NATALIE STAWSKY

Her Professional Bio

Trainings and Job Experience

Natalie's passion for Yoga started about 15 years ago, while working as a journalist and radio producer in a very competitive environment. It was the beginning of a gradual but intense and illuminating transformation, both at a physical and spiritual level.

After studying for several years with teachers like Shiva Rea, Saul David Raye, Erich Schiffmann and Max Strom, she received her first Teacher's Certification from the White Lotus Foundation ( Santa Barbara , California ), with teachers Ganga White and Tracey Rich, creators of the White Lotus Flow style.

Shortly after, she completed her second Teachers' Training at Sacred Movement Center for Yoga and Healing ( Venice , California ), with teachers Max Strom, Saul David Raye, Shiva Rea and Sherry Brourman.

While taking her first few steps as a teacher, she started studying at the Golden Bridge Center ( Los Angeles , California ) under the guidance of Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, from whom she received her certification in Prenatal Yoga The Khalsa Way .

Shortly after that, she got her certification in Yoga for Kids , which prepared her to teach yoga classes for children and teenagers, teaching them the yogic conducts and values through the practice of yoga, besides having fun through creative activities.

At the end of September 2004, she finished a Teacher's Workshop for the Incarcerated Youth , held by the Yoga for Youth organization and lead by its founder Krishna Kaur.

She worked with Impact Foundation and Imagine Yoga for Kids , non-profit organizations that offered yoga classes to inner city youth. She worked with students and teachers at Camino Nuevo Charter Academy , Dolores Mission High School , Burlington Elementary School , First street elementary school and many others . Through the practice of yoga, visualization exercises, arts and creative writing, these young students received the tools to build for themselves a positive change in their lives.

She also taught at TAS (The Accelerated School ) in South Central Los Angeles, where yoga was part of the school curriculum.