Coeli is a certified master Baptiste yoga teacher. She has been teaching at the Baptiste Power Yoga Institute for the past five years, and she continues an on-going apprenticeship with Baron Baptiste. With this foundation of experience she in turn conducts trainings for other teachers and classroom assistants.
She has co-taught with Baron and regularly holds in-depth workshops for beginners on the Master Principles of Alignment, as well as the power of beginning a regular yoga practice. Coeli teaches with clarity, compassion and strength. Her classes help to unfold a powerful personal practice in others, as well as to awaken new perceptions.
She began doing yoga to relieve chronic back pain following a car accident when she was 15 years old. Some healing was achieved with physical therapy, chiropractic treatment, and acupuncture, but the relief was only temporary, and the pain would return. It was only through a daily yoga practice that Coeli began a powerful and sometimes difficult transformation. The depth and flow of Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga built the mobility and strength that her body was missing, eventually making her pain-free for the first time in years.
Coeli appears in Baron Baptiste’s book “Journey Into Power” (Simon and Schuster 2002), and has been featured in numerous publications including Natural Health Magazine and Sports Illustrated.
In addition she holds a Masters Degree in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard University, and has been trained in mountaineering by the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) and Outward Bound. She is the mother of two children, and teaches yoga to