NORTHERN LIGHT YOGA

Rebecca Rivers, owner of Northern Light Yoga, has been practicing yoga for more than 20 years. She began yoga to cultivate inner stillness and to manage migraine headaches and neck pain resulting from scoliosis. In 2001, she discovered Svaroopa ® yoga and in particular its value during pregnancy and delivery. Impressed by how much her teacher knew about the body, Rebecca began teacher training, and became a certified Svaroopa ® yoga teacher in 2007 and an Embodyment® Yoga therapist in 2005. She has been teaching regular classes since 2004 and is registered with Yoga Alliance as a teacher at the 500-hour level.

Along the way, Rebecca discovered the tremendously healing and transformative powers of svaroopa, the inner experience of bliss that characterizes this style of yoga. Rebecca brings a variety of skills and experience to her teaching. She also draws on her background as a research scientist with a Ph.D. in biology to bring an investigative approach to exploring the body through yoga. She draws on her years of experience as a university professor to communicate effectively and engagingly with her students. She also brings a deep compassion to her teaching and therapy, borne out of her own experiences of living with pain and her love of deeper practice.