Suzanne's Teaching Schedule:
Sunday Level I 11:00am - 12:30am
Tuesday Level II 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Tuesday Level I 7:15pm - 8:30pm
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Suzanne Teachey believes her role as a yoga teacher is to serve and uplift each student and to support them in connecting with their innate wisdom. When she reflects back on the life choices that eventually led her to yoga and to Anusara yoga in particular, service and deepening connection with the heart have been her constant guides. She explored hot yoga, power vinyasa, and the Iyengar styles before finding her home in the Anusara tradition. She finds its life-affirming, heart-centered, and alignment-based focus particularly well suited to lead students on a journey that leaves them feeling open, energized, and at peace. Suzanne is also fascinated by the study of alignment and anatomy. In addition to exploration of the inner landscape, she teaches a well rounded physical practice in which each student discovers something new about his or her own patterns of movement or musculature. The focus on alignment allows each student to modify as needed and to work at an appropriate level.
Suzanne’s path to yoga was a circuitous one. She left a career as an attorney and followed her heart to become an herbalist and to pursue her love of natural medicine. Years later, in 2002, she turned to yoga for stress relief and exercise during an especially challenging time in her life. She was hooked after her first class. Only later did she discover that she had dived into a deep ocean of wisdom and practice that would profoundly change her life. She became a certified teacher in 2008. Suzanne has studied with Sarahjoy Marsh, Elizabeth Rainey, and Sianna Sherman, who have most strongly influenced her practice and teaching. She is also deeply grateful to her meditation teacher, Paul Muller-Ortega.
Suzanne has a special interest in working with people who are differently-abled, living with chronic or life threatening conditions, or unlikely to have access to yoga due to economic or other social barriers. She has trained with Jnani Chapman to teach yoga to people with cancer and is an active volunteer yoga teacher and board member with Yoga Behind Bars, a local non-profit that teaches yoga to incarcerated and at-risk youth and adults in Washington.:
From "Meet the Instructor: Suzanne Teachey" from the July 15 Two Dog Newsletter:
My heart holds within it every form,
it contains a pasture for gazelles,
a monastery for Christian monks.
There is a temple for idol-worshippers,
a holy shrine for pilgrims;
There is the table of the Torah,
and the Book of the Koran.
I follow the religion of Love
and go whichever way His camel leads me.
This is the true faith; this is the true religion.Ibn Arabi
I am delighted to begin teaching a Sunday morning class at Two Dog Yoga and look forward to meeting
all of you. For many of us, regardless of our religious or spiritual beliefs, Sunday is a time when the
pace of life slows, we rest, take time to relax, or spend quality time with friends and family. On a recent
sunny Sunday morning, one of the first we have experienced in some time, I was out in the garden early
watering the seeds I planted yesterday and the young plants. The cool air and promise of warmth later in
the day inspired in me an awe and reverence for life—the same feeling that often comes over me on the
yoga mat. Yoga has helped me to appreciate how precious is the stillness within and the importance of
allowing time to simply be in my body.
I left a career as an attorney to become an herbalist and to follow an inner calling I did not fully
understand. Years later I turned to yoga for stress relief and exercise during a particularly challenging
time in my life. I turned to yoga for so little, but it has given me so much. Though it took many years,
yoga has taught me to let go of over-striving and over-efforting—something I became very good at as
a lawyer. Yoga taught me to be in my body and to appreciate the body as the sacred vessel in which we
experience our deepest connection. Yoga gave me the spaciousness to turn within, to truly listen to my
heart, and to understand that deep inner calling.
My calling as a yoga teacher is one of service. I value inclusion and access to yoga for everyone
regardless of their physical ability, or social or economic status. In addition to my public classes, I teach
yoga at the Monroe County Correctional Complex as a volunteer and serve on the Board of Yoga Behind
Bars, a Seattle-based non-profit that teaches yoga and meditation to incarcerated youth and adults.
I look forward to meeting you on this sacred journey and serving you on an up-coming Sunday at Two
Dog Yoga. From my heart to yours, Namaste.
