Heather Lee Farrell

Yoga for Healthcare

 

Training and Background

 
 
 

My path always

Finds the

Empty Hollow

And

That is the

Space That

I Walk

Yoga Training and Experience Heather is a 500 hour advanced Hatha Yoga teacher registered with the Yoga Alliance. She has experience teaching Hatha Yoga, particularly Iyengar based Hatha Yoga. Among the many specialties she has experience in are: restorative yoga yoga for athletes, yoga therapeutics Prenatal Yoga postnatal yoga yoga for labor and delivery Mom and Baby Yoga Yoga for Cyclists General Yoga classes meditation and Breathwork Heather has taught classes and yoga teacher training at Yoga Now. She has facilitated and taught workshops through Body, Mind and Spirit, The Albuquerque Birth Network, Topahkal Health Collaborative and Fiesta de la Salud. Recently, she was selected by The Albuquerque Journal to appear in and contribute to an article about Prenatal Yoga. She has been teaching at High Desert Yoga for the past four years. Heather founded and is executive director of Community Yoga Albuquerque, which offers yoga classes at homeless shelters, prisons and other areas of needs. Current and past sites have included: The Safe House, Southwest Creations, Cesar Chavez Community Center, North Valley Senior Center, EPC and The Youth Diagnostic and Development Center a detention center for adolescents. Related Background Heather’s strong desire to teach yoga therapeutically and WORK in healthcare led her to pursue a Doctor of Oriental Medicine degree. She will integrate her yoga teaching with Eastern medicine as when she begins to practice in early 2009. She has done extensive study and research in medicinal herbs, nutrition and food therapy . The future Dr. Farrell hopes to teach her patients to ‘cure’ themselves through the healthcare tools she will provide. In the past, she has worked as a VISTA Volunteer, Social worker with homeless families and children as well as inner city populations. During that same time period she worked as a teacher in an inner city school. This strong interest in working with underserved populations led her to found Community Yoga Albuquerque. Besides studying and teaching yoga, Heather enjoys hiking in the mountains (the higher altitude the better!!), riding and racing bicycles, Belly dancing, traveling, studying language and spending time with her family of people and dogs. This website was developed with the hope of providing a means to make connections between yoga and the healthcare sector as well as serve as a means of resource for the community. “It is the shelter of each other that the people live” http://www.yogaalliance.orghttp://www.yoganow.orghttp://www.bodymindandspiritabq.comhttp://www.albuquerquebirthnetwork.orghttp://www.highdesertyoga.comhttp://www.communityyogaalbuquerque.orghttp://www.dogstarradio.com/shapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3shapeimage_2_link_4shapeimage_2_link_5