Brianna Renner, RYT-500, Program Director, Veterans Yoga Project & Co-founder/Director of Namaste Newport Brianna comes to the teachers seat with a myriad of life experience including over 20 years of ballet training, five years in the Marine Corps and over ten years of passionate commitment to the yogic path. She studied Kriplau yoga intensively with Deva Parnell, was trained in Mindful Resilience through the Veterans Yoga Project and is a graduate of Soma Yoga Institute's Advanced Yoga Teacher Training program. At heart, Brianna is a true karma yogi. She dedicates much of her time in service fundraising for and teaching yoga to veterans in Southern Vermont while pioneering the development of a yoga community in her home town through her stewardship of Namaste Newport, a yoga collective based in New Hampshire. Brianna's natural gift is to create a nurturing space, place her students at ease, while inviting them to fully honor themselves in this moment, their practice and in life off of the mat.