Anne Horan

Yoga was supposed to be just a P.E. credit my freshman year in college while on the side I was an avid weight trainer who loved body building. Instead, yoga turned out to be a lifetime of yoga practice and instruction. It offered strength building, necessary stretching and much-needed relaxation strategies. Yoga carried me through pregnancies, a car accident, shoulder surgery, a masters degree in rehabilitation psychology, two doctoral degrees, and daily life. That’s why teaching yoga also became a passion—to share an extraordinary fitness regime with others. 

Teaching is so rewarding! I see yoga as a fitness regime rather than an Eastern spiritual practice. So a student attending my classes would experience a variety of music choices, iron yoga to develop strength more effectively in an hour long class, a variety of stretches, a focus on a broad spectrum of muscles, connective tissues, and joints, alternates for traditional poses using straps and blocks, and closure with guided relaxation.  Since the mid-1990’s, I have taught upper elementary and teen classes at a K-12 private school using contemporary upbeat music, mixed age classes ranging from young adults to senior citizens, to senior citizen classes and restorative classes.  As founder of Poetry Yoga, I am a RYT200 and trained in touch yoga and therapeutic pediatric yoga as well as a published researcher on stress management and spiritual formation. All yoga classes are a joy to teach!