Suzie Goldstein, CIYT
About the Teacher
Why study with them?
Hello! I am a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher and a licensed trauma-informed psychotherapist from Northampton, MA. I have been teaching yoga for over fifteen years in various settings including as the owner of River Valley Yoga in Florence, MA, Karuna Center for Yoga & Healing Arts in Northampton, MA, Faculty Instructor at Smith College, and Trauma-Informed Yoga for Trauma Survivors at Smith College and other community venues. I offer a radically personalized and adaptive approach within the Iyengar Yoga method. My mission is to teach students to cultivate a joyous, heart-felt, lifelong practice. I believe wellness is multidimensional and includes aspects of our emotional, psychological, social, and spiritual worlds, and our environment. I am dedicated to cultivating a warm and loving environment where students of yoga can thrive, better understand themselves, and increase health and vitality. I adhere to “NO PAIN - NO PAIN” messaging, and through creative, adaptive, unique instruction meets your physical body, emotional body, mind, and nervous system where you are each day. My teaching aims to empower you to step into your own JOY and become your own INTUITIVE guide for your healing. I want you to gain confidence from knowing how to meet your own needs in practice and what you need to keep yourself safe, integrated, and strong.
As a lifelong student first, I continue to deepen my practice by taking classes with Abhijata Iyengar and Prashant Iyengar, as well as studying multiple times per week with my primary teacher Senior CIYT Jessica Becker. I am abundantly grateful to her and for her mentorship, and to the Iyengar Family for their profound dedication and wisdom. It is one of the great honors of my life to be a part of this lineage and to continue to share it with my students. In my off time, I love music, hiking, traveling, and spending time with my two dogs and four chickens. I am a National Parks lover and when not in Western Massachusetts spend most of my time on the beach in my hometown on the Outer Cape.
As a lifelong student first, I continue to deepen my practice by taking classes with Abhijata Iyengar and Prashant Iyengar, as well as studying multiple times per week with my primary teacher Senior CIYT Jessica Becker. I am abundantly grateful to her and for her mentorship, and to the Iyengar Family for their profound dedication and wisdom. It is one of the great honors of my life to be a part of this lineage and to continue to share it with my students. In my off time, I love music, hiking, traveling, and spending time with my two dogs and four chickens. I am a National Parks lover and when not in Western Massachusetts spend most of my time on the beach in my hometown on the Outer Cape.
