COLLEEN BRISCOE

YOGA ALLIANCE RYT® 200
Individualist Yoga LLC, Parkridge NJ (Director)
Yoga and Meditation Center of Montclair (Instructor)
Yamuna Body Rolling ® Level II Practitioner

Formerly a software engineer and now a full-time yoga instructor, Colleen has been practicing yoga for over twenty years. Her interest began with an introduction to Iyengar Yoga in 1982 in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe). Those early classes left a deep and lasting impression. The excellent physical condition and emotional well being of her instructors, all her seniors by several decades, was dramatic evidence of the valuable and positive influence that yoga provided.

Moving from Zimbabwe to the USA via the United Kingdom, Colleen began studying at the Yoga and Meditation Center of Montclair, NJ in 1995 and completed the teacher-training program in 2004. Individualist Yoga was established in Hillsdale, Bergen County in January 2005, and offers yoga taught in the Iyengar tradition, classical meditation and most recently Yamuna® Body Rolling.

Colleen continues to study and teach at the Center and to broaden her understanding of how to tailor yoga to unique conditions. To this end she has attended focus workshops for scoliosis and multiple sclerosis and has completed training in the Barnes Method Prenatal & Postpartum Yoga®.

Most recently, Colleen has added Yamuna® Body Rolling to her practice, finding this unique system wonderfully compatible with yoga and extremely helpful in unlocking tight areas in the body.  Classes in YBR are included on the current schedule.