Rose Kress, ERYT-500, LFYP-2, CIAYT, YACEP, Director of LifeForce Yoga, has been a student of yoga since 1994. She began studying with Amy Weintraub in 2002 as a means of finding ease from anxiety and chronic pain. After becoming certified to teach yoga, Rose began assisting Amy at workshops and the LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Training. Rose is now the owner and director of the LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute. She is also the author of 2 CDs, Mantra Chanting with Rose and Pathways to Relaxation.Rose focuses on the therapeutic aspects of yoga – for the body, mind and soul. She integrates LifeForce Yoga techniques into therapeutic yoga for those suffering from back pain, cancer, pulmonary disease, structural issues, and chronic pain. Rose maintains a class schedule and private yoga therapy practice in Tucson, AZ, where she lives with her husband. Rose considers herself a life long student of yoga, yoga philosophy, and the body. Since 2007 she has studied asana, subtle body, the yoga sutras, and yoga philosophy with Rama Jyoti Vernon and has taught at several of Rama’s retreats. Rose has taken the Functional Yoga Therapy Training with Maria Mendola and continues her yoga therapy studies under the direction of Maria. www.yogafordepression.com