Vidya (Denise) Chapman is a certified yoga teacher since 2001, a licensed massage therapist MA#65536, an ayurvedic practitioner and professional member of NAMA. After a life-threatening illness in 2002, she was introduced to Dr. Vasant Lad at Ananda Ashram in Monroe, NY. In 2007 Vidya (Denise) travelled to India to study yoga with Nischala Joy Devi and Bhaskar and to see Ayurveda in its homeland. She is a graduate of the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico and the Gurukula and Panchakarma Therapy programs at his clinic and the Vasanta Institute in Pune, India.
Vidya(Denise) has taught Ayurvedic principles, philosophy and cooking at several yoga teacher trainings as well as marma therapy, shirodhara, abhyanga and other ayurvedic body therapies.