Marty Fleetwood

Marty has traveled the path of yoga since age 16, when she began the self-directed study of meditating, breath awareness, and yoga philosophy.  Asana practice soon followed, with Richard Hittleman’s book and Lillias on PBS. While in college she was introduced to transcendental meditation (TM) and at Harvard Law School began her first formal yoga classes. Marty has continuously studied yoga in classes ever since, as she moved up and down the Eastern Seaboard, from New York City to Saint Croix. A long time practitioner under Oakland’s own Bobbe Norrise (author, Easy Yoga for Busy People), Marty became a regular Piedmont Yoga Studio student, enrolling in the Advanced Studies Teacher Training Program during 2007-2008.

Still a practicing lawyer, Marty founded and directs a non-profit law firm advancing solutions to homelessness,HomeBase. While apprenticing with Richard Rosen, Marty braided her civil rights legal career with her passion for yoga by launching a PYS Community Class that caters to the local homeless population, Yoga 4 You.  Her teacher training continued in the Foundations Program at Yoga Mendocino, led by Mary Pafford in 2008-09.  Marty concurrently studies with Richard and enrolls in workshops (including those recently led by Judith Lasater, Tony Wolff, Angela Farmer & Victor Van Kooten, and Francois Raoult). Finding that “yoga keeps the river of life flowing smoothly”, Marty teaches with attention to detail and the meaning of our movements in an attitude of quiet reflection.

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