Patricia was born and raised in India. She went to school at Woodstock School in Mussoorie, Utrakand. Woodstock is a unique boarding school in the first range of the Himalayan mountains in Northern India with students from all over the world. For her Senior Activities week she went to Rishikesh to meditate and study yoga for the first time. She returned to the United States for college and received her Bachelor of Arts with a double major in East Asian Languages and Literature and Anthropology/ Archaeology from the University of Iowa. She moved to the Madison area in 1976 where she obtained for Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the University of Wisconsin. She married, had three children and traveled as a family to live in Singapore for 6 years where she taught English and Preschool. The family took this opportunity and traveled all over South East Asia. They returned to the Madison area in 1990 where she has raised her three children and worked as an RN in a local hospital NICU. Ever since hiking the Himalayan Mountains as a child, daily walking and vacation hiking has always been an important part of her life. But something was missing. In l998 Patricia finally came back to yoga as she started her home practice and took classes from some wonderful Yoga Teachers. She started teaching yoga by accident when her classmates asked her to lead a yoga class at their class reunion. They encouraged her to become a yoga teacher and share her passion with others. Patricia has completed Scott Anderson's Alignment Yoga Yoga Teacher Training at Mound Street Yoga taught by Andrea Russell and Scott Anderson. She is currently E-RYT200, RYT500 certified.
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