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Beryl Bender Birch
American yoga teacher
Beryl Bender Birch | |
|---|---|
| Born | Beryl Bender Birch October&#; (age&#;82) |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Yoga teacher |
| Years&#;active | –present |
| Known&#;for | Power Yoga |
| Website | |
Beryl Bender Birch (born October ) is a teacher of yoga as exercise and a creator and guru[1] of Power Yoga.[2]
Life
Beryl Bender Birch was educated at Syracuse University, where she read English and Philosophy.[3] In she spent six months studying yoga in India under Munishree Chitrabhanu.
She founded her own school of yoga in Winter Park, Colorado in [4][3] She learnt Ashtanga Yoga from Norman Allen, one of K. Pattabhi Jois's first western students, who collaborated with Jois on his trips to America.[5] In she began to teach Ashtanga Yoga at the New York Road Runners Club; she later became Wellness Director there.[6] She is the creator of one of several forms of Pow