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Andrea Sacchetti

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Andrea Sacchetti Andrea Sacchetti is a yoga teacher and yoga therapist specializing in techniques for stress reduction and wellness. She is the originator and lead teacher of the 10 Week Yoga Makeover program at the Princeton Center for Yoga & Health, where she has taught regularly since May 2005. Additional course offerings include Healing Yoga and Meditation in Cancer Wellness programs, Yoga for Allergy and Asthma, and Radical Healing. She is Director and Lead Teacher of the new organization, Yoga Calling, which brings yoga to underserved populations. As part of this work, she has delighted in teaching yoga on a weekly basis to teenagers in the care of the New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission since January 2009.

As an adjunct faculty member, Andrea taught Yoga for Special Needs in the Spanda Yoga Teacher Training Program, a Yoga Alliance registered school. She is a graduate of this program at the 200 hour level, studying under the direct supervision of founder Dr. Jaime Stover Schmitt. Additional training includes: 14 hours of Street Yoga Core Teacher Training with Street Yoga founder Mark Lily; 40 hours of teacher training and study with Sri Srivatsa Ramaswami; 20 hours of study with Carrie Demers, MD, Director of the Himalayan Institute Total Health Center, on the fundamentals of Ayurveda; and numerous other trainings and workshops on yoga as a complementary therapy for a variety of complaints including Multiple Sclerosis, allergy and asthma, addiction, anxiety, depression, fibromyalgia, and osteoporosis/osteopenia. She is a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists.

In addition to the yoga training, Ms. Sacchetti is a magna cum laude graduate of Duke University where she obtained her B.A. in Religion. She worked for a number of years in educational publishing, market research and executive recruiting before discovering her true calling to study, practice and teach the time-honored techniques and philosophy of yoga in the Himalayan tradition.

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