Teaches at Dream Yoga Studio & Wellness Center
Luann (MA, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, 500 KYT & IYT) is founder and director of Dream Yoga Studio & Wellness Center. She's certified by the International Association of Yoga Therapists, as a Professional Level Kripalu Yoga Teacher, and is recognized as a 500-Hour Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with the National Yoga Alliance. She has also completed her 500-Level Certification as a Professional Yoga Therapist in Joseph LePage's Integrative Yoga Therapy program. Luann started the for-credit yoga program at George Mason University in 2003. Her goal as a yoga teacher is to inspire her students to embrace yoga as a tool to help them become healthier, and more peaceful, clear and joyful. Luann loves sharing the gift of yoga and its profound healing effects with both beginners and advanced students of all ages, shapes and sizes in both group classes and private sessions. She wants to break down the perceived barriers people have to doing yoga...so everyone--despite limitations--can practice and receive its many benefits. She has used the tools of yoga and meditation to help people manage and heal pain (in their back, shoulders, hips, knees, feet, etc.). She’s helped students with poor posture, sciatica, scoliosis, fatigue, asthma, insomnia, infertility, menopausal and mensus issues, pregnancy, post-natal recovery, organ prolapse, anxiety, panic attacks, depression, high blood pressure/hypertension, weight loss, hyper- & hypo-thyroidism, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, plantar fasciitis, more. Luann is a national education/freelance writer, with a B.A. in Journalism and an M.A. in Organizational Communication. She is committed to one-on-one communication with, and support of, her students.