Penny holds graduate degrees in both Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry and spent 16 years as an educator at both the high school and college level.
She is registered with the Yoga Alliance as an E RYT-500 (Experienced Yoga Teacher at the 500 hour level) and has taught thousands of yoga and meditation classes since 2003. Penny Kusum Clum opened Saco River Yoga in Saco, Maine in 2009 and expanded to create the Kusum Institute in 2014.
The Kusum Institute now has two locations in Saco and Scarborough Maine and is accredited with Yoga Alliance to train teachers at the 200 hour level. Penny has also developed original Lifestyle Immersion programs, Teacher Trainings and Continuing Education programs sharing her unique view point and skill set as a scientist connected to the inner world.
As a musician, she plays Native American flutes and other wind instruments and uses recordings of her meditative music in her classes.