American Yoga Author Carrie Schneider

Carrie Schneider has been studying and teaching yoga in New York City for more than 25 years. The oft-asked question “What kind of yoga do you do?” compelled her to write “American Yoga: The Paths and Practices of America’s Leading Yoga Teachers,” furthering our investigation into the only yoga there ever was.

Classes and retreats with Carrie move you through this age-old inquiry. By doing postures and sequences tradition by tradition, back-dropped by teachings and stories from each, you’ll come away knowing how to find the yoga in whatever style you’re practicing.

Following OM’s first teacher training, in 1998, Carrie took certification intensives with American masters Richard Freeman, Rodney Yee, and David Life that informed her teaching then as now. Kripalu’s Stephen Cope became a mentor for writing about it all.

A longtime student of Kofi Busia and Ramanand Patel, Carrie was additionally certified by Kofi in 2013 and Rodney and Colleen Saidman Yee in 2016. Her monthlong study with Iyengar masters Rajiv and Swati Chanchani in Rajpur, India, in 2012 was another game-changer, as is her ever-deepening meditation practice, cheered eternally by Swami Dayananda.

Carrie’s journey has fueled group classes at Yoga Shanti, The Well, Chelsea Piers, Practice Yoga, Crunch, Yoga Sutra, and the Printing House; workshops at Jivamukti, Pure, and Vira Yoga; retreats in the Finger Lakaes, Costa Rica, Menla Mountain, and Ananda Ashram, where her weekends have been a staple since 2004; and private sessions with students whose devotion has been the greatest teaching of all.