Jennifer Ammann









  




...was twenty-one and studying English at the University of Colorado, Boulder when she was first introduced to Ashtanga Yoga in 1989 by Richard Freeman at The Yoga Workshop.  She continued taking classes with Richard for several months before leaving Boulder for a few years, returning again to The Yoga Workshop in 1994. She maintained regular study and practice at The Yoga Workshop until 1998 when she moved to New Mexico. 













In addition to asana, she has studied the philosophy of Yoga through Richard and on her own, as well as Tibetan Buddhist and Vipassana Meditation, Pranayama, and chanting.  She is dedicated to the internal form of asana practice, ever drawn to its meditative quality and the subtle and spontaneous experience of the body.  In the last two years, she has also become a student of a yang style of Qi Gong and Tai Chi, the internal form of which simultaneously mirrors and differentiates Yoga practice.  This threshold where two apparently differing mental systems meet is the juice of Yoga.


She views tapas , the discipline of self-study, as ultimately drawing one back to the creative source and its natural radiance of being fully engaged in the world as a result, notwithstanding the depth of obstacle nor its sacredness.  In her own life this translates not only into the traditional form of relationships and teaching but also into writing, mostly lyric, dance, and more recently, theatre.  The magic of theatre, bringing the vision and relationship to life in the present moment, and the connection with the audience being nothing other than love, has a truly mystical quality not so far removed from the rituals of the ancients.


She began teaching in 1999 and has studied with Richard in his Teacher’s Training in 2001 and Advanced Training Intensive in 2009.


Jennifer is the mother of three boys and lives in Taos, NM.