Our Teachers

Deborah Baker is Iyengar certified, has studied yoga for over 30 years (has completed thousands of teacher training hours) and has been teaching yoga since 1996. She has made multiple trips to India and has studied with the Iyengars many times. She is a recognized member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists.

She is currently a candidate for Level 3 assessment, formerly called Senior Level II-III, a very advanced Iyengar yoga certificate which requires thousands of hours of specific training. Deborah continues to train and is currently completing coursework in functional movement, structural integration, and physical therapy.

She has significant training in sensory integration and somatic therapy. She has a profound understanding of trauma-informed yoga teaching. She well understands traumatic brain injury and is herself a blood cancer survivor. She has undergone two major brain surgeries. These and other life events have informed her practice and her teaching.

Deborah first practiced yoga in 1986 from a book while living as a Peace Corps Volunteer in a remote, mountainous region of Guatemala. When she returned to the U.S. in 1988, she came upon yoga teachers who had been trained by BKS Iyengar. She fell in love with the teachings of BKS Iyengar. His method of yoga quieted her over-active mind and helped to balance and ground her athletic body.

Deborah has also worked many years as a classroom teacher, teaching Spanish and ESL in New York City and at Stanley British Primary School and in the DPS in Denver.

She has an MA from Columbia University Teachers College.