The primary reason your business survives is because you are good at teaching, good with people, good at listening to what student's body parts need help and immediately coming up with moves to help, good at not pushing but helping us to accept and work with our body's limitations, etc. etc.  It's because of how you teach and who you are that makes it easy to refer people to your classes. ~ Ann

As I mentioned to you on Monday, not only am I loving yoga just for the delicious movements, but I have lost nearly 20 pounds since January of last year (2010), just about a year ago.  I haven't been dieting. I have been watching portions instead, but I do think the yoga is what my body was needing to lose some weight.  Also, I have been feeling more peaceful, quiet, empathetic and spiritual.  What a blessing yoga has been for me.  To top it all off is your essence which is so caring and encouraging.  I am deeply grateful. ~ Glo

Gloria, I only took 3 yoga classes ever before this one. I had no experience.  I wasn't sure I'd like yoga at all. I loved every single class!  You are amazing.   I feel so much better about addressing root causes and not just the symptoms. I am so grateful for your instruction, and your wisdom. I am, of course, telling everyone I know how amazing you are. ~ Dawn

The white sands experience leaves me speechless.... It really adds some level of spirit to my world... I look forward to it every year and really miss it when it doesn't happen. I am thankful for you and all that you do! ~ C

Thank you Gloria. I have been using some of the techniques we learned in your Yoga for Insomnia workshop and they do seem to help me sleep more soundly. I am now trying to get my husband to do the exercises with me prior to bedtime. ~ Darley

Thank you for last night’s class.  I appreciate your patient teaching style especially as it applies to my various physical limitations. ~ Peggy

Thank you so much for leading us in a wonderful yoga and meditation session.  Everyone there had wonderful things to say.  Such as:

"I felt like I had a massage."
"I slept thru the whole night for the first time in months."
"It's Tuesday and I still feel calm."
"I never knew how much better I would feel after one session."
 
Happy Holidays and we'll be seeing you soon. ~ Ginger Girk

I had not practiced yoga for 20 years and was so grateful to find Gloria’s classes. She has very balanced approach to yoga and encourages students to genuinely care for themselves, offering a challenging edge while also supporting compassionate, personal choice in the posture variations. This was a great relief to me given that I was pretty out of shape. In less than a month, I can already tell a difference in my level of strength.

To help with correct alignment and to start a home practice, I decided to take a private class with Gloria. What a wonderful experience! After a thorough intake, she carefully crafted a program that addressed my specific needs. She guided me through the postures, gently made corrections and then drew little diagrams for me to take home, complete with breathing tips. Gloria is such a relaxed, gracious and present guide in this powerful practice.  I highly recommend her and look forward to learning more. You really are an awesome teacher. Thanks for doing what you do. ~ Ellen LaPenna

Although I had a fair amount of exposure to yoga throughout my adulthood I can honestly say that my experience with Gloria has been the best in my memory. I find her to be a compassionate, knowledgeable and patient instructor. ~ Elli Elderbroom, Abq, NM

Dear Gloria and Patsy,



I want to send a personal note of appreciation to you both for the 
sensitive care and reflective beauty that you each (alone and together) 
brought to our Yoga Retreat at Ojo Caliente.  It was a poignant journey 
for me... as I had hoped for, and also a time of strong healing.   I was 
surprised by the returning power of my grief, and also appreciated how 
both of you were able to hold me in this sorrow without losing the 
larger center of our full group.  Thank you.  I admire your capacity to 
share of yourselves with great luminosity.  

It's a powerful day today  -- honoring our mothers... which has made me 
want to send you a poem I love in recognition of the abiding strengths 
we all can cherish.

 ~ With joy, Lois

Namaste, Gloria:


Words cannot describe the wonderful peace, love and connections obtained in
Ojo Calente!  I feel so overwhelmly fortuante to have experienced the past
weekend.  I feel like it reaches such higher spiritual states.......and the
peace...and the love.....
Thank you for all your hard work, sharing of knowledge and gathering us all
at a very sacred place.  I'm holding on to that Prana for as long as I
can!!!     If you need me to write some kind of comprehensive thoughts about
both experiences (White Sands and OJO)
I will............you can use it for promotional purposes................My 
heart and soul thank you!!! ~ Jackie Tice

Thank you, Gloria, for a most magical weekend. I learned a lot about yoga, but more about myself. It really was lovely. Amanda and I reminisced all the way home about our amazing weekend. Please pass on to Patsy how much I appreciated it. Hope to make it to one of your Sat. classes soon. ~ Namaste Tara

Dear Gloria:


Hope you all had a safe journey home and that the car trouble was solved
quickly!...I wanted to let you know that I had the best time in White
Sands!!!  What a moving experience it is to see the moon and the sun come up
with all of the beautiful colors!!  It was so wonderful!!  You were so
generous to share your tent and I really hope it didn't wipe you out
sleeping upright in your car!!  Thank You for your kindness.    I was hoping
you could pass my email on to the lady that was taking digital photographs
of our evening doing yoga.  I would love to capture that moon rise and put
it on my computer!  Please have her send it to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 
We are so looking forward to the peace and connections we will have in OJO!
See you soon. ~ NAMASTE, Jackie Tice

Hi Gloria,

 I have many wonderful memories of our trip and really appreciate everything
that you did to create such a marvelous experience for the group.
Everything has happened so fast since my return....leaving Agilent,
preparing for a new job, getting accepted into a master's program for humane
education.  I think the week in Costa Rica helped prepare me to handle the
emotional ups and downs of the last few weeks.  The wish that I made on the
sacred stone was to have the courage to listen to and follow my intuition
and my heart.  I've returned again and again to that wish when I get scared
or doubt my ability to be successful outside of the corporate environment to
remind myself that I can make this change.

I hope that the rest of your trip in Costa Rica was everything you wanted it
to be.  I'll look forward to attending one of your classes when I visit mom
in Albuquerque and perhaps another yoga week in the future!

Namaste,

Tanya  CR 2005

 -The retreat was both cleansing and renewing… ~ Liz Hohl, Abq, NM

Gloria did an excellent job of encouraging people to stretch themselves, not in simply a physical way; she is so gentle and encouraging at the same time. ~ Abq, NM

I met Gloria almost a year ago.  I could not get up from the floor let alone do meaningful exercise.  I had done some yoga in the seventies, but had gained a considerable mount of weight and with that conformed to a sedentary lifestyle. my proprioseption was off.  My myofascial was encasing my muscles making movement difficult. Gloria came to my house and made a video just for me.  It included standing movements, sitting movements, and basic balance movements.  it was such a blessing to have asana I could do until I could fit into a standard yoga class. I now start my day with the same yoga tape from Gloria….  I have more energy, I am more focused and clamer.  I find the balance poses help my vertigo.

Gloria is a loving and caring teacher.  She is accepting of all people.  She is very aware of what props and adaptations are needed for each person.  She conducts  small group classes and makes sure everyone’s needs are met.  I feel she is the reason I am more flexible, more able to withstand stress, both physical and psychological.  My mobility and functional fitness have increased.  My self esteem and ability to focus have greatly benefited from Gloria’s yoga instruction. ~ Barbara Cyzak, Abq, NM

I have benefited from the classes both physically and emotionally.  perhaps the quality I admire most in Gloria’s instruction, is the gentle reminders that “yoga is not a competition” and to “listen to your body.”  Without reservation, I strongly recommend Gloria as an instructor to any class  or group. ~ Rebecca Viers, Laguna, NM

My wife and I have been students of hers and attended one of the full moon yoga events and it was one of the most extraordinary weekends of our lives!
with the full moon rising over the mountains to the east, and the stark white sands reflecting enough moonlight for it to look like early morning daytime the setting was mystically perfect. Gloria is a very gifted teacher and contemplative empath - and I've done enough Zen training and Yoga to know the difference, I believe. she's lively and spirited and thoughtful and would make an excellent choice for your program. invite her!

Gloria - thanks for sending this along. We watched your video and it truly is extraordinary and worth a lot of attention. It meant more to Diane, of course - well, duh! but I enjoyed it and will watch it again to get more of the content. It's nicely presented to appeal to a new market - not competing w/ Rodney Yee and all the other thousands of Yoga for bazillionaires tapes out there.

I hope you are well and having some fun in addition to keeping busy and centered. ~ Namaste, Doug

Dear Oprah,
 
A few months ago, I had a peak experience in my life.  At a friend’s suggestion, I went down to White Sands, NM (about 5 hours from my home in Santa Fe) and attended a full moon yoga retreat with Kripalu yoga teacher, Gloria Drayer.
 
I have been practicing yoga on and off for several years, but I find so many of the yoga classes in my area emphasize the perfect execution of the postures and young, slim, gumby bodies, which at 57 years of age, I definitely do not have.
 
Finally, I found a yoga practice that spoke to me, that allowed me to go deep inside myself and access self-love and self-acceptance.  I can’t tell you how much this retreat has accepted my life.  
 
And now that Gloria has released her video:  Full Moon Yoga, I can recreate this experience – or a totally new one – any time I wish.
 
I know that Gloria has sent you a copy of her video.  On behalf of myself - and what I am sure are legions of women whose souls call out for a spiritual practice that honors them as they are – I urge you to give Gloria’s video a careful viewing.  
 
If you do, I hope that you get to experience the same profound experience that I did.
 
Yours truly



Laura Feldberg

Hi, Gloria --

and thank you so very much for the DVD. The package arrived
 just as I was getting ready to leave town on business. It occurred to me
 that maybe, just maybe, my laptop could double as a DVD player. What a 
wonderful option to the lousy exercise rooms in most hotels! It also just happened that my travel was around the full moon! What wonderful
 serendipity. Although I wasn't in a mental/ physical/ spiritual place to act 
on creating a full moon ritual (at least on this trip), the flow was more
 supportive than I imagined. The narration is well-timed to the flow, the
 directions are clear (especially with the added advantage of good camera 
support), and the voice of the narrator is soothing without being "whiny".
 Several yoga tapes or CD's that have had great flows have had such a pitch
to the narrator's voice that I stopped using them.

 Thanks again for advertising in YJ. You really have a knack for putting a 
quality product together. May abundance by yours.
 
~ Namaste. 
Nancy Corcoran