Deb Kurilla

Contact Information   
Shakti Yoga and Living Arts
1861 Springfield Ave
Maplewood, New Jersey 07040
United States
Email: bodyoflightyoga@aol.com
Phone: (973) 727-6579
Website: www.debkurilla.com


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ShaktiBody 

Maplewood, New Jersey 



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Professional Background  
I was a French major with no looming job possibility after college. So I learned sales from two excellent professional models - my mother and father and traveled the states selling at trades shows for their business. Traveling was fun for a year or two but then I decided to move on. I found a perfect fit in retail managing stores, personnel, sales, merchandising and operations for 16 years. In 1990, while living in NYC and running a Fifth Ave bookstore I discovered meditation which was my entre into the yoga world. I had more creativity, more contentment, more patience, more joy, more love and it continues today.



Yoga Background  
In 1997, burnt out from over working, I quit my position in retail and threw myself into a yoga practice 4 days a week. I loved my teacher whose training was Kripalu and Iyengar. (Todd Norian was her teacher) Within a year, 1998, I entered a teacher training program, recieved a 300 hour certification and began teaching soon after. I opened Body of Light in 2000. I had been a student of Gurumayi since 1993. I knew that John was teaching at the ashram in the summers although I never took a class with him. When I moved to Montclair, NJ in 2002 a friend passed on information about an Anuasara studio that just open. Because of my affiliation with Siddha Yoga, I felt a connecting spirit with John and was curious about the class and method. I went. I recognized the chant and felt at home. I got excellent instruction from Vishali Varga, I had fun and I could still stay connected to that expansive inner part of myself. Since then I have taken close to 1000 hours of public classes, workshops and trainings with John and many of his wonderful teachers. I am working towards certification. I especially love teaching beginning students, specialty classes and workshops, privates, therapeutics, and seniors. One of my dearest joys is to tranlates the principles of alignment to a meditation practice while weaving in a theme based on Tantric philosophy.


Questions and Answers   

Q: What other hobbies do you have aside from yoga practice?
A: Traveling, cooking, hiking, getting together with friends and family, laughing, movies, writing,

Q: What is the title of a book that you have read recently that you could strongly recommend?
A: Three Cups of Tea

Q: What is one of your all-time favorite movies?
A: Out of Africa

Q: What is one place that you would like to visit in the world? Why?
A: India....there is still so much to see, taste, do to experience the culture fully north, south, east and west.

Q: What's your favorite color?
A: Spring greens of new leaves