It is fun to open the paper and read good things about one of our own. This week Natasha Stevens, a yoga instructor and personal trainer at the Lake House, was quoted and pictured in an article entitled “Building a Network for the Disabled” in the Charleston Post and Courier.
The Post and Courier article is about a nonprofit organization, Adaptive Expeditions, that helps people with physical and visual disabilities in the greater Charleston area enjoy activities such as, yoga, surfing, sailing, kayaking, cycling and swimming.
The article describes how Natasha is helping visually impaired people practice Yoga. Her involvement with Adaptive Expeditions is a new challenge for her. She says, “When the opportunity came up to teach the visually impaired group, I was interested to add another element to my teaching”. She taught the fall session and now is teaching the current session.
Natasha has taught yoga since 2011 at Seabrook. She conducts group classes of gentle and restorative yoga, flow yoga, semi-private classes of Yin yoga (a slow, floor-based, deep stretch yoga), and chair yoga for those with permanent or temporary physical limitations.
However, yoga was not her first love. Continue reading “Lake House Instructor Teaches Yoga for the Visually Impaired”