Colette CrawfordRN, BSN, founder of Seattle Holistic Center

I began yoga as a teenager in the late 1960’s with my mother and took my first classes with Maria Svoboda. I attended Richard Schactel’s first yoga teacher training and was certified in 1986 and then in 1992 through BKS Iyengar. I have also studied with Gail Malizia, Shari Friedrichsen, and Ana Forrest. However, my greatest teacher and the source of constant inspiration on this path is my Guru, Mata Amritandamayi or Amma, as she is known.  It is through Amma, I am learning the true essence of yoga and spiritual living. I am an experienced registered nurse specializing in maternal/child health, labor and delivery and childbirth education. The inspiration for the prenatal yoga program came from my public health nursing days when I weaved in yoga poses with childbirth education for women who were hospitalized. Since 1989 I have taught prenatal yoga to thousands of women, their families and yoga teachers from all over the world.Another one of my specialties is therapeutic yoga. In 1992 I created Heal Your Back as a result of my own healing journey using yoga after I had suffered a severe back injury in a car accident while eight months pregnant.My commitment is to helping you on your journey of health, healing and spiritual growth. I am also  dedicated to assisting women and their families to actualize their inner wisdom to birth and parent consciously. It has been a gift and privilege to parent my four children with my loving husband, Bruce. The path of family is my meditation.