Twee Merrigan, A Teacher, Trainer, and Student of Yoga Living "I was the first Prana Flow Teacher Trainer for Shiva Rea, spanning the globe for three years, before Instagram, FB, & online yoga classes existed; when Yoga Journal was THE magazine and THE conference to attend, and Prana Vinyasa(TM) was called Prana Flow. In my mid 20s, a former boyfriend led me to a second story yoga studio in the lower east village of New York City where I got my first taste of enlightenment... at Jivamukti. Seven years later, I left my corporate job upon completion of a 9 month, 500 hour yoga teacher training program with Alan Finger [ISHTA - Integrated Science of Hatha Tantra & Ayurveda]. It was in my very early years of teaching in NYC, that I was inspired by teachers of many different styles of Yoga including Shiva Rea, Sharon Gannon, David Life, Rod Stryker, Richard Freeman, David Swenson, Doug Swenson, Rodney Yee, Ana Forest, John Friend, Lois Nesbitt, Jill Satterfield, Sarah Powers, Seane Corn, Gurmukh, Judith Lasater, Gary Kraftsow, Cyndi Lee, Mark Whitwell, André Lappe, Brian Kest, Dharma Mitra, Kofi Busia, Louisa Sears, Rachel Zinman, & Gertrud Hirsch.
Sometimes just one class with such a gifted teacher could either plant a seed or turn everything upside down to “right” side up. I list them out of deep respect and gratitude as a teacher who bows deeply to her root teachers, and the root teachings of Yoga.
I am a vegan and co-owner of a plant-based restaurant called
Piante [Italian for “seed”]. I am an advocate of home-birthing, home-schooling, pro-choice non-compulsory vaccinations; of questioning mainstream media and history books; of recording our own history by tracing our roots back to our ancestors, to know the wisdom of our elders, to understand how we got here and how we can grow together in our differences rather than apart. I believe that nature heals and technology helps, that I know nothing at all absolutely, and that this absolutely sets me free.
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