Rose Kress

She began practicing yoga in 1994 and has been teaching since 2004. She began studying with Amy Weintraub in 2002 as a means of finding ease from anxiety. After becoming certified to teach yoga, Rose began assisting Amy at workshops and the LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Training nationally and internationally. In 2010, she began serving as the Director of Education for LifeForce Yoga. Throughout her teaching career, Rose has focused on the therapeutic aspects of yoga, teaching at hospitals, pulmonary centers, a chiropractor’s office. In 2017, she developed and delivered a yoga therapy protocol for veterans and active duty soldiers receiving treatment for substance abuse and PTSD at the VA Health Care Center in Tucson, AZ. Rose is now the owner and director of the LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute. She continues to lead the LifeForce Yoga Practitioner training and other programs. Rose is the creator of the Best Practices Series, a number of CDs/mp3s, including: Mantra Chanting with Rose, Yoga Nidra for Light & Clarity, & True Heart Yoga Nidra, and several LifeForce Yoga videos including LifeForce Yoga Practice for Light & Clarity, and LifeForce Yoga for an Open Heart. Rose considers herself a life long student of yoga, yoga philosophy, and the body. She is a long term student of Rama Jyoti Vernon and has taught at several of Rama’s retreats. Rose has taken the Functional Yoga Therapy Training with Maria Mendola. In 2019, Rose and her husband moved to Oregon. She teaches Aqua Yoga at the Lebanon Community Pool in Lebanon, Oregon. In the pool, Rose is able to deliver yoga therapy to students that would otherwise not have access to yoga. Rose also teaches at Sole to Soul Yoga in Albany, Oregon; she is on staff for their Yoga Teacher Training.