Elizabeth Johnstone

Elizabeth is an accomplished tennis player and team captain who began practicing Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga to help her tennis game, which it certainly has done. So much more has been discovered.

Elizabeth enjoys sharing her passion for yoga with the community. She also enjoys helping athletes gain greater strength and flexibility through BPVY. Her love of yoga and her commitment to her true path and to helping others inspires her to be a passionate and caring teacher. "The moving and dynamic flow and sequencing is fun and accessible to everyone. In the heated room, I feel like I am burning off my past. The breath reminds me that the past is not now, and reminds me of my aliveness. I am so grateful to Baron Baptiste and his family for bringing yoga into my life and the lives of so many others."

After attending a Personal Revolution boot camp in May, 2007, and reading in 40 Days to Personal Revolution about the positive effects of meditation in a prison in Tikun, India, Elizabeth was deeply inspired by Baron Baptiste and began volunteer teaching weekly meditation and BPVY at York Correctional Facility, a maximum security women's prison in Connecticut. "This process of BPVY touches the women's hearts, bodies, and souls as it does mine." Through this journey of experiencing the process unfolding within herself and witnessing it occurring with her students, Elizabeth founded Recovery Yoga, Inc., a nonprofit 501(c(3) service organization dedicated to healing and personal empowerment through yoga programs in southeastern Connecticut and southwestern Rhode Island. She also started The Recovery Yoga Fund at the Community Foundation of Southeastern Connecticut (www.cfsect.org). Each is responding to the urgent and growing need for rehabilitative programs for at-risk women and teens.

Elizabeth believes yoga is about the triumph of the human spirit.

Elizabeth lives with her husband and two daughters by the sea in Stonington, CT.

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