Shana has studied yoga joyfully and steadily since 2000.

In 2005 she completed the 200 hour teacher training program at Yoga East in Louisville with her teacher, Laura Spaulding. She loves cultivating strength and steadiness through an Ashtanga practice, and also exploring the power of restorative yoga, meditation, and chanting. She considers herself very fortunate to have studied with some of the most respected teachers in the country including Tim Miller, John Friend, and Francois Raoult, and to have studied Ashtanga directly with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in Mysore, India in 2007.

Shana came to Kentucky in 2003 via North Carolina, California, Japan and Ithaca, NY. She has a BA in International Studies & minor in Japanese from UNC-Chapel Hill and an MS in Adult Education from Cornell University. She works at the UK Asia Center.

"My goal in teaching yoga is to take students on a journey from everyday, limiting patterns of thinking and behaving, toward their highest Self, to feel the inherent goodness we all share."