About Me - My Personal Journey and The Path Here

Hello, my name is Giselle. I practice and teach yoga on a daily basis. Here's a little about me and my journey here.

As a child I was always energetic; dancing school, swimming, and just having fun. I loved horses and rode nearly every day as a young girl. Then I found another passion. I discovered yoga at the young age of 12, quite by accident. I was in the Library looking at books and came across a book on yoga. I didn't know what it was at the time, but I thought the pictures were beautiful. I read and studied the book and started to practice some of the moves, called Asanas.

The pictures resembled some of the moves I was learning in Ballet at my dancing school. But yoga was special and I soon realized that it was more than physical moves or exercises. It centered me and brought me into a state of awareness like nothing else. I remember when there were times of turmoil in my life, yoga seemed to be the key for my tranquility and grounding, even though I did not really have the kind of understanding of it as I do today.

I spent my time between riding my horses and trying my new-found Yoga. Back then, in the 60's, yoga was just starting to generate some interest here in the Western world. It was still obscure, but became more popular when the Beatles started getting into it. I devoured anything I could find that would give me more information.

Then, a program on TV about yoga appeared. I remember trying to perform some of the moves as I watched the screen, and almost destroyed my mother's furniture as I clumsily crashed into it! Luckily, neither the furniture nor I needed repairs. Soon I got better and better in my practice and felt a new sense of accomplishment.

As I got older I needed to make money to survive, as we all do, so I became a Paralegal. It was good money, but the stress was overwhelming. I did that for 20 years, but knew that I would leave it behind one day. I raised a beautiful daughter working as a Paralegal, and got by pretty well. After my daughter was on her own, I had an opportunity to devote myself to what I knew was my calling. I became a yoga teacher full-time and now I have my own practice. I have a full list of personal clients, who I train on a one-on-one basis, and I work for four different gyms in my area teaching group classes.

I am an E-RYT 500, Yoga Alliance Registered Teacher at the 500 hour level and I conduct Yoga Alliance Teacher Training Courses. The name of my Yoga Alliance Registered School is Power Fusion Yoga, RYS,.

I studied mind/body courses with Deepak Chopra, M.D., and David Simon, M.D., at the Chopra Center in Carlsbad, California and I am now one of the Chopra Center Educators, here on the East Coast, certified to teach a course in Ayurveda called "Perfect Health." I am also an Ayurvedic Products Consultant for the Chopra Center and recommend mind/body products that I think will help my yoga practitioners.

I perfected my business and now I am very established in my practice. However, I felt the need to expand even more, but not by getting a bigger studio or more local clients. I needed to expand on a larger level and reach people all over the globe with no limitations, to give some of the knowledge I felt would help them. I wanted to build a website and become active on the Internet. But there was a little problem. I didn't have website skills. I hit many dead ends in trying to figure out how to create a website. I had less than zero knowledge. I was ok turning on the computer and doing basic things, and I could type well from years of typing legal briefs, but website skills? NONE! Completely foreign to me. I searched for a year, but still could not find my way. I did not want to hire a professional to do my website, so I sent out my intentions and knew that the answer would come as to how I should proceed. The answer did come to me, and here I am!

If you find yourself looking for answers regarding building a website, you can find out more about how I did it by clicking here on my Site Build It! page.

My life has been a journey with lots of ups and downs in the past. Now, I don't consider the downs as problems, just opportunities to find something greater beyond the horizon.

Thanks for reading a little about me.