Tracey Rich Graces the Cover         of Yoga Journal, August 2002

Tracey Rich is a Director of the White Lotus Foundation. She has been serving the organization through her teaching and in the design and development of their Santa Barbara Retreat Center since its inception in 1983. Tracey has been studying and teaching nationally since 1978, training teachers as well as students. Her background in Yoga includes study with many yoga teachers including K. Pattabhi Jois of the Astanga Vinyasa tradition, Yogiraj Ganga White, Yogini June LaSalvia, Joel Kramer and J. Krishnamurti. Her background also includes writing, dance and related movement, health and philosophy. She draws her teaching methods from all of these areas creating a synthesis of experience and hoping to inspire self-expression in the student, giving them the tools to develop well being and awareness in their lives. She focuses her teaching of Vinyasa Yoga on freedom, creativity and the importance of refining subtle energies and the breath. "The asanas become a dance with the dance moving out into all areas of life." Tracey is holder of the Yoga Acharya degree.

Tracey conducts with Ganga White, the sixteen day Yoga teacher training courses at their residential retreat center in Santa Barbara. The course has received international recognition and graduates have successfully started centers and classes all over the world. She and Ganga White regularly lead seminars at other centers worldwide. They created together the best selling videos, Aerobic Yoga, the Flow Series, Total Yoga, and now in 2004, the Total Yoga Series, Earth, Water, and Fire. The Original Total Yoga I has been in the top ten Yoga videos for ten years running and was number one, two or three for most of 2001. Sales now top of over 1.2 million. Tracey was featured on the cover of Yoga Journal in the July, 2002 issue.

-Read an interview with Tracey Rich in the August 2002 issue of Yoga Journal
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