Carrie Schneider
About the Teacher
Why study with them?
Carrie Schneider’s instruction taps our vantage as 21st century yogins—fed by the myriad of traditions but not limited by any one. Her classes are seriously fun orchestrations of the salutations and held alignments that show us what we are.
Following OM’s first teacher training, in 1998, Carrie took certification intensives with American masters Richard Freeman, Rodney Yee, and David Life (Silver Bay, NY, 2001, 2002) that informed her teaching then as now. Kripalu's Stephen Cope became a mentor for writing about it all.
A longtime student of Kofi Busia and Ramanand Patel, Carrie was additionally certified by Kofi in 2013 and Rodney and Colleen Saidman Yee in January 2016. Her monthlong study with Iyengar masters Rajiv and Swati Chanchani in Rajpur, India, in February 2012 was another game-changer, as is her ever-deepening meditation practice, cheered eternally by Swami Dayananda.
This ongoing inquiry has fueled group classes at Yoga Shanti, The Well, Chelsea Piers, Practice Yoga, Crunch, Yoga Sutra, and the Printing House; workshops at Jivamukti, Pure, and Vira Yoga; retreats in the Finger Lakes, Costa Rica, Menla Mountain, and Ananda Ashram, where her summer and fall weekends have been a staple since 2004; and private sessions with students whose devotion has been the greatest teaching of all.
Following OM’s first teacher training, in 1998, Carrie took certification intensives with American masters Richard Freeman, Rodney Yee, and David Life (Silver Bay, NY, 2001, 2002) that informed her teaching then as now. Kripalu's Stephen Cope became a mentor for writing about it all.
A longtime student of Kofi Busia and Ramanand Patel, Carrie was additionally certified by Kofi in 2013 and Rodney and Colleen Saidman Yee in January 2016. Her monthlong study with Iyengar masters Rajiv and Swati Chanchani in Rajpur, India, in February 2012 was another game-changer, as is her ever-deepening meditation practice, cheered eternally by Swami Dayananda.
This ongoing inquiry has fueled group classes at Yoga Shanti, The Well, Chelsea Piers, Practice Yoga, Crunch, Yoga Sutra, and the Printing House; workshops at Jivamukti, Pure, and Vira Yoga; retreats in the Finger Lakes, Costa Rica, Menla Mountain, and Ananda Ashram, where her summer and fall weekends have been a staple since 2004; and private sessions with students whose devotion has been the greatest teaching of all.
