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| About
Jaime
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| Jaime
Stover Schmitt, Ed. D., C.M.A., began studying
yoga at age 6 when she went with her mother to
a yoga class taught by a student of Krishnamurti.
She has been studying and practicing ever since,
and has been teaching yoga for almost 30 years.
Dr. Schmitt has studied yoga in India at the foothills
of the Himalayas under H. H. Sri Swami Rama and
Sri Swami Veda, and for the past 6 years has been
studying the vinyasa krama system as taught by
Sri Srivatsa Ramaswami, direct student of H. H.
Sri Krishnamacharya. With a doctoral degree in
Dance Movement Education from Temple University
and certification in Laban Movement Analysis,
Dr. Schmitt has danced and choreographed professionally
in New York, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, and
has taught yoga, dance, and fitness as a Fellow
at Temple University, and as an Assistant Professor
at Loyola Marymount University. |
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Schmitt's certification in yoga is through the Himalayan
Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy, where through
continuing education she honed her skills as a yoga
therapist under the guidance of Pandit Rajmani Tigunait,
Ph.D. Her work in yoga therapy is additionally informed
by the various movement, holistic health, and bodywork
modalities she has trained in. Her life long inquiry
of the question "how does yoga work?" led her to a number
of methods for understanding and respectfully facilitating
positive change in individuals. She credits Aileen Crow,
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Drs. Arny and Amy Mindell,
Dr. Janet Adler, and Dr. Rudolph Ballentine as formative
influences in shaping her movement-inclusive approach
to yoga as a path of Self-understanding and liberation.
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founder and educational director of SpandaŽ: The Yoga
of Movement - a therapeutic and educational program
located in the New York metro area - she works with
everyone from newborns to octogenarians. From 'Yoga
for Singers' at a conservatory, to pre-school yoga movement
classes, to 'Yoga and Cancer Treatment Recovery', to
yoga classes at the Institute for Advanced Studies,
Dr. Schmitt teaches varied applications because she
recognizes yoga can be adapted to meets the needs of
every individual. Dr. Schmitt is also a faculty member
of the Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy,
and leads workshops at the Integral Yoga Institute of
New York, and the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. |
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Every Woman's Yoga, Dr. Schmitt's most recent
publication is "Yoga For Pregnancy," Himalayan Institute
Reprint Series, Himalayan Institute Press, 2001. She
is a contributor to Yoga International Magazine and
A Moving Journal. |
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2002-
, Jaime Stover Schmitt. |
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