Colleen Briscoe, formally a software engineer and now a full-time yoga instructor, has been practicing yoga for over twenty years. Born in Africa, her fascination with yoga began when she was introduced to Iyengar Yoga in the early 1980’s in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe). Her own experience of those early classes and the excellent physical condition and well being of those first instructors - her seniors by several decades! – left a deep and lasting impression.
After living briefly in London, Colleen moved to the USA and in 1995 began studying at the Yoga and Meditation Center of Montclair in 1995. In 2004 she completed the Yoga and Meditation Center's Teacher Training Program, obtaining an RYT 200 certification, and began teaching at the Center as well as starting her own yoga studio near her home in North Bergen County. She continues to study at the Center and to broaden her understanding of how to tailor yoga to unique conditions. To this end she has attended focus workshops for scoliosis and multiple sclerosis and has completed training in the Barnes Method Prenatal and Postpartum Yoga including an internship with Mary Barnes.
Most recently, Colleen has added Yamuna Body Rolling to her practice, finding this unique system wonderfully compatible with yoga and extremely helpful in unlocking tight areas in the body. She studied with Yamuna Zake in NYC and is certified in the YBR Level II. She looks forward to integrating body rolling into her existing schedule of classes.
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