Yogaah

I am thank­ful I had the oppor­tu­nity to meet and learn from Deanna. She is knowl­edge­able, car­ing, and very approach­able. In fact, when in her work­shop, I clearly felt that her goal was to not only teach us the “book infor­ma­tion” but to also help us grow as yoga instruc­tors. I walked away from the work­shop with quite a few take-home mes­sages, as well as a sense of renewal and excite­ment about teach­ing my next yoga class.

Thank you Deanna,

Bar­bara Bald­win, MPH
Boyds, MD

Deanna,

I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to con­tact you to thank you for your won­der­ful pre­sen­ta­tion at Rosen­field Can­cer Cen­ter last month for the In the Look­ing Glass Pro­gram. I thor­oughly enjoyed your pre­sen­ta­tion, despite being a bad breather! I thought your exer­cises were well planned and help­ful for even the novice yoga stu­dent. I saw a cou­ple of the ladies at another pro­gram a few days later, and they both com­mented to me how much they liked your pro­gram and would rec­om­mend it to others.I nor­mally write a more for­mal let­ter sent through “snail mail”, but real­ized I didn’t have your actual address. I fig­ured since it’s already taken me this long, I should speed it up through e-mail! We will have the In the Look­ing Glass Pro­gram again in the spring, and I’ll be sure to ask John to send you back to us, and hope­fully, we’ll have more peo­ple here then, too!

Thank you again,

Mary Olek­siak
Social Worker, The Rosen­field Can­cer Center-Abington Memo­r­ial Hospital

Deanna,

I just wanted to thank you again for your instruc­tion this week­end at the AAAI Conference…I took away a lot (inter­nally) from the two-day session.Lastly, last night my five year old was hav­ing trou­ble falling asleep so I knelt down next to his bed with the ‘breath­ing ball’ and we breathed together.
It was wonderful!!!

Barb Batolomeo

Amer­i­can Ath­letic Asso­ci­a­tion
Amer­i­can Run­ning Asso­ci­a­tion

Tak­ing a yoga class with Deanna is uni­fy­ing and enlight­en­ing. Deanna brings her well versed knowl­edge of the body and mind to her classes. Her play­ful, car­ing, patient, and giv­ing spirit shines through her teach­ing and helps you to let go of fear and doubt while prac­tic­ing both ele­men­tary and chal­leng­ing poses. My hus­band and I always feel like we’ve learned some­thing in every class and feel strong and relaxed after her prac­tice. Deanna truly teaches the union of mind and body and gives you prac­ti­cal ideas from the phi­los­o­phy of the prac­tice that you can carry with you in your every­day life. She encour­ages you to feel like there is noth­ing you can’t do and brings joy and peace to teach­ing the prac­tice of yoga.I real­ized how much I have learned and gained through your teach­ing. You have a great gift.

Frank & Donna Brandolisio

Dear Deanna,

It was a plea­sure to see you again and to have you present the pro­gram on yoga to our can­cer sur­vivors last evening. I thought that it went very well and was a great com­bi­na­tion of infor­ma­tion and prac­tice. I only received three eval­u­a­tions back because of our hasty depar­ture, but all had high marks for you. I appre­ci­ate your mis­sion of bring­ing these heal­ing prac­tices to all of us and I really hope that we can make this an annual visit!

Many thanks,

Kate O’Connor

Dear Deanna,

I would like to take this oppor­tu­nity to express my thoughts on the recent Yoga Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion you con­ducted at the LaCrest YMCA for Yoga ll. I also would like you to for­ward this to your employer, as well.This was a won­der­ful uplift­ing, infor­ma­tive and sup­port­ive pro­gram. You man­aged the time so well and we were able to cover a great deal of mate­r­ial, not only ‘hand’s on’, but also edu­ca­tional aspects of Yoga. I was thor­oughly delighted that you brought the con­cepts of Tao Yin Yoga to the fore. I’ve been so dis­cour­aged with the Aroeba-Yoga being offered in the name of Yoga. I don’t adhere to that venue so your course was an added sup­port to what I have been doing for many years in this field.Your gen­eros­ity of spirit mak­ing your self acces­si­ble to all and offer­ing to give us extra time even dur­ing lunch to con­tinue our class was the true spirit of Yoga in action. You han­dled the class with com­pas­sion based on the var­i­ous degrees of com­pe­tency. It made us all feel so very fine and your lov­ing embrace of the Yoga prin­ci­pals shone forth.

I also appre­ci­ated the tear sheets you dis­trib­uted and have referred to them often since I returned home. The added com­ments on fur­ther Yoga explo­rations were very helpful.

You pro­vided an inspi­ra­tion to me espe­cially, and to the entire class. I’m very grate­ful you were the instruc­tor sent for this cer­ti­fi­ca­tion. I teach only one class in a Gym set­ting so your mate­r­ial was more than help­ful in my other venues.

Thank you for a great day!

Namaste, Rosa