About Susannah
Welcome, and thank you for joining me here!
If you’re wanting to know a little about me and my teaching style, I teach a rigorous style of Bhakti Vinyasa yoga, which includes beautiful chants, fluid sequencing, and nuggets of Yoga Philosophy that are both profound and accessible. I’ve become somewhat notorious for my dry sense of humor, and my playlists are always on fire. (Making them is like another job!). My sincerest goal is to offer a space in which people can find refuge inside their own bodies, and I firmly believe that as a global community we need to find a way to understand the concept that, as my teacher Stephanie Snyder says, we are different but not separate.
In 2010 I completed her first yoga teacher training, and in 2014 I received her Masters in Philosophy and Religion.
I am currently leading Yoga Teacher Trainings, retreats and workshops around the world, and I teaches private, public, and corporate classes all over the San Francisco Bay Area, and I am thrilled to be offering online classes over Zoom.
Drop a note to say, “hi,” or with any questions you have about my teaching or the practice.
xo
“Everything is nothing with a twist.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“I have been taught and coached by many people throughout my life as an athlete, and have had a handful of teachers as an aspiring yogini and Susannah is one of the only people I continue to desire to sit with and learn from.”
— Tianna Bartoletta, 3x Olympic Gold Medalist
Inspiration
Teachers
Stephanie Snyder
Love Story Yoga
Ram Dass
Love. Serve. Remember.
Dr. Jennifer Freed
Astrologer & Author
Jason Crandell
Yoga Method
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Humanitarian, Spiritual Leader & Peacemaker
Nikolai Bachman
Sanskrit Sounds
Tias Little
Prajna Yoga
Jai Uttel
House of Bhakti
Richard Tarnas
Cosmos and Psyche
Mantras & Chants
OM AH HUM VAJRA GURU PADMA SIDDHI HUM
Om to the unmanifest, imminent manifestation and manifestation lightning-bolt Guru of unbearable compassion and infinite power who resides in my heart.
SRI RAM JAI RAM
JAI JAI RAM
SITA RAM SITA RAM
May the Lord as light and virtue that dwells in my heart be victorious over all obstacles and difficulties. May the positive and transforming vision of the Divine in my heart lead to the fulfillment of divine will.
OM NAMAH SHIVAYA GURAVE
SATCHIDANANDA MURTAYE
NISHPRAPANCHAYA SHANTAYA
NIRALAMBAYA TEJASE
I offer myself to the one true Teacher within and without
In the forms of reality, consciousness, and bliss
Ever present and full of peace
Independent being, the vital essence of illumination
GANESHA SHARANAM
SHARANAM GANESHA
GAN GAN GANAPATI
SHARANAM GANESHA
We take refuge in Ganesha,
Remover of all obstacles
We call up everything that is Ganesha in our own hearts
We ask for refuge and protection.
LOKA SAMASTA SUHKINO BHAVANTU
May all beings everywhere be happy and free.
Books
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Swami Satchidananda
The Living Gita, Swami Satchidananda
Paths to God: Living the Bhagavad Gita, Ram Dass
Ramayana, Linda Egenes & Kumuda Reddy MD.
Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Swami Muktibodhananda
The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice, TKV Desikachar
Atma Bodha, Swami Nikhilananda
The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Nikhilananda
Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda
In Praise of the Goddess: The Devi Mahatmya and Its Meaning, Devadatta Kali
The Birth of Kirtan: The Life and Teaching of Chaitanya, Ranchor Prime
The Thought of The Heart and The Soul of The World, James Hillman
Loving What Is, Byron Katie
Cosmos & Psyche, Richard Tarnas
Use Your Planets Wisely, Dr. Jennifer Freed