Elizabeth Doberneck

I am a teacher, but I am a student at heart. I took my first teacher training in 1994 simply because I wanted to know more about yoga and to understand more about how it brings joy to the experience of embodiment. To this day, the depth and richness of the yoga tradition continues to captivate me, expanding my life in new and surprising ways.

My deepest fulfillment comes from being able to share these transformative practices with others in the context of strong and meaningful yoga classes, teacher trainings, immersions, workshops and evenings devoted to bringing the threads of yoga together in body, mind, and heart.

I am also an Acharya and Authorized Teacher of Neelakantha Deep Meditation as taught in Blue Throat Yoga. I teach individuals a formal practice of deep meditation based on a principle of effortlessness, as well as teaching advanced yoga philosophy for the Blue Throat Yoga School of Meditation Practice and Study. https://bluethroatyoga.com/user/elizabethdoberneck/

I am a senior student of Paul Muller-Ortega, master meditation teacher and one of the foremost scholars of the Shaiva-Shakta Tantric Yoga Tradition. My formal intensive studies began in 2008 and continue to this day.

My short list of formative yoga teachers begins above all with my first yoga teacher Rudrani Farbman, founder of the World Yoga Center in NYC, whose deep knowledge and eloquent expression of Yoga set me on my path; Mary Dunn, whose impeccable teaching introduced me to the power of alignment; John Friend, original founder of Anusara Yoga, pointed me to the great yoga texts, taught me how to connect them with my practice and how to bring them to my students; Mark Dysckowski, scholar-teacher, opened up the concept of the non-dual for me, first through his books and then in an unforgettable satsang at his home on the ghats of Varanasi.

It is my ardent desire to contribute to the on-going clarification and deepening of the understanding and relevance of the practices, teachings and texts of the Yoga Tradition for our modern practice and for our lives as house-holder yogis engaged in the profound work of uplifting our selves, our communities and the planet.

You can contact Elizabeth regarding yoga philosophy studies and Neelakantha Deep Meditation, as taught in Blue Throat Yoga at [email protected]