Yoga Teachers who assist Judith

Diane Valentine

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Diane Valentine is the director of the Yoga and Movement Center, where she teaches weekly classes and leads workshops in Iyengar-based Yoga, Restorative Yoga and Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement lessons. She has been studying Yoga for more than 26 years and teaching for the past 16. She has studied with and assisted senior Iyengar Yoga teacher Judith Hanson Lasater, PhD., in working with the therapeutic aspects of Yoga and restorative practices. Diane has written articles on Restorative Yoga for Menopause and Yoga and the Feldenkrais Method®. After four years of study she is certified as a Feldenkrais practitioner and teaches weekly Awareness through Movement classes. She also has an active private practice in hands on Functional Integration and Therapeutic Yoga sessions.

Diane has developed a deep understanding of the body, mind, and emotional connections through her work as a Yoga teacher, massage therapist, and Feldenkrais practitioner. Her own life situations have given her deep insight into the way our bodies work. After being diagnosed with a debilitating illness many years ago, she found deep healing in Yoga's restorative practices and continues to help or teach students learn to listen to their body's own natural wisdom.

Today her methods are aimed at teaching beginning and continuing students to listen to their bodies through the fluid movements of Yoga and Feldenkrais, as well as learning to practice "living in the present moment" by becoming aware of themselves. Diane places emphasis on developing and maintaining postural alignment to support the organs and the internal functions of our bodies, allowing us to be fully aware, awake, and alive. 
 

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