Steven Norber First exposed to yoga as a pre-teen in the early 1970s, Steven’s study of yoga began in 1976 while attending high school in St. Louis, MO.  His teacher, Jill Feldman, created a safe and nurturing environment for high school students to explore ‘inner space,’ utilizing yoga asana and meditation as a vehicle for the inward journey.  Yoga opened (re-opened) the door to sacred movement and a path where, after studying yoga, ballet became his means for self-discovery and expression. As such, the early years of Steven’s career in dance had yoga asana placed on the back burner.
In 1982, while dancing with the Kansas City Ballet and in workshop with Jonathan Watts (of the Joffrey and NYC Ballet) and Tage Wendt (of the Royal Danish Ballet), Mr. Watts offered yoga classes—and Steven was reminded and rekindled.
Then in 1986, Steven was in a mountain biking accident while riding near Crested Butte, Colorado.  A depressed skull fracture resulted from the accident, with bone fragments lodged in his brain. A successful surgical procedure to remove the bone fragments and elevate the depressed/fractured area of the skull provided for him a second go ’round in life and living.
He returned to school in 1989 to finish his degrees (psychology and philosophy), and taught both dance and yoga while attending university.
When Steven met Francois Raoult in 2001 and found in him to be a genuine (read: humanizing) inspiration to do more yoga, his practice became more focused.
The Iyengar path to certification followed, with a couple of trips to India to study both at the Iyengar Institute in Pune with the Iyengars, and in Old Rajpur with Rajiv and Swati Chanchani (Mr. Iyengar’s first assistant).
Along the way, Steven studied anatomy & physiology and became licensed as a neuromuscular therapist. In addition, Steven taught neuromuscular techniques to physical therapists and served as an anatomy teacher in yoga teacher training programs.
And now in first person: “I feel deeply grateful to have yoga as a vehicle for ongoing learning, a method of inquiry that lends itself to and cultivates, “learning how to learn.”
I do not perceive yoga as a panacea; rather, as one of many tools available to help people negotiate and deepen their understanding of the twists and turns in life, relationships with those closest to our (my) heart (Kelly Moore) and other living beings—as our individual and collective journey brings us more intimately acquainted with myriad emotional & mental activities within consciousness, and impermanence.”