family; and the music, people, and culture of New Orleans.
Contact Tess@swanriveryoga.com
Catherine Burke
Catherine Burke began studying yoga in New Orleans over ten years ago with Alvina Haverkamp, when yoga studios were a rare sight in the city. She left New Orleans in 2000 to study art at the Cooper Union in NYC, and all of a sudden started seeing people everywhere walking around carrying yoga mats. In New York she discovered the larger world of yoga at the Jivamukti Yoga Center in the East Village, as well as at various neighborhood yoga studios. After receiving her BFA in 2004, she travelled to India and studied yoga in Rishikesh. Since returning to her hometown in 2007, she has been blown away by the high integrity of yoga that has developed in New Orleans, under the guidance of Michele, Keith, and Libby. Shecompleted the Swan River training in October of 2009 and is excited to now share with her students the inspiration and knowledge she has been so lucky to receive from all the wonderful teachers in her life. Eternal thanks and love to Michele for her love and devotion to yoga and New Orleans.
Contact Catherine@swanriveryoga.com
JackSUN (Jackie) Slaughter
Jacksun's (Jackie Sumell) classes infuse a sense of play with strength, her ultimate class constructs a space where you work really hard with out realizing it-- where you leave feeling complete, having worked really hard but barely noticed because you laughed through out. Jacksun has been committed to the practice of yoga as a form of innercise since 2004. Her teachers include 120-year old Swami Bua and his disciple Angela Caruso, both living and working in New York, her Jnana Guru's Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox and Robert King- and of course the Morpheus love light guidance of Michele Baker. She can not express enough gratitude through words to her distinct and subtle teachers, but hopes it is expressed through the power and play of her classes and community commitments.
Contact Jackie@swanriveryoga.com
Alison Androw
Ali Androw completed the Swan River Yoga style developed by Michele Baker. Ali has practiced yoga and Pilates collectively for years, but in 2007, when she discovered Swan River, she became fully enveloped by the deep wisdom that yoga brings. She offers her profound gratitude to Michele Baker, Libby Bryan, and Keith Porteous with whom she has found her voice as a teacher. The yoga community is vital to Ali’s growth as a yogini and teacher, and she is honored to share her practice with the incredible people she meets. Ali has completed the Anusara Level I Immersion and continues to take workshops to broaden her knowledge base.
Combining introspection and intelligence, Ali’s classes offer a dynamic way to deepen the yoga practice on and off the mat. Guided by the breath, Ali’s classes invite students to expand their awareness by gently exploring their edges of flexibility, strength and endurance, while connecting to a peaceful, meditative state. Ali’s teachings come from place of love and service to her community, encouraging students to feel empowered, centered, and energized. Her classes are inspirational, supportive, and constantly evolving.
Ali earned her B.A. in English from Tulane in 2006 and has been a proud resident of New Orleans since 2002. She gets her daily dose of light and laughter from her middle school students to whom she teaches composition and literature. Ali is enthusiastic about being a part of the growing acrobatic yoga community in New Orleans and is a proud core member of the Submarigny Submarine Club of Undersea Pleasures performance collective! Om, y’all!
Contact: AliJandro@swanriveryoga.com
Alethia Picciola
Alethia's love for yoga started in 2000 at a Kundalini studio in Houma, LA. She went on to study Zen Buddhism and Sufi Dance Meditation before joining the Swan River Family. She finished her 350 hr. Swan River Yogatraining in October of 2010. Alethia is also attending LSU's School of Social Work where she is researching meditation techniques used in the therapeutic process.
Contact: Alethia@Swanriveryoga.com
Charles Handler
Charles has been practicing Yoga for almost ten years. He started taking classes with Michelle in 2002 at her first studio on Piety street. Until 2009, Charles cultivated a regular practice that saw him taking a class once or twice a week. During the economic downturn in 2009, Charles found himself with a lot of time on his hands and began to relieve stress by increasing both the physical and metaphysical intensity of his studies, leading directly to his interest taking the path of a teacher.
Charles has almost ten years of classroom teaching experience, using his Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology to both teach and practice as the head of a small consulting company. As both a Psychologist and a Yogi, Charles is interested in exploring the relationship between the two disciplines and finding a place for a new brand of positive psychology in his professional work.
Charles is a native of Knoxville, TN but counts New Orleans as his permanent home and the place where he truly belongs, and has made it part of his mission to support the local grassroots art scene by running a small gallery and theater venue here. He is also an artist, specializing in sculpture and the exploration of the automobile as an iconic art form.
Most of all Charles loves to celebrate life and always makes sure not to take things too seriously while still honoring the highest intentions and maintaining the highest integrity.
Contact: Charles@Swanriveryoga.com
Kristin Hughes
Kristin Hughes moved from California to New Orleans in July 2009 to teach Physics and Chemistry at a public high school in the Upper Ninth Ward. After only a few months in New Orleans practicing at Swan River, she realized she wanted to teach yoga too! At the end of October 2010 Kristin completed the Swan River Training and can’t wait to share her enthusiasm for yoga with new students. She loves the richness of the practice and the joy and balance it brings. Her personal practice also includes twice daily meditation and breathing exercises as taught by the Art of Living Foundation. Kristin believes everyone deserves to give themselves the gift of meditation and yoga and realize that at our core we are love, peace, and joy.
Contact: KristinH@swanriveryoga.com
Kristin Johnson
Contact: KristinJ@swanriveryoga.com
Lisa Dunn: Founder, Amrita Massage Sanctuary
Lisa combines her experience as a Swan River Yoga teacher
and massage therapist to teach unique, skillful and nurturing yoga
classes, and private sessions including yoga, Thai yoga massage and
massage therapy.
She completed her 200hr training with Michele Baker in the first training of its kind in New Orleans through Swan River Yoga.
Lisa perused her interest in massage therapy at Blue Cliff School of
Therapeutic Massage earning a national certification with over 700
educational hours. She has since completed beginning and advanced Thai
Massage training and has ventured to Thailand.
Founder and owner of Amrita massage, the in-house studio at Swan River
Yoga Shala on Magazine st., she uses a therapeutic approach where with
sacred intention she believes yoga and massage can access ones own
inner healer and assist in healing and reconnecting one to the Divine
within themselves.
Lisa is a professional and is dedicated to her continuing education and
experience of yoga and massage in all its many forms.
Contact: Lisa@swanriveryoga.com
Mary Glackmeyer
Mary Glackmeyer completed the Swan River Yoga training and joined the New Orleans community in June 2009. She is a graduate of The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Modern Dance Performance. Upon graduation Mary moved to New York City and danced professional with many choreographers and companies. She toured internationally with Silver-Brown Dance which also brought her to New Orleans for the first time in April 2007. The company built a mentoring program through dance for the students at Warren Easton High School. Even though Mary knew she was forever changed by her experience in New Orleans, the students she worked with and their stories, she had no idea what seed had been planted. The company returned to Warren Easton in the fall of that year. After that, Mary frequented New Orleans nearly every other month. Eventually realizing that her heart longed for New Orleans, she decided to make the move. Shortly after moving, she was introduced to Swan River Yoga by a friend and found her calling. She completed the Swan River Yoga Teacher Training under the direction of her dear teacher Michele Baker and is honored to be a part of the Swan River Family. She is also thrilled to be teaching right across the street from Warren Easton High School at the mid-city location. Mary teaches a Swan River Yoga class that honors many influences and teachers. She is very grateful to her family and her New Orleans family for their support and love. And most of all to the amazing teachers of Swan River Yoga and her mentor, Michele Baker.
Contact: Mary@swanriveryoga.com
Sarah Quintana
Sarah Quintana is a traditional jazz vocalist, guitarist, singer-songwriter and daughter of New Orleans. She is a vibrant and much-loved performer in the New Orleans musical community. Her songs ring true to her musical upbringing, trails and travels after hurricane Katrina, and her passion for learning, growing and sharing. Sarah got into yoga in 2008 because she wanted to relive stress and improve her breathing and stage performance; it turns out a steady yoga practice can relieve stress, can improve singing and stage performance, it can spark a personal, creative renaisance and it will increase your enjoyment of life.
Sarah plays regularly around the city of New Orleans, with various jazz ensembles and writes folk/jazz standards on the café circuit. Her weekly performances are always exciting with guest musicians from all over the world. After Katrina, Sarah went to France for the first time as a CODOFIL scholar to teach English. She attributes her singing career to mal du pays. In 2009, Sarah opened up her set at Jazz Fest with a Bessie Smith cover— "Baby wont you Please Come Home," as a dedication to Katrina victims. Later that year, she played Voodoo Fest and hosted a kid's music camp at the Big Top Three Ring Circus. This summer she sang at the Lincoln Center with the New Orleans Moonshiners and met up with vocalist Marion Rampal in France for musical adventures.
Sarah studied Jazz at NOCCA, has a bachelor’s degree in English Literature & French from Loyola University of New Orleans and is now Swan RiverYoga instructor. Her artistic conviction is to honor the cultural wealth of New Orleans by sharing it. Sarah is very grateful for all of her dear yoga teachers, music teachers, the New Orleans music and dance scene, and the support of her friends, fans and family. She is grateful for all of her life’s lessons, even the aches and pains of hurricanes and she is grateful to Ingrid Lucia for the following quote: "Do the best you can everytime and you are garunteed to grow."
Contact: Sarah@swanriveryoga.com
Serena Chaudhry (RYT 200 Hours)
In 2007, Serena completed a 200-hour Ashtanga yoga teacher training at Yoga Vermont and has been teaching Ashtanga inspired Vinyassa classes up and down the northeast corridor since. For Serena, the best part of teaching has been making the connection between mind, body and breath. Taking time to explore the interconnectedness of the three, and gently teasing out and sharing the thread that binds them. Serena explored the intersection between the eight-limb path of Ashtanga yoga philosophy and public health social work by teaching trauma-sensitive yoga at a community counseling center and the Trauma Center in Boston. She continues to be inspired by yoga’s ability to heal people physically, mentally, and emotionally and is mindful of these elements in both community and clinically based classes. Serena’s creative sequences and flowing style incorporate gentle and vigorous elements into practice with an emphasis on how strength of body is supported by the flow of breath. She practiced and taught throughout her pregnancy and is excited to share her experience with students preparing for birth and motherhood.
Contact: Serena@swanriveryoga.com
Susan Hume
Oh…to be like the one.
Filled with power, beauty, grace…
who journeys out upon the vast sea…
“alone”,
In search of fertile pastures
and sheltered beaches
Imagine the risks!
…The Freedom!
Grazing her way, from dawn to dusk,
with an ever watchful eye
To an ever changing world.
An eye that also serves…
as a window
into her very deep and venerable,
peaceful,
old soul.
oh…to be like this one.
~ Antoinette Crouch (Susan's mother)
Susan completed the 2010 Swan River Yoga Teacher Training!
Contact: Susan@Swanriveryoga.com
T.R. Johnson
T. R. Johnson began studying and practicing yoga in the summer of 1999 when he first moved to New Orleans. He grew up in Louisville, has lived in Chicago and Boston, and has been living in The Bywater for a little over ten years. He hosts a radio program on WWOZ 90.7 FM every Tuesday afternoon from 4:00pm to 7:00, and he teaches in the English Department at Tulane. He completed the Swan River Yoga training in October of 2010.
Contact: TR@swanriveryoga.com
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