Our Teachers

Mary Duffy

Mary is a graduate of Temple University with a BFA and M.Ed. in Dance. Her 200 hour yoga training was completed in 2004 in Spanda Yoga: the Yoga of Movement, directed by Dr. Jamie Stover Schmitt, a Temple Ed.D. Spanda Yoga is rooted in body-mind centering and developmental movement as well as the yoga philosophy of the Himalayan Institute. Mary is in the final phase of her 500 hour yoga teacher training at the Himalayan Institute. She teaches prenatal yoga and mom and infant yoga at Abington Hospital where she is employed by the Childbirth Education Department. She also teaches hatha yoga at the River of Life Martial Arts and Wellness Center in Ft. Washington. Aside from yoga, she is on the faculty of the Kardon Institute for Arts Therapy where she teaches movement and choreography in community outreach programs at the HMS School for Children with Cerebral Palsy and the Widener School, the Philadelphia public school for handicapped students.