MY ART + YOGA BACKSTORY

Originally an Architecture major at The Cooper Union, instead, I graduated from there with a BFA in painting. Stretching the boundaries of my art practice, I combined breath work in a gestural drawing exercise that she created for a Creative Arts Therapies thesis which unexpectedly inspired a career in yoga. Today, as a professional yoga instructor, (500-RYT), I lead group and private sessions. Beyond my personal experience with breast cancer in 2016, I certified with yoga4cancer to teach oncology yoga to other survivors. This includes Robin Roberts, who in 2019 featured my yoga4cancer class on Good Morning America. As the final owner of Park Slope Yoga Center, founded in 1999—I had began to nurture the yoga community in Brooklyn from 2010, until 2021 when as a result of Covid-19, I closed my studio business. I continue to teach group classes, private individual and corporate group Vinyasa yoga classes and have begun teaching an oncology yoga class at Maimonides Cancer Center geared for survivors.

Also, as a recent addition to the faculty at Playwrights Horizons Theater School, I’m thrilled to be teaching Yoga + Somatics within such a rich collective of creatives. With strong attention on systems of alignment, structure and body, the core of my process incorporates the architecture of the 8-Limbs of Yoga philosophy as an outline to instill the tenets of connection to self and others for a valuable, and grounded foundation for facing life’s challenges. As a result, students come to celebrate themselves and benefit from the strengths, and resources that they already are.

Teri Gandy-Richardson, 500YT | vinyasa yoga | certified senior oncology yoga teacher @yoga4cancer + TT mentor | based in Brooklyn, NY

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