Yoga & Fitness Instruction

The mind is harder to train than the wind.  If you can train the breath, you can tame the mind.  -Unknown

Unless you become thoroughly drenched in perspiration, you cannot expect to see a palace of pearls in a blade of grass.  -The Blue Cliff Records

    Photos by Robert Nizza.

Suraya has been practicing yoga and other mind-body practices for  8 years, and had trained previously as a long distance runner, triathlete, and competitive rower.  Certified as a Group Fitness Instructor with the American Council on Exercise since 1996, Suraya has taught a variety of adult fitness classes including water aerobics, body sculpting, core conditioning and water yoga. As her own life has moved more towards mind-body approaches to health and wellness,  Suraya has shifted her teaching in this direction as well, and she currently teaches classes in yoga, pilates and body scupting.

 Interested in deepening her yoga practice and her skills as a yoga instructor, Suraya spent several months in India in 2003, where she  completed the International Yoga Teachers’ Training Program at the Sivananda Yoga Ashram in Kerala, India.  For Suraya, yoga is not just an approach towards wellness but a spiritual practice and a way of life.