About Amy

Yoga Instructor, Newburgh Yoga Shala

Student to Teacher Journey

Amy Frances (she/her) can’t call to memory her first yoga class, but she remembers what she’d been looking for when she found it . . . Church. As a child growing up in the Catholic Church, that became her first connection to collective consciousness (not that she was aware of it at the time). As a yoga student, Amy connected to that same feeling of being deeply grounded, weightless and liberated, all while being in community.

Amy completed her first 200hr training at Vera Yoga in New York City in 2019. After the birth of her son in 2020, Amy returned home to the Hudson Valley. Seeking community, she found it at the Newburgh Yoga Shala. Her dedication to the Sangha, and practice led her to the teacher training program, which she completed in April of 2024.

Teaching Style & Influences

“I want to bring people into the asana so they might be introduced to themselves and an entirely new world around them. My inner landscape has changed dramatically, and therefore my relationship to the external, simply by showing up to breathe. It feels important to share that great shifts can occur by becoming aware of your breath and choosing ease.”

Amy is deeply influenced by the dharma talks given at the beginning of class. In her classes you’ll find the cadence of her sequences comes directly from the dharma.

Additional Interests

• Dance

• The Tracy Anderson Method

• Nutrition + Mental Health

• David Attenborough + Nigella Lawson (Eating her recipes while watching his narrated documentaries)

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