BARBARA RUZANSKY, DIRECTOR
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Barbara Ruzansky, founder and director of West Hartford Yoga, is widely known throughout Connecticut for her challenging instruction as well her compassion, support, humor and warmth. As a teacher and leader Barbara sets the bar high, but encourages self-acceptance while helping her students strive to reach their personal best. Barbara’s own path to health is at the heart of her teaching. She has a deep conviction that yoga can help you “observe how you’re treating yourself, feeding yourself and affecting your community.” She wants to introduce yoga and healthful eating to people, so they can “shine and touch those around them.”
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Barbara spent over two decades struggling with eating disorders and
depression and found healing mainly through yoga and whole foods cooking.
In 2002, she opened West Hartford Yoga, a center for yogic life, which offers yoga classes and
workshops, teacher training, intensives with international teachers,
reading groups, lectures, massage, meditation, kirtan, and hiking. In 2006, she
collaborated with international yoga teacher Ana Forrest to create a 6 day
Eating Disorder Intensive, pursuing her lifelong goal of finding a holistic
treatment for the highly resistant diseases of eating disorders. Her teaching emphasizes “staying conscious and developing the art of self-
awareness.” She spent 20 years as a macrobiotic chef and teacher, and her
yoga training includes work with Ana Forrest, David Swenson, Shiva Rea,
and Dan Leven (Expressive Movement Therapy) as well as a deep study of Bikram
yoga, Kripalu yoga and a 500 hour yoga alliance certification. She has
blended this knowledge into a style she calls WHY Power, a dynamic yoga combining
Ashtanga, vinyasa flow and Forrest yoga. WHY Power encourages people to
explore their edges, develops core strength, and connects people to their breath. |
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