Martha Quick has been practicing yoga asana joyfully daily since 1996, no matter what was going on in her life.
Her very first teacher captivated Martha’s imagination by telling her story of reversing her scoliosis through yoga. At the time, Martha’s spine was a disaster from two very bad car wrecks. After a few weeks however, she was virtually pain free.
Martha also found the practice made her much more productive and able to focus at work in her stressful job as an affordable housing developer in Silicon Valley.
Another teacher introduced her to pranayama and she was able to scuba dive comfortably (not a natural activity for someone raised in the desert!).
Over the years, Martha has tended to practice on her own and then is led to teachers when they are needed. She met a yogi who was reversing his HIV numbers naturally through yoga and diet, and he encouraged her to cast her net wide into as many styles of yoga as she could find before settling into any one style.
Martha has been lucky enough to study yoga intensively with some of the best yoga teachers in the world, so her physical practice continues to grow to this day.
She has been a yoga teacher since 2012 and has had thousands of hours of teacher training in many different subjects from different schools of yoga. She received her 500-hour Yoga Alliance certification and Yoga Nidra certification as well as certifications in restorative and yin yoga. She has taught corporate yoga classes and retreats in the San Francisco Bay Area and Santa Fe, New Mexico and, in addition to clubs and studios she has been teaching yoga as an adjunct faculty member at the Institute of American Indian Art (IAIA) since 2015.
Martha was introduced to Yoga Nidra in her high school drama class. It was the first time in her life that she felt completely relaxed. But she didn’t know what it was. She was then reintroduced to it in 2010 and added it to her frequent practices.
The practice of Yoga Nidra became invaluable as she moved back to Santa Fe in 2014. This practice feeds the body, mind and soul deeply and Martha feels so grateful to be able to share Yoga Nidra.
. Martha Quick enhanced our long-established yoga program and we recommend her as a teacher to both beginning and advanced students. Starting out as a substitute she then attracted her own following of students when she received a weekly slot. She was able to keep her students focused and engaged in both their asana practice and lying-down meditative practices, even while weight lifters were practicing in the same facility. She sometimes drew the lifters into her class, enabling them to discover that yoga would release those parts of their body that had been perhaps overused.
Natalie McMahon,
Fitness Specialist
SRI (Stanford Research Institute) International
Martha established a weekly asana-pranayama-meditation program for our company that was both attractive and challenging for those trying yoga for the first time as well as for more adept students. Our employees found her classes to be a valuable remedy for stress reduction while working at a high-growth startup. We greatly enjoyed having Martha work with our team and would happily recommend that she bring her expertise to your group.
Dan Smolkin
Manager Human Resources
Quixey
We chose Martha to teach at our studio both because of her extensive Iyengar training, and because we felt from our students' feedback that her studies in the most advanced classes offered,along with her long-time personal practice, had well-prepared her to pass on solid knowledge of asana and pranayama.
We were not disappointed. She took over a class from one of our best and most beloved teachers and was able to keep his students interested and challenged--not an easy feat. We highly recommend Martha.
Sabina and Joseph Hentz
Co-founders Yoga is Youthfulness
www.yogaisyouth.com
Voted Best Yoga Studio in Mountain View, California,
for many years including 2014
Martha taught a chair-yoga class for our seniors here at Santa Fe Pacifica Senior Living for fifteen months. Her students had conditions ranging from simple Arthritis to Parkinson’s, many types of dementia and end-stage cancers. Many were in wheelchairs and/or on oxygen.
The class was basically aimed at keeping or increasing their range of motion and building their strength. Martha’s training enabled her to identify issues in each student’s body, (without being told their condition), and to then create personalized instructions to address their individual needs.
Martha exceeded our expectations in all regards and her students loved her class. The staff and residents here at Pacifica Senior Living highly recommend her.
Connie Garcia
Pacifica Senior Living
Director of Social Interaction
Santa Fe, NM