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Anne Desmond
Anne has over twelve years of system engineering
experience including project management,
business analysis and creating web and client-server
database applications and development tools.
She discovered yoga in 1995 and has been
a dedicated student ever since. In 2001,
she became a certified yoga teacher and
began her endeavor to bring yoga to teenagers.
She hopes that the experience and challenges
of yoga will give students a glimpse of
their greatest potential.
Jennifer Ford
Jennifer Ford has been practicing and studying
yoga for over ten years. She believes her
best instruction comes from her students
and from her own practice. She received
her 200-hour certification in 1999, and
certification for pre- and post-natal yoga
and yoga for labor and delivery in 2000
(her second baby was born in October 2004).
For 6 years, Jennifer taught
in the New York Public School system, working
with more and more "at-risk" students as
the years went by. It was her experimentation
with yoga in the classroom that convinced
her that yoga was a powerful, positive tool
for young people. That led her to pursue
a goal of providing as many schoolkids with
yoga as she could muster. Since 1999, she
has been coordinating programs providing
New York City Public School children with
access to free yoga.
Jennifer is most happy
when practicing yoga with teenagers.
Courtney McDowell
Courtney McDowell, formerly a literary
agent, received her Teacher Certification
in 1996 from Sivananda Yoga. The heart of
her study has been with Sri K. Pattabhi
Jois who approved her to teach Ashtanga
Yoga's Primary Series after five extended
stays in Mysore, South India. She has continued
to practice Ashtanga in the US with Richard
Freeman, whose Teacher Training she completed
in 2001, and at home in New York with Eddie
and Jocelynne Stern of the Patanjali Yoga
Shala.
Courtney's interest in
teaching kids was spurred through the birth
of her son. Her endeavors to bring Yoga
into the Brooklyn Public Schools system,
led her to meet her future partners in Bent
on Learning, Jennifer Ford and Anne Desmond.
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