About Terri

Terri Cotts is the owner of Blue Heron Yoga in Walla Walla, Washington.  She has been practicing yoga for 21 years and has been teaching yoga since 1989.  Terri is a former University Dance Professor and has owned studios in Seattle and southern Utah. Terri has a richly varied background including teacher trainings with noted yoginis Donna Fahri and Ana Forrest. Terri’s primary yoga mentors are Angela Farmer and Victor Van Kooten who she has trained with since 1990. In addition to teaching classes and workshops at her studio, Terri leads yoga workshops in the western United States and Hawaii.

In her classes and workshops Terri draws upon her training in Body-Mind Centering, Reiki , and Vipassana meditation to help students explore and deepen their mind-body connection in their yoga journey.

Terri has also been practicing Vipassana meditation for 20 years.  She has attended numerous 5, 10, and 30-day silent retreats with Pujari, Ruth Denison, and Thich Nhat Hahn.   Terri has trained in master level Buddhist study courses at the Naropa Institute and took her Buddhist vows with Thich Nhat Hahn in 1993.

Contact Terri at terricotts@bmi.net.

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