Tasha Judson, M.Ed., RYT500 is a Certified Anusara Yoga Teacher. Of the development of her yoga practice she states: “I biked to yoga classes over the hills of Pittsburgh, PA. Later after becoming a high school teacher, I took up yoga again to help with stress. Yoga grew from a therapeutic endeavor to relieve back pain into a practice cultivating fullness, stability, and appreciation. In 1999 I started teaching yoga in the Berkshires, and in 2002 gave up teaching public school to go into it full time. I have been supported to grow by many teachers, including the Iyengar yoga and Vipassana and Tibetan Buddhist meditation communities.
Currently I focus on my training as a student and teacher of Anusara yoga, studying several times a year with John Friend and the merry band of Anusara yogis and with my meditation teacher Paul Muller Ortega. I’ve been fortunate to assist Anusara Yoga teachers Todd Norian, Elena Brower, Desiree Rumbaugh, Ann Greene, and Amy Ippoliti at Kripalu Center, as well as Deb Neubauer’s Teacher Training and John Friend’s Weekend Workshop in Boston. I’ve offered workshops and Immersions at my studio in Williamstown, MA as well as at Hubbard Hall in Cambridge, NY and at Wild Rose Studio in Chiang Mai Thailand. Off the mat I can often be found at the barn with the four legged equine set.”
As well as teaching yoga Tasha offers Thai Yoga Bodywork, which is rooted in ancient Buddhist traditions of healing and meditation as well as modern physical therapy and yoga. Sessions involve soft tissue work using palming and thumbing techniques, therapeutic stretching in assisted yoga postures, and energy balancing based on Sen energy lines. It can be described as “having yoga done to you”. It is performed on a mat fully clothed.
A profile of Natasha appeared in the The Cambridge Buzz, Sept 2006.
