Rachel Lynch-John, has been teaching movement practices since 1989, She is registered with ISMETA as a Somatic Movement Educator and with C-IAYT as a Yoga Therapist. Her yoga practice began in 1990 as a way to care for her body while pursuing a career in modern dance. She assisted her Iyengar yoga teacher, Genny Kapuler, for over ten years, and is certified through the School for Body-Mind Centering® as a Somatic Movement Educator (SME) and an Infant Developmental Movement Educator (IDME). Rachel is also certified in Embodied Anatomy and Yoga (EAY) and Embodied Developmental Movement and Yoga (EDMY), both of which are Body-Mind Centering® approaches to teaching yoga that utilize anatomical and developmental principles to allow for an embodied exploration and mindful yoga practice to evolve. Rachel is a founding member of Samamkaya Back Care & Scoliosis Collective where she teaches Embodied Back Care Yoga classes, and is on the faculty of the Advanced Studies Course In Yoga Therapeutics. She also offers private sessions, small group classes and workshops in somatic movement education, embodied anatomy, pre & postnatal yoga, infant developmental movement education and asana alignment. Rachel has taught in numerous teacher training programs in NY and Japan, and is presently on the faculty of the teacher training program for The Yoga School NY. Rachel originally trained as a dancer in her native England, and in 1999 earned a “Bessie” (NY dance and performance award) for her work in the field of dance and performance. These day’s Rachel divides her time between NY and Santa Fe NM, where she is building a new home and practice.