Ilana began her study of yoga and "moving from the inside out" while she was performing and teaching various forms of traditional and improvisational dance and movement arts. She has taught dance, therapeutic movement, Authentic Movement, and yoga, and has maintained a private practice in psycho-structural bodywork. Her early formal yoga training was in the tradition of ashtanga and vinyoga with master Indian teachers Pattabhi Jois, TKV Desikachar, and Baba Hari Das, and their American senior teachers. Later, she continued her training with Ana Forrest, Angela Farmer and Victor Von Kooten.
Ilana's yoga practice is imbued with a sense of personal discovery and improvisation. Ilana values and enjoys both traditional and unconventional approaches to yoga, and blends these into her teaching. She has a deep understanding of experiential anatomy and movement and has trained in adaptive yoga therapy, which can aid in movement re-patterning and injury rehabilitation. Her motivation for teaching arises from her passion to share and witness the transformational potential of the yoga
practice. With a sense of humor and compassion, Ilana invites students to explore and savor yoga's moment-to-moment process, exploring the balance between stira (effort) and sukha (ease/joy), and to experience and refine the connection to the inner strength and wisdom deep within the body. Ilana is founder of Room to Move, (www.roomtomoveyoga.com) and regularly teaches in Port Townsend, Washington. She has conducted numerous yoga workshops and retreats in the Northwest US, nationally, and internationally.
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