ABOUT ME

My name is Becky Verner and I am a 500-hour certified yoga teacher and grief support advocate in Cleveland Ohio.

Most recently, as a yoga teacher I teach to students across the country via corporate online yoga classes and occasional public online classes.

I grew up on the east side of Cleveland. My dad and stepmom still live in the house I grew up in. I also have an older sister named Elizabeth who lives nearby with my brother-in-law, niece and nephew. I live in Lakewood with my husband, Matt, and often our girls who are in early grade school. My sweet 16-year-old stepdaughter lives near Omaha.

I found yoga in college at Ohio University around 2006 as a welcome reprieve from my busy (mostly social) life. My commitment to a yoga practice ebbed and flowed until I was living back in Cleveland in 2017. A break-up and living walking distance from a yoga studio encouraged me more and more to my mat, and when my home studio announced they were offering a yoga teacher training, I signed up! My 200-hour teacher training ran March-November, and by May I quit my full-time job, moved to a cheaper apartment, and decided I was going to “make it” following my yogi dharma.

My journey has included some amazing learning opportunities including a 6-week karma yoga experience at Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat Bahamas, 14 days of yoga retreat and vacation in Costa Rica, and life-changing Baptiste Yoga programs including Level 1 and Level 2. In 2019 I completed my 300-hour yoga certification with Cleveland Yoga, so I am now a 500-hour certified yoga instructor.

I also am very proud to be in a community of those who believe in the power of yoga and mindfulness to be effective in healing discomforts of grief and trauma in our bodies. Through research, collaboration and my own experience I created Yoga to Remember, a grief gentle yoga and meditation event that provides support for those who are grieving. I use these techniques myself to live with the grief from the sudden death of my mom when I was 10 years old.

On this website you will find information about when I am teaching, tools for yoga and meditation, photography from some amazingly-talented artists, and grief support references and Yoga to Remember opportunities. Feel free to Contact Me at any time with questions or requests to get together.