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Rebecca

Rebecca

Rebecca Wood, Palm Yoga owner and studio director in Tampa, FL

Rebecca Wood, Owner and Studio Director

Rebecca, owner and Director of Palm Yoga, has been interested in yoga (although she didn’t call it that) since she was a child.  She used to use breathing techniques to calm her through problems with asthma and allergies.  She used to love to stretch as she practiced gymnastics as a young girl and then moved into more fitness oriented programs like weight lifting and cardiovascular work.

She moved to Los Angeles in 1997 and took her first yoga class at Gold’s Gym.  She was hooked.  “I remember leaving that class feeling so open and clear.  I loved it.” She began taking classes at Planet Yoga with Leeann Carey, founder of Yapana Yoga, in Redondo Beach and then entered her first Teacher Training Program at Planet Yoga.  That was her first exposure to Kofi Busia who would end up being one of her main teachers when he would come to Los Angeles.

Over the next eight years, Rebecca studied with numerous teachers such as Donna Farhi, Rodney Yee, Erich Schiffman, Richard Miller, Kofi Busia and Judith Lasater.  Judith made such an impression on her that she took Judith’s first ever Restorative Yoga Teacher Training at the Iyengar Institute of San Francisco in 2000.

Rebecca continues to deepen her practice through personal practice, workshops with primarily Iyengar yoga teachers and personal study.  She gets lots of “off the mat” yoga practice running two businesses, raising her two children and living with her husband of 14 years!

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