Linda Chun

Linda first explored yoga in 2000 during medical school.  Finding yoga was truly life-changing.  She obtained her ashtanga teaching certification during 2001 and has taught yoga ever since.  While her personal practice remains ashtanga, she has also enjoyed studying vinyasa flow and yin.  She is forever thankful for Columbus teachers Laurel Hodory and Martha Marcom for the vital roles they played in her development as a student and teacher.  Other teachers that have or continue to influence her most significantly include Maty Ezraty, Chuck Miller, Tim Miller, David Swenson, Simi Cruz, Paul Grilley, and Seane Corn.

Linda loves the physical expression of yoga combined with the meditative and spiritual aspects of the practice.  Ask her what yoga teaches her and she will tell you about quieting the mind, living with breath, finding flow, and building a healthy body.  She will talk about cultivating patience, focus, gratitude, and living compassionately in order to be of service to others.  Through the years, some especially difficult, her ashtanga practice has repeatedly been an important source of healing.  In her classes, Linda likes to focus on alignment for safety and balance so her students may enjoy a lifelong practice.  She firmly believes in the Mysore style of ashtanga where students may cultivate their own regular and consistent self-practice.

Outside the yoga room, Linda is a general internist and pediatrician.  She works at the OSU Center for Integrative Medicine and various Nationwide Children’s Hospital clinics.  She practices integrative medicine and last year completed an integrative medicine fellowship through the University of Arizona.  Her passion is the energetics of health and in addition to the yoga, she is currently learning to practice medical acupuncture.