Anne DiBlasio, Instructor

RYT 500 - Anne’s yoga journey began in 2012, through attending hot yoga classes. As a runner, she loved the workout and the sweat the cardio style yoga brought. She then decided to go out of her comfort zone and try some different styles of yoga and immediately found a new passion – conscious breath with movement. It was calming, helped her anxiety and cleared her mind for new possibilities.

Anne completed her training at the Yoga Training Center with Laurel Hodary and Mary Ellen Colman, with a focus on Ashtanga and Hatha styles. She believes that yoga can help everyone, at any age and stage in their lives. She is excited about helping others find their peace and balance, within busy day to day life.

Anne teaches weekly Slow Flow on Sunday mornings, Yoga/Pilates on Wednesday mornings and twice a month on Saturday mornings. She also teaches a donation-based gentle class once a month to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

More about Anne

Q.- How did you first come to find yoga? A neighbor invited me to join her for a hot yoga class. I went to the packed class, completely lost and wondering why I said yes. I liked the movement and how I felt afterwards. I practiced hot yoga for about a year before I tried a slower paced class. It was amazing. My favorite part was the breathing and introspection, which I was desperately craving at that time (I have learned that I really crave this all the time.

Q.- What are some key ways it has supported you in your life? Yoga has supported clarity in life. Yoga has enhanced the spiritual nature that lives inside of me. Yoga has taught me how to breathe. Yoga has taught me what nonviolence really means. Yoga has allowed me to be free of the anxiety of social/daily life and feel more supported. Yoga has taught me that I am enough, I have all that need within myself.

Q. What do you like most about teaching? The community of the people is what I like the most about teaching. I am surrounded each class by beautiful souls...they encourage and uplift me.

Q- Is there anything else you'd like to share about yourself? I love being outside, walking, running or hiking. I love learning and reading. I have recently started a small greeting card business called "My Mother's Hand", to honor the art of my late mother. I have been longing for years to share my mom's wonderful gifts with others.

Q- If you could learn anything new what would it be? I would like to learn how to build a wooden shelf or table from scratch. I would like to learn how to figure skate - I loved watching the Olympics as a kid. I would also like to learn how to ski.

Q- Name something on your bucket list. I would like to go on a silent retreat for at least a weekend or maybe longer. My mom used to go on silent retreats often and this is something I have always wanted to add into my life, but haven't found the time to do it quite yet. I would love to travel to Italy and to the west coast and see the beauty in those places. I want to live in a cabin in the woods someday, this has been a dream of mine for a number of years.