Yoga and related yoga therapies form the core of The Human Nature Bridge, the professional practice of Ann Ritter. Offerings of The Human Nature Bridge include yoga classes, private yoga therapy and Thai yoga massage.
Classes are held at Kashi Ashram in Candler Park and at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center on Briarcliff Road, both located in Atlanta.
Individual therapy sessions can be arranged by calling or e-mailing Ann Ritter.
Licenses/Certifications
 Yoga Alliance: 500 hours training (RYT 500)
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IYT Certified Yoga Therapist: 500 hours training (IYT 500)
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Certified Yoga Teacher
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Education
Ann Ritter has taken three levels of Kundalini teacher training: from Mukta Khalsa in Atlanta, and 200-hour (2000) and 500-hour certification (2006-2010) from the Kundalini Research Institute (KRI) in Espanola, NM. She is now part of the Aquarian Training Academy of KRI.
Ann was led to broaden her practice and her own personal healing in 2002 to include yoga therapy and other links to wholeness. She began studying Thai yoga bodywork in 2002, and traditional yoga therapies in 2004. She is certified at the 500-hour level by the Integrative Yoga Therapy Institute (IYTI), and will complete a 1,000-hour certification in yoga therapy from the IYTI in 2015. She also is currently a doctoral student in human development at Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, CA.
Bio
Ann Ritter has found both deep appeal and tremendous personal benefit through the extended philosophy of yoga and yoga therapies. Her practice has become her bridge between the everyday and the sacred. The sculpture, The Human Nature Bridge, from which Ann’s business takes it name, is featured on the page and is the image that personifies her practice. When Ann first saw the sculpture and spoke to its creator, Brian Rust, she immediately saw and felt a connection between the physical yearning and striving of the individual human depicted and the larger human attempting to define the sacred—to achieve a sense of peace and wholeness in the midst of everyday life.
Ann found her way to yoga and related therapies at about the same time she became pregnant with her first child in 1986. She studied and sampled Hatha yoga from late 1986 through mid 1989, when she took her first Kundalini yoga class in Atlanta. A diligent student of Kundalini since that time, Ann also sampled workshops and teaching styles from Kripalu, Polarity and Kali Natha yogas during the past two decades. She also received an associate polarity practitioner certificate from the Atlanta Polarity Center in 1996.
Memberships
Kundalini Research Institute
International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association
Integrative Yoga Therapy Institute
Recommendations
Payments Accepted
Cash or check
Hours
By appointment
Practice Areas/Issues Treated
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Yoga Therapy
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Anxiety
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Back/Shoulder/Neck/Hip Pain
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Integrative Yoga Therapy
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Stress Management
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Style: Kundalini Yoga
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