John Schumacher
is the founder and director of Unity Woods Yoga Center. He has practiced yoga for over 50 years. For more than three decades, John studied in India with world renowned yoga master B.K.S. Iyengar who personally certified him as an Advanced Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher (CIYT).
John’s clear, precise style and engaging sense of humor have made him one of America’s leading yoga teachers. In 2007, he was a keynote speaker at the first NIH conference on alternative health. In 2013, he helped curate the Smithsonian’s widely praised exhibition Yoga: The Art of Transformation. In 2015, Yoga Journal awarded him its prestigious Good Karma Award for spending “40-plus years sharing [his] practice to help authenticate yoga in America today”.
John has written for a variety of publications and appeared in numerous local and national media and has spoken about the practice and benefits of yoga at conferences and events around the world.
Learn more about John here and by visiting schumacheryoga.com.