Rita Trieger

Rita is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Fit Yoga magazine (2003-2010), and is the author of Yoga Heals Your Back (Fairwinds, 2005), and Tranquil Mind, a meditation and yoga CD.

Rita has been teaching yoga for various departments of Stamford Hospital, in Stamford, Connecticut since 2004. At the hospital’s Bennett Cancer Center (BCC), she has built a strong yoga community for cancer patients and survivors; at The Health and Fitness Institute (HFI), her thrice weekly Vinyasa Flow classes continue to thrive.Most recently, Rita provided resources and services for Stamford's Psychiatric Department, helping to implement weekly meditation classes.

Rita has presented yoga therapy to medical students at Yale University, St. Vincent's Nursing College, and Northern Westchester Medical School as well as several national yoga conferences, including the International Yoga Therapy Conference (IYTC), and the Montreal International Symposium for Therapy and Yoga (MISTY). Her abstract and article, Open Heart Yoga was published in the 2011 for the medical journal, Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation (TGR).