Yoga North Duluth Virginia

We have rented space from St. Michael’s Elementary School since our inception in 1995. We feel grateful to the school for their ongoing support and enjoy the symbiotic relationship we have with them.

The studio is in the oldest section of the school, the original school building section (around 110 years old). Yoga North’s studio atmosphere of peace, enchantment and warmth must be the result of a century of learning combined with seventeen years of practicing yoga.

Summer 1995: Yoga North becomes a thought in the minds of founders Joie Acheson & Pat Nolin

Ann Maxwell steps in as Co-Director with Deborah Adele after Joie Acheson takes teaching position elsewhere.

Became a member school of the international Association of Yoga Therapists- one of the first Yoga Therapist Training Schools to be accepted in the State of Minnesota.

Jasper Lake retreat center in Ely, Minnesota is added as a facility for Teacher Training, Retreats, and private individual and group classes.

Spring 2013: A-frame hermitage is added to Jasper Lake location.

Become one of the first 12 schools internationally to receive accreditation from the International Alliance of Yoga Therapist for Yoga Therapy Certification Program.

First 500 hr Yoga Teacher Training in St. Paul begins with 11 students. Held at Yoga Tula & Wellness in St. Paul.

Ann Maxwell bring the Therapeutic SomaYoga & Somatics Intensive and Clinical Techniques to Maui for the first time.

SomaYoga Approach to Classic Asana is introduced for the first time- taught by Ann Maxwell and Teri Sanders in St. Paul at Tula Yoga & Wellness

Yoga North produces first guide books for Therapeutic SomaYoga Movements and Use of the Therapeutic Spinal Strip.

Teri Sanders and Jodi Christensen complete the Himalayan Institute’s Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist Certification.

Ann Maxwell and Molly McManus present for the first time at the Symposium on Yoga Therapy and Research in Reston, Virginia. Ann present on “Creating a Safe Crucible: Incorporating Shadow Work Curriculum into Yoga Therapy Teacher Training Programs”. They both present “Physiology of Freedom – SomaYoga Therapy for conscious movement and pain resolution”.

Oct. 2016: Ann Maxwell teaches Yoga for Stress, Anxiety, and Depression intensive for the first time in Ontario Canada.