Caroline has been living, practicing, and studying
yoga for nearly a decade. Her background includes a wide variety of styles including Ashtanga, Jivamukti,
and Anusara yoga practiced both in the United States and abroad. She began her studies in Connecticut with Lauren Lanham, who remains one of her greatest teachers and inspirations to this day. She continued to study and train with many master teachers including Dharma Mittra, Sharon Gannon and David Life, Bryan Kest, Siva Rea, and Mitchel Bleier.
In the fall of 2008 Caroline moved to Paris, France, where she studied at Rasa Yoga Rive Gauche with Charles Bensusen and Mika de Brito. Bensusen’s Ashtanga apprenticeship program and de Brito’s unique approach to vinyasa flow, incorporating sound and music into practice, greatly influenced her practice. After participating in various intensive workshops (including a master class with the great French Ashtangi, Baptiste Marceau), she returned to the United States to complete her 200-hour teacher training at the White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara, California, with founders Ganga White and Tracey Rich.
Caroline’s classes and workshops highlight both her eclectic background and playful personality, incorporating both unique sequencing and uplifting music. Her greatest wish is to inspire others to find the same joy and light that she has discovered along the path of yoga. Caroline loves sharing her experiences on the mat with others, and knows that asana, pranayama, and meditation are the keys to happy and healthy life.
In addition to yoga, music plays an equally large role in Caroline’s life. Currently pursuing a masters degree in Vocal Performance and Literature at the Eastman School of Music, she resides in Rochester, New York. Her love of singing, and of opera specifically, is enhanced by her yoga practice. Knowing that musicians are people who are already deeply tuned in to a higher connection, both within their bodies, and with sound, Caroline believes yoga is the perfect compliment to this already profound awareness. During her time here at Eastman she hopes to develop a yoga program specifically designed for classical singers, pairing traditional pranayama techniques with vocal exercises, in addition to incorporating meditation as a tool to use in role preparation and to quell performance anxiety.
Dedicated wholeheartedly to the power of karma yoga, Caroline also served for two years as the director of Northeast Operations for the non-profit yoga charity, Karmapalooza, which helped to raise over $50,000 for organizations such as Trees for the Future. She believes that by practicing on the mat, one cultivates a knowledge that can be applied to every aspect of life.
Stephanie
I discovered yoga in Boston when, on a whim, I took a class at the Baptiste Power Vinyasa Institute. I was hooked from the first class. There was something intrinsically spiritual about the experience—the heat of the room, the energy from the other students, and the connection to my own body that I had been seeking all this time.
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Teresa first began practicing yoga in 2003 while stumbling upon a class after working out in the gym. Although growing up in a spiritually based home; her spiritual path had begun much earlier than that. It was soon after that experience in the gym that she continued on the yogic path after realizing its benefits mentally, spiritually, physically and emotionally. “Yoga has changed my life on so many levels …I am surprised and reminded daily what getting on the mat and regularly practicing can do for me and how it influences my relationships towards others and life”. It was then that Teresa decided to become a teacher to support others on their journey and share her experience with others. Teresa continued to evolve her yoga practice through a diverse range of yogic and other healing influences from the roots of Hatha lineage, to Iyengar, Kundalini, Ashtanga, Kriya, Baptiste (power), Anusara, Prana Flow Vinyasa, and a number of other diverse styles and teachings of Yoga, Ayurveda and Energy Healing with color and sound resonance.
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Jenny
Jenny is a certified vinyasa flow yoga teacher. She completed her training in May 2009 at Sonic Yoga’s 200 hour teacher training program in New York City. A former runner who couldn’t touch her toes, Jenny first began practicing yoga in college. She has practiced many forms of yoga, including bikram, power yoga, and ashtanga yoga but her personal favorite remains vinyasa flow.
A former asthma health educator and teacher, Jenny taught yoga outside Philadelphia last year while completing her course work for medical school. In addition to all level classes, she has taught teenage series workshops, and beginners’ classes.
TisahAmanda
What brought me to my mat is what keeps me coming back time after time-indescribable emotion that leaves me feeling stronger, happier and yet quiet within my soul. I came to yoga over 10 years ago and began to learn what it truly means to let my heart shine. Having studied various forms of yoga and trained with teachers including Baron Baptiste and Seane Corn, I feel my flow practice incorporates all my knowledge along with the gifts I feel I have to share. Having a background in Special Education (undergrad) and Mental Health Counseling (masters) I am continually amazed by the perseverance of the human spirit. Who we are on our mats is not remarkable different than who we are off of them. Our mat provides a safe place for us to lighten our load and be able to release some of the ghosts we carry with us. I love to tell students I have 2 rules for yoga- 1.) Show up and 2.) be brave. Move past just being physically present on your mat, allow your heart and soul to really be present. Be brave, let your body have the practice it needs not the one your head tells you stories about. will you allow yourself to modify when you need to? will you soar when its time to fly? The joy I find in teaching is the ability to lead a group of students through a journey knowing they will find the path they are supposed to follow and I will be humbled every time I witness it.
Besides working in counseling I am also a personal trainer and fitness instructor (pilates cycling). I live with my husband Costa and rescue kitty Isabelle.
