Susi Amendola

Susi (Gillespie) Amendola brings over 30 years of experience to her teaching. She is the National Director of Stress Management for the prestigious Dean Ornish Program for Reversing Heart Disease using Yoga and Meditation in hospital sites around the country. She is a certified Yoga instructor through the Himalayan Institute and holds an ERYT 500 with Yoga Alliance.

From 1978-82, she lived as a resident of the Himalayan Institute where she trained in Hatha and Raja Yoga, Meditation, Yoga Philosophy, Ayurveda and advanced Yogic practices. She was the Director of the Institute’s Ayurvedic Kithchen. She has studied with a number of esteemed teachers: Swami Rama of the Himalayas, Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, Swami Veda, Rolf Sovik, Nischala Devi, Pema Chodron and others. She Founded Omaha Yoga & Bodywork Center in 1983, where she is currently the Director. She has also developed a 200 teacher training (Yoga Alliance Registered) program as a way to support teachers and students in furthering their experiences in Yoga.

In 1993-2004, she taught heart yoga as Stress Management through Immanuel Hospital’s Heart Institute in Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease Without Drugs or Surgery. Dean Ornish is based out of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute (PMRI, Sausalito, California).

She has developed yoga-based Stress Management programs for schools, businesses, and hospitals throughout the country and has traveled and lectured extensively in the US and India.

She continues to teach, study, practice, lecture and travel.

Her CD "EMBRACE THE HEART OF YOGA" can be found on itunes and at DoYogaNow.com.