Susan Kohart

Taking dance since the age of 4, Susan was drawn to physical vigor, concentration and the sweat of physical movement. After an ankle injury during her final semester dancing for Clemson, Susan was determined to find a new, HEALING mode of movement.  Today, yoga has become that sacred, healing practice and a safe place to show up honestly. Her yoga practice allows her to explore the good and bad, the uncertain, the habitual patterns and the wonder that weave together body, mind, and spirit. Susan’s yoga practice was also the guiding force that allowed for a more comfortable natural birth of her two children. She values all the lessons that yoga teaches her on how to live a quality-filled life as a wife, mother, and all the other roles life requires her to fulfill. Through practice she experiences how positively transformative yoga can be when you actually practice BREATH guiding movement instead of merely “doing the poses.”

Susan was first drawn to Bikram Yoga as it was similar to her effort in dance.  However, in college she discovered Ashtanga and the Eight Limbs of Yoga (moving from physical body to concentration of the mind and eventually leading to oneness).  In 2007, Susan moved to Greenville and found a yoga home at Greenville Yoga, studying Ashtanga Yoga with Emma Chandler and attending her 200-hour teacher training with Liz & Brian Delaney.  She continues to study and learn the value of breathwork through daily practice of Ashtanga and various styles of flow yoga as well as weekend trainings with David Garrigues.