Rebecca Weisman

Rebecca Weisman is a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher and the Director of the Iyengar Yoga Center of Vermont. She has been a devoted student of Iyengar Yoga for over twenty years with a passion for all eight limbs of the Yoga system as well as a deep love of experiential anatomy and therapeutic yoga. She is devoted to her main teacher, Patricia Walden, and has studied extensively with other senior Iyengar teachers as well as directly with the Iyengar family in Pune, India. Having discovered yoga at a young age, Rebecca initially was drawn to its healing elements as she recovered from serious physical ailments, finding the precision and depth of the Iyengar method to be uniquely beneficial. Rebecca was also initially drawn to the philosophy of yoga and the mental effects of the practice, and used yoga as a way out of mental and emotional turmoil. She is guided in her teaching with the belief that the therapeutic benefits of the āsana, prāṇāyāma, and philosophy of yoga can be felt even for a beginner student, and her teaching is infused with a love of both the science and art of yoga. She teaches prenatal and postpartum yoga as well as working with individuals with diverse issues, including fatigue, depression, chronic illness, chronic pain, lower back pain and sciatica, hip, knee, shoulder, and neck problems, recovery from injury, anxiety, and blood pressure and immune system disorders. She is also a mother of two young children and brings to her work her experience of the physical aspects of pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum recovery as well as the humor, patience, and ease needed to parent. In addition to practice and teaching, Rebecca has a background in art and maintains a vibrant art practice, which includes some of the illustrations for Yoga for Pelvic Floor and Postpartum Health.