HISTORY & EDUCATION

Pamela is an acknowledged Shadow Yoga Teacher by the Shadow School of Yoga. She has been studying and practicing Shadow Yoga since 1999, including intensives, residential and teacher trainings with Shandor Remete, founder of the Shadow School of Yoga. http//www.shadowyoga.com She has mainly studied in the Iyengar Yoga Tradition with her first and long time teacher Judith Lasater. Other influential teachers of this method are Rama Jyoti Vernon of the American Yoga College, Kofi Busia Anne Ericson, Mary Dunn, Donna Farhi-Schuster, Ramanand Patel and Patricia Sullivan. She has completed courses through the San Francisco Iyengar Institute Teacher Training Program, and has a teacher’s certification through the Yoga Institute in Houston, Texas. Throughout the years she has attended many trainings, intensives, workshops and retreats with other yoga teachers that include Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, of the Ashtanga Yoga Tradition and Yogi Amrit Desai. She is a member of the California Yoga Teachers Association and the B.K.S. Iyengar National Association. She has been featured on the University of San Francisco’s radio station KUSF to discuss the subject and benefits of yoga.

In addition to being a devotee of Paramahansa Yogananda, and belonging to the Self-Realization Fellowship, Pamela has also studied Buddhism for many years, predominantly in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition. She has attended retreats and teachings including ones with Lama Surya Das (founder of the Dzogchen Foundation and author) and Sogyal Rinpoche (author of "The Tibetan Book of the Living and Dying"). She attended the Heart Sutra/Heart of Wisdom teachings with the Dalai Lama, May 2001.