Debbie Jensen-Grubb, RYT500, RN was introduced to yoga later in life back in 1998 due to chronic back problems. As an RN working in the oncology department her job was extremely stressful, add starting life anew after a 23-year marriage ended, being out of shape, and it was no surprise that it all went straight to her back seizing up and a chronic stiff neck. A fellow nurse, Gail Wenocur, who had had back surgery and was studying to be a yoga teacher, gave her some yoga poses to do to relieve her painful situation. They worked! Gail told Debbie that The Yoga Center of Columbia, where she studied, was giving a week of free classes and Debbie decided to give this yoga thing a try. She never left.

Debbie never missed a yoga class in the whole year. She went each week growing stronger, more flexible, and losing weight (up to 70 lbs!) as she continually improved. This was an exercise program that she could actually do…and enjoyed! She hasn't had a stiff neck since.

In 1999 her friend, Gail, retired from nursing and decided to start a Breast Cancer Survivor's class, and because she was so nervous about it Debbie said she would help out. The plan was for Debbie to stand in the back of the classroom to support Gail and then, when Gail was comfortable with her new adventure, Debbie would leave. She never left.

She and Gail began to teach the class together. It was decided that if Debbie was going to assist in the class she should take the Yoga Teacher's Training coarse they offered at the studio. So that is what she did, becoming a certified yoga teacher.

Unfortunately, Gail was diagnosed with multiple myeloma and returned to Spirit form in 2000. In her honor Debbie continued the class changing it from the Breast Cancer Survivor's class to a Gentle Yoga class. It is still being held to this day.

Debbie has studied with many of the great names of American yoga in many different workshops that have influenced her in a myriad of ways. She became certified as an RYT500 in 2004, is a registered yoga therapist by the International Association of Yoga Therapists, is one of a handful of those certified by Liz Koch to work with the psoas, is certified by Harmon Hathaway in his Alignment System, and is now one of the teachers of The Yoga Center of Columbia's Yoga Teacher Training program. Always studying and seeking out new avenue's to carry her yoga therapy out into the world Debbie will be a student of yoga for a lifetime.

Her style of yoga comes from a therapeutic angle and her mission is to teach and inspire her students to learn how to live in their bodies with ease, grace, and awareness.

 

Contact Debbie

Hawk's Grace, Inc.

Phone: 410-707-8862
Email: debbie@goldeneggyoga.com