Patricia Platt

My yoga journey began nearly 50 years ago, when I started practicing along with Lilias Folan and the television show "Lilias, Yoga and You." What a light yoga has brought to my life ever since! It became a dream of mine to be a conduit of yogic healing and grace. In 2005, I completed a 50 hour yoga teacher training program with Miami University's Recreational Sports Center, where I worked as a yoga instructor for that organization from 2006 through 2010. After taking time to focus on home-educating my son while earning a living as a medical writer, I completed my 200 hour yoga teacher training with the beautiful Himalayan Institute in 2019. In 2020, I have been studying energy medicine and yoga nidra, including iRest. While my pursuits have varied, common threads run through them: a reverence for simplicity, plain language, daily routines, and holding space with love. It is these simple things that bring us home again and again.

Hobbies: Travel (places visited: almost every US state, Kenya, Tanzania, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Costa Rica (x 3!), Canada, Austria, Australia, New Zealand, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, Greece, Bali, Java, Russia, India, China, Ireland, England). Learning Sanskrit mantras. Taking online classes (yoga, energy healing, sound healing, chanting, herbalism). Colored light therapy. Hiking with my dogs and, sometimes, my husband. Herb and pollinator gardening. Chicken keeping. Memoir writing. Screenwriting.