Dorothy has been practicing various styles of yoga since 1990 and
has been teaching for the past 6 years. She is currently enrolled
in the Advanced Teacher Training Program with Master Yoga. She is
certified at the 500 hour level with Master Yoga and is a Certified
Embodiment® Therapist, a healing modality that enhances the benefits
of Svaroopa® Yoga. She studied at Integral Yoga Institute in
Virginia and is certified at the 200 hour level. She is registered
with Yoga Alliance. Dorothy practiced Zen Meditation for over 10
years and was a resident of Providence Zen Center for three years.
My first introduction with Svaroopa® Yoga was at Kripalu Institute
for wellness. I had enrolled in an Anatomy workshop given by Rama Berch. She would end each night with a yoga class. This was the first time I had experienced releasing
tensions in the body without efforting. Prior to this I had injured my neck and was being seen by a chiropractor weekly for
pain. After this weekend training, my neck pain was gone. This made
me very inquisitive about Svaroopa® Yoga which eventually led
from one course to another and into the teacher training program.
I am grateful to Svaroopa® Yoga for helping me to experience
body awareness, giving me the tools to release core tensions and open the body allowing it to heal before it becomes
a serious health issue.
“I became interested in Yoga around the same time I started
my Zen meditation training. Yoga complimented the meditation training,
by helping me to connect to my body & mind in ways that I had
never experienced before. I became aware of the layers of tension
held in the body that makes it tight, fatigued, and diseased. The
tools of yoga & meditation are gifts that help me to connect
to the inner source of healing, freeing me from physical and emotional
tensions, created sometimes by the mind alone. ”
Marlys Elliott
"I had long considered going to a yoga class "sometime." Finally, already in my fifties, I decided that it was "now or never" and went to a class through my local recreational commission. I was soon to learn that Svaroopa® is so supportive and healing that any aged person of any body shape and fitness level can benefit immensely from its techniques. That was five years ago, and the benefits just keep happening.
"After taking a few workshops, establishing a daily practice at home, and joining the advanced class, I wanted to learn even more about Svaroopa® yoga. Many years of teaching mathematics from middle school through college levels had given me the pleasure of sharing knowledge with others. Thus I decided to learn to teach Svaroopa® yoga so that I might have the pleasure of sharing it intentionally with others. I have been teaching beginning and continuing classes at Harmony in Yoga for a year now, and I am continually blessed by the experience."
