Deborah has been a practitioner of yoga for 40 years. She started doing yoga as a young ballerina to prevent injury from overused muscles. Deborah has been teaching yoga for over 30 years, studying under Darshan Singh since 1985 the path of inner light and sound. She certified as an Integral Yoga Teacher as an RYT 200 in 2005. She certified in therapeutic yoga and as an RYT 300 in 2016.
Deborah is the lead trainer of both the 200 hour and 300 your yoga teachers training programs at Heal Me Institute. She has the credential of E-RYT 500. She has taught the yoga courses at Germanna Community College since 2003, is a certified Montessori teacher, and holds a paraprofessional counseling certificate.

“Deborah Bennett was an inspiring instructor. Extremely knowledgeable, leads by example and an continues to be a beautiful mentor, even after graduation.”
— Kimberly

Certified in the teaching of Hatha Yoga and a student of Surat Shabd Yoga, Deborah has studied in the United States and India with Integral Yoga Institute and Master Teachers of Surat Shabd Yoga/Sant Mat. Sant Mat or Surat Shabd Yoga is known in the west as Science of Spirituality.

"Sant Darshan Singh is my spiritual Master/Teacher, with whom I received initiation into the inner light and sound. I continue to study the art of Surat Shabd yoga with the current living spiritual master in the Surat Shabd Yoga tradition Sant Rajinder Singh." -Deborah