About Us

Margie Wilsman owns and operates Springdale Yoga, LLC. She is a Certified Svaroopa® Yoga Teacher (CYST) at the 685-hour level, Certified Svarooopa® Yoga Therapist-Level 1, A certified Svaroopa Vidya Ashram Meditation Teacher, a Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance at the 500-hour level. She is a 4 Advanced Certifications: Pregnancy Yoga Teacher-250 hours; Special Needs and Gentle Yoga Teacher-250 hours; Living Yoga-Business Certification-125 hours, and Embodyment® Therapist-125 hours. She is currently working on her certification as a Medical Yoga Therapist.

At Springdale Yoga Margie provides Svaroopa® Yoga Therapy, Embodyment®, Overlap Healing, Private Yoga instruction.  She teaches Prenatal Yoga, Gentle Yoga, Beginning Yoga, Continuing Yoga and Deeper Yoga classes.

In 2002 Margie was introduced to yoga by her friend and physical therapist who knew that Margie was taking high doses of pain and anti inflammatory medications.  For five years she had been avoiding climbing stairs, stopped running, biking to work, gardening and her life was quickly changing.  After one Svaroopa® Yoga class Margie was convinced that this was the help she needed. By January 2003 she enrolled in her first teacher training course with Rama Berch and Master Yoga Foundation in La Jolle, California.

Margie also holds a PhD in Education from the University of Minnesota. Margie brings to her yoga teaching years of expertise and experience working in teacher education and teacher professional development K-16, in reading, mathematics and science education. She has worked at the university level teaching undergraduate courses, graduate courses, advising graduate students, administering grants, and conducting research. She continues to work at the University of Wisconsin Madison and as a private consultant conducting evaluation research for mathematics and science partnership grants throughout the state and nationally.  

In September Maitreyi completed her certification as a Meditation Group Leader with Swami Nirmalananda Saraswati and the Svaroopa Vidya Ashram. At that time her teacher bestowed a new name--Maitreyi (mai-trai-ee) Swamiji wrote :

It is the name of one of the sage Yajnavalka's two wives. When he retired from being king, he told his two wives he was going to the forest to practice yoga. Maitreyi asked him to teach her, so he taught her about the Self. In the Brihad-Aranyaka Upanishad he tells her, "it is not for the sake of all, dear Maitreyi, that all is loved, but for the sake of the Self. The Self should be heard, reflected and deeply meditated upon, then one becomes all."

It also means "friendly."

This combination of deep spirituality and friendliness is a rare combination, and one you inherently possess.: Maitreyi.

In her education profession work Maitreyi is still using the name her parents gave her. She understand that for some of us it takes time to become comfortable with Sanskrit names.

Maitreyi can be reached at Margie@springdaleyoga.com.  608.437.4082 (studio) or 608.215.7218 (cell).  Springdale Yoga is located in Springdale Township which lies between Verona and Mt. Horeb.  The address is 8435 County Road PD, Verona.  53593 Click for Map

In February Judy is attending 2 more classes at Master Yoga in Exton, PA. Experiential Anatomy and Embodyment. In March she will begin offering Embodyments as part of Yoga Therapy. Stay tuned for more details.

Judy successfully completed the 2nd component of in Svaroopa Yoga Teacher Training that qualifies her as a Certified Svaroopa Basics Teacher with 347 hours of professional training. Judy is now completing the 3rd of 4 components toward her complete Svaroopa Yoga Teacher Certificate. In her Wednesday classes Judy will be teaching 3 new themes: Neck and Shoulders, Forward Bends, Balance and Inversions.