Yoga & Meditation
Center of Montclair
Master Teacher, Founder, and Director of the
Yoga and Meditation Center of Montclair
Susan Morton began studying yoga in 1968, seeking
relaxation in the midst of a hectic professional
life. From her initial experience, the benefits
of yoga enhanced her sense of well-being so
profoundly that she began a life-long journey
of yoga and meditation study and practice.
She founded the Yoga and Meditation Center
of Montclair in 1976.
Susan spent ten years of intensive study with
her primary teacher, Jain Master Sri Chitrabhanu
and taught hatha yoga at the Jain Meditiation
International Center in New York City. Susan
is past president of the Yoga Organization
for Research and Education and is a member
of the Mind and Life Institute (www.mindandlife.org)
where she has been a sponsor at conferences
that create dialogues between research scientists,
the Dalai Lama, and other contemplatives, on
the relationship of meditation to the body-mind.
She has also been an adjunct faculty member
of the Department of Asian Studies at Seton
Hall University.
Her love of meditation and its healing and
liberating power has led her to study with
the great Swar Yogis, Sri Shyam Bhatnagar and
Dahliana Hohe, H.H. the Dalai Lama, and with
Robert Thurman, Ph.D., co-founder of Tibet
House with the Dalai Lama. Susan has also studied
intensively with Pema Chodren and is a recent
graduate of Peter Fenner's Radiant Mind (www.RadiantMind.net),
a course in nondual wisdom which has deeply
transformed her pesonal practice and approach
to the teaching of meditation.
She has studied hatha yoga with many senior
Iyengar teachers including Ramanand Patel,
Aadil Palkhlvala, Patricia Walden, Elise Miller,
Karen Stefan, Mary Dunn, and James Murphy.
She has studied anatomy and physiology with
Paul Copeland, Ph.D., M.D. and Deane Juahn,
Ph.D. She has trained in Movement Re-education
with Milton Trager, M.D. and is a certified
Yamuna Body Rolling Practitioner. She has integrated
elements of body rolling into her yoga classes
and also offers entire courses in Yamuna Body
Rolling. In addition, her other special areas
of expertise are yoga for back pain and chair
yoga for students in wheelchairs and those
who cannot stand unassisted.
Susan brings the gift of many years of study
and practice to her students and considers
it a privilege and an honor to share the ancient,
highly practical and relevant teachings of
yoga and meditation. In our highly stressful
environment of the 21st century, yoga and meditation
are now acknowledged as antidotes to our complicated,
toxic, fear-driven, rapidly changing world.
|
