Yoga Instructor & Course Creator
Suzanne brings a rare combination of clinical rigor and 15+ years of deep yoga practice to her teaching. LoveStrong is her bridge between ancient wisdom and modern wellness — built for practitioners who want depth, not just technique.
Before building LoveStrong Yoga, Suzanne spent years in clinical operations at some of the most outcomes-driven health organizations in the country: Calibrate Health, Devoted Health, and ConcertoCare. These are environments where interventions are measured, results are tracked, and the bar for "it works" is high.
That rigor didn't leave when she walked into the yoga studio. Suzanne applies the same outcomes-first thinking to how she teaches yoga philosophy — not as abstract theory students nod at and forget, but as a living framework with measurable impact on how people move, breathe, and teach.
"Yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind."
— Patanjali, Yoga Sutras 1.2
Suzanne has been practicing yoga for over 15 years — long enough to have watched the industry's relationship with philosophy evolve from dismissal to tokenism to something approaching genuine interest. Through it all, her practice stayed rooted in the Eight Limbs of Patanjali: the full framework, not just the poses.
She created LoveStrong Yoga because there was a gap she couldn't stop noticing: practitioners who knew every asana cue but couldn't explain what yoga actually is. Teacher trainings that spent three days on philosophy and three months on alignment. Students who graduated knowing how to sequence a class but not what the sequence was for.
LoveStrong is her answer to that gap — a philosophy-first curriculum that treats the Eight Limbs not as trivia to memorize before the real training begins, but as the entire point.
Yoga has survived 2,000+ years because its insights about the mind, body, and human behavior are structurally sound. Modern wellness science has caught up to confirm what the rishis described: breath work changes the nervous system, focused attention trains attention, ethical living reduces psychological friction. The Eight Limbs are a system, not a list.
Suzanne's teaching philosophy starts from that premise. The Yamas and Niyamas aren't warm-up material — they're the foundation everything else rests on. Pranayama isn't just a breathing technique — it's the bridge between voluntary and involuntary experience. Asana isn't the point of yoga — it's one tool in an eight-part practice.
The LoveStrong curriculum is built to transmit that understanding — through the original text of her teaching manual, quiz-based active recall, and the kind of depth that stays with students when they're standing in front of a class with no notes. Explore the philosophy in depth on the LoveStrong Yoga blog, including the guide to building a daily yoga philosophy practice.
The LoveStrong curriculum is pulled directly from Suzanne's teaching manual — the document she actually uses in her own classes. Not a course built around stock content, but a distillation of years of teaching refined to what actually lands.
Most 200-hour trainings spend 3 days on philosophy. LoveStrong spends all 7 sessions on it. Every limb gets its own session, its own deep dive, its own quiz. Because if you don't understand the why, the how doesn't hold.
Each session ends with a quiz — not to gatekeep, but because retrieval practice is the most effective learning mechanism we know. You don't just read about the Eight Limbs; you're tested on them until they're memory.
Suzanne's clinical background shapes the curriculum structure. Clear learning objectives per session, measurable competency checkpoints, a certificate that reflects genuine comprehension. The same standards she applied in healthcare operations, applied to yoga education.
Session 1 — Yamas: Ethical Foundations — is free. No credit card, no commitment. See how the curriculum works before you enroll.