Kezia Bacon is a Certified Lifecycle Celebrant, a Registered Kripalu Yoga Teacher, a newspaper columnist and the Contributing Editor of edible South Shore magazine. She resides in Marshfield, Massachusetts.

Kezia Bacon has been practicing yoga since 1990. She earned her basic yoga teacher certification in Kripalu Yoga in 1997, and her advanced certification in 2003. She is also certified in Yoga for Pregnancy. Kezia teaches several weekly classes in the Marshfield area. She is the founder of Yoga at the River’s Edge, a summer outdoor yoga program co-sponsored by the North and South Rivers Watershed Association, soon to begin its 15th season. She also offers workshops and private sessions in yoga, breathing, meditation and Thai Yoga Massage. She produced her first instructional CD, “Gentle Yoga,” in 2008.

People often wonder how my name is pronounced.

Here’s a hint: the “i” is silent.

It is pronounced, “Kee-za.”

Visit http://www.hellokezia.blogspot.com/ to read my monthly (if I have my act together) thoughts on all things yoga.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. - Rainer Maria Rilke

Kripalu Yoga is a compassionate form of yoga with a focus on consciousness -- learning to be present through mindful awareness. Classes flow through warm-ups, traditional postures, breathing and meditation. The intention is one of integration, not perfection.