Deirdre Wenzel
Deirdre is a Certified Yoga Therapist, C-IAYT® and a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher, E-RYT500hr, YACEP®. She has been teaching yoga since 2010 and is pleased to announce her completion of a rigorous three year yoga therapy training in June 2025. In yoga therapy, Deirdre continues to emphasize alignment and breath, but also brings in a holistic view of each individual she works with.
As she begins the “third chapter”, Deirdre has adapted her own practice and her teaching to accommodate injuries, new interests, and the natural process of aging. Her priorities as a yogi and a wellness practitioner are to use the tools of yoga to age with ease and to keep yoga accessible over the full course of a lifetime. Specific areas of interest and training include: yoga for low back pain, yoga for osteoporosis, pranayama, yoga Nidra meditation, yoga for better sleep, accessible/chair yoga, yoga for anxiety & emotional regulation, and yoga for a healthy pelvic floor.
Deirdre has studied with many yoga teachers and yoga therapists and her approach is influenced by all of them, but especially Doug Keller, Marcia Miller, Linda Oshins, Robin Rothenberg, Jason Crandell, and Richard Miller.
Deirdre and her husband Dennis have been partners for over 35 years. They have two adult children and a pup named Phoebe. They live on the west side of Cleveland.
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Expertise & Training
Essential Yoga Therapy Training (2022-2025 completion)
Robin Rothenberg, C-IAYT
Therapeutic Benefits of Yoga Trainings, Doug Keller
2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Yoga for Osteoporosis, 40 hour certification, 2022
YogaU Online, Ellen Saltonstall and Lynn Crimando
Yoga History and Philosophy, 12 hours, 2020
Doug Keller, Yoga International
Yoga for Low Back Pain, 2018
Justine Shelton, Yoga Vista Academy
300hr Advanced Teacher Training, 2015-2017
Yoga on High, Columbus, OH
Pranayama training certification
iRest® Level 1 training certification
Reiki Level 1&2 attunement
200hr Teacher Training, 2009-2010
Mitchel Bleier Yoga, Cleveland, OH