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Deborah began practicing yoga regularly in 1996 as a positive strategy in her recovery from breast cancer. Her passion for the practice led to her teacher certification in 2007, with the completion of the both the “Level I Barkan Method of Hot Yoga” and the Barkan Level II Vinyasa training program. She also completed Vinyasa training through Yax Yoga Concepts in 2009, and a 500 hour Vinyasa certification program with Rolf Gates in June, 2011. Deborah received her Masters of Education from the University of Virginia in 1976, worked as a Speech Pathologist for 5 years in the public schools, and then, taught at Old Dominion University for 26 years as Senior Lecturer of Communication. Experience in teaching courses in Speech Pathology and in Human Communication, along with experience in designing and leading numerous communication workshops and presentations, provided a great instructional foundation for Deborah’s current teaching of hot yoga and vinyasa. Retirement from the Commonwealth of Virginia in 2007 paved the way for Deborah to pursue her love of yoga and to blend it with the joy she finds in teaching. Employed by Hot House Yoga since the summer of 2007, Deborah has over 3000 hours of teaching experience independently and through her study with Barkan, Gates and Yax Yoga Concepts. Since 2008, when Hot House Yoga launched its own teacher training program, Deborah has taught the anatomy section of the program. Married to Jerry, also an avid yoga practitioner, Deborah feels blessed to be a wife, a mother and a grandmother. “The learning that can happen through yoga offers such profound wisdom, such profound awareness - of self, of connections to others, and importantly, to the unrepeatable miracle of each and every moment of our lives. We learn to accept; we also learn to let go.”

Deborah M

Instructor at Hot House Yoga