Yoga for Amputees by Marsha T Danzig

Meet Marsha

Marsha Therese Danzig, Yoga Teacher, C-IAYT, RYT 500, M.ed Harvard ,is a below knee amputee and Founder of Yoga for Amputees® by Marsha T Danzig, a program to help amputees move forward in their lives through the healing power of yoga. Marsha lost her leg in 1976 to Ewing's sarcoma. She has been teaching and training others in yoga for over two decades. She is passionate about imparting her lived experience of adaptive yoga and embodied movement. 

Her education and background includes:

• M.ed Harvard University

• Certificate from La Sorbonne in Paris

• Certificate from the Goethe Institute in Germany

• The United Nations , Geneva, Switzerland at the Center for Human Rights

• 200 hour yoga certification from Kripalu Center

• 500 hour yoga certification

• SomaSoul Movement Therapy Certification

• The Four Winds Society Healing the Luminous Body

• Reiki Master Level

• Body -Mind Centering

• Classical Ballet

• Flamenco

• Afro-Haitian Dance

• Thousands of hours studying and teaching in dedicated courses to yoga.

• She has presented her program Yoga for Amputees at such venues as the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital,  IAYT (International Association of Yoga Therapists) Conference and  the Carolina's Pain Institute.

• She is a writer of many well loved children’s books, yoga books, poetry ,  and Yoga for Amputees.