Susan Schmidt

I began my yoga journey almost 30 years ago with an immediate love for the practice and the benefits it brought into my life. After 3 years of a dedicated practice, I began teaching daily yoga and meditation classes at summer church retreats. This experience increased my awareness of how a yoga practice can offer the student a path of greater balance, peace, and inner stillness. After 30 years of practicing and teaching yoga, I see we are always a beginner standing naked before the Great Teacher within ourselves ready to be taught once again that which is ours for that day and that moment. If I can offer to a student a moment of peace, a word of wisdom or a new understanding of our true nature, then I have given something back to what has so richly served me---the yoga journey, a path to inner freedom.