Diana Woodall is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with the Yoga Alliance, the first RYT in Rockingham County. She took her first yoga class in 1985 in Arkansas and began teaching in 1990. Almost all of her training has been with certified lyengar teachers accross the country, and she continues to study in that tradition.

Her first Iyengar yoga teachers were Felicity Green (Seattle area) and George Purvis (Houston, Texas) Felicity inspired Diana by being 20 years her senior, and continues to teach today in her 70's! George inspired Diana to learn the pose known as "full arm balance." ("Just don't call me at 3 in the morning when you get it," he said.)

   Diana has typically taken at least one 5-7 day yoga training every year since 1991. In 2006, for example, she studied with Ramanand Patel and Mukesh Desai at the Yoga and Sound retreat at Arsha Vidya Gurukulam in Pennsylvania. She also travelled to Asheville, NC. for a 3-day teacher training on Anatomy of Yoga Asana with Roger Cole, Phd.

Diana's interest in yoga led her to the study of Zen shiatsu, beginning in 1993. She has been nationally certified (NCMTB) in bodywork since 1994 and graduated from the Ohashi Institute in NYC in 2000. Additionally, she has studied Breema Bodywork and Upledger's cranial-sacral therapy.