Alison West
Alison West has been recognized as one of the most influential Yoga teachers in America. She?has not only studied in almost every major yogic lineage, but is also adored and respected across traditions. She began teaching in the late 1980s with Sivananda and Jivamukti, and opened the premier New York City yoga studio, Yoga Union, in 1996, which offers classes that hinge on West’s techniques for alignment, back care, and posture. West has studied in both Pune, India, with the Iyengars, and in Mysore, India, with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois?as well?as with anatomy and kinesiology master teachers Irene Dowd, Tom Myers, and Gil Hedley.??She founded and is sole director of?Yoga Union and the Yoga Union Backcare and Scoliosis Center.?West feels the time has come for a revolution in how we teach children and young people to sit and move and view their bodies now and in the future. She is currently writing her first Yoga book, Yoga for Backcare, to be followed by Yoga for Scoliosis, and creating a significant on-demand program, The Use of Ropes and Slings on a Yoga Wall or Door, making the material vastly more accessible to those without a rope wall. Yoga Journal has produced an on-demand, six-part Back Health Program created by Alison.?West leads demanding annual?200-hour and 500-hour?Teacher Training, and runs the only?100-Hour Backcare and Scoliosis Certification Program?in the world. She also?travels around the world teaching workshops and master classes.
