Lois Nesbitt
Lois began practicing yoga as a teenager, and resumed her studies as an adult. Lois practiced Mysore-style Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga under Eddie Stern of Patanjali Yoga Shala in New York and Sri K. Pattabhi Jois of Mysore, India. In 1997, she met John Friend, founder of Anusara Yoga. Lois credits John with transforming not only her yoga practice but her whole outlook on inspired living. She has spent close to a thousand hours studying under, practicing with, and assisting John Friend. She is a Certified Anusara Yoga Teacher and now serves on the Anusara Yoga Curriculum and Certification Video Committees, where she helps shape the future of teaching Anusara. Lois has also spent hundreds of hours studying yoga philosophy under Professor Douglas Brooks, a world-renown scholar of Hindu Tantra.
Lois has been sharing yoga with students in public classes and workshops in New York City and the Hamptons for more than a decade. Nationally recognized for both her advanced practice and the depth of her teaching, Lois travels to offer workshops, retreats, and programs for teachers internationally. Her classes weave the flow of vinyasa-style yoga into the exquisite alignment and inspirational message of Anusara yoga for an invigorating and uplifting experience bound to make you shine! She also offers private lessons for those with physical or scheduling challenges.
Before devoting herself to yoga, Lois was a professional writer and editor and an internationally exhibited artist. She received a B.A., magna cum laude from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Princeton University, where she taught literature and writing. Lois is especially grateful to the fine teachers of these universities, who taught her to express her intelligence through her heart.
