About Wendy Newton

Wendy began her work in the healing arts when she began practicing yoga in the Sivananda style at age 16. Following a long and circuitous life route through motherhood, travel, writing, and a career in the arts, she followed her intuition back to a rigorous seven-year period of training in yoga and Polarity Therapy to establish a second career of service in the healing arts.

Wendy earned her certification as a Registered Polarity Practitioner (RPP) in March, 2006, and is a 500-hour certified ISHTA yoga teacher (RYT) with private clients and group classes in New York City. She has studied Polarity Therapy primarily with Heather Principe and Gary Strauss and carries a deep intention for perpetuating the lineage of this powerful healing art. Her primary yoga teachers are Yogiraj Alan Finger (founder of ISHTA yoga, an energy-based system that incorporates tantric practices and teachings from the Sivananda and Yogananda lines) and Mark Whitwell (who teaches the breath-centered therapeutic yoga of Krishnamacharya and T.K.V. Desikachar).