Cynthia Woodring began her movement studies with Ballet as a child and Modern Dance as a young adult. She discovered yoga in 1993 and began teaching in 1995. She is a certified Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist and has been a 500-Hour Level Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance since 2002.

Her training began with Integral teachers and continued with 6 years of study in the Iyengar method, primarily with Sandra Pleasants. She has studied with a variety of teachers in the Anusara and Iyengar methods as well as Anatomy for Yoga with Paul Grilley and Yin/Yang yoga with Sarah Powers. She is currently studying body mechanics with Carla Shifflett, a Stott-trained Pilates instructor in Charlottesville, VA. She is passionate about refining her understanding of yoga while maintaining a balanced and open perspective toward many methods.

Key teaching influences include Erich Schiffmann, Gangaji, Adyashanti, nature, and popular culture.

Along with teaching yoga part-time, Cynthia is the Training and Home Programming Coordinator at the Virginia Institute of Autism. She is energized by the challenge of striving to find the right words and methods to evoke the deepest understanding and awakening for her students. Her intention is to continuously point her students toward a direct encounter with the silence that abides at the heart of yoga.

Please email Cynthia for more information at cynthiawoodring [@] gmail.com or see her schedule to attend her classes.