Mangala Warner has a Masters Degree in Human Performance (Exercise Physiology) and an extensive background in biomechanics, exercise testing, health research, and programming. Health psychology and behavior modification were key components of her Graduate training as well. Her diverse background includes managing university and corporate wellness centers, teaching college level exercise science courses, and conducting yoga teachers' training programs. She is a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance (YA) at the Experienced 500-hour level (E-RYT-500) and is approved by YA and Mukunda Stiles to teach a 200-hour teacher training couse based on Structural Yoga.

She brings a wealth of knowledge on how to safely and effectively adapt, refine, and individualize yoga practices. Since 2001 Mangala has been a devoted student of Mukunda Stiles, founder of Structural Yoga Therapy and the Yoga Therapy Center in Holyoke, MA. Currently Mangala assists Mukunda with workshops and Yoga Therapy Trainings throughout the U.S. and mentors yoga therapy students enrolled in Yoga Therapy trainings. 

Mangala has over 15 years of international teaching experience that includes conducting workshops and teachers' training programs, as well as offering course classes and one-on-one consultations. In 2002 she spent 6 months at the Integral Yoga Institute in Coimbatore, India serving as a teacher trainer, leading workshops for teachers and students, as well as assisting with a retreat for cardiac patients.

Mangala is the former Director of Teacher Training for the Satchidananda Ashram in Yogaville, VA. Here she recieved mantra initiation from Swami Satchidananda.

 
She instructed portions of the Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, and Cardiac Yoga™ teachers' training programs for Integral Yoga International. In addition, Mangala has been fortunate to be able to attend trainings led by two well-known Viniyoga teachers; T.K.V. Desikachar and Gary Kraftsow. Her teacher training experience included being an instructor for Fitness Resouces, Inc. where she taught viniyoga based teacher training modules and wokshops.

Mangala has always been passionate about wellness and fitness. Her professional accomplishments are numerous. In 2007 she completed a 4-month training with Wellcoachesand has been a certified  CPR/AED instructor for many years. Additionally Mangala is a certified Tobacco Treatment Specialist and a certified Health and Fitness Instructor (HFI) with the American College of Sports Medicine. She currently manages a corporate wellness center for the National Institute of Fitness and Sport (NIFS) on the Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield campus in Manchester, NH. Here she leads the Relaxation Forum, a non-tradoinal meditation and relaxation group, and offers weekly free yoga classes to corporate employees.

Her wellness philosophy advocates a complete lifestyle program that includes physical, psychological, and spiritual health. She views yoga as the ultimate wellness program for body, mind and spirit. True fitness and health can not be achieved without a healthy, peaceful mind. Yoga offers tools to balance the mind and body, open the heart, and allow the spirit to soar!

Currently she resides in Berwick, ME where she offers private yoga therapy, small group classes, workshops, and co-instructs Yoga Teacher Trainings at Elysium Dance Project in Rollinsford, NH.

Debora Mangala Warner, MS, E-RYT-500
(ph) 603-817-6882

Workshops, Teacher Trainings and Small Group Therapeutic Yoga Classes offered at:
Elysium Dance Project and Yoga
Rollinsford, NH