Teacher Feature: Get to Know Rosie Mulford
My very first introduction to yoga was in 1974 when my neighbor, Eve Diskin, then the president of the American Yoga association, came to my school to teach me how to do yoga. In all honesty the only thing...
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The most rewarding thing about teaching is my students! I am in awe of their ability to honor their bodies, to expand their minds, and their hearts, and to constantly be an example to me of what I try to teach: kindness, compassion, truth, and always staying connected to the Divine. My students continue to remind me of my personal motto: “ the 12-steps of AA saved my life, Yoga taught me how to live it”
My favorite yoga pose at this moment is wide-legged-split. It reminds me to stay open, to kiss the ground!
In 1974, Rosie took her first yoga class in Coconut Grove, Florida. Her instructor was Eve Diskin-then the Director of the American Institute of Yoga. During college and for a short time after, Rosie concentrated on her ballet studies, incorporating her yogic knowledge into her ballet exercises. For the next ten years, she began an intense practice incorporating Bikram and The Barkan Method under the guidance of Jimmy Barkan in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Rosie is certified in Pre-natal yoga, Vinyasa Flow yoga, Children’s Yoga,Y12SR, and has her 500-hour ERYT from Yoga Alliance. Her passion lately is teaching the ways in which combining Yoga with the 12 Steps of AA can offer a freedom from addictions in life- after all, we are each addicted to something! Rosie likes to mimic the challenges we face in real life on the mat, practicing how to share compassion and kindness in everything we do.
