SUZANNE TUGMAN

What’s your favorite way to start your morning before teaching? 

Almost the best moment of each morning: Ground coffee beans with ground cacao, whipped almond creamer topped with a dash of cinnamon

Coffee, tea, or green juice? 

Coffee

What’s your go-to post-yoga meal or snack?

Vanilla protein shake or oatmeal with peanut butter, walnuts, maple syrup and blueberries

What’s your current song or playlist obsession?

I get pumped up for my day by blasting a song called My Life.

When you are not teaching yoga, what are you doing?

I spend my free time hanging out with my husband and our 6 dogs, 3 cats and 2 horses

What’s one thing your students might be surprised to learn about you? 

I can’t cook

Describe yourself in three words.

Intense

Curious

Sensitive

What originally brought you to yoga?

I went to a really cool university in Northern California and they offered a yoga class for credits.

How long have you been teaching yoga and what are your certifications? 

I’ve been teaching for 2.5 years :500 hour yoga cert, group fitness ACE cert, Barre cert and I am in the process of completing my level 1 Pilates certification

What’s your favorite pose right now and your “love-to-hate” pose?

High and or low Skandasana, and my “love to hate” pose is Boat

How do you want your students to feel when they leave your classes?

Unstoppable

What’s the biggest lesson yoga has taught you off the mat?

Breathe through the wobbles