About Anne Marie Cummings

Anne Marie Cummings has been exploring yoga and meditation for more than twenty years. She was the youngest American to be certified (by the age 17) by Bikram Choudhury's Yoga College of India in Calcutta,India. In meditation Anne Marie has studied and taught Zen, Tibetan and Shamatha meditation. During Shamatha, both mind and body are calmed byconcentrating on the breath. When the mind becomes concentrated on the breath, it becomes serene; the meditator enters a state of bliss. In yoga, Anne Marie challenges her students to achieve new levels of strength, balance, and flexibility by combining Vinyasa, Hatha, Ashtanga, and Iyengar asanas. She strongly believes the physical postures are a gateway to connecting to the self, and as a result offer relief from physical and/or mental ailments.