Rachel has certifications from Yoga Works and Liberation Prison Yoga. She has done numerous trainings at Jivamukti, Katonah, SkyTing, the Sensory Awareness Foundation, and Shambhala Center  Her  teachers have included Sharon Gannon and David Life (who put her on the yoga path),  as well as Rima Rabbath, Monica Jaggi, Yogeswari, Abbie Galvin and Ethan Nichtern (among many others).  Rachel has taught yoga for 15 years to hundreds of students, of all different ages and experience. 

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She has studied therapeutic yoga, drawing from the work of Deborah Bagg, Dr. Gabor Maté, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, Bill Forbes, and Judith Hanson Lasater, PhD.

 

Founder of  https://caringbycard.com/ which helps alleviate the loneliness the elderly and disabled face living in nursing homes by inspiring people to send homemade cards to nursing home residents and  Founder of the female-led non-profit theater company OHM Productions.