About Boston Yoga School
Everyone is welcome to practice and learn with Boston Yoga School. Founded in Boston and practiced online around the world, Boston Yoga School is a growing community of high-caliber teachers, teacher trainees, and diverse students. Whether you aspire to teach or simply fit a yoga practice into your busy schedule, there’s always a class for you at Boston Yoga School.
Boston Yoga School’s mission is to offer exceptional teacher trainings and expand access to a daily yoga practice from anywhere. BYS offers high-quality yoga teacher trainings, workshops, virtual community classes, and an abundant replay library to support this mission. Teacher trainees graduate feeling empowered to lead a wide array of students confidently and students learn how to incorporate yoga into life off the mat.
Boston Yoga School is made possible by a welcoming network of studios and a dedicated group of teachers with a deep understanding of anatomy and physiology, various yogic traditions, and lived practice. The School’s emphasis on understanding bodies as unique fosters acceptance and guides students toward a greater knowledge of themselves in their yoga practice.
About Ame Wren
Ame Wren is the founder and director of Boston Yoga School. She works to change the landscape of contemporary yoga by training students and teachers to be inclusive, self-aware, and active in the world. A go-to teacher for those seeking a highly specific yet lighthearted approach to yoga, Ame leads yoga retreats, teacher trainings, and workshops internationally and online . She believes firmly that yoga is intended to be an ethical system as well as a movement practice and looks to the teachings of yoga and Buddhism as a spiritual compass in her own life. Ame prides herself on being a devoted wisdom seeker and educated mentor to students. She aims to inspire others to stay on the path of yoga and of teaching.
Ame is greatly indebted to her teachers Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor, who have taught her how to be in the world more gracefully and with the utmost compassion. She is also deeply inspired by the work of the late Michael Stone and the exceptional BYS faculty.
In addition to her yogic studies, Ame is currently a doctoral student of American Religion at the University of Virginia and holds a BA in Philosophy and Religion and an MA in Gender & Cultural Studies. She works as a part-time professor at James Madison University and in the Launchpad program at UVA. Ame's academic courses focus on contemporary American religious trends, the uptick of spiritual yearning, and the spiritual-but-not-religious phenomenon. She also teaches about stress, resilience, and nervous system science.
Movement as a Spiritual Compass | TEDx Utica
