ELIZABETH ALDERSON is a Utah-based certified yoga instructor and birth doula. Elizabeth travels teaching yoga workshops and retreats. She moved to Utah from Colorado in 2014, but is originally from Long Branch, New Jersey. Yoga came into her life at the young age of 17. Her mother was told by her physician to embark on a yoga journey to balance her life due to a battle she would heroically move through - Cancer, a word that no-one ever wants to hear. “I watched my mom grow through her 4os using the tools she gained from the amazing world of yoga. She fought like a beautiful, graceful champ. It was through her journey that I stepped into the magical experience that I can now call home. YOGA, this word means union. To me this is union first with yourself and then with the world around you.”
Elizabeth has had the opportunity to learn from an amazing teacher of the Hatha school of yoga, Beth Spindler, a Himalayan Institute resident and Yoga International renowned author and teacher. She has cultivated her own unique way of teaching that she has developed from the schools of yoga including Iyengar (a school of yoga that uses props including blocks, straps, bolsters etc to train the muscles of the body to hold the proper alignment of the skeleton). Elizabeth found Iyengar helped to heal her body both after a car accident in her early 20s and a ski accident where she tore her Acl, Mcl and Meniscus up at Sundance Mountain Resort. She also has been influenced in Yin yoga (a school of yoga in which you ground yourself using deep poses to release unwanted tension in both the body and the mind). And lastly, Ashtanga yoga (a school of yoga that has a specific set of poses and ethical life guidelines to discipline the mind). It was through her own yoga practice that she also became interested in teaching yoga.
Elizabeth Alderson, High School Physical Education Teacher
