Suzie Blackman
Suzie Blackman is from Bethesda, MD and attended Bethesda Chevy Chase High School, where she played Varsity Field Hockey, Volleyball and Gymnastics. In her time outside of studying and athletics, Suzie also took part for 7 consecutive years in a pre professional dance company, mostly focusing on modern, lyrical, hip-hop, and African, dance genres. Suzie attended college at the university of Wisconsin-Madison where she studied sociology and psychology.
Having dreamt of a career in clinical psychology or psychiatric social work, and having an extensive background in athletics training and in dance, Suzie became intrigued by pursuing a career that would combine her desire to improve our mental, emotional, and physical well being, both individually and as a collective, a community, a kula. What better way to combine interests and make tangible differences than to become a personal trainer and a yoga teacher.
In the summer between her junior and senior year of college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Suzie began practicing yoga at the Inner Fire Yoga studio, to which she biked to and from everyday. As a young university student, just back from an eye opening experience living abroad for a semester, Suzie returned to the states feeling very out of sorts; What began as a quest for clarity and calm turned into an epic journey of self discovery, leading Suzie to find a rejuvenated sense of lightness and vitality with which to approach life. Suzie quickly reaped the benefits of a daily yoga practice and developed an intense but playful passion for the yogic lifestyle. In the time immediately after graduation, Suzie transitioned, alone, to San Francisco, where she became heavily entrenched in the yoga culture, attending two classes per day with different instructors at a plethora of studios all around the Bay Area.
Having moved back to her home on the east coast, Suzie promptly decided to take her practice to the next level by taking part in a 200 hour yoga teacher training program. Suzie is bursting with joy and eager to share this sacred practice of balance, stability, flexibility and strength with those in and around the community. Suzie has come to appreciate the art of teaching yoga as a practice of yoga in and of itself, always feeling humbled and immensely grateful for the lessons she learns about communication, breath, movement, transition, awareness, and perception at the end of each and every class.
Join Suzie in an elevating, joy filled, detoxifying practice that will ultimately help you to actualize and achieve your full potential: a still and stable mind, and an expansive, receptive and strong, loving heart.
Having dreamt of a career in clinical psychology or psychiatric social work, and having an extensive background in athletics training and in dance, Suzie became intrigued by pursuing a career that would combine her desire to improve our mental, emotional, and physical well being, both individually and as a collective, a community, a kula. What better way to combine interests and make tangible differences than to become a personal trainer and a yoga teacher.
In the summer between her junior and senior year of college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Suzie began practicing yoga at the Inner Fire Yoga studio, to which she biked to and from everyday. As a young university student, just back from an eye opening experience living abroad for a semester, Suzie returned to the states feeling very out of sorts; What began as a quest for clarity and calm turned into an epic journey of self discovery, leading Suzie to find a rejuvenated sense of lightness and vitality with which to approach life. Suzie quickly reaped the benefits of a daily yoga practice and developed an intense but playful passion for the yogic lifestyle. In the time immediately after graduation, Suzie transitioned, alone, to San Francisco, where she became heavily entrenched in the yoga culture, attending two classes per day with different instructors at a plethora of studios all around the Bay Area.
Having moved back to her home on the east coast, Suzie promptly decided to take her practice to the next level by taking part in a 200 hour yoga teacher training program. Suzie is bursting with joy and eager to share this sacred practice of balance, stability, flexibility and strength with those in and around the community. Suzie has come to appreciate the art of teaching yoga as a practice of yoga in and of itself, always feeling humbled and immensely grateful for the lessons she learns about communication, breath, movement, transition, awareness, and perception at the end of each and every class.
Join Suzie in an elevating, joy filled, detoxifying practice that will ultimately help you to actualize and achieve your full potential: a still and stable mind, and an expansive, receptive and strong, loving heart.