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Debora's Bio

Debora’s interest in sports activities started as a child.  Many injuries including a head injury are part of her experience leading to a high level of body awareness. She also experienced neck and back pain from her previous profession as a dental assistant. This motivated her career as a fitness professional learning to help her self and others to stay strong and fit.  After many years working full time and going to night school, Debora eventually decided to attend school full time and work part time as a fitness instructor. Debora graduated at San Jose State University with an honors in psychology and a minor in musical theater.

The following year Debora completed her graduate studies in general psychology and began teaching yoga. Yoga helped Debora maintain balance when she experienced chronic fatigue for the first time in her life (in her mid 30’s).

Yoga helped Debora connect with herself at a deep level. Her intuition told her she must learn energy therapy and she knew she wanted a role model (guru) for yoga. One of her students introduced her to Integrated Energy Therapy (IET). Without ever having had an energy therapy treatment, she went through the training and became a certified IET master-instructor. Happy with IET she cured herself from depression which started in childhood. It was also through one of Debora’s students’ that she found her Spiritual role model, known internationally as Ammachi.

Debora’s passion and concern for her clients lead her to take out loans to complete over 100 hours of graduate course work and 300 clinical practicum hours at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology’s PhD program in clinical psychology. Debora completed her international yoga training in 2007 at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram in Chennai, India. While in India Debora decided to refocus on holistic health care and apply the yoga therapy teachings of Krishnamacharya she learned through his son Desikachar.

Throughout Debora’s career of teaching yoga, many master-teacher instructors of yoga trained her. It was not until Debora met Desikachar in 2003 that she found her one special teacher.   Her wide range of yoga studies includes Yin, Bikram, Iyengar, Vinyasa, Ashtanga, restorative Yoga and Yoga therapy.

Debora's Curriculum Vittae

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