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Headshot of AnnAnn Wagoner, Ayurvedic Doctor Level Certified, MA (Ayu),  C-IAYT, E-RYT-500 Ayurvedic Yoga Therapist has been bringing together Yoga and Ayurveda for the past 25 years. She teaches Yoga and Ayurveda 200-hour training certifications classes and Advanced Yoga 300-hour training certification classes.  Start your journey to become a 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher! Additionally, Ann offers Yoga and stretching classes through PCC’s Continuing Education program. Read about her and yoga, Ayurveda and herbal class trainings. Learn about PCC’s Yoga and Ayurveda Program with the Institute for Health Professionals. Discover yummy and healthy Pacific Northwest recipes for health and balance. Watch the video about the Ayurveda and Yoga Teacher Training programs at PCC.

Ann has researched Ayurvedic herbs and treatments for the prevention of Cancer recurrence with the Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda where she received her Master’s degree. Ann is a member the National Ayurvedic Medical Association, Yoga Alliance and the International Association of Yoga Therapists.  Ann brings together Ayurveda and Yoga, two sister sciences, to expand understandings of mind, body and consciousness. Ann also have a B.A. in Philosophy from Earlham College, and a M.A. in Liberal Studies from New York University.

The school Ann founded, the Center for Ayurveda and Yoga Study, is recognized by the International Association of Yoga Therapists. She serves on the Ethics Committee with the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. She is honored to have been able to study with many Doctors of Ayurveda from India and Nepal (BAMS), including Vasant Lad,  R. H. Singh, Sarita Shrestha, Vivek Shanbhag, Hari Pallathery, P.H. Kulkarni, John Douillard and Shekhar Annambhotla among others. She has also studied yoga and Patanjali’s yoga sutras extensively with Rama Jyoti Vernon, Divine Yogini & international Woman of Vision. She was trained in the ISHTA style of yoga with Alan Finger in New York City and with Sraddha at 7 Centers Yoga Arts in Sedona. Ann currently teach Yoga with Lighthouse Ayurveda and at Portland Community College. Ann offer Ayurvedic consultations and Yoga Therapy via Zoom.

In addition to having taught Ayurvedic workshops at Portland Therapeutic Yoga, Yoga Pearl, The Movement Center, Harmony Yoga, NUNM, Bastyr, Clark College, Belmont Yoga, University of Portland School of Nursing, Opening to Life and Yoga Bhoga; Ann has  taught healthy Ayurvedic Cooking Classes at People’s Food Co-op. My Ayurvedic recipes are based on locally grown food in the Pacific Northwest and 47th Avenue Farm. Ann love cooking and weaving together the arts of herbs, movement, meditation and food.

To learn more about these courses, email:  ann.wagoner@pcc.edu.

“Through relaxation of effort and meditation upon the infinite, asana is perfected,” Rama Vernon, Sutra II:37.