Allison Gould
Allison Gould has been practicing yoga since her adolescence, so it is fitting that she got her start teaching yoga to the teenagers she counsels as a social worker in NYC. Allison teaches a vinyasa-style hatha yoga with a focus on alignment, flow and breath awareness. Her teaching philosophy is "path as goal," and she encourages her students to approach their yoga practice with a sense of exploration and joy. Her classes offer students the opportunity to discover the balance between challenging oneself and letting go. She completed a 200-hour teacher training at Om Yoga Center in NYC.
Allison Richard
Allison discovered yoga while in high school in a small Michigan town. She’ll admit, she was initially drawn to yoga because it was a form of exercise that didn’t require shoes, but after her first class, she knew this practice was like nothing she had ever experienced before. After graduating from the University of Michigan with a degree in Psychology and English, she moved to Los Angeles where she was thrilled to find a yoga studio on practically every corner. After much research she enrolled in the YogaWorks teacher trainings where she learned the importance of safe sequencing that can be accessible to all bodies. Allison’s classes are nurturing, playful and challenging. She believes in the importance of the mind, body and breath connection and draws on the many facets of yoga, from movement to meditation and mudra to encourage students to listen and learn from their bodies. She believes that yoga is not just about what happens on your mat, but about what you discover during your practice that helps you live an optimum existence off the mat. She uses her background in psychology and her interest in the sciences of Ayurveda and Dietetics to encourage her students to bring consciousness to their practice and their daily decisions. Allison has been blessed to study with teachers from various schools of yoga including Lisa Walford, Annie Carpenter, Rod Stryker, Hari Kaur and Jasmine Lieb. While she is certainly influenced by all of her amazing teachers, she believes that life itself is the best teacher. Since moving to NYC in 2009, Allison has enjoyed exploring as much of the yoga scene as she can. She also nurtures her home practice and strives to improve her meditation abilities- something she has always struggled with. In addition to teaching, Allison currently writes about yoga and various health and wellness topics for YogaCityNYC.com and WellandGoodNYC.com.
Ashleigh Beyer
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.
Candace Thompson
Candace Thompson is a certified pilates instructor, personal trainer and professional dancer. She completed her Pilates certification at Core Pilates NYC. She uses her knowledge of all these modalities when instructing her classes. She is willing and able to work with clients of all ages, body types and fitness levels .
Carrie Martens
Carrie teaches a calm, quiet, challenging vinyasa class inspired by Ashtanga, meditation, her teachers, and ever-evolving life. In class, she provides careful guidance to properly align body, mind and breath, and space for students to discover the beauty and strength of the practice within themselves. Carrie was certified through Laughing Lotus in 2007 and apprentices with Kristin Leigh at The Shala.
Chintamani Kansas
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.
Danielle Gregan
Love at first sight – that is how Danielle's relationship with yoga began. She has been practicing for seven years, and like any truly great relationship, the connection has only gotten stronger over time. After spending five years in a very fast-paced corporate job, Danielle decided to turn her passion for yoga into a profession and became a Registered Yoga Teacher, certified at Laughing Lotus Yoga Center. She wholeheartedly believes that happiness is a choice. And for her, yoga is happiness. In her teachings, Danielle incorporates asana flow with pranayama and meditative techniques. The goal, first and foremost, is to move in harmony with your breath, while tapping into a deeper awareness of your self to provide a balance that will bring you to a peaceful, happy place.
Erica Schweer
Erica has been the proud owner and creative director of mang'Oh since April 2007. She 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 Romero
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.
Lisa Bermudez
Born and raised in Queens New York, Lisa found the yoga practice through her love for dance, theatre, and the creative arts that have been surrounding her all her life. As a graduate of the Laughing Lotus College of Yoga, she infuses her classes with playful sequences, syncing the breath to movement, and acknowledging the self-discovery that comes up within each pose. She is always excited by the way the practice varies each time we come to the mat and breathes right into the experience. She bows down to, and is continuously grateful for all of the inspirational teachers and students who have entered, and continue to come into her life.
Lisa Iannacito
Lisa Iannacito began practicing pilates over a decade ago to compliment her dance training. She is certified by the Kane School of Core Integration to teach mat, reformer, cadillac, and chair exercises. She is a member of Lydia Johnson Dance and the Associate Artistic Director of Riedel Dance Theatre.
Randi Zinn
Randi began dancing as a young child and has been moving ever since! She is a Graduate of Skidmore College dance department and a graduate of New School University with a Masters of Arts in Media Studies and Film. She began practicing yoga almost a decade ago at Mangoh Studio and is thrilled to return as a teacher. She practices yoga at Laughing Lotus Yoga Center and completed their intensive Teacher Training program in May of 2008. Randi is inspired by the personal discoveries people can make on the mat, and commits herself to transforming the trials of life into journeys of learning. With enthusiasm and love, she hopes to encourage her students to do the same.
Sarah Capua
The philosophies and tools that yoga provides are both practical and magical, a daily practice which creates routes for the mind and body to the consciousness, to the essence underneath it all. Sarah's classes incorporate the teachings of yoga and an understanding of the deepest benefits of the poses, as well as the importance of proper alignment, thoughtful breath, and a feeling of freedom and calm in the body. Inspired by her background as a dancer, she hopes to create classes that bring her students to movement, in all its manifestations, and to the space to attune their minds to themselves, to their personal path in this practice. As students of yoga, we challenge the body to do more, we challenge the mind to find stillness, and we challenge ourselves to meet every day a little more thoughtful than the day before. Let's get to the point, together.