About Yoga Outpost

I’m Ann McGregor, and I am an encourager. I’ve been searching for most of my 60+ years to find my passion and purpose, always feeling unclear about what I was meant to do. People who say they knew from age 3 that they were meant to follow a path, and then who followed it to great success, are amazing. But that’s not me.

I started doing yoga mostly for fitness in my 20s. It quickly became enmeshed with my spiritual belief system – which is best described as an ‘earth-honoring web of life, higher power, divine purpose, bigger than we can understand, every religious system is alright and not ALL right’ type thing. Basically I believe that love is the answer, and our souls are all here on the planet to learn how to relate to each other’s differences in a loving way, while seeking to remember that we are all ONE.

My brain is wired for science and engineering – I have a computer science and a biology degree – and the deeper I got into science and math, the more I realized that there is something bigger connecting all and everything. For me, that is LOVE.

So armed with that belief system, and working as a programmer and a computer science teacher, I’ve felt unbalanced and adrift as to my ‘true calling’ in life. As part of my quest, I’ve deepened my yoga studies and practice, completing two different 200 hour certification programs, one with my local yoga home, Warrior One Yoga, and one with my guru, Tymi Howard Bender of Manifest Yoga.

I’ve also signed up for an 8 week program with Stephen Cope called Your True Calling. He’s a part of Kripalu, a place where I was blessed to visit for yoga retreats several times, and where I immediately feel at peace and at home.

The night after I signed up for the course, I dreamed a vision of my calling as an ENCOURAGER. I have no idea what that means, but Yoga Outpost is the culmination of the learning, the quest, and the dream that yoga can be accessibly to ALL humans, with encouragement and care. Welcome to my world!