{"id":14,"date":"2012-06-29T21:18:12","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T21:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.131\/~yogaforr\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2012-07-10T12:57:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T16:57:27","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yogaforreal.com\/?page_id=14","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi! <strong>I\u2019m glad you are here!<\/strong> Here\u2019s a bit of info about me.<\/p>\n<p>I began exploring yoga in 1998, primarily out of curiosity because I enjoy learning a variety of health and exercise techniques from various cultures. I have always enjoyed the <strong>physical<\/strong> and <strong>mental<\/strong> benefits of exercise, and in my first yoga class, I felt that and something else&#8230; not only were my body and mind involved, but that third aspect, my <strong>spirit<\/strong>!! Wow! I was hooked immediately! I started taking weekly classes and began making yoga part of my daily life because of the amazing impact it had on my life &#8211; physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. That impact is still evolving and amazing me!<\/p>\n<p>Whatever I love, I usually end up teaching and so I went through a year-long <em>yoga teacher training intensive (<strong>Hatha Yoga<\/strong>) in 1999\/2000<\/em> and have been teaching since then. In <em>August 2009, I completed the <strong>Kundalini Yoga<\/strong> Teacher Training Immersion course<\/em> and am integrating both Hatha Yoga and Kundalini Yoga into classes offered.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, I \u201cretired\u201d from (a.k.a. &#8220;quit&#8221;) my corporate job of over 20 years to focus on teaching yoga which I feel called to do. <em>I thoroughly\u00a0enjoy sharing the benefits of yoga with others<\/em> and witnessing the <strong>dramatic, positive, and sustainable changes<\/strong> in their lives too.<\/p>\n<p>I strongly believe in making yoga <em>accessible to everyone<\/em>&#8230; that\u2019s why I created and teach <strong>Yoga For Real: f<em>or real People&#8230; for real Life&#8230; for real Results&#8230;. <\/em><\/strong>You don\u2019t have to look like a model or a dancer (check me out &#8211; real person!!) to be <strong>accepted and comfortable<\/strong> in my classes &#8211; <strong>you are absolutely wanted and welcome!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I hope <strong>Yoga for real<\/strong> will be a valuable resource to you!!<\/p>\n<p>Many blessings to you and Namaste!<\/p>\n<p>Cheri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi! I\u2019m glad you are here! Here\u2019s a bit of info about me. I began exploring yoga in 1998, primarily out of curiosity because I enjoy learning a variety of health and exercise techniques from various cultures. I have always &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yogaforreal.com\/?page_id=14\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yogaforreal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yogaforreal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yogaforreal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yogaforreal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yogaforreal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.yogaforreal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.yogaforreal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yogaforreal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}