Leap into Life

Gail's students say her classes are nourishing, positive, playful and intelligently paced. Yoga has led Gail on amazing journey from her head to her heart. She was drawn to her teacher Jackie Prete in the mid-90s for her precise alignment cues but soon learned of yoga's teachings in Jackie's classes, her two Anusara immersions and 200-hour teacher training. Gail taught yoga in New York and Hong Kong before following her heart and retiring to her husband David's hometown of Charleston after a 25-year career in human resources consulting. 

 She is a Certified Anusara Yoga Teacher and holds the e-RYT® 500 and YACEP® designations with Yoga Alliance. Gail has been teaching public classes at The Medical University of South Carolina Wellness Center since 2009. This affiliation has given her the opportunity to introduce many different populations to yoga and meditation, including young adults on the autism spectrum, patients with traumatic brain injuries, cancer patients and survivors to name a few. She is a y4c (Yoga for Cancer) trained teacher. She also teaches Corporate classes with GO Interactive Wellness and private students.

 Her Self-inquiry practice (atma vichara) has deepened through meditation, yoga philosophy studies, and spiritual programs and retreats. It also showed her that yoga's profound impact on her recovery from alcoholism (she has been sober since 1995) is a gift to share with others. As a result, she teaches twice weekly at a rehab center, and has led yoga at recovery retreats, conventions and other special programs. She has two certfications for teaching to this population: S.O.A.R. (Success Over Addiction and Relapse) and Y12SR (Yoga for 12-Step Recovery). She is the Anusara School of Hatha Yoga’s Subject Matter Expert on Addiction Recovery and leads a teacher training in ASHY's advanced (500-hour) curriculum.