Jennifer DeMarco
BS Exercise Physiology
BA Physical Education
MS Health Education
Current Faculty member in Exercise Science and Wellness, Grossmont College and Southwestern College
Developed "YOGA" curriculum in both departments, and it is doing GREAT at both campuses!
I have been part of the fitness and yoga staffs at the Golden Door and Rancho la Puerta since 1991.
My teacher training originally was done through Yoga Works in Santa Monica, and has continued through the weekly visiting instructors at the "Door" and the "Ranch" through the present time.
I have been particularly influenced by Swami Veda Bharati and the faculty of the Himalayan Institute from Rishikesh, India. I have also been influenced in my teaching by Dinah Cascolan, who is a GREAT Iyengar yoga instructor in San Diego, and Matias Flury, who is an Ashtanga teacher who taught in San Diego several years ago. Phyllis Pilgrim at Rancho la Puerta has shown me how to live my yoga "off the mat". I love to combine concepts from both Iyengar Yoga and Astanga Yoga, and I have LOVED every John Friend Anusara workshop that I have attended. I am inspired to teach yoga because it provides a timeless tool, a practice, that gives each person a daily reminder of who they want to be, and HOW they want to be, both "on" and "off" the mat.
“Come, come, whoever you are Even though you've broken your vows a thousand times Come, come again.”
—Rumi