Nancy Crum Stechert began practicing yoga in 1976 in San Francisco. She holds a Senior Intermediate level certificate in the Iyengar method. She made her first trip to India to study with the Iyengars in 1983, and continued to go almost every year until 1990. Since then she has gone every three years.

In 1987 Nancy founded the Colorado School of Yoga and six years later founded the International Yoga Center of Tokyo. She has taught in the Iyengar centers in San Francisco and New York and served as an assessor for the Iyengar certification process for several years. She has also served as President of IMIYA, a regional Iyengar association and was Treasurer of the national Iyengar Association in its beginning. For the last five years she has conducted teacher-training classes in Denver.

Nancy lives with her husband and two children on Colorado’s Western Slope, where she co-owns and teaches at the Yoga Tree studio in the town of Hotchkiss.