ALLISON WADDELL

Allison M. Waddell is a yoga teacher, dancer, choreographer, and teaching consultant who has traveled nationally and internationally facilitating the movement arts.  A North Carolina native, she is a graduate of Meredith College, the Virginia School of Massage, Yoga Works 200hr Teacher Training, and the 300hr Kaya Yoga Advanced Teacher Training with Kristin Leal.  She has performed and made work with several dance companies and choreographers such as the Zen Monkey Project, Even Exchange Dance Theater, Laura Dean, Amy Chavasse, and she is a founding member of the contact improvisation based quartet THEM.  She has been on faculty and guest faculty teaching dance, yoga, improvisation, and choreography at many schools, universities, and institutions in the United States and abroad, including Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul, Turkey and Universidad De Las Americas in Cholula, Mexico.

Allison has been practicing yoga for 10 years.  Her teaching is informed by her love of movement, her curiosity of anatomy and the human body, and her devotion to moving the metaphor of our practice from the mat and into our lives.  Allison’s classes draw from a thorough understanding of alignment principles, a lifetime of eclectic movement studies, and a career of teaching movement to people of all ages, backgrounds, and levels.  Allison is honored to take the seat of the teacher at Ishta Yoga.  She offers gratitude to all her teachers especially Alan Finger, Jean Koerner, Kristin Leal, and David Beadle.