Amanda Qadado

Teacher

“Heart forward” — A common cue in practice, and how Amanda has approached her own yoga journey, diving right into a 30-day challenge at Humble Haven Yoga in the fall of 2019 before even visiting the studio. Even after successfully completing this challenge, the next few years of Amanda’s practice varied between months where she would be in the studio multiple days a week followed by months where she may not have made it in even once.  

Searching for balance in the midst of a global pandemic, Amanda found herself rolling out her mat, logging into Zoom, and taking class after class behind the lens of her laptop screen. The community Humble Haven Yoga continued to foster in a time of widespread fear, instability, and uncertainty kept Amanda coming back. Finally, Amanda once again followed her “heart forward” approach and dove into HHY’s 200-hour teacher training program, graduating in June 2024 with a need to continue expanding the community that kept her grounded in those uncertain years. 

Why teacher training? How beautiful of an opportunity to simultaneously serve both as a student and teacher. What keeps her coming back? Yoga’s ability to find balance — through the flexion and extension, the effort and ease, the challenge and comfort. Despite the desire for balance, she is also the student who counts down the seconds until the end of the equanimity portion of the journey into power sequence because balancing on one leg will never not be hard.