Lisa Clark, program director, has been mentored by some of the world’s leading yoga and movement teachers. She has synthesized many sources of knowledge with decades of personal practice, and teaching experience into this empowering and enjoyable program. Lisa Clark, MFA, is a certified teacher of Body Mind Centering and is the Program Coordinator with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen for The Yoga and Body-Mind Centering program at the School for Body Mind Centering in Amherst, MA. She began her study of yoga in 1979 and has continued throughout the years to explore its essence through a deep love and understanding of the human form in movement as well as an extensive knowledge of the body systems. Lisa is one of the leading innovators of the integration of Yoga and BMC and has been actively engaged in the training, teaching and practicing of this form for 19 years. Lisa has lead workshops and teacher training programs for The Yoga Journal, The Kripalu Center, Omega Institute, Rodney Yee, Shiva Rea, and many wonderful yoga studios throughout the United States. She lives in Durham, NC where she has a private practice and teaches weekly classes at The Yoga Spot. 

David Beadle, MFA is a certified practitioner of Body-Mind Centering and faculty member for the Yoga programs at the School for Body-Mind Centering. With over 20 years of experience as a movement educator, his background brings an embodied engagement with the fluid nature of movement. His teaching fosters an understanding of dynamic alignment principles, body mechanics, injury prevention, mind-body integration, and spiritual development. He is a practicing Buddhist with great breadth of knowledge and depth of experience with meditation practices and the many historical and philosophical branches of yogic thought. His teaching approaches asana mindfully, gently and deeply - helping students to embody a unique blend of alignment, movement and breathing principles. Influenced and inspired by intensive study with outstanding teachers in the Iyengar, Ashtanga and Kripalu yoga traditions, he has been seeing private clients and teaching yoga in a variety of settings since 1984. 

Patty Townsend is the director of the Yoga Center Amherst in Massachusetts. She is the developer of the Center’s in-depth Yoga Study and Teacher Training Program. Patty was among the first teacher-trainers in the US, training teachers while in residence at the Center For Yoga, Los Angeles and later as co-owner of Yoga Works, Santa Monica. She is a teacher of Transcendental and Tantric Meditation and has been an avid student and teacher of yoga for more than 30 years. She has studied many of the world’s foremost teachers of yoga, has practiced series 1, 2, 3 of Ashtanga Yoga, and is currently completing certificate programs in Embodied Anatomy and Embodied Developmental Movement in Yoga at The School for Body-Mind Centering. She has had a daily practice of meditation for over 30 years and brings a strong understanding of yoga philosophy to this rich curriculum for training teachers.