Edie Swensen has been practicing yoga for nine years and teaching for seven. In 2009 she completed Anusara teacher training with Todd Norian and Ann Green, earning Anusara Inspired status, a credential shared by fewer than 1,000 teachers in the U.S. Edie loves the life-affirming philosophy at the heart of the Anusara method, as well as the Universal Principals of Alignment, which she feels make asana practice accessible and safe for everyone. “I came to yoga in mid-life, — I wasn’t flexible, or physically coordinated, or young,” she says. “I began yoga to get my body in shape. I stayed because it transformed my life.” A screenwriter by profession, Edie is dedicated to enhancing her yoga credentials to better serve her students, and in January 2012 begins a year long advanced teacher training with Senior Anusara teacher Noah Maze.