Maya Breuer, RYT
Maya Breuer, RYT, is a yogini and jazz and visual artist who began her study of yoga at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. In 1994, she traveled to India to study the traditional and time-honored aspects of yoga with Shri Rajarshi Muni.
A senior Kripalu Yoga teacher, Maya has strived to bring the healing benefits and knowledge of the dharma of yoga and a holistic lifestyle to minority communities. She believes sincerely in soul, spirit, growth, and personal transformation through yoga and daily holistic practices.
Maya is the founder and director of the Santosha School of Yoga, which offers certifications for beginner and advanced curriculums, and creator of the national Yoga Retreat for Women of Color offered throughout the United States. In her lectures and workshops, she combines the classical and ancient traditions of yoga with her soulful life experience to fashion a feminine and sacred approach to teaching this ancient practice.
An active member of the International Association of Black Yoga Teachers and Kripalu Yoga Teacher’s Association, Maya is an affiliate instructor for the American Yoga College and a member of the Kripalu Center Board of Trustees. She is also one of the featured authors in Stephen Cope’s Will Yoga and Meditation Really Change My Life? and recipient of the Trailblazer Award from the International Association of Black Yoga Teachers, 2006.
Raised in the Jewish faith, Maya feels a deep alignment with Tikkun Olam, the work to repair the world. She is currently at work on her first book, Soul Yoga, about how women of color can blend ancestral traditions and Eastern practices to create a healing spiritual life. |
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