Background
Anne Van de Water has been practicing yoga informally since she was four years old. Her dedicated, formal training began in 1992 and she has been a devoted practitioner ever since. Anne loves yoga so much that she became a teacher of this ancient art and science in 1994 so that she could be in the yoga zone all day long and share yoga’s gifts with the greater public.
Anne has studied and practices Ashtanga, Iyengar, Flow, Sivananda, Yin, Restorative, Hatha, Partner, Therapeutic and Kundalini yoga and Buddhist, Transcendental and Sound meditation. She received her first yoga teacher’s training certification from the White Lotus in 1994 and continued her studies of Iyengar and Sivananda yoga in India. She received her Integrative Yoga teacher’s training certificate in 1996 and trained with Sarah Powers and Paul Grilley in 2002. In 2007 she was awarded Yoga Alliance's Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher accreditation and has taught over 11,000 hours of yoga as of 2011.
Anne has traveled the world teaching yoga in California, Arizona, Hawaii, New York City, Indonesia, Thailand, India, London, Amsterdam, and Brazil. She has taught in yoga centers, gyms, hospitals, schools, offices, AIDS recovery homes, cancer centers, retreat centers and at yoga teacher training's.
In 2000 Anne created a yoga program for students and teachers in the public elementary and high schools of Santa Barbara called Yoganesha™ and has been teaching her Yoganesha Teaching Yoga to Children training since 2002. Anne holds a B.A. in Religious Studies from UCSB and has been a certified massage therapist since 1990 and incorporates hands on healing into her yoga classes. She currently lives in Santa Barbara, CA. where she teaches yoga classes to the public at Santa Barbara Yoga
Center, private sessions at people’s homes, at the Cancer Center of Santa
Barbara, and in the public and private schools of Santa Barbara.
Style
As a certified Yoga Therapist, Anne’s approach to yoga and her classes is compassionate and loving. As an aspiring spiritual warrior, her approach is disciplined and focused. As a lover of life, her approach is fun and easy going. Her intention is to blend these elements into her classes so that each session is holistically balanced. She has an “intuitively eclectic” style of teaching, drawing upon the many forms of yoga she has studied and practiced while tuning into the particular needs of the group she is working with. In each unique class, there is a strong emphasis on breath to invigorate the body and calm the mind. We rest in the stillness and peace of yin and restorative yoga poses while focusing on being rather than doing. We fluidly move with strength and flexibility through flow yoga poses where we focus on precision of alignment and self-empowerment. Kundalini Yoga, tai chi and chi gong are incorporated into classes to help move and harness life force energy. Time is spent in the silence of meditation and oftentimes we chant mantras using the healing sound of our own voices to transform stagnant energy into vitally positive states of being. Anne is a singer and song writer and knows the power and healing effects of sound and sings soothing and uplifting mantras to her students to help relax the body and open the heart. Anne’s mission is to support her students in connecting to their natural state of present, open, wakefulness, and to live life in integrity with who they truly are so that what is practiced on the mat is carried out into their lives off the mat.
2012 Workshops, Retreats & Special Events
BHAKTI YOGA TEACHER'S TRAINING at SB Yoga Center: August 19-21
ESALEN INSTITUTE www.esalen.org:
Fri, February 17 and March 9 @ 5pm ~ Restorative Yoga
Sat, February 18 and March 10 @ 2pm ~ A Journey Through the Chakras Workshop
Sun, February 19 and March 11 @ 7am ~ Prananyama Breath work
Sun, February 19 and March 11 @ 7:30am ~ Slow Flow Yoga
BHAKTI YOGA TEACHER'S TRAINING at SB Yoga Center: August 10-12
YOGANESHA YOGA FOR CHILDREN TEACHER'S TRAINING at SB Yoga Center: October 15-17
Winter 2012 Class Schedule
Tuesdays
6:30-8pm: Level 2 yoga class at www.santabarbarayogacenter.com / open to the general public
Wednesdays
2-3pm: Yoga for Strength and Empowerment at The Cancer Center of Santa Barbara
3-4pm: Yoga for Healing at The Cancer Center of Santa Barbara - www.ccsb.com
Thursdays
6:30-8pm: Level 2 yoga class at www.santabarbarayogacenter.com / open to the general public
Private Yoga Sessions
Anne provides private yoga sessions for individuals, couples, families, wedding parties, retreats, in office, etc. Each session is individually catered to the person or people that Anne is working with. Please e-mail anne@annevandewater.com for more information.
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