Cecilia Beach, PhD
Belmont, NY
Cecilia Beach, PhD, is a Level 4 Breath-Body-Mind teacher as well as an experienced yoga teacher with 500-hr Kripalu certification. She is also certified as a 300-hr Advanced Teacher of Therapeutic Yoga and is training to become a Yoga Therapist. She teaches donation-based community yoga and Breath-Body-Mind classes at Alfred University she is a professor emerita of French and Women's and Gender Studies. She has also volunteered as a yoga teacher at the Allegheny County Jail and offered gentle yoga classes to breast and gynecological cancer survivors.
From 2018-2020, Cecilia was a resident instructor at the Ituze Mindfulness and Yoga Center in Kigali, Rwanda. In addition to teaching classes in yoga, meditation and Breath-Body-Mind at the Ituze Center, Cecilia also led classes in yoga and Breath-Body-Mind in universities, a rehabilitation center for former street kids, a center for disabled women, a primary school for disadvantaged children, the Kigali Genocide Memorial Museum, and homes for elderly genocide survivors throughout the country. Cecilia returns regularly to Rwanda as a visiting yoga instructor and to lead teacher trainings in BBM.