Nancy Doherty

Nancy Doherty is a certified, registered Yoga Therapist and Yoga and Pilates instructor. Teaching since 2001 and out of her own studio since 2004, group and private sessions, classes and workshops are held in her studio and client's workplaces.  She provides individual and group classes in yoga and Pilates, helping her clients gain flexibility, conditioning and physical training.  She has taught classes in the New York tri-state area and in Jamaica. Some of the classes she offers are hatha yoga, kundalini yoga, yoga for fertility and conception, pre-natal yoga, post partum yoga and fitness, Mommy (or Daddy) and Me yoga, Mat Pilates, Combo fitness, meditation instruction, personal training, and specialized programs for weight loss and for athletes. 

Her specialty is designing individualized programs for her clients, based on each client's needs, goals and physical condition.  She teaches yoga therapy for healing and prevention of illness and as adjunct therapy to medical therapies, for example, dealing with side effects of cancer treatment. Her areas of specialty in yoga therapy are anxiety and depression, asthma, diabetes, yoga for fertility and conception and yoga for menopause.

She is a registered member of the Yoga Alliance, the national yoga certification organization as an E-RYT200 (experienced yoga teacher with over 200 hours of training and over 1,000 teaching hours) and RYT500 (yoga teacher with over 500 hours of training), member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists and the PhysicalMind Institute. She is a certified Pilates Master Practitioner and a certified Personal Trainer (ACFE, NOCA).  Nancy has studied with Maetreyii Nolan, Ph.D., Gloria Tucker, M.D., Sarasvati Buhrman, Ph.D., Jnani Chapman, R.N., and Sarita Shrestha, M.D. and others in the field of yoga therapy.  She is a member of the Rockland Business Association, a former President and member of the Rockland County Business Networking International and has been a member and former Director of the Rockland Business Women's Network for over a decade.  Nancy was the Stress Specialist and the Meditation Expert for the IVillage.com website, voted Best of the Web by Forbes.com. She also developed and managed MeditationGuides.com, teaching meditation teleclasses nationally and in the U.K.