Tracie (Padma Shakti)e-RYT 500, is the founder and Yoga Studies Director for Yoga Rasa, Winner Houston’s Best Yoga Studio for 3 Years. Yoga Rasa’s Teacher Training is often referred to as “The Harvard of Yoga Studies”. She is committed to and successfully creating a yoga community that is sustainable and supported by all of its members. Padma envisions a model for the bigger world of a truly functional group of people sincerely devoted to quality of life; that we might demonstrate compassion, mutual support, collaborative evolution and creation are a reality, aligned with worldly success. Her ability to effectively disseminate the yoga teachings, leading students toward a more excellent quality of life and more subtle awareness and understanding in life, is made possible by her study and love of these great beings: Dr. David Hoch, Lex Gillian, Reverend Karen Tudor, Rodney Yee, Erich Schiffmann, Shiva Rea, David Frawley and Swami Atma. Padma Shakti's teacher and beloved Guru is Mahadevi Sandra Summerfield Kozak. There are many other masters and teachers unnamed to pay homage to as well, whether by lineage living now or before. Her current studies are influenced mostly by Sandra Summerfield Kozak, Master Jason Campbell, Rod Stryker, Dr. Stephen Phillips (Swamiji), Yoga Rasa Sangha, Intuition and God. Tracie holds certifications from The Yoga Institute, International Yoga Studies, Certified Zen Business Bootcamp Instructor.