Amy Cooper Founder & Director, Shasta Yoga E-RYT-500, C-IAYT
In addition to founding and running Shasta Yoga, Amy mentors and leads registered Yoga Alliance Teacher Training & Continuing Education programs. She is dedicated to the unfolding inquiry of what it is to be on a yogic path. For her that translates to inspiring others in cultivating embodied awareness, mental and physical resilience as well as greater freedom in “Being” in the world.
Her teaching weaves a creative, invigorating yet calming, centering yet spacious exploration of yoga postures, embodied breathing and meditation.
With Iyengar Yoga as her practice and teaching foundation for over 40 years, Amy has offered one-on-one therapeutic yoga sessions since 1986. She holds a Yoga Therapy Certification with the International Association of Yoga Therapists, and currently sees clients for Private Yoga Sessions at Shasta Yoga.
In addition to her classes and private sessions, Amy also facilitates the weekly Mount Shasta Meditation Sangha that meets on Thursday nights at the studio.
““In the entire great tradition of human wisdom the universal method is the mutual affection between two real people, the teacher-student relationship. This is not a relationship of authority over another, it is not a parent child relationship. It is one of utter mutuality. The teacher is no more than a friend and no less than friend. In this friendship real bhakti arises, not manufactured feelings for an authority or public persona, trying to get somewhere, trying to get something that seems absent most of the time. The teacher has no interest but to empower the student, to give the tools that allows the student to stand in his or her own power. When this happens true devotion, very real life long gratitude arises between two people who are obviously standing in the same garden! the same reality.””