Anne Desmond
Anne has been a student of yoga since 1995. She became a certified yoga instructor in 2001 when she began her endeavor to bring yoga to teenagers. To better serve her students, she has trained with Little Flower Yoga, Vajra Yoga, Street Yoga and Mindful Schools. Her wish is 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 loves 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.