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Dr. Anna Engels is a Co-Founder of Yoga Lab Studio in State College, PA.  She is a yoga teacher registered at the E-RYT 500 and YACEP levels with Yoga Alliance.  Her yoga teaching and practice combines her background in psychology with a strong grounding in anatomy and functional movement to create intelligent and fun sequences that flow with the breath and connect you to your core. She has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, and her clinical interests and academic research focus on stress, anxiety, depression, and their associated patterns of brain activity using fMRI. She is also a photographer and loves traveling the world, capturing moments of beauty.  She currently teaches yoga at Yoga Lab and in the Penn State Kinesiology Department.  She is also available for private sessions.

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One More Class Before We Head to Costa Rica!

7/16/2015

 
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Jeremy and I will be teaching one more Level 1-2 class TONIGHT at Lila Yoga 5:30pm before we head to Costa Rica!  Hope you can join us!  We're very excited to deepen our knowledge of anatomy and body mechanics studying with Lara Heimann in Costa Rica for several weeks, and look forward to sharing what we learn when we return.  It's going to be a great adventure with dear friends full of yoga, sun, surf, and hiking--we're flying to Peru to hike the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu after Costa Rica.  I'm sure I'll have tons of photos to post when we return!   Many thanks in advance to Jess & Joe, Laura, Katy, Brandi, and Greta for covering our classes at Lila Yoga while we're away on this odyssey!  

Subbing at Lila Yoga TONIGHT and more coming up!

7/5/2015

 
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I'll be subbing several extra classes at Lila Yoga--hope you can join me!

Fri July 10: Level 2-3, 5-6:30pm (with Jeremy)
Sun July 12: Sun Salutations, 10-11am
Sun July 12: Meditation, 11-11:30 am
Mon July 13: Level 1-2, 5:30 - 7pm (with Jeremy)
Mon July 13: Pranayama 7-7:30pm

Check out my Teaching Schedule for a full list of classes 

"The Universe Breathes Us"

7/3/2015

 
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Here's my favorite musing of the day:
"It is important to note that in spite of how it feels when you inhale, you do not actually pull air into the body.  On the contrary, air is pushed into the body by the atmospheric pressure (14.7 pounds per square inch, or 1.03kg/cm2) that always surrounds you.  This means that the actual force that gets air into the lungs is outside of the body.  The energy expended in breathing produces a shape change that lowers the pressure in the chest cavity and permits the air to be pushed into the body by the weight of the planet's atmosphere.  In other words, you create the space, and the universe fills it."  -- from Yoga Anatomy by Kaminoff & Matthews (pg 6)

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