Kathleen Wright - Director of Yoga Programs
Kathleen Wright is the founder and director of Garden of Yoga. Kathleen is a cofounder of Yoga Circle and Wild Onion Yoga. She has been studying Yoga since 1974 and teaching since 1976. Her initial training was under the direct guidance of Swami Veda Bharati of the Himalyan Tradition. She holds a degree in Movement Education from the University of Minnesota and graduated from the Iyengar Yoga Institute of California’s two-year state certification program in 1983. She has studied by invitation with the Iyengar family, including B.K.S. Iyengar and Geeta Iyengar in India on five different occasions. She has also helped to host the Iyengars on visits to the U.S. and participated in many Iyengar Yoga national conventions. She is a nationally certified Iyengar Yoga instructor at the Junior Intermediate level. Her Yoga teachers in the U.S.are Ramanand Patel, Janet MacLeod, and Lois Steinberg. Kathleen serves as mentor and teacher to many of the area’s top yoga teachers. She continues to study and practice Yoga.