Yoga saved me as a twenty year old single mom, and continues too, to this day as a 60 year old person with Quadriplegia. Many years ago I ran one of the few YTT programs in Canada, opened the first yoga studio in my home town and now 30 years later, established the Adaptive & Therapeutic training based on years of yoga experience, both as a able body and as a person with a disability.My yoga journey began as a young girl, when my mom’s scholiosis became so bad at 40 she saught help. There wasn’t much yoga in the day but she was blessed with a great yogi Swami Radha as her first teacher. The Shivananda lineage was passed on as my first teachings were BKS Iyengar. That strong foundation in technique and alignment expanded and developed from other influences like massage therapy, Dr.Caroline Myss’s Energy Anatomy, Richard Freeman & Tim Miller during the Astanga craze, Donald Moyer, Emile Conrad, Susan Harper, Thomas Myers, Rod Stryker Somatic psychotherapy, and my own body that all have contributed to my ever deepening relationship with yoga.When I became paralyzed 14 years ago I had no idea - really how I would utilize Yoga but then I realized I used Yoga to stay alive using the Ujayi breath to keep my newly paralyzed body breathing. From those first days forward through grueling rehab and into community, yogic principals & techniques have informed my approach. Then I experienced what yoga could do for a severly paralyzed body like my own, to a variety of physical modalities and I knew I had to share this truth.