Adrienne Crowder is a social worker and yoga instructor in Canada, to where she immigrated from Belfast, Northern Ireland, in her early teens. She has also lived in Northern California and spent two years at Kibbutz Hanita in northern Israel in 1980-81, picking oranges and studying Hebrew.
She has always been a seeker - of spirit, of wisdom, of people and beauty. Yoga has brought all of these together for her. When she was first introduced to yoga, she knew she’d “come home” As a social worker and adult educator, she has worked with a variety of therapeutic modalities. But since the transformative power of yoga caught Adrienne’s attention, it won’t let go.
Adrienne currently lives in Guelph, Ontario with her adolescent son and two cats. She teaches yoga locally while working in the community as a social worker.
World View July 14, 2014
"[In] my experience of Israel...Events were always clothed in layers of nuance. All 'truths' were paradoxical...every 'bad' thing had a kernel of 'good'." Perched on the hills of Northern Israel, or Southern Lebanon as the locals jokingly called it, Kibbutz Hanita was my home for two years... Read more
Mind/Body February 3, 2014
My yoga practice has been a good friend for many years now. Almost daily I get on the mat. And on the days I don’t, I meditate, or say prayers or find a minute to read an uplifting text. A daily dose of good medicine for... Read more