Maureen Aitken

Maureen was drawn to yoga as a teenager in Scotland but her yoga was self-taught from books. Arriving in the US gave her an opportunity to tap into some of the best yoga teaching available. She has taught yoga since 2005 and has gained more than 500 hours of yoga training in Ashtanga, Somatic yoga, Hatha yoga in the Anusara style,Yin, Pre-natal and Thai yoga therapy. She teaches, Gentle, Hatha in the Anusara style, Yin and Vinyasa yoga. She is currently participating in a 500-hour yoga training through Soul of Yoga in Encinitas. She has completed a Holistic Health Practitioner training in 2008. As a Reiki practitioner recognizes that the universe truly is all energy and that we are units of biochemical reactions manifesting at an energetic level. She believes that through yoga, we can dissolve energy blockages, softening our edges, enabeling us to refine the shift into the right state of mind to help us find the peace. Peace which resides within each of us, allowing us to becoming more compassionate and empathetic individuals.

During Maureen’s journey, she has taken workshops with John Friend,Nischala Joy Devi, Brian Dorfman, Judith Lasater, Rusty Wells, ScottBlossom, Sally Kempton, Carlos Pomedo, Martin Kirk, Desiree Rumbaugh,Larry Payne, and is indebted to her teachers: Kim Sol, Erhard Rohrmuller,Noah Maze, Roger Cole, Geri Portnoy, Bernie Clark, her husband, children and every student she’s had the fortune to encounter; each has enriched her life.