Suzy Sherer, MS, LMT has been teaching Kripalu style Yoga for over 30 years.
Before that, she was incorporating Yoga practice into her Sp.Ed. Pre-school classes (having taught for more than 15 years) & was innovative in bringing Yoga to schools, special needsʼ groups, Girl Scouts, whether through after-school Yoga activities, family-
oriented Yoga programs, & Workshops training teachers ( & medical students in the healthy benefits of Yoga as part of AMCʼs Complimentary/Integrative Medicine program ) incorporating Yoga into the classrooms & wellness programs.
...some of her previous ʻlittleʼ students have gone on to become Yoga teachers themselves !
Suzy is also a licensed NY State Massage Therapist, Nationally Board Certified, & certified in Kripalu Body & Energy Work.
Her path to Yoga & Massage Therapy began early in her life.
Her mother had many illnesses including back & neck discomforts. Suzy was able to
alleviate some of her motherʼs pain through hands-on massage strokes, as her mother claimed she had “magic hands”. Suzy also assisted her father (a popular dentist/oral
surgeon) leading to his encouragement for her to pursue a career in medicine, healthcare, surgery (also recognizing her healing hands).
During her teenage years, Suzy took a course in Transcendental Meditation (TM*) Finding this practice so calming, she decided to go deeper into meditative movement by enrolling in her first Yoga class in College.
As she developed her own personal Yoga & Meditation practice, she was also training in Early Childhood Development skills, both as a Teacher and as a young Mother. She found Yoga to be helpful in alleviating back discomforts during her 3 pregnancies, as well as helpful in increasing her overall energy & ability to withstand long & complicated labor & deliveries.
During her work as a Special Education teacher, she found Yoga & Creative Movement exercises to be a wonderful means for children to experience their bodies, developing balance, focus & self-control skills. She decided to enroll in a month-long Yoga-intensive Teacher-training program at the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in Lenox, MA.
As she started teaching classes for “grown-ups”, she found that many folks experienced back & joint discomforts. This then led her to pursue training in Massage Therapy both at the Kripalu Center (Energy oriented body work) & at the Bancroft School of Massage Therapy in Worcester, MA (Medical Massage oriented) leading to Licensure & National
Board Certification.
Suzy opened & managed the SuzyYoga Studio for Yoga & Massage Therapy in
Albany for 7 years (in her fatherʼs previous dental office space attached to his house)
combining her various skills along with elder-parent care-taking responsibilities.
After her fatherʼs passing, she decided to close the Studio & became the “mat on the move” branching out to other studios & business sites (Excelsior College, YMCA, IVF Centers, etc.)
Suzy also began teaching part-time at the Center For Natural Wellness School of
Massage Therapy (CNW) in Albany, NY, in the areas of Pregnancy, Fertility, & Infant
Massage techniques, influencing new massage therapist trainees in the art of “nurturing the mother” & infant massage as well as offering
Continuing Ed. (CE) Workshops
Suzy spent 14 years from May - December at the Delmar Farmersʼ Market on Saturdays offering Chair Massage to a wide range of recipients
& Pre - Covid, taught weekly at the
Bethlehem YMCA offering various Yoga classes.
Suzy is also commissioned through “StageHands Massage, LLC” to massage a variety of high profile musicians (& crew) before & after their shows @ venues like; SPAC, Times Union Center, Palace Theatre. Suzy has worked with such clients as; Journey, Roger Waters / Pink Floyd tours, The Doobie Brothers, Steve Miller Band, Luke Bryan, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Pentatonix, Steely Dan, OAR, etc.
