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Patricia
Mickelberry is an Affiliated Anusara Yoga Instructor, one of only
eight in North Carolina. She is also certified in the Anusasa
tradition by Willow Street Yoga Center, having completed their year-long,
400-hour teacher training program. She taught yoga for nine
years in Durham and Chapel Hill, as well as at the American Dance
Festival land at regional modern dance festivals.
Long a dedicated Ashtanga Yoga practitioner, she more recently embraced
Anusara Yoga, due to it's theraputic benefits and spiritual energy.
Having overcome more than a decade of chronic pain through her practice
of Anusara--and hoping to help others do the same-- she has trained
with Anusara Yoga founder John Friend in the theraputic applicationof
that method. She helps guide students who are struggling with
pain patterns into mindful engagement with the Anusara alignment principles,
so they can discover new freedom and joy in their bodies. For
all students, she strives to make her classes seriously playful, invoking
a deeper sense of purpose in the practice while also welcoming the
exuberance that flows naturally from the heart.
Before beginning her studies with John Friend, she trained with Senior
Iyengar teacher and author of Yoga Journal's "Asana" column
Aadil Palkhivala, for whom she also performs editorial services.
She has studied, albeit less extensively, with master teachers Richard
Freeman, Chuck Miller, Maty Ezraty, and Sri K. Pattabhi Jois.
Above all, she honors as her teachers three women with whom she has
had a weekly Ashtanga Practice group for more than six years: Suzanne
Faulker, Kathy Hallen, Nancy Kimberly. That practice group and
the spiritual community that has grown out of it continue to be her
primary sources of challenge, love, and inspiration.
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