In addition to teaching yoga, Ingrid Yang practices as an attorney specializing in intellectual property issues. Previously, she was a venture capitalist, a strategic business consultant, a jazz lounge singer in Australia and the owner of Blue Point Yoga Center in Durham, NC. A southern California native, she returned there after all those adventures. She began her yoga journey in the late 1990s at the Jivamukti Yoga Center in New York City, studying with David Life and Sharon Gannon. Her teacher training certification is from OM Yoga in New York and her clientele span from celebrities and Olympic athletes to students working with handicap or illness. Yang has led teacher trainings and workshops around the United States, Australia and Asia and is the co-author of Hatha Yoga Asanas published by Human Kinetics, due out in December 2011. Working as a clinical research associate in the lab of Dr. Kimberly Blackwell at Duke University Medical Center's Morris Cancer Clinic, where she focused her research specifically on breast cancer treatment, makes Yang uniquely qualified to lead cancer patients through the healing process of yoga and to lead teacher trainings in Yoga for Cancer Recovery.