SUSAN WILSON

MASTER YOGA AND MEDITATION TEACHER
Yoga Alliance E-RYT 500 Certified Yamuna® Body Rolling Level 3 Practitioner and Therapist

Susan Wilson has been practicing yoga for 30+ years and teaching for over 20 years. Over the years she has passionately pursued an understanding of the true essence of yoga, a profound and deep interconnectedness of the body mind and spirit. Drawing upon this inspiration her teaching flows, creative, focused, yet sensitive to individual student needs while maintaining a firm foundation in the importance of alignment and correct technique.

Born and educated in London, England, Susan's fascination with yoga began there as a young teenager which has continued ever since. Early on she attended classes with B.K.S. Iyengar when he was at the Institute in London. After moving to the U.S.A. in 1979 she began studying with two local Montclair, NJ teachers, Susan Morton and Esther Lampert, who both encouraged her to teach. In 1983, after completing four years of intense study, practice and training she began teaching at the Yoga & Meditation Center of Montclair.

An Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher certified through Yoga Alliance to train teachers as well as to teach yoga, Susan's teaching approach is diverse and multi-dimensional. Influenced by her many years of study in the style of B.K.S. Iyengar, with teachers including Kofi Busia, Patricia Walden, Nancy Stechert, Gabriella Guiblaro, Mira Mehta, Ramanand Patel, Dona Holleman and Rodney Yee and then more recently by the more fluid and innovative style of Angela Farmer and Victor Van Kooten. Studying philosophy, meditation, Sanskrit mantra, chanting, and the chakra system for eight years with Shyam Bhatnagar and Dahliana Hohe at the Sri Centre in Princeton, NJ, enhanced her awareness and appreciation of the subtle energy system and the powerful effect of mantra and sound on the physical, mental and emotional bodies. She has trained with Yamuna Zake in NYC and is a certified Level 3 Yamuna Body Rolling Practitioner and Therapist. A truly unique approach to fitness YBR™ adds yet another facet to Susan's practice and teaching.

Continually expanding and exploring, Susan has been a long time student of Tibetan Buddhism, having the good fortune of extensive study with, most notably, Acharya Ani Pema Chodron and Robert Thurman, Ph.D and attending teachings with H.H. Dalai Lama whenever he’s in the NY area. Following her interest in non-dual wisdom, taking two 9-month Radiant Mind Training Courses with Peter Fenner, Ph.D, Susan has in November 2009 completed Peter’s Non-Dual Teacher Training Course. This unique training, a synthesis of many of the powerful non-dual wisdom traditions such as Mahamudra, Madhyamika, Advaita, Zen and Dzogchen has refined and enhanced Susan’s capacity to share the nondual as a component of her teaching.