Susana Laborde-Blaj RYT 200, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT, YACEP
Susana is a certified Yoga Therapist recognized by the International Association of Yoga Therapy, a certified Viniyoga™ teacher and a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider.
She dedicated many years of her youth to perform as a professional dancer, actress and working as a dance teacher and choreographer in Mexico City, Oaxaca, Mexico, and Paris, France.
Susana always felt drawn to yoga, and began to practice it around 1984. In 1996, she did her first Teacher Training with Federico Enriquez, Indra Devi’s student, and has been teaching Yoga classes and workshops ever since, both in Mexico and in the U.S.A.
After arriving in Oregon in 2008, she continued her education with a 200 hour Yoga Alliance certification with Sarahjoy Marsh, followed by one year of apprenticeship.
In 2012, she attended her first workshop taught by Gary Kraftsow, founder and director of the American Viniyoga Institute (AVI). The teachings resonated so powerfully with her own sentiments that she decided to enroll in the AVI Teacher Training. She completed the 500 hour Viniyoga Teacher Training in 2015, and the Yoga Therapist Training in 2018.
She resides with her husband in the Portland area, Oregon, where she teaches group classes, workshops and holds private and small group Yoga Therapy sessions and series.
She has also led retreats in Central Mexico beginning in February 2017.
In her classes, Susana emphasizes mindfulness and awareness on breath and movement, encouraging students and clients to discover their potential and empowering them to improve their health at all levels: physical, physiological and emotional, using the ancient tools of the yoga tradition.
She thanks her teachers, Gary Kraftsow, Mary Hilliker, the AVI Faculty, Federico & Cristina Enriquez, Virginia Filip, Sarahjoy Marsh, Liz Eisman and Leslie Kaminoff, and all the students that she has had the joy to encounter throughout the years.
* The yoga therapy components of my teaching are based on my [non-YAR credential or other qualification], not derived from my status as an [RYT/E-RYT] with Yoga Alliance Registry.
