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Renee Fussner

Renee Fussner, founder of Bliss Power Yoga in Wisconsin is excited to be coming home to New Jersey!  This is where her yoga journey began.  She has since become certified and registered.  Renee has traveled extensively and trained with some of the best and brightest Yoga instructors in the world.  Influenced by her own teachers, including Deborah Williamson, Johnny Kest, Dharma Mittra, and Rolfe Gates.  She takes what she has learned from them and weaves it among what she has learned in life.  Resulting in a beautiful mixture of strength and grace.  Believing that one cannot exist without the other Renee centers her class on finding your inner strength and then allowing that strength to carry you through your flow.  Her classes combine breath with movement, inner heat with outer joy, challenges with rewards.  Teaching with a mixture of energy, encouragement and focus Renee's goal is to take you to your edge where she promises a beautiful view. 

With just a little leap of faith we can all find our edge, on and off of the mat.  What we find there is not an ending, but a beautiful new beginning full of  promise and opportunity. 

www.blisspoweryoga.com

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Andrea Gianchiglia

Andrea Gianchiglia, local artist of Bedminster, graduated from

the Hartford Art School receiving her BFA in illustration with a minor

in art history. Working as a full time artist with private commissions and

freelance illustration, Andrea also teaches at various art centers such as the

Visual Art Center of NJ, Somerset Art Association, Hunterdon Museum

of Art, and conducts private lessons out of her studio in Bedminster.

She teaches all ages and all levels. Some of her adult classes featured

include oil painting, drawing, color theory, mixed media techniques, and of

course her favorite, animal portraiture. A list of her classes for each season

can be found on her website.

Andrea has had both individual and group shows throughout New

Jersey and the tri state area, along with various juried shows where she

has won several awards for her specialty, animal portraiture. Andrea is a

member of the Society of Animal Artists, the Salmagundi Club, and has

exhibited in national Juried shows, one of which being the ‘Annual National

Juried Exhibition of N.J.E.A.A “Art of the Horse,” and the ‘Catherine

Lorillard Wolfe Art Club.’ Andrea is also represented by “Natures Walk”

Wildlife gallery in Bernardsville, NJ.

She is available for both personal and commercial commissions. If you are

interested in commissioning a portrait of your own special animal in your

life, pricing and other information are located on her website. Visit her

website at www.AGillustration.com .

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Brooke Gillespie

 

Genetrix Peace is a crystal bowl ensemble created by Brooke Hamre Gillespie.
Genetrix is comprised of an revolving number of voices, seven quartz crystal bowls, heartbeat, percussion, and prayer.

We come together in a timeless healing language of vibration, the song of light.  We come together in sacred ceremony to pray, to heal, to sing, to create sacred space, and to remember who we truly are. 

We come together in a circle and explore the sacred space that is created through our gathering.  From this wide open space, this circle womb, a genetrix language is created through our voices, and through the vibration of the crystal bowls.   In circles goes our sound, moving beyond ourselves, we become from many, one. 

We ask the audience to participate with their hearts, spirits, and minds.  Within this participatory arising, a feedback loop of reciprocity occurs, at once organic and yet with enough form to explore the subtleties of energies that arise through the sound prayer.  Each bowl is a guide and transmitter, a drone and intention amplifier, creating a harmonic landscape through which our voices weave a web of light.  We journey through the void and back again, moving in resonance through the breath, the body, and the voice, generating peace, love, awareness, and compassion. 

We are giving homage to the Perfection of the Wisdom.
She is sunya.  She is yab-yum.  She is prajna paramita.


We are available for ceremonies and events; please inquire by email through the contact page at http://www.genetrixpeace.com/index.html

 

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Charlie Gonzales

 

 

Charlie Gonzales found his passion for Yoga through his study of metaphysics and buddhism.  He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has received certification as an Ayurvedic Health Educator and Lifestyle Counselor from the American Institute of Vedic Studies in New Mexico.  With a practice based in New York City, he offers private health and lifestyle consultations, holistic nutritional and yogic therapies to detoxify, nourish and balance.  His new community project, the Green Bus Tour, has just finished it's first summer and is planning a 2011 tour to inspire a culture of conscious living through creative collaboration, and by developing a sustainable and healthy lifestyle.

www.PracticeConsciousness.com
www.GreenBusTour.com

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Kim Nickisher Iacono

(Siri Kirin Kaur)

Kim Nickisher-Iacono has been a teacher and spritual seeker her whole life, remembering her ambition at the age of five to become a missionary. Since then she has been a student of many diverse paths of spirit, meditation, and physical practice.
Having practiced varied types of yoga both at home and through classes since 1995, she discovered her love for Kundalini Yoga in 2000. In 2009 she began her Teacher Training at Kundalini Yoga East in New York City, and was renamed in the tradition as S’ri Kirin Kaur. Now certified in the discipline, S’ri Kirin retains the integrity of the original Kundalini Yoga teachings of Yogi Bhajan, with the goal of opening her students and promoting their betterment – tenfold that of her own practice.
With a great love of nature, S’ri Kirin lives close to the earth with her husband and five-year-old son. She currently teaches Preschool Religious Education at her Fellowship and Kundalini Yoga privately while pursuing a Fine Arts Education degree. 

 

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Jayanand

 

 

Jayanand ~  From a young age, Jayanand was confused and interested by consciousness and the lens of perception.  He began to seek to understand their nature, and was simultaneously introduced to the foundational principles of love and service.  In the latter part of his teen years, he began studying self hypnosis, and other techniques to enter expanded states of consciousness. When he turned twenty his psychology teacher introduced him to meditation, and he began to diligently practice observation of the breath.  Two years later, he began the physical practice of yoga to perfect lotus posture for meditation. He found the yoga Asana’s (postures) to be a powerful tool to assist in the process of awakening.  He has been informally leading yoga classes since 2004. In 2005 he was certified as a Radiant Child Yoga Teacher and in 2006 he received his 200 hour yoga teacher certification from Kripalu. He recently returned from spending 4 months in India at Amritapuri the Ashram of his spiritual Master, Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, a contemporary Indian saint. Jayanand has also been highly influenced by the life and teachings of Sri Dharma Mittra, who he studies with in the US.

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Ranprem Kaur

 

Ranprem Kaur has Been studying Yoga and Meditation for 8
years now.
In the last few years Ranprem Kaur has become one of the most well
respected, leading Kundalini Yoga teachers in the State of New Jersey
. Ranprem Kaur is a member of the International Kundalini Yoga
Teachers Association and Yoga Alliance certified.
Trained and constantly serving her Teachers Dr. Mahan Rishi Singh
Khalsa and Nirbhe Kaur Khalsa. This Veteran Kundalini couple is known
and requested, internationally for their expertise and was closely
trained by the Kundalini Master himself Yogi Bhajan, who originally
married the couple.

Ranprem Kaur teaches from a bright heart with ageless wisdom and
abundant creativity.
She is the coordinating manager of Kundalini Yoga Events at The
Freehold Yoga Center in Freehold New Jersey. In addition to teaching
numerous classes every week, she teaches seasonal workshops on the East
and West Coast,  Kundalini classes free to the public every month, and
has a small private clientele. In the past she has used her knowledge
towards those in vocational medical trainings and will be a part of
designing the medical school Sanford Brown Institute’s New Holistic
Program, which includes Kundalini Yoga inspired by her guest
teachings. She’s doing her part to help integrate the transformative
powers of Kundalini Yoga into the world of western medicine.

Ranprem’s classes involve Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan,
delving deeper into Kundalini Yoga tradition as to uncover such
techniques within this lineage as acupressure with using principles of
Reflexology, weaving Buddhist Meditation, and transcendent dancing for
the over all practice of uplifting health and vitality of spirit for
the human race.
Make no mistake about it, these unique, informative, challenging,
love infused classes all come from the Wisdom taught from and Yogi
Bhajan, Kundalini Master.

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Omni Kitts-

Omni is the owner of Yoga Montclair, an Anusara styled hatha yoga studio. She  is a proud graduate of Yoga Montclair's Teacher Training program and is a RYT-200 with the Yoga Alliance. Omni has been studying Anusara Yoga for the past five years and has been privileged to study with John Friend, Vishali Varga, Desiree Rumbaugh and Hillary Cohen Freeman. Omni is a Professional Dancer and received her BFA with honors in Dance from Montclair State University. She has been teaching children for over 12 years throughout New Jersey schools and private dance institutions. She has recently completed her first book, “The Yoga Kid” and is working towards publication. Omni has a true love and fascination with the art of moving and her practice of Yoga only continues to deepen and enrich her life

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 Jessica Lawlor

Jessica Lawlor, CPM is a midwife in Sussex County, NJ. She has been practicing the art of homebirth for nearly a decade and feels it is her calling to guide families into a place where they can be present and confident for the moving experience of birth. In addition to attending births, Jessica teaches midwives through the apprenticeship model and lectures on homebirth. She leads the herbal walks (with a focus on women's medicine) for The Wallkill River Wildlife Refuge and has served as guest speaker to The Omega Institute's teen camp and Montclair University's women's studies program.

link to my website: www.newjerseyhomebirth.com

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Jeff Lisciandrello

 Jeffrey began studying yoga 12 years ago because of his interest in Eastern spirituality
and to help with back pain. He soon found improvement in posture, flexibility and
overall energy level and has continued his dedication to the practice ever since. He
began practicing intensively while living in Los Angeles from 2004-2007 and studying
with teachers such as Erich Schiffman, Max Strom and Hala Khouri. Jeff first began
teaching in 2007 at Yoga Vayu in New Brunswick, NJ and, since then, has taught at East
Brunswick’s Exhale: Mind, Body, Spirit and The Pingry School. He received his yoga
teaching certification at Exhale Los Angeles with Erich Schiffman, creator of freedom-
style yoga, author of Moving into Stillness and student of BKS Iyengar. Jeff is excited to
be joining the team at the new Sanctuary Studios in Basking Ridge, NJ.

Jeff has taught classes for students who are completely new to yoga up through advanced
intermediate students. His class emphasizes the use of asanas and breathing as tools to
bring about physical, mental and spiritual well-being. His teaching incorporates elements
of meditation and flow, as well as achieving peace and solidity in standing, seated, and
balance postures. Jeff encourages his students to be challenged in a way that promotes
growth while emphasizing non-violence towards the self.

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Maria Matveyeva

 Maria has been studying, practicing and teaching yoga for the past 5 years. She graduated from the Kripalu School of Yoga in 2007. Since that time she has been teaching at different studios throughout New York City as well maintaining her private practice of personal instruction to her numerous clients. Originally from the Republic of Belarus, Maria speaks 3 languages fluently, she is also a professional dancer and Reiki practitioner.

Learning to listen to one’s heart and let it shine is a beautiful lifelong journey. And yoga is a valuable tool for anyone traveling this way... As Yoga means balance, balance of the healthy Body, clear Mind and free Soul.

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Angie Miller- Prema Yoga

Jessie Montague

Jessie Montague E-RYT, Co-director Satya Yoga Center

“What I love about Yoga is that it’s an entire body, mind, heart and soul experience. It’s the art and science of life, it never gets old, each time you come to your practice it’s a new experience and the journey is never over. It’s incredible that these ancient practices are so vital and alive today.” 

What I most love about teaching Yoga is the community that is created connecting with students, students connecting with each other, and all of us connecting more deeply with ourselves. Each class I view as Satsang, a gathering of people in search of Truth. This is very powerful, and gives life an essential and very profound purpose.

It is my strong belief, at this pivotal time in history, that the Earth and all of the beings on the Earth need all of us to be practicing Yoga.”

 Sunday September 6, 10-10:45am

Begin to explore the wonders of Kirtan! Call and response chanting, with Mantras that heal the body and soothe the mind.

We’ll open our bodies to free the natural breath,

And then we’ll dive in to the wonderous sounds of Sanskrit chants that awaken the subtle energy channels in the body. A beautiful way to begin the day!

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Ari Moshe

Ari Moshe, CEO (Candid Evolutionary Oracle), is a certified Soulsign astrologer and student of Jeffrey Wolf Green’s School of Evolutionary Astrology. Since 2007, he has been assisting other souls in understanding and cooperating with their evolutionary purpose through the practice of astrology from an evolutionary, soul-focused point of view. For more information about his services please visit:

www.arimoshe.com

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David Nebiolo

Joint Therapy
With David Nebiolo, DPT
This workshop will present practical, basic methods to assess and self-treat common
postural dysfunction in the hips, pelvis, and low back. Asymmetrical lumbosacral
posture is often acquired, affecting joint and soft-tissue function throughout the foot-
knee-trunk kinematic chain. This can lead to further problems of recurrent pain,
loss of motion, joint and muscle hyper/hypomobilty, intervertebral disc stress, nerve
impingement, etc.
Topics will cover basic review of anatomy, joint mechanics, segmental mobility, gentle
self-mobilization, SNAG technique, counter-strain relaxation, repetitive range-of-motion,
McKenzie theory, self-traction, therapeutic exercises, and more.
Common postural and chronic problems involving the lower cervical spine will also be
covered with therapeutic exercise and hands-on treatment techniques presented. Based
on time and needs we may also cover areas of the shoulder, elbow, wrist, hand, knee,
ankle, and foot.
Participants will be encouraged to work in small groups with exercises and hands-on
modalities to try. Printed notes will be given to promote learning and integration of these
ideas in yogic practice over time. Included will be safety guidelines for self-treatment,
red flags, and indications for consultation with a physician.

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 Beth Nolan

Beth Nolan has been in the holistic health field for over 20 years. Starting at a young age, she was trained in applied kinesiology to assist a chiropractor. This experience led to knowledge about nutrition, as well as the body, mind and spirit connection.

Enjoying her work and personal growth, Beth continued training as a massage therapist mastering: Shiatsu and Deep Tissue massage techniques including Myopractic, Core Myofascial and Reflexology work. Massage training included yoga classes, as it became a way for Beth to repair and keep herself relaxed, strong and pain-free. Yoga became a way of life and a medium to teach people about their bodies and spiritual potential.

Today, Beth is an established massage therapist and yoga instructor. She offers group classes, as well as private yoga sessions in the Northern NJ area. Yoga unfolded the power of breath, breathing properly, breathing deeply and fully to bring the body and mind to their optimum function. The exploration of the science of breath is a spiritual experience achieved through yoga, tantric breathwork and meditation instruction.

 www.bnyoga.com

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Bianca Passiglia

Bianca has been practicing yoga for four years.  She was recommended
to try yoga by her vocal coach, Pat Adkins. He advised her that yoga
would help her breath control and also help keep balance in her life. 
It has most certainly brought both of those benefits to her life plus
many, many more. About 6 months after she began her practice,
she wanted to learn more, so she enrolled in a Teacher Training Program with Yoga
Teachers Training Institute of Long Island. There she received her 200
hr certification.  Her intention was not to teach yoga, but to gain more
knowledge and personal growth.  After she graduated,
she took all the knowledge she obtained and applied it to her personal practice.
Six months later she felt it was time to put her knowledge to use by sharing it
with others and spreading the love of yoga.
Her mission is to help the world by bringing more awareness to the Self
through the body and with yoga.

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 Amy Jean Matre-Pastore

My love of yoga evolved from my love of fitness. For years I spent hours
at the gym running, cycling, kick boxing, and doing karate. Eventually I began
mixing vinyasa yoga classes into my workout, thinking I was getting a good
stretch. Little did I know that these yoga classes would spark a new interest
in my life. Something about the practice kept bringing me back. It was a
meditation in motion and was so much more than just the physical. Yoga gave
me the most amazing healthy high and I was hooked. In time, my running
shoes were replaced by my mat and my boxing gloves, with blocks and straps. I
cancelled my gym membership and replaced it with a yoga studio membership.
It didn’t take long to realize that I needed to share my love of yoga with others
and I began my first teacher training program.
My training includes:

*200 hr Anusara Teacher Training with Todd Norian and Ann Green.
*Both Basic and Advanced Teacher Training certifications, White Lotus
Foundation in Santa Barbara with Ganga White and Tracy Rich.
*Yoga Synthesis Initial and Advanced Teacher Training with Raji Thron
*Teacher Training Boot camp with Baron Baptiste
*Restorative Teacher Training with Ellen Pfeffer.
*Anusara immersions: 1 with Chaya Spencer
2 &3 with Todd Norian & Ann Green.
*Trance Dance Teacher Training with Shiva Rea.

She has also studied with well known yoga teachers such as Edward Clark,
Anna Forrest, Julie Gudested, David Swenson, John Friend, Elena Brower,
Sianna Sherman, Kenny Graham, Dharma Mittra, Max Strom and Beryl Bender
Birch.
Her vinyasa style as an eclectic flowing fusion of her many influences. " I offer
my students options and encourage them to trust themselves, listen to their own
internal feedback, move from their hearts and surf the waves of their breath!"

www.amyjeansyoga.com

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Cheryl Paulson

Cheryl is the Founder of Breathing Room Center, LLC ~ a unique space in Newton for wellness and community.  Cheryl was lucky to find yoga years ago in the midst of health struggles, such as asthma an thyroid disease.  She trained extensively under Paula (Padmasri) Tepedino and received her certification in Hatha Yoga.  Her style is eclectic, with influences in the Vinyasa and Iyengar traditions, and she is currently studying to achieve her Advanced Professional Level Teaching Certification.  Cheryl has taught both privately and professionally in studios, universities, corporate centers, senior homes, churches, schools and gyms and is thrilled to finally have Breathing Room!  She enjoys watching the many remarkable ways in which her students grow from the practice and feels honored and happy to guide them along the way.  For more information, visit:  www.BreathingRoomCenter.com.

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Lex Peters and Motion Design Acrobatic Yoga

Acrobatic Yoga focuses on partner acrobatics that mostly utilize the feet. Our style of Acrobatic Yoga blends gymnastics, various styles of dance, Acrobalance, Adagio Balance and Icarian Games. This contemporary sport is very accessible and accommodates many body types. Acrobatic Yoga highlights the strength, coordination, balance, flexibility, and range of motion that the human body can attain. Partnering can occur in same sex and/or coed base and flyer roles.

New participants are quickly inspired to create new sequences and moves. Beginners and experienced athletes alike observe positive results rapidly, making this sport very satisfying, and leaving participants hungry for more.

 http://mo-de.net/acrobaticyoga/

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Stanzi Allan Pouthier

Stanzi Allan Pouthier, the "Holimama", is a holistic mother with a bit of an edge, holistic health coach, cleanse facilitator and raw & vegan food chef. While working on raising a young family and chronicling the journey, her insatiable hunger for sharing her passion and helping others find true health has lead her to create Holimama and Vitality Ventures, an organization that gets people healthy and on the move out in nature.   Stanzi also enjoys hiking, rock climbing, wild food foraging, world music, socializing and blissing out.

The Pranadhanas

  The Pranadhanas perform a blend of yoga, acro-yoga and dance to entrancing, original live music.  The yogadance company, from Ithaca, NY, aspires to convey yogic themes in artistically choreographed performances to inspire people and open hearts.  Joe Smellow composes all music for the dances and plays a variety of instruments from guitar, keyboards, and hand drums to didj and native flute.  Sara High Speiser, our angelic soprano, expresses divinity through her voice.  Gerasimous on bass, percussion and drums adds that rhythmic groove.  The overall sound which fuels the dances is at times earthy, at times ethereal, and deeply absorbing.

www.pranadhanas.com 

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Rama

 Rama is a raw foodist who has been focusing on healing his body and activating his spiritual potential since he was fifteen.

Rama has developed his own system for stimulating the human body by focusing on the various major physical organs. Each of the major organs can be related to the chakras and the various energy systems of other healing modalities.

Rama's goal is to help you empower yourself to become who you want to be by giving you easy techniques that you can practice daily to heal yourself and create the body and future that you want.

More info, videos, audios, and songs can be found at http://evernewjoy.com

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Alan Santiparro Scheurman

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Alex Shipman

Alex is the founder and yoga director of Summit Yoga Studio and

healing center in Summit, New Jersey, now celebrating its 11th year
anniversary.

Alex has been teaching Ashtanga yoga for 15 years and believes
and encourages students that anyone can practice yoga with the
appropriate modifications.

In 1998, Alex was introduced to Ashtanga Yoga and began teacher
trainings with Beryl and Thom Birch in the Hamptons. He has also
attended classes with Guruji (Sri K. Pattabhi Jois) in New York City.

Alex is now primarily using “Full Spectrum Healing” with the Yuen
Method™ with his clients. A dynamic tool that shows how to identify
deeper core issues, find the root of the problem and eliminate it
making it possible to release any physical symptom as well as
emotional issues, fears, phobias, and limitations.

Alex began his conscious journey of spiritual enlightenment and
personal growth when he was introduced to “3-in-1 Brain” in 1990 and
then to Reiki in 1991. He is a Reiki Master and has been practicing
and teaching Reiki for 19 years. In 2002 Alex studied the BodyTalk
System™, a complete holistic modality that accesses the inner wisdom
of the mind-body complex in its entirety.

Prior to becoming a yoga teacher, Alex was a successful
tennis teaching professional for 15 years in New Jersey.

He travels to teach yoga and wellness programs in the Caribbean and
Europe.

www.summityoga.com
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Stephanie Sirico

After 10 years working in corporate finance, Stephanie always had a vision to be a part of the yoga community. In 2003, she had the wonderful opportunity to be a part of the Yoga Mountain orgainization in Rockland County, NY where she taught classes and co-directed the 200 hr and Yoga Therapy teacher training programs for over 5 years. In 2007, Stephanie decided to pursue the advancement of Yoga and its philosophies full time, and finally left the corporate world.

Most recently, Stephanie has created New Breathe Yoga, a project that she has been working on for over a year, that will aid in bringing yoga out of the studio and out into the community. The former managing Partner of Yoga Mountain Wellness Center in New City , NY and Cornwall, NY, Stephanie has been involved with yoga and teaching for over 13 years. During that time, she has earned her Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher 500 certification (E-RYT 500) and Professional Yoga Therapy certification, has maintained an active membership with the Yoga Teachers Alliance (YTA) and the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT).

Stephanie’s special interests focus on individuals with challenges of all types, demonstrated by programs taught at the Friendship Club in Valley Cottage, NY (Rockland Mental Health Association), teaching yoga in the classroom with BOCES in Rockland County and various other programs for adults and children alike. In addition to these ongoing programs, Stephanie had developed a summer Youth Yoga Program that has been running for 3 years in Yoga Mountain in New City, NY. Stephanie’s classes are rigorous as well as deep and grounded, focusing on breath, alignment detail and overall benefits of each posture.

 WWW.newbreatheyoga.com

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Skanda Yoga

We are a group of teachers who believe that Yoga should be free. We offer many different types of Yoga, and we do it all by donation. We have teachers certified in Hatha, Vinyassa, Kirpalu, Kundalini, and Dharma Mittra Yoga, as well as different forms of martial arts. The name Skanda refers to Shivas son, the God of War, which expresses our unique blend of martial Yoga taught by Skanda and Ananda Woods. This form of Yoga uses all the basic Yoga poses, but adds additional awareness into the martial applications of the poses, which gives more people a good reason to stretch and receive the benefits of Yoga, who might not be interested otherwise. We are particularly good at teaching first time students, and people who are not naturally drawn to the mystical aspect of Yoga, especially young adults. 

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Michelle Risa

Risa’s mission is to help our country take a bite out of $76 Billion in health care costs
which are associated with physical inactivity. Her out-reach extends to the uninsured and
the unemployed, the overlooked middle class, those worrying about getting another year
older, those suffering from obesity and diabetes, seniors, and at home moms and dads.
She shows Americans how they can switch from fighting for health care to reducing their
need for health care and so reduce their cost of health care.
Michele offers a LIVE Streaming Online yoga meditation class, from anywhere via
computer or phone, accessible to any fitness level, size, or age; affordable at less than
$1 a day; sustainable with 365 days/year of on-going support. It includes Online Yoga
Videos, Audio files, PDF Exercise Guides, Interactive Workshops, Motivational Tips,
Easy-Healthy Recipes and more. It’s a formula that guarantees success.
 

www.BeyondBodyMindSpirit.com

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Tara Steccato

Tara Steccato, Co-Founder and Director of FLOW yoga, is a certified
Structural Yoga teacher and registered National Yoga Alliance teacher,
who continues to study with Charlotte 'Hamsa' Stone.  In addition, she
recently completed a Vinyasa Flow teacher training with Seane Corn at
Kripalu.  She is deeply inspired and influenced by yoga master teachers
Seane Corn, Sharon Gannon and David Life.  These teachers embody the
aspects of Seva (selfless service), Bhakti (devotion), and Ahimsa
(non-violence), which she feels are the most integral and essential tenets
of yoga.

Her love of selfless service brought her to ‘Kula for Karma’ a non-profit
organization of yoga teachers uniting their efforts to serve the greater
community.  Besides teaching ‘Karma’ yoga classes for Kula, she also
serves on their Advisory Board and is working with their Director to
implement a proposal that would make Seva (selfless service)
work or ‘Karma’ Yoga a part of every yoga teacher training, nationwide.

Uniting meditation, breathwork, imagery, self-inquiry, personal growth,
warmth and compassion, her adaptive style combines a flowing
sequence of postures in a challenging, yet accessible vinyasa flow class.

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Jessica Towle

 Jessica has been actively involved in the Hoop Community since 2005, with her roots in the hooping town of Carborro, NC. She has worked, studied, and played with several Hoop performers and teachers including Julia Hartsell, Vivian Spiral, Baxter, Anah Reichenbach and many others. Her greatest influences, however, have been the Great hoop of life and the sustained spinning of the whirling dervishes. She feels dance and celebration are basic foundations of flourishing communities and that working with the hoop not only cultivates this, but also brings joy, strength and healing. Jessica has taught several hoop classes and workshops in North Carolina and New Jersey. She received her degree in Sustainable Community Development from Prescott College. Contact Jessica at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or 973-919-8173.

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Bradley White

For over twelve years, Bradley White has been sharing nature oriented experiences with kids and adults.  Bradley has a formal training in both Ecology and Education and has worked professionally as a Naturalist, Ornithologist, Educator, and Gardener. Currently, he teaches ecologically oriented curriculum to third through fifth grade students at Ridge and Valley Charter School in Blairstown, New Jersey.

 Join Naturalist Bradley White for a botanical exploration of the Rickey Farm and the Appalachian Trail.  Learn ways to know plants more deeply and begin to experience the naturally abundant foods and medicines that surround us.

Meg Zirm

Classically trained in ballet, Meg Zirm translates her love of movement to teaching ballet barre, yoga & Pilates. A student of Yoga & Pilates for nearly 15 years, Meg’s interest in Eastern philosophies deepens her own practice and complements her teaching. She believes in living a wholly natural, healthy “yoga life.” Meg’s creative yoga style grew its roots from Classical, Ashtanga yoga and draws from her studies in Anusara, Vinyasa, Yin, and Kundalini.

Certified in Yoga and a 200 RYT through the Yoga Alliance, Meg received her yoga teacher training at the YogaLife Institute in Wayne, PA. She continued her studies under Sadie Nardini’s Core Strength Vinyasa Immersion program. Meg is also certified in Pilates Mat, Reformer & Anatomy through Balanced Body University. Meg emphasizes that the strength and center of any movement begin at the body’s core. She translates her classical training, knowledge, and love of movement into each discipline.

Meg currently lives just outside of Atlantic City and teaches Yoga, Pilates & Ballet Barre work in Margate, NJ, and Ocean City, NJ.

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