MIchele Venne

The author had been a serious student of yoga for about two and half years when she signed up for the Advanced Studies and Teacher Training Program at Yoga Pura. This 500-hour Yoga Teacher Training Program offers so much more to the students than just how to be a good yoga teacher. Throughout the 11-month program, the author began to write lines of poems based on the topics that were discussed in class as well as her own understandings of the practice as they bloomed in her experience. This is a collection of those poems. It is presented in such a way as to encourage the reader and practitioner to utilize the words and ideas for their own classes and practice. When Michele isn?t on her mat, either participating in a class or leading others through their practice, she teaches full time at a local high school, writes (she has three novels in print), and rides her horses. www.myjoyenterprises.com