 About
YogaFit,
Beth Shaw
 "If
you can breathe, you can practice yoga." - Beth Shaw
Beth Shaw, president and founder of YogaFit®, Inc., is recognized
throughout
the United States and internationally as one of the leading experts
in the
fitness industry. She is also well known as an animal advocate
and serves
on the Board of Directors for many animal rescue groups. Shaw
is also on the
Humane Society's National Leadership Council.
Born and raised in New York City, Shaw never
planned on becoming a yoga
instructor, however in her last year of study at Long Island
University, she
had a psychic flash while in a yoga pose. The message received
was that she
was destined to be in the health & fitness industry and
would be very
successful in this arena.
She describes the moment as if it were yesterday. "I
was doing a standing
forward fold leg extension in the stretch room of the health
club and this
message came to me in a bright white light, it was like the
sky parted and I
got this incredible insight". "It was a life changing
moment."
After graduating with a B.S. in Marketing
from Long Island University, Shaw
headed west to see what the left coast had to offer. Shaw
began seriously
studying yoga and earned many certifications in fitness,
Hatha Yoga and Yoga
Therapy.
In 1993, she began teaching yoga and quickly discovered that
traditional
methods didn't meet the needs of the fitness club clientele.
YogaFit® was
born. Again on a bike ride in early 1994 Shaw got another
message as the
name "YogaFit" spontaneously came to her with a vision.
Shaw's unique blend of yoga, strength training
and stretching took the
fitness industry by storm. In 1997 YogaFit Incorporated.
Today, there are
more than 70,000 YogaFit instructors in the United States
and thousands more
in Europe, Turkey, Australia, China, and South America.
Shaw has been published in numerous fitness, business and
consumer publications including TIME , LA TIMES, USA TODAY,
Entrepreneur, SELF, FIT,
Yoga Journal,and many others. Her book, Beth Shaw's
YogaFit, is a best
seller among Human Kinetics titles. Shaw has been
featured on MSNBC, CNN, ABC
News, The Style Network, Showtime, Canada AM, and Donny
Duetch's Big Idea." Shaw is also a certified Cycling
Instructor, an IPSB Massage Technician, and
has taken additional courses through UCLA.
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