About Us
Laurie
Yoga & Meditation Instructor, Reiki Master, Yoga Teacher Training, & Studio Owner
After a near death automobile accident in 1972, Laurie began
her personal path of healing. Her practice of yoga and meditation supports her
and has alleviated the pain as well as preventing her from living her life in a
wheelchair. Her journey has and continues to add to her compassionate teaching
style. In 2004 Laurie opened Inner Strength Yoga and Healing Center where she
enjoys sharing yoga from her heart with others that are looking for, beginning
on, or continuing to explore their own personal paths to well being.
Laurie is a Certified Yoga Instructor with Yoga Alliance, an international
registry for yoga teachers. She is also certified in "The Lebed
Method," a therapeutic exercise program for cancer survivors, seniors and
people with special needs. In 2002, Laurie began her training in Healing Touch
and discovered Reiki. Following her heart, Laurie became a Reiki Master and a
DivinePeaceHealing Practitioner and incorporates this into her classes.
Certified in Meditation, Laurie leads group meditations at Inner Strength
Yoga & Healing Center on an ongoing basis.
Mary
Yoga, Meditation, & Belly Dance Instructor, Yoga Teacher Training
Mary teaches Kelee Meditation, Hatha Yoga, Belly Dance and Journal Writing. She is certified with Yoga Alliance at the 500 Hour Level (E-RYT 500). Some of her personal accomplishments include: being the author of Heart Wide Open, Inspirational Poems for Healing 2004, outlining a Yoga Teacher Training Program at the 200 Hour Level that was submitted to and approved by Yoga Alliance and being a Choreographer for Mariah's Marouyan, Troupe Jaleh, and Elemental Sisters.
There are many promising roads in the outside world that may lead us astray. The way is within. Taking time each day to get still inside our heart can bring real results for healing body, mind, and soul.
"The doors of self-realization are within everyone; they are passageways to love. Yield to your own beautiful self-acceptance and the door of love will open itself." -The Silent Miracle by Ron W. Rathbun
In Memory of Richard Learmonth
May 27, 1951 to February 16, 2010
Richard Yoga Instructor
Richard taught the community class at Inner Strength Yoga & Healing Center. He taught the class suited to the group. He enjoyed the kripalu style. Kripalu is meditative and calming, incorporating flowing asanas and breath to bring one into stillness. He was registered with Yoga Alliance and completed his training with Laurie Mort and Mary Griffith at Inner Strength Yoga in 2007.
He had practiced Yoga regularly and had explored many studios and styles. Through the practice of Yoga he had found greater inner peace. Rich was a kind, creative, gentle soul, always softening the end of his classes with singing bowls or playing his flute. We continue to feel his energy at ISY. Although his physical presence will be greatly missed, his soul will live with us always.
Rich's quote: I'm the same person, I just know myself (my soul/my ego) better. The mind calming effects and the physical benefits of my practice have helped me take off some of the "rough" edges.
April Yoga Instructor
After five years of working as a massage therapist and one year of regular yoga practice, April completed 200 hours of Yoga Teacher Training in the fall of 2008 with Danielle Osicki at True Nature School of Yoga in Vista, CA. Bringing the same passion and experience she had with massage therapy, April has dedicated herself to interdisciplinary Hatha Yoga practices with the utmost care. This passion and caring reflects in her teaching style, with sincere attention paid to each individual's needs and desires. Unlocking each student's full potential through Yoga practice is her goal and life's dedication. In her spare time, April teaches both teen and children's yoga classes at Casa De Amparo's children's shelter in Oceanside,CA.
Madeleine Thai Yoga Therapist
Madeleine is a White Lotus Foundation Certified Yoga Teacher, Thai Yoga Therapist, and Summa Cum Laude graduate of Kaplan's Holistic Health Practitioner program. Madi is also Assistant Artistic Director of Bliss Dance Company, a Bay Area based Modern/Contemporary dance company. She has shared her art through teaching and performing widely in Los Angeles, New York, the Bay Area, and San Diego County. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Management and is currently working towards a Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine. The movement of body and spirit is her passion; it is where the marriage of art and science emerges within her to fulfill a calling to serve as a healing conduit for others.
Aprile Yoga Instructor
Aprile
has been empowered by her life lesson's surviving breast cancer, losing a
daughter, and releasing difficult relationships of her past. She found that
yoga and meditation helped her during these processes. Aprile healed herself emotionally &
spiritually, with a firm belief that you can manifest anything you want in
life. Aprile completed her 200 hour level Yoga Alliance RYT-200 and Reiki
Master with Laurie Mort at Inner
Strength Yoga
& Healing Center
in August 2009. She teaches Hatha, Yin and Restorative Yoga. Known for her
power of healing touch, Aprile believes her life's purpose is to be of service
to others by sharing her gifts.
Jan Yoga Instructor
Jan has been practicing yoga and meditation for more than 40 years. She is a Certified Yoga Instructor through Yoga Alliance and is a Reiki II Practitioner. She has been working in special education for 17 years and is a Stained Glass Artist and Studio Owner for 25 years.
Jan believes practicing yoga means nurturing the light within. Focusing on that calm place through poses and breath awareness. Allowing the chakras to balance for better flow of energy. Living yoga is living in the moment, which takes constant practice.
Nettie Reiki Master, Reflexology, Raindrop Therapy
Nettie has developed a very spiritual and solid approach to life through personal challenge and triumph. A cancer survivor and life teacher she shares her incredible gift of healing and energy work with her clients. A Holistic Health Practitioner, Nettie offers deep tissue, theraputic and swedish massage at her office. She offers Reflexology, Raindrop Therapy and Reiki Healings at Inner Strength Yoga. With a strong and powerful spiritual presence, she offers loving, caring and heartfelt massage and healing work.
Shazia Yoga Instructor
Trained in
classical Hatha and therapeutic yoga as RYT500, Shazia teaches Hatha yoga,
restorative & gentle yoga, and therapeutic yoga with compassion, love and
healing in a safe and nurturing environment. She loves to nurture
people with physical limitations, size limitations, injuries, trauma, rehab,
surgery recovery, seniors, pain management, or with other health challenges with
therapeutic yoga that focuses on breath work (pranayama), gentle yoga, mudra,
stretches, meditation and healing. There
is no "right" way of doing an asana (posture); it is all about what a person
needs in the present moment and where the body is willing to go. Her classes will take you to a
deeper level of awareness and nurturing than just an asana class.
"Yoga has changed me, it has transformed my life, who I am, and the way I think. It has taken me way beyond the physical postures of yoga and allowed me to honor the being I see everyday in the mirror. Life changed when I opened my heart to Ayurveda, Vegetarianism, Yoga, Meditation, and Holistic Healing. At this time in my life, I can not think of doing anything else other than help people in learning and "experiencing" yoga like I have"--Shazia
An avid devotee of integrative healthcare, Adele blends over thirty years of studies in the mind-body connection. A certified Asian Bodywork Therapist, Adele realized her passion for bodywork and Oriental Medicine theory while studying acupuncture. She specializes in Ohashiatsu, having had the great fortune to study with renowned master Ohashi in New York City. Her education includes biofeedback, yoga, AcuYoga, massage, Core Zero Balancing, Living in a Body, acupuncture, Reiki, Sotai, qigong and tai chi, fibromyalgia and cellulite treatment, nutrition and essential oils therapy. Adele is a certified member practitioner of AOBTA (American Organization of Bodywork Therapies of Asia), and regularly attends seminars and workshops related to Chinese Medicine and Integrative Healing. As a wellness educator, Adele teaches workshops to promote wellness, exercise and healthy eating and lifestyle habits, as well as AcuYoga/Makko Ho stretches.