When people ask Anne what kind of yoga she practices and teaches, she stammers awhile and eventually admits she has no idea, but it’s definitely great fun. Her love affair with yoga began later in life and was, she says, the cardinal element that made her life come true. Freeform yoga is her passion and she credits Erich Schiffmann with setting her own practice free — and nudging her along to the soul-bending realization that there is nothing that isn’t yoga.

She spoiled herself silly with Erich’s teacher training in 2006 and completed her Yoga Alliance teacher certification in JJ Gormley-Etchells’s delightfully eclectic and transformative program at Sun & Moon Yoga Studio in Virginia in 2007. She currently teaches at Sun & Moon’s studio in Arlington, but happily goes just about anywhere there are students with a yearning to learn. Anne encourages students to be present with their connection to Spirit through meditative movement and creative practice, gently easing them into cultivating moment-to-moment awareness in the poses to softly open and release the tight spots. She views meditation as the core practice and the foundation for yoga on and off the mat.

Anne lives with her husband and critters in Northern Virginia, runs a busy website on natural cat nutrition, stokes her newfound love of writing, offers workshops on exploring freeform yoga, eats ripe mangos, and hardly ever goes anywhere without her mat.

Oh, and she’s very proud to be an iHanuman monkey.

Anne’s website: www.yogasetfree.com