Jennifer W. Beaumont
Jennifer W. Beaumont, director of Light on Yoga Institute, the Iyengar Yoga Center of Grand Rapids, has been studying and practicing yoga in the Iyengar lineage for over two decades. A Grand Rapids native, Jennifer's intense study of Iyengar yoga ignited as a freshman student at the University of Michigan. An artist and poet who graduated in the Creative Writing program and U of M, Jennifer chose to dedicate her life to the practice of the art of Iyengar Yoga. A longtime student of B.K.S. Iyengar’s method, Jennifer has studied with the Iyengar family (B.K.S. Iyengar, and his daughter, Geeta Iyengar, and son, Prashant Iyengar), Laurie Blakeney while in college at the University of Michigan, for decades with Manouso Manos, and lately with Zubin Zarthoshtimanesh, and weekly with Prashant Iyengar.
Jennifer experiences Iyengar Yoga as deeply therapeutic. A Certified Yoga Therapist, Jennifer is trained through apprenticeship through her teacher as well as the Iyengar Yoga Therapeutics program at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of Los Angeles. She was blessed by practicing near B.K.S. Iyengar for two months at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune, India.
Jennifer began teaching Iyengar Yoga in 2003 in San Francisco. Now a Senior level Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher, she was the first CIYT in West Michigan. She currently serves as a mentoring teacher in Iyengar Yoga. The mother of two children, Jennifer has specialized prenatal Iyengar yoga training and is an experienced teacher for women experiencing the transformative changes of pregnancy and motherhood.
Jennifer experiences Iyengar yoga as a creative art form that deeply transforms the practitioner. Intense practice has improved her health and continues to bring clarity. Through a dynamic, therapeutic teaching style, Jennifer inspires students to overcome obstacles through the insights gained in consistent study in classes and realized through the power of practice.