Linda Rotunno

Linda Rotunno began to practice yoga after experiencing running injuries and stress fractures due to osteoporosis. She admits that her first yoga experiences were following the Rodney Yee yoga videos. Always attracted to the power of the body and now discovering the positive effects yoga has on both the body and the mind, Linda enjoyed learning the body, breath, and mind techniques that tapped into her inner strength and energy. Having worked as a junior high school teacher for seven years and a retirement plan administrator/manager/paralegal for twenty-four years, Linda sought to do something else, something she could engage in spiritually, physically, and mentally while interacting with others. It was her fourteen-year old daughter's encouragement and her experience practicing with a few outstanding yoga teachers that lead Linda to enroll in the 2004 Moksha Teacher Training program.

Linda transfers some of the experiences acquired as a schoolteacher and the research skills used in the corporate/legal world to her yoga 'classroom.' She continues to study a never-ending source of materials to enrich her own and her students' practices. Creating new and challenging sequences to keep the students engaged and interested is one of her main goals. Learning about those postures designed for specific conditions (particularly bone strengthening asanas) is another of her goals.

While appreciating the knowledge gained in her undergraduate and graduate studies (M.B.A. from Loyola), Linda feels that she is only now beginning to learn a science that she feels passionate about. Linda has practiced with and been inspired by several Master Teachers including Ana Forrest and Andrey Lappa, and many senior teachers at Moksha.

Linda seeks to teach a practice that creates presence, energy, and power with grace.