Gail Gensler

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Gail Gensler has been practicing yoga since the mid-1970’s. She started as a college student in an Experimental College class at the UW and was totally impressed by the movement abilities of the “older” women in the class. Her main teachers have been Felicity Green, Colette Crawford, Shari Friedrichsen, Annie Stocker and Robin Rothenberg.

Teaching has been the main focus of Gail’s various jobs. In 2004, her work changed so that she was no longer actively teaching. At the same time, she was also looking for a way to deepen her yoga practice, so she tried a yoga teacher training sampler workshop with Shari Friedrichsen. It was so much fun that she decided to take the full teacher training program and has been teaching ever since. She sees yoga practice as something everyone can use to continually learn about themselves and grow – personally, spiritually and physically.

Gail has worked with her own chronic pain and injuries through all of her yoga years. Because of this, she has learned to honor pain as a great teacher and has a particular interest in adapting poses to meet individuals' needs. She teaches gentle yoga by choice, and offers a special welcome to all with special needs and/or the desire to go slowly. Her classes are a place to learn, to grow, to have fun and to touch a place inside that may have been missed that day.

She is a registered yoga teacher with over 500 hours of training and completed the Foundations year of a yoga therapist training program with Robin Rothenberg.

Gail is happily retired. She enjoys helping folks, gardening, daily walks, spending time with neighbors and friends, reading and being the "auntie" to many of the neighborhood children.

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