Vidya (Denise) Chapman was drawn to practice yoga in her early 40's due to the stress from a high pressured job. She was guided to Sri Naranda's Yoga for Youth Teacher Training and graduated in March 2001. There she was introduced to Ananda Ashram and the lineage of Sri Brahmananda Saraswati through Ma Bhaskarananda. She has been teaching and studying yoga ever since. Vidya was certified as a Sivananda Yoga teacher in 2003, and has taught chair yoga at an Iyengar studio for 5 years. She learned AyurYoga at the Ayurvedic Institute while she studied Ayurveda in New Mexico with Dr. Vasant Lad. She has travelled to India with Nischala Joy Devi and Bhaskar to study yoga and see Ayurveda in its homeland. Yoga and Ayurveda are sister sciences and she incorporates her knowledge of yoga, Ayurveda, marma therapy and massage therapy into her class.