Verna Reidy
One summer as a young teen, I signed up for both yoga and guitar lessons at the local Y. Learning to play the guitar was too much for me in comparison, so I stuck with the yoga. I had a book from a garage sale too. I was fond of mimicking the poses.
My introduction to yoga was happening in the early 70’s when it was still thought of as strange and mysterious and not something I could really explain then anyway, so I continued to practice what I had learned in class in my walk-in closet at home. The metaphor was not lost on me at the time, nor now. Life’s challenges holding us in our self-chosen boxes, the need to open doors, coming to the light of learning and enjoying life’s ah-ha’s, allowing oneself to be seen as one really is; all great metaphors and symbols for living and learning. What I love about yoga is that along the way, I learned it’s my own best medicine. As a yoga teacher, I hope to pass that on to other people.
It’s a process already unfolding in and around us all. Yoga is an art and science of being alive. Add a little more awareness, breath, and consciousness to your own process of living and you will begin to see that self responsibility is a path of peacefulness.
Verna has been a student of yoga since the age of thirteen. She began teaching yoga classes back in 1986, and got professionally certified at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, MA in 1991. She continued her training in Body/Mind integrative techniques and became professionally certified as a Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy practitioner in 1993. Currently, Verna reaches several weekly yoga classes in the Eugene area and works with clients and businesses on an individual basis. She enjoys her own daily practice as a source of renewal, vitality, strength and humor.