MELISSA BRIGGS

Melissa is a graduate of the YogaSource 200 Hour Teacher Training program, and has been practicing and teaching for over 13 years. She is so grateful for this sangha and considers it and YogaSource a second home. Melissa's classes combine a strong alignment base with flow and mobility, with a goal to bring ease and space into the body. Melissa is also a choreographer and dance educator with over 20 years of experience, in New York City, across New England, and in New Mexico. She holds an MFA in Dance from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts and a BA in Sociology/Theater from Smith College. Melissa’s choreography has been presented at venues throughout the New York metropolitan area, in Mexico, and here, both in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. She is fasciated by the intersection of space, design, and storytelling that occurs in site-specific performance work; her most recent projects were created for parking lots and churches. Melissa is currently on dance faculty at UNM, ArtWorks, NDI New Mexico.