Amanda
Amanda Wentworth, RYT
After two years of intense study, Amanda graduated from the Southern Institute of Yoga Instructors in 2004, completing the 1,000 hour certificate of instruction in Hatha Yoga. This earned her the highest level of registration from the Yoga Alliance, RYT 500. One week later she arrived in New York City to further her study of the ancient discipline. Now Amanda teaches a range of classes and age groups to impart the radiant yoga life. In addition to the physical attributes of class, Amanda’s therapeutic and compassionate touch has helped students suffering from health conditions including depression, fibromyalgia, lupus, nerve damage, and chronic tension/stress. Recent studies also include prenatal and children’s yoga classes. This knowledge, combined with a positive flowing vinyasa, create a present environment filled with health, love, and happiness.
Anna
Anna’s classes combine her experience as a dancer, and knowledge of anatomy and kinesiology, into a thoughtful, sophisticated, and cheerful class. She has studied at the Idyllwild Arts Academy, received her B.F.A. in dance at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and demonstrated for Linda Tarnay’s Pilates class at the American Dance Festival in 2000. Students will work to acquire healthy movement habits applicable to everyday life as well as other exercise disciplines.
Ashleigh
A graduate of Laughing Lotus College of Yoga, Ashleigh owes all the gratitude in the world to her divinely inspiring teachers there. Ashleigh's classes are a playful and challenging exploration of the spirit through movement and breath. Ashleigh seeks inspiration not only from the many beautiful shapes that the practice has to offer but also from mantra, mudra and meditation. Ashleigh encourages her students to link breath to movement during their yoga practice so that they can link intention to action in their life practice.
Carrie
Carrie took her first yoga class shortly after relocating to New York City from the West Coast. She found the practice to be a grounding and calming presence in the midst of a major life transition. Her classes blend graceful sequencing, pranayama and meditation to create a challenging yet restorative practice, finding a balance between effort and surrender, movement and stillness, every transition guided by the breath. She is grateful to all of her teachers, past and present, who inspire her so much on a daily basis. She is a graduate of Laughing Lotus College of Yoga.
Chintamani
Chintamani is an experienced yoga teacher, body worker, and yoga therapist. Her classes are a playful blend of creative sequencing, intelligent alignment, mindful presence, and body-awareness meditation. The mixture of structure and joyful movement releases chronic tension, increases overall fitness, and invites students to connect in a deep and satisfying way with their bodies, their lives, and their selves. Chintamani holds certifications in Vinyasa yoga and Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy. She has been studying closely with her mentor, Beth Biegler, since 2002, focusing on Iyengar, Ayurveda, philosophy, and the Body-Mind Centering technique. She studied anatomy at the School of Body-Mind Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Additionally, she completed courses in meditation and Thai massage, and participated in yoga workshops with Shiva Rea, Rod Stryker, Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, Swami Ramananda, David Swenson, Erich Schiffmann and Manorama.
Claire
"Claire has studied Kripalu, Ashtanga, and Vinyasa Yoga at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, NYC's Sonic Yoga, and Boston's Integral Yoga Studios. She has studied Pilates and Yogilates with NYC's Jonathon Urla; and Pilates, Yoga, and Somatic Movement with Chrysta Rypkins of LA. For the past three years, Claire has taught Yoga, Pilates, and Yogilates in New York City and the Hamptons. In 2002 she ran a small private Pilates studio in Easthampton; in 2003, she founded "CoreFlow Yoga", offering small group and private classes in NYC and Bridgehampton. Claire's Pilates and Yogilates classes teach students to sense their core muscles, to integrate breath with movement, to originate movement from a strong center, to tap into the source of strength, balance, and power that lies within them."
Elsa
As a child, Elsa's mother was a fitness and yoga instructor, and she joined her mother in all her classes. Later on Elsa became a professional dancer and travelled the world performing flamenco, classical Indian and Middle Eastern dance. Elsa continued her yoga education taking classes in several countries, among them, Venezuela, Spain, and India. Elsa is now a New York certified yoga teacher.
Erica
Erica received her yoga training at Laughing Lotus Yoga School, and also has BFA degrees in Ballet and Modern Dance from Texas Christian University. Erica's classes celebrate the tradition of vigorous and ecstatic hatha vinyasa. While maintaining a strong commitment to structural alignment, the focus of the class is discovering the breath and opening the heart. Because of her extensive training in dance, the choreography of the asanas is creative, fluid, and exciting. Erica hopes to bring peace and relaxation to her students, that directly translates into their everyday lives off the mat.
Felice
Felice is a professional dancer who received her BFA in Ballet and Modern Dance from Texas Christian University. She also is Pilates mat and apparatus certified through the PhysicalMind Institute. In her mat classes Felice challenges her students to bring a full mental awareness to what their bodies are doing so as to gain a more well rounded body/mind connection. Her classes also focus on teaching and maintaining proper body alignment and form. Once the students have achieved proper alignment they will begin to notice an increased range of motion in their joints, improvement in their posture, and an overall awareness of one's own body and how it functions.
Kristin
Kristin began practicing Nia as a way to stay fit while having fun. Unable to participate in many activities because of injuries, she found Nia could effectively condition her body while reducing impact on her joints. Kristin is now a Nia teacher, focused on helping others condition their bodies and strengthen their mind-body connection through the five sensations of Nia (come to class to find out more). She welcomes everyone to her class, regardless of fitness level, to experience the extraordinary mind-body benefits of Nia.
Lauren
Lauren has been practicing Hatha and Vinyasa yoga since 2003. She first discovered it at a free lunchtime corporate class, and within a few months was hooked. At the end of 2006, she left the corporate world and earned her teaching certification from Nosara Yoga Institute in Costa Rica with Amba and Don Stapleton. There, she studied Interdisciplinary Yoga, which draws from several yoga styles and other schools of movement theory. The idea is that no single approach is dogma, but rather they are all pathways back to yourself -- to your own authority as the experiencer in the present moment. After finishing her training, she traveled through Central America or four months, teaching yoga along the way in exchange for the odd meal or surf lesson. She's very happy to be a part of the Mang'Oh community.