Sunshine Deal

Sunshine was blessed to grow up with yoga. Since her Mom began practicing at the age of 17, she can't remember a time when the practice of yoga was not in her consciousness. She started her personal journey as a teenager when she began to explore not just asana but meditation as well. In 2004 Sunshine was involved in a bicycle accident that left her in need of surgery; and not wanting to live with the physical and emotional pain for the rest of her life she dedicated herself strongly to her practice in order to heal, and heal she did. It was this that inspired her to complete a yoga teacher training in July of 2007 at the Asheville Yoga Center with Stephanie Keach. She spent the following year traveling and training in India, including 2 months of Ashtanga in Mysore with Ajay Kumar of Sthalam8 Yoga Shala and 5 months at the Yoga Niketan ashram in Rishikesh.

Upon returning from India, Sunshine discovered and fell in love with Anusara Yoga and has studied with John Friend, Gina Minyard, Amy Ippoliti, Ross Rayburn, and Sara Faircloth.  She is currently working towards Anusara Inspired certification.

 

Sunshine's passion is to help others with physical injuries to help them come through the pain and past the fear and has studied yoga therapuetics to better serve her students.

 
A class with Sunshine will focus strongly on good alignment blended with compassion and joy for who you are and where you are. "We each bring something different to our mats and it is on our mats that we learn lessons that help us to live more free and from the heart."