MICHAEL FERGOT
Michael was introduced to yoga while attending the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1984. And he still marvels at how yoga presents us with the endless possibility to deepen our experience and to grow our understanding. Like many, when Michael first met yoga it was through movement. After meeting yoga he moved from the practice of martial arts and also switched majors, studying dance and encountering "The Only Dance There Is” by Ram Dass. His studies led to a professional dance career and to living in New York, N.Y.
Michael met Anusara Yoga through Jackie Prete on retreat at a Zen monastery in the Catskills in 2000. There was something decidedly different about that experience, and realizing that he was never going to get enough information through 90 minutes classes (no matter how many a week) he signed up for his first Teacher Training. Just to learn.
Now as a E-RYT® 500, YACEP® teacher with more than 13,000 hours of teaching experience, and three times that much time in study and practice, he still marvels at how Yoga presents us with the endless possibility to deepen our experience and to grow our understanding. Michael loves to share the practices of Yoga at every level.
He has been studying with Paul Muller Ortega and Blue Throat Yoga since 2012 and in 2017 completed EHS12.
In 2018 Michael completed an Ashaya Yoga Teacher Training led by Todd Norian in Essex, N.Y. He and his wife moved to Westport, N.Y. in 2017,
EMAIL MICHAEL : yogifergot@gmail.com
NORA NADIRE
Nora's vision is to guide others to awaken their hearts through yoga. Yoga is the key that unlocks the secret of life: we already have everything we seek inside of us. By listening to the inner voice calling out for more, we discover our capacity for love, freedom, and deep peace. Nora has been practicing yoga for more than fifteen years and became a certified instructor after feeling inspired to share her love for yoga through teaching. She completed 500 hours of training with Todd Norian, founder of Ashaya Yoga ®, an alignment-based, heart-centered approach to the practice. Each class with Nora weaves a theme into a sequence that uses precise alignment to enable body, mind, and heart to open and expand naturally. As a classically-trained singer, Nora finds joy in sharing her love of music, and ends each class with a Sanskrit chant. Nora lives in the Adirondacks and enjoys farming, gardening, hiking, cooking, beading, and playing music.
EMAIL NORA: notesofbalance@gmail.com