ERYT 500hr
2 year Lululemon Ambassador 2010 & 2011
Amy’s Yoga story began after years studying fitness and martial Arts. She stepped into her 1st yoga class at the gym looking for a good stretch and found that it wasn’t exactly love at first down dog. The postural practice was challenging not only physically but the mental awareness and attention to detail arduous. Perhaps it was something about that challenge that practice that kept bringing her back. It wasn’t until she became more familiar with the asana and began to use her breath that she began to experience how profound the practice of yoga could be. “When I started linking the movement with the breath, the practice became magical. I had an aha moment and it quickly became apparent that this practice was much bigger than anything I had done in the gym. I was learning how to pause and flow, cultivating an awareness and concentration that would not only serve me on my mat but gave me the tools to act in my life off the mat in a way that was life affirming.”
Amy traded in her boxing gloves for a yoga mat, her gym membership for class packages at her favorite Yoga Studio, Yoga Synthesis and found her first and most influential teacher Raji Thron. She took her first Yoga Teacher Training in 2006 and has since continued to grow and feed her insatiable desire to learn more from the multitude of amazing styles and teachers in the world. Amy’s teaching draws from her many influences. Her classes are powerful, dynamic, and spiritual, incorporating meditation, pranayama and ancient yogic teachings and applying them in a way that is relatable to students in modern times. She values intelligent alignment and infuses her classes with Dharmic theme from her years of teaching Anusara. She adds a fluid meditative quality from studying breath centered vinyasa, but counters that with the occasional long hold just to keep things unpredictable. She loves creating interesting unorthodox postures and flows that progressively take students to places they never knew existed.
Amy generously shares with her students what has been valuable and what has worked for her from her vast experience. Her most important message to her students, “This practice is a metaphor for life, the mat is a mirror. Each time we come to the mat, it’s an opportunity to learn something about ourselves. Everything we learn on the mat we can take and apply to life.”
Here is a timeline of her training experience from most recent to that very first yoga training.
- Oct.-Dec. 2012~ Kripalu School of Ayurveda, Stockbridge MA, Foundations of Ayurveda 250 hours
- Sept. 2012~ Budokon Yoga, Maimi FL, Budokon Yoga Teacher Training 30 hours
- Oct. 2011~ Schuyler Grant, Kula Project, Tribeca NY, Advanced Teacher Training 50 hours
- Nov. 2010~ Amy Ippolliti & Ross Rayburn, Maplewood NJ, Advanced Anusara Teacher Training 30 hours
- Nov. 2009-June 2010~ Todd Norian & Ann Green, Lenox MA, Anusara Teacher Training 100 hours
- Oct.-Dec. 2009~ Todd Norian & Ann Green, Vergennes VT, Anusara Immersion 2 & 3 65 hours
- Sept. 2008-Jan. 2009~ Shree Yoga, Saddle River NJ, Anusara Immersion 1 35 hours
- Oct. 2008~ Shiva Rae, Kirpalu, Stockbridge MA, Trance Dance Teacher Training 15 hours
- Aug. 2008~ Barron Baptiste, Menla Mountain House, Phoenicia NY, Teacher Training 100 hours
- Oct. 2007~ Masala Yoga, Caldwell NJ, Restorative Yoga Teacher Training 38 hours
- Sept. 2007-June 2008~ Yoga Synthesis Ramsey NJ Advanced Teacher Training 300 hours
- Aug. 2007~ White Lotus Foundation~ Santa Barbara, CA Advanced Teacher Training 100 hours
- Sept. 2006 – June 2007~ Yoga Synthesis, Ramsey NJ, Teacher Training 300 hours
- Aug. 2006~ White Lotus Foundation, Santa Barbara CA, Teacher Training 200 hours
