Vanessa Brown
Vanessa Brown
I teach from a lifelong history of self-discovery. Through perusing the self help aisles to seeking and finding teachers who resonate with my desire to learn to fly with complete freedom, I have found a deep well of determination and courage within. I have found my inner teacher. I teach because I find profound joy in putting to good use all that I have sought to learn about myself and the world around me.
I am dedicated to the liberating power of discovery through touch and movement. As a mother, home birth advocate, massage therapist, yoga teacher, collage artist, craft enthusiast, and lover of humor and physical comedy, I teach with an educated and aesthetic eye, a passion for physical contact, and a deep love of art and healing.
I have been self-employed as a massage therapist and yoga teacher, tie dye artist, craftsperson, and retail boutique owner throughout the past 25 years. Having recently reawakened a pull toward the circus arts, I have rediscovered the thrill of playing and flying—childlike and free. I find the utmost joy in sharing my enthusiasm for the medium of the circus arts, the art of the clown, and authentic self-expression. I am deeply honored to be a part of the circle of CircusYoga teachers and to have stumbled upon Kevin and Erin Maile O’Keefe in a most auspicious and artistic way. (Thank goodness for t-shirt logos!) I am forever grateful for this unraveling mystery of life...it has been worth every hairpin turn!

CYTT: Ring Three
where I live: Honeoye Falls, NY
where I teach: Greater Rochester, NY
what I teach: yoga
my education, training & experience: CircusYoga Teacher Training Level 2; Essential Yoga Teacher Training with Francois Raoult; second in command of E-ART Tie Dye since 1996; NYS LMT Fingerlakes School of Massage 1996; Woman Within International; Nonviolent Communication; Mindfulness Meditation; Body Mind Centering; jewelry design; collage artist; mother of Phoenix and Lila.
my influential teachers: Mother Earth; my husband and children; BKS Iyengar; Kevin and Erin Maile O’Keefe; Francois Raoult; Debra Raoult; Donna Farhi; my Woman Within Empowerment Circle; old friends; new friends.
my current studies & adventures: myself always; life always; my kids always; almost everything about circus; the ring 3 adventure; my art.
contact me:
Vanessa Brown
46 Maplewood Ave.
Honeoye Falls, NY 14472
585-261-4748



My Story (Why I teach)