Mariangela Mancuso
Favorite Word: Thank you
I wish for…more people to value vegetables
I am thankful for.....my new life
Sun Sign: Taurus
What gives you peace? Not watching television
Why Yoga? I was told I would lose the use of my hands; yoga helped save my hands
3 words to describe you: Joyful, peaceful, positive
What/who inspires you? The bible, my trainer and my healers.. all responsible for opening the door to who I am now
What you can’t live without? Yoga
Favorite yoga pose and why? Down Dog…”they” said it couldn’t be done
Favorite Food? Medjool Dates, organic of course
Words to live by (or your favorite quote): Listen, Hear; See, Understand; Do, Know; Respectivley
Best advice you’ve ever received (from who?): You would think you’d think! (My dad)
Words to describe your teaching style? Even paced, creative, explanatory, from the heart
What do you love to do for FUN? Work on a farm in Greensburg; bake, hike with my dog and exercise (especially Zumba!)
When/where/with who was your first yoga class? My first yoga class was in my living room, by accident one day when I saw a program on cable television about 1996, it was called Yoga Zone.
Local escape: Mon/Yough Trail
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Teachers & Subs:
Joanne
Spence, Renee Aukeman,
Aleta Howard, Amy
Burleson, Katrina Woodworth,
Leslie Wright, Jennifer
Chaparro, Mariangela
Mancuso, Jennifer Sylves,
Anne Brownlee, Cathie
Sunderman, Maga Sanchez-Dahl,
Heidi Zellie, Michaelene
Stanko, Greg Karas, Jayna,
Leanne
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Mariangela Mancuso is a 200 RYT through YogaFit, the largest international educator of yoga instructors and the only yoga training recognized by ACE the American Council on Exercise. She has been practicing yoga since 1996 and became certified to teach in 2007. Her training certificates include YogaFit Levels 1-5, with specialty certificates in Senior/Special needs, Prenatal/Post Partum yoga, Yoga Anatomy and Alignment, and she is a qualified Silversneakers Yoga Instructor. She also has completed Integration training Level 1 and 2 all through YogaFit. These combined trainings allow her to evaluate a person’s yoga needs either individually when working in private sessions or in a group setting. She is able to design yoga routines for special circumstances and offer pose modifications either as a mat routine or a supported chair routine or combinations of the two. Her teaching style allows for yoga to be accessible to all types of people and she likes to be generous with instructions to help you learn the awareness needed to have a safe effective practice to meet your goals.
Her yoga experience includes teaching at health clubs and yoga studios plus being hired to pilot a yoga program for the internationally known integrative medical facility Medical Wellness Associates, one of the only federally recognized facilities of its type in Pennsylvania. She also teaches at S’Eclairer, a mental health wellness facility in Pennsylvania. The experiences she has in the wellness field allow her to offer alternative suggestions that may help enhance healing through yoga. She is always looking to further her yoga training and attends workshops as they become available. She is also passionate about alternative health options and attends workshops once a month to learn about other ways to maintain a healthy lifestyle through nutrition and natural methods.
Mariangela loves how yoga helps you to be aware of all the detailed movements of muscles and joints and how controlled breathing helps open the mind to possibilities and inner calm. Yoga has been an important part of her health regimen for many years and has prevented a need for carpel tunnel surgery and back surgery. It has also become her refuge to restore herself to a more peaceful heart and mindset during some difficult personal periods in her life. Yoga life went beyond her mat into daily life and led her to become a vegetarian then into a vegan lifestyle. Teaching yoga has opened a whole new depth to her life. She finds it spiritually rewarding in helping others become more centered within themselves while helping the physical self to expand in activity. She eagerly anticipates helping others explore their own yoga journey.
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