Mandi Hood
Mandi Hood, M.A., E-RYT 200
Mandi draws on her decades of training as a counselor and teacher to help yoga students connect with the beauty and power of their humanity. Her yoga classes are designed to unlock students’ physical and emotional resilience. Mandi approaches teaching with reverence as well as a sense of humor. Through her authenticity, Mandi hopes to create a comfortable and welcoming space for first-time and long-time yoga students. Mandi took her first yoga class in the late 1990s. She considers that class to be one of many seeds she planted over the years, little sparks of experiences that eventually sprouted into a yoga and teaching practice. The first seeds planted were at the base of the Chugach Mountain Range in Alaska, where Mandi was born and raised. Alaska taught her that there is wisdom beyond what we can see, touch, taste, smell and feel, and that tapping into that wisdom can provide a powerful sense of strength and peace during challenging times. Called to serve from a young age, Mandi has worked to help others tap into this wisdom through her work as a yoga teacher as well as a mental health provider, working in community mental health, inpatient, residential treatment and private practice. Mandi focuses on healing trauma through a strengths and mindfulness-based, harm reduction approach. She enjoys supporting people in discovering their own power, humanity, and divinity and believes that part of the yogic path is working towards the liberation of all people. Her approach as a yoga teacher is to serve as a guide, supporting students in exploring their relationship to yoga. She delights in sharing this path with others.
Mandi is registered as an E-RYT 200 yoga instructor who completed her first 200-hour training with CorePower Yoga in 2017. She became a part of the Burning Spirits and Yoga Punx communities through the Heart of Vinyasa Teacher Training, which she graduated from in 2019. Mandi completed a one-year apprenticeship in Mysore-style Ashtanga Yoga with Sandee Lawless. She has also completed David Garrigues’ Ashtanga Foundations training. Mandi loves practicing and teaching vinyasa and Ashtanga yoga and is grateful for the love and support of the sangha at Burning Spirits.
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