About Marcia Monroe
“Marcia's impassioned commitment to exploring the consciousness of the body is an infectious invitation to her students to find joy in their own path to an embodied self.”
-- Donna Farhi
Marcia Monroe is from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She divides her time between Rio de Janeiro and the US. She is trained as a dancer and choreographer. Her first certification in Hatha Yoga has been received by the Integral Yoga Institute in New York City for levels 1, 2, and 3 where she also teaches children. She recently had the honor to receive a certification by Mr. B.K.S. Iyengar on the Iyengar method. She has been studying with the Iyengar family in Pune, India, since 2002 and teaching the method in the US and Brazil. She is a Body Mind Centering® teacher, a certified cranial sacral therapist by the Upledger Institute, a Feldenkrais® practitioner, and is registered as an International Movement Therapist.
She has been teaching ongoing classes based on the Iyengar method and conducting the following workshops, "Teaching Yoga to Kids", "Yoga and Scoliosis", and "Yoga and Body Mind Centering®" in the United States, Canada, Brazil, and India. She has been a guest teacher for the Smith College Dance Department, offering the workshop "Yoga and Body Mind Centering®". She has taught the effects of Yoga on asthmatic children to inpatient children under medical research at Beth Israel Hospital and the Lutheran Hospital in Brooklyn.
She has participated at the Yoga Journal Conference in Miami and has offered several workshops in Kripalu and around the country. She has been working with Donna Farhi for the last several years and co-teaches workshops with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen in "Yoga and BMC". Currently she is teaching children at the Bloomingdale Family Project and Iyengar Yoga to teens at the YMCA. She has a private practice in bodywork and Yoga. She is the dance curator of the movement series, "Crossing Boundaries", produced by Dixon Place.
She has release a yoga video called "Developmental Yoga and The Fluid Patterns" in 2003.
And she has a new book called "Engaging The Child Through Yoga."
For information contact Marcia Monroe at marciamnro@aol.com