Octavia Yoga

Octavia has experience using yoga to address:

  • Scoliosis
  • Lower back injuries
  • Pain and discomfort in the neck, upper back, and shoulders

Octavia is a full time yoga instructor who has been a devoted student of lyengar Yoga since 1995 and a teacher since 2003. She uses the discipline of yoga to promote health and equanimity, develop consciousness, and still the mind. She has in-depth experience using yoga to address her neck pain, scoliosis and lower back injuries.

Octavia is deeply grateful to senior Iyengar teacher Manouso Manos, her teacher since 2000, who guides, challenges, and inspires her both as a teacher and a student. She has been an assistant to Manouso since 2004, and has traveled to Pune, India three times to study with the Iyengar family. Octavia’s first five years of yoga study were with back-care specialist Evlaleah Howard. Octavia has also completed Stephanie Quirk’s course on Asana and Therapeutics.

Credentials:

  • Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher
  • Assistant to Manouso Manos, one of the most senior teachers in the Iyengar tradition, from 2004 – 2010
  • Study with the Iyengar family three times in Pune, India and at conferences in the U.S.A.
  • Graduate of Stephanie Quirk’s three year course on Asana and Therapeutics in 2009. The course consists of six intensive, four-day workshops over the course of three years.
  • Graduate of the 200-hour teacher training program at the Iyengar Institute of San Francisco in 2005
  • Numerous conferences, workshops, and intensives with senior lyengar teachers