Sag Harbor Yoga Classes - Yoga Classes in the Hamptons
Colleen Saidman Yee, Director
A graduate of Jivamukti’s Teacher Training program in 1998, she has been teaching ever since. Colleen has been featured in Vanity Fair, New York Times, USA today, New York Magazine, Oprah, Marie Claire, Allure, and has been on the cover of yoga journal, fit yoga and natural health. Colleen is featured in the PBS special called The Practical Power of Yoga. She has also been a guest on the Good Morning America Show. She is co-writing the masters class column for yoga journal for 2009. A consummate student, Colleen’s thirst for yoga knowledge is insatiable. Colleen has taught several teacher trainings, both 500 and 200 hour programs. Colleen holds a certification in Shiatsu and lived in Calcutta, India working with Mother Theresa at the Homes for the dying destitute. Colleen owes tremendous gratitude for her studies of bhakti and vinyasa to David Life and Sharon Gannon. She studies with Richard Rosen and Richard Freeman as frequently as possible. She also offers thanks to the many other teachers with whom she has studied, as well as to her husband Rodney Yee, who remains her principal teacher. Together with Rodney, she presents the Gaiam Yoga Studio as well as several popular Yoga DVDs. In recent years, they helped to create and now co-direct the Urban Zen Integrative Therapist Programn, a world-wide initiative of Donna Karan. Colleen lives in Sag Harbor where she is the director of the famous Yoga Shanti yoga studio. She and Rodney are raising 4 wonderful teenagers, and are teaching yoga teacher trainings and retreats worldwide. Website: colleensaidmanyoga.com
Patricia Padma Borrego
Elena Brower
As the 2010 Global Yoga Ambassador for adidas, Elena traveled worldwide teaching the methodology of Anusara. From Wanderlust to the Great Lawn at Central Park on the 2010 Solstice, she is honoured to offer larger-scale experiences of yoga, but her true service is in shifting awareness within the smallest interactions; one family, one household at a time. Her writing can be found on Huffington Post, Crazy Sexy Life, and her own blog at Art of Attention. She currently supports Women for Women and The Acumen Fund.
Nikki Costello
Steve Eaton
Steve is very excited to be collaborating with teachers at Yoga Shanti by accompanying classes with a number of instruments. His attempt is to deepen the experience of yoga through sound, vibration and chanting. He welcomes all feedback relating to this experimental yogic experience.
Eve Eliot
Dana Flynn
With studios located in Manhattan’s Flatiron District and in San Francisco’s Mission District, Laughing Lotus is now home to more than just a studio; it’s a diverse community of creative, spirited, and playful yogis; a school for teachers and where you’ll find Dana Flynn, the “Janis Joplin of Yoga.” Dana has appeared in The New York Times, Yoga Journal and on Good Morning America and the TODAY Show.
Heidi Fokine
Jennifer Frasher
Jennifer emphasizes breath and pranayama in a strong yet fluid vinyasa flow. Inspired by the clarity of Iyengar yoga, the expression of Anusara and the fluidity of Vinyasa flow, she refines the practice with precise alignment, hands on adjustments and mindful meditation. Believing in the Krishnamacharya lineage in that you "adapt the yoga to the individual" Jennifer strives to develop a unique yoga practice for each person. Forever a student, Jennifer is continually furthering her spiritual exploration with daily practice both at home and in the classroom. She has taken numerous courses with exceptional teachers such as, Angela Farmer, Patricia Walden, David Swenson, WAH, Genny Kapuler, Gurumukh, Manorama, Rodney Yee, Elena Brower, Richard Freedman, Eric Shiffman and many others. In 2008 Jennifer traveled to India where she spent 2months exploring as well as completing the level 1 course at the Art of Living ashram with is Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. Jennifer has also studied Reiki with Pamela Miles and Pranic Healing with Marc Pellerano. She incorporates both of these healing modalities into her classes as well as therapeutic essential oils, chanting, and yogic philosophy. You will find her teachings fresh, inspirational and ever surprising! Sian Gordon
In 2009, Sian opened her own studio in Montauk, Love. A Yoga Space and most recently a Love outpost in New York City. She is currently completing her second teacher training with her teachers Colleen Saidman Yee and Rodney Yee. Her classes are playful, challenging and invite you to explore the deeper aspects of yoga. Erika Halweil
Sarah Halweil
Sarah strives to push the yoga practice beyond the classroom and into everyday life. "I feel grateful to be able to study with Colleen and Jessica, Rodney Yee and Manorama, and to share this powerful practice with others," she says. Sarah holds a BA in Environmental Science and Latin American Studies from the University of Colorado in Boulder and a BSN from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. She is a labor and delivery nurse at Southampton Hospital.
Kari Harendorf
Kari is also an accomplished dog trainer, having merged her passion for yoga and dogs with a monthly Dog Yoga class at East Yoga. This has led to features in numerous publications, including Yoga Journal, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal as well as the 2005 Animal Planet television series, “K9 Karma” which followed Kari and her dog Charlie both in and out of the yoga studio. Kari hails from Toronto, holds a BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, and splits time between New York City and Sag Harbor with her husband, baby daughters, and 4 dogs. She would like to thank Jessica and Colleen, her primary teachers and constant source of inspiration. eastyoga.com
Leah Kinney
In 2003, during an extended winter vacation in Costa Rica, Leah completed the Nosara Yoga Institue’s 200 hour teaching training program. Upon returning home, she enrolled in Yoga Shanti’s teacher training program where her heart grew full of love and gratitude for this practice and her truly wonderful teachers. Born and raised in Montauk, Leah has a deep appreciation and love for the East End. She is so pleased to be sharing and participating in the practice of yoga within this community. Leah graduated from Georgetown University in 2001 with a BA in Women’s Studies and Spanish.
Lisa Langer
In her group classes, Lisa teaches an energetic and comfortably challenging Vinyasa yoga practice. She is known as a compassionate, authentic and charismatic teacher who seeks to bring out the best in her students. Her classes weave body alignment, music, yogic philosophy, flow, and humor into an experience that connects students to their soul and reminds them to follow their inner guide. A lifelong student of the body, mind and spirit, Lisa continues to study Anusara Yoga, Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga, Iyengar Yoga, Jivamukti Yoga, Yee Yoga, Pilates and Meditation. She also has more than 20 years of dance training. Her experiences as a Mom, a health care attorney, and working with clients with injuries allow her to relate to a broad clientele. In addition to her private practice, Lisa teaches at Equinox Fitness Clubs in New York City and she is the founder of Central Park Yoga. Lisa is also a Reiki practitioner and a photographer. lisalangeryoga.com
Kristin Leigh
Heather Lilleston
Her classes integrate creative vinyasa sequences with meditation, visualization and chanting, honeyed with uplifting music. Interweaving scripture from both the Yoga and Tibetan Buddhist traditions, her goal is to create a space for practitioners to realign themselves with conscious intention and physical presence, leading to both an inner and outer transformational experience. She is known for her sweetness, passion and authenticity. She has studied with a myriad of teachers: Sharon Gannon, David Life, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Gurumayi, Geshe Michael Roach and Lama Christie McNally. heatherlilleston.com
Stephanie Livaccari
Stephanie first discovered yoga in 1996 and has been practicing ever since. Her interest truly deepened when she became pregnant with her daughter Miachesca in 2004. In the prenatal and kids classes at Yoga Shanti she observed the natural link between yoga and children. Watching them slither like snakes and jump like frogs around the studio, she was inspired to learn how to share this wonderful gift with others. Stephanie is certified to teach children's yoga through Neney's Yoginis and through the Karma Kids studio in Manhattan. She is deeply grateful to Sheryl Hastalis, Ann Fristoe, Subhadra Fleming, Jessica Bellafatto and Colleen Saidman for their wisdom, support and encouragement. She brings a light-hearted and playful approach to each class and is an encouraging teacher who believes in a respect for all students . . . no matter the age.
April Martucci
Claudia Matles
When I returned to the mainland and living in California for five years, I practiced extensively learning Vinyasa with Julie Kleinman and Shiva Rea at Yogaworks in Santa Monica. Still an academic school teacher, though began to infuse yoga in the Magnet Performing Arts School where I was teaching Elementary Education to inner city children. In 2003, after receiving my Masters of Multi-Cultural Education, my intrigue in the Pilates method lead me to become certified in this technique, and I then began teaching both yoga and pilates classes as well as privately. I completed my Yoga teacher training with Rodney Yee & Colleen Saidman Yee in 2004 and continue to study with them closely. I find value and insight in these different approaches, and tether myself to moving from sincerity, mindfulness and an open heart. My role as a teacher is to create the space where students feel inspired to cultivate these qualities through asana, pranayama and meditation. ~ Stirham Sukham Asanam.... Om Shanti Shanti Shantih. For more information please visit claudiamatles.com Claudia was voted Dan's Hamptons ”Best of the Best” for Yoga Teacher and Pilates Teacher 2011
Alexandra McLaughlin
Alex has received certifications from Sivananda, Jivamukti and most recently at Yoga Shanti, in a 10 month residency program. Blending the many traditions that she has studied, Alex brings flowing sequences, chanting and mindful instruction to all of her classes. She is grateful to all of her extraordinary teachers: Sharon Gannon and David Life, Manorama, Patricia Borrego, Mary Buffo, Jessica Bellofatto and Colleen Saidman, her family, as well as the many others who bring inspiration to her life daily.
Jenna Minardi
Jenna teaches her students, with a deep yearning to inspire them with the spark of compassion and devotion that propels her love of yoga. Her classes put emphasis on BREATH, as a way to “reprogram” patterns in the body and mind that keep us from reaching our human potential, BALANCE, between action and surrender, ALIGNMENT that is reached by listening to your intution, and chanting and meditation. Jenna has recently become very involved with Shidda Yoga which is now headed by Guru Chidvilasananda, in this lineage of yoga there is an emphasis on meditation and chanting as a way to connect with God within ourselves. Her years as a yoga student have lead her to study many different lineages of yoga including Ashtanga Yoga with Danny Paradise, Integral Yoga and Iyengar, and most recently Heart of Yoga with Mark Whitwell. Jenna has also studied nutrition, herbalism with Arcus Flynn in NYC and shiatsu at the Ohasi Institute in NYC. She has also had the honor to work with the South Fork Breast Cancer Coalition in teaching woman chanting and meditation.
Mayan Montanari-Perez
In October 2006, after having the privilege of welcoming her first child, Miloe Reef, at home, she began to educate herself on all aspects of motherhood. She was especially interested in educating families on childbirth choices, gentle childbirth, natural parenting, and alternative education. She began by starting her own company called Yemaya, which primarily makes one of a kind baby slings and organic onesies. Mayan, along with her friend, currently directs an Enki style playgroup/school in her home, which educates children through the interconnectedness of the world around them. Mayan is inspired everyday by her growing boy, being in his presence is a constant reminder to pass on all the knowledge she has picked up along the way. She would like to thank her many yoga teachers and friends for their clarity, encouragement and teachings.
Kelly Morris
Kelly is the only yoga teacher to ever grace the cover of New York Magazine as NYC's "most popular teacher" and has been featured numerous times in The New York Times and Yoga Journal. Known worldwide for her honesty, warmth and singular ability to make advanced understanding of both asana and yoga philosophy easy for her students, Kelly teaches celebrities including Willem Defoe, Sting, Russell Simmons, Chris Botti, Kim Raver, Christian Slater, Donna Karan, Madonna and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Kelly has been teaching in NYC and the Hamptons, as well as on sold-out Retreats worldwide, for over 15 years and has taught tens of thousands of students. Muriel Murphy
Muriel began her training as a yoga instructor in 2003 at the Nosara Yoga Institute in Costa Rica, completing the 200-hour certification program with Don and Amba Stapleton. Most recently she has trained at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco, completing the 500 hour Advanced Studies Teacher Training in December of 2006, and the Relax and Renew certification with Judith Lasater, in 2005. Traveling to India in 2007 to study with the Iyengars, she integrates these teachings into each class. Muriel's yoga classes are a unique blend of somatic conditioning movements & therapeutic stretches, Qi Gong, Pranayama breathwork, Restorative yoga poses, Iyengar alignment principals in the postures, with a strong and steady flow. Compassionately delivered with heart! Muriel’s experience as a body worker and yoga instructor shine through in the knowledge she so openly shares with others. She believes that the lineage of yoga, and the healing energy of these integrated healing arts, is a gift to be shared for the health and well being of all who choose to take Lois Nesbitt
Lois has been sharing yoga with students in public classes and workshops in New York City and the Hamptons for more than a decade. Nationally recognized for both her advanced practice and the depth of her teaching, Lois travels to offer workshops, retreats, and programs for teachers internationally. Her classes weave the flow of vinyasa-style yoga into the exquisite alignment and inspirational message of Anusara yoga for an invigorating and uplifting experience bound to make you shine! She also offers private lessons for those with physical or scheduling challenges. Before devoting herself to yoga, Lois was a professional writer and editor and an internationally exhibited artist. She received a B.A., magna cum laude from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Princeton University, where she taught literature and writing. Lois is especially grateful to the fine teachers of these universities, who taught her to express her intelligence through her heart. Kate Northrup
Kate graduated from the Yoga Shanti Teacher Training with Colleen Saidman Yee and Rodney Yee in August 2010. She enrolled in the training with no intention of becoming a yoga teacher, but instead because she wanted to hang out with Colleen, Rodney, who she loved and admired. Much to her surprise, Kate found an ease and calm teaching yoga that she never had experienced before. In February 2011 Kate left New York City and embarked on a road-trip around North America called The Freedom Tour teaching women (and the men who loved them) about financial freedom as an inroad to greater emotional and spiritual freedom. After 30,000 miles by car and thousands more by plane, Kate is very excited to call the east end of Long Island home (for now). Kate has always felt most free while practicing yoga and dancing, so teaching yoga seems a natural reinvention of The Freedom Tour. Kate is a wellness entrepreneur, speaker, and writer. Find out more at katenorthrup.com. She is currently writing a book based on her philosophy that if you free yourself up financially, you can then be more fully present to your true purpose and making the world a better place (Hay House, Spring 2013). Lynda Lee O'Laughlin
Lynda Lee brings years of exploration and dedication to her teachings and hopes to create space for each student to expand, increase awareness and cultivate a passion for the practice.
Eric Pettigrew
Eric recently graduated from School of Homeopathy New York, a 4-year course in homeopathic medicine which, in addition to his yoga and massage training, allows him to heal in a truly holistic manner. Eric’s unyielding gratitude, deep commitment to his yoga practice, and years of experience contribute to an increased awareness and quality in his yoga instruction. To contact him for private yoga instruction, massage and homeopathy visit holisticlifeworks.com
Kate Rabinowitz
Besides yoga, Kate is a certified Natural Gourmet Chef from Ann Marie Colbin in NYC, and is a practitioner of Healing Arts from the IM School of Healing Arts. She has studied at the Ayurvedic Institute with Dr Vasant Lad in New Mexico, at the Kushi Institute in Boston with Michio Kushi, and currently completing training in Shiatsu therapy at the Ohashi Institute in NYC. She is at heart a traveler and adventurer, for years studying traditional arts and teaching yoga in Japan, immersing in India, living in a monastery in Thailand, trekking the Himalyas in Nepal, and walking alone across Tibet to Lhasa from Southwestern China. She visits India regularly to visit her teachers and the temples in the Himalyas. She now lives in East Hampton with her husband and two children running the Integrated Wellness Program at Springs Elementary in East Hampton for grades K-6 and teaching private and group classes in the Hamptons and New York City.
John Seelye
Zev Starr-Tambor
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Colleen’s introduction to yoga was at the urging of a roommate who convinced her to attend a class at a loft space in New York City. It was not long after that first class, that her worn out running shoes, her basketball and her boxing gloves became relics of the past. And in 1994, after enduring back surgery, Colleen’s commitment to her yoga practice deepened.
Patricia Padma Borrego is a yoga instructor and body worker with a passion for intergrated wholeness. She is deeply inspired by meditation, deep listening and cultivating intention and clarity in movement and in life. When we participate in our practice on as many levels as we can: physically, emotionally, and spiritually, it has a profound affect on our whole life. 
Certified Anusara® yoga teacher, founder and co-owner of 
Nikki Costello is a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher. She has been teaching yoga for 18 years and was previously certified in Jivamukti Yoga and Anusara Yoga. She has studied with extraordinary teachers such as Sharon Gannon, David Life, John Friend, Kevin Gardiner and Mary Dunn. In 1997, she became a student of the Siddha Yoga path. For the next 8 years, she taught exclusively for the SYDA Foundation, as a Siddha Yoga Hatha Yoga and Meditation Teacher. As part of the organization she taught hatha yoga in retreats and events in North America, South America, Europe, India and China. She currently lives and teaches at Kula Yoga in New York City and has a private clientele.
Steve Eaton, Shepsi, has been experimenting with music all his life! He began at the age of 5 with the piano and now plays a number of instruments including the guitar, harmonium, tambura, dholak, ukulele...(the list goes on and on). He graduated from Princeton University 2007 with a Degree (BA) in Music. There he was able to explore many musical forms and ensembles. Steve also began his studies of buddhism and veganism while attending Princeton. Since then he has studied many forms of yoga including Iyengar, Kundalini, and Bhakti, or devotional, Yoga. In 2008 Steve traveled to India where he immersed himself in the sounds of the country. He recently deepened his practice of, respect for, and education in yoga, studying with the incredible teachers and mentors of the Yoga Shanti teacher training program.
Eve Eliot is a psychotherapist, meditation teacher, yoga practitioner and author of “Insatiable,” its sequel, “Ravenous,” and “Attention Shoppers: The Woman’s Guide to Enlightenment.” She is a contributor to the journal “The Annals of the AmericanPsychotherapy Association” for which she has written two articles: “Yoga Off the Mat: Motivating Clients to Surrender to Discomfort” and “Meditation Off the Cushion: Helping Clients Using Mindfulness.” Her unique way of using metaphors to guide students to inner body awareness makes meditation exceptionally accessible, even to beginners. 
Recognized throughout the yoga community as a true “teacher’s teacher,” Dana Flynn brings an ecstatic expression of movement, music and community to her practice and her students, as the co-founder of 
Heidi has been teaching at Yoga Shanti since it's inception in 2000. In her classes precision and abandon, wit and whimsy meet at the crossroads of technique and art. Daughter, wife, mother, friend, student, teacher, former dancer, knitter, scrabble player. In the first Jivamukti class Heidi attended in 1991 she had the quiet revelation, “this is my future”. Since then Heidi has studied many styles of yoga but finds the teachings of Genevieve Kapuler and Rodney Yee most enduring. She also studies Light Body Meditation with Diane Goldner. Her classes combine precise knowledge of anatomy and alignment, reverence for the intelligence and mysteries of the body-mind-spirit with a quest for freedom and fun. 
Born in Germany and raised in Sag Harbor, Jennifer has studied intensely with Mark Whitwell, with whom she became certified with, as well as completing the 200-hour Nosara/Costa Rica teacher training with Don and Amba in 2003. Jennifer is also certified to teach yoga to children through the Shakta Kaur Khalsa ‘Fly Like a Butterfly” certification program.
Born into a family of yogis and Buddhists, Sian was fortunate enough to start attending yoga classes at the age of seven with her god-father, Yogi Raj Alan Finger. Since then, she has fallen in love with the practice over and over again. She received her bachelors degree in philosophy from Bennington College in 2004 and moved into the Sivananda Ashram, where she became certified and taught classes. In 2005, Sian fell in love with and made Montauk her base while she travelled, surfed, studied yoga and received her Masters in Educational Psychology from NYU. 
Erika Halweil was born and raised in New York City. Her first experience with the yoga practice was close to one decade ago, although, it wasn't until 1997 that she focused her attention on the endless journey into the present moment. Recognizing the importance of a playful spirit and limitless curiosity, Erika tries to challenge herself, and others, through a unique vinyasa practice (inspired by the many traditions to which she has been exposed). She has furthered her knowledge of the human body through the study of nutrition (with a degree from NYU), anatomy and physiology and reflexology. She is, wholeheartedly grateful for all of her teachers; to Manorama D'Alvia and Uma Nanda Saraswati for helping her to find her inner bhakti; to Colleen Saidman and Jessica Bellofatto for their open hearts and thirst for knowledge; to Krishnamurti and Pema Chodron for their insight, honesty and courage. She is also indebted to the many people who have shared their practice with her, as she honors that each student is her guru.
Sarah Halweil graduated from the Yoga Shanti Teacher Training Program in 2004. Previously she had practiced Ashtanga, Iyengar, and Jivamukti Yoga, but knew that she had found something special when she moved to Sag Harbor and started practicing at Yoga Shanti. "I was in awe in every class," she remembers. "The chanting. The intelligent sequencing. The focus on anatomy. The spiritual education and guidance. It satisfied all of my yoga expectations, and all in a tiny, whaling town."
Kari discovered yoga in 1996 while recovering from a knee injury suffered during the Off-Broadway production of "Tony 'n Tina's Wedding". Inspired, Kari has been practicing ever since, becoming certified through the Integral Yoga Teacher Training Program in 2002, the Bhava Teacher Training program in 2003, and founding her own studio, East Yoga Center in New York City’s East Village in 2004. (http://eastyoga.com) Kari’s passion for yoga continues through her continued study with John Friend in the anusara tradition of yoga and Rodney Yee, who never fails to change her practice again and again.
Leah began a regular yoga practice during her last year of college, finding that savasana provided the perfect respite from the brain overload of thesis writing. While home for Thanksgiving, Leah took a VERY crowded class at Yoga Shanti! Not sure what to expect and totally nervous about falling on someone, she unfolded her mat onto the uneven, creaky, wood floor and took her seat. As the first OM reverberated throughout the room, she was wholly intrigued.
Lisa Langer is passionate about sharing her love for yoga and a yoga lifestyle with all levels of students, from the brand-new beginner, to the more experienced practitioner. It is her experience that regular yoga practice is grounding, uplifting and transformational and Lisa is skilled at creating these experiences for her students.
Kristin Leigh co-owns 
Originally from Northern California, Heather has been living and teaching Jivamukti Yoga in New York City since 2003. She completed the Jivamukti teacher training with Sharon Gannon and David Life while finishing her bachelors at New York University. She then completed her 800-hour Advanced Certification in 2008. She currently teaches Jivamukti at Pure Yoga New York City.
Stephanie first experienced the healing power of movement while leaping across a dance studio. Being 5 years old at the time, she was unaware of how profoundly this would impact her life and work. The need for movement - as a means to heal, release, express and communicate - became a natural part of her self and spirit. To have the opportunity to bring yoga into children's lives and awaken this part of their spirit is deeply gratifying for her.
Named “most in demand” yoga instructor in New York Magazine’s Best of New York issue, April Martucci is a native New Yorker with a singular understanding of movement and the connection between mind and body. She has danced with the Joffrey Ballet School, Eglevsky Ballet, and at the Martha Graham School. She began studying the yoga discipline at the Jivamukti Yoga Center and later received her teaching certification from Om Yoga Center and prenatal certification from YogaWorks. April is a graduate of the Swedish Institute of Massage Therapy, whose programming is known for its emphasis on anatomy and physiology. She incorporates her experience from the Institute in her unique form of bodywork. Her signature style involves technical aspects of anatomy combined with a thoughtful philosophical approach, making the practice fully integrated: mind, body, and spirit. April is the former Director of Yoga at the prestigious Reebok Sports Club/NY, MindBody studios. She has taught a wide range of students from A-list celebrities to toddlers, artists, and high-profile professionals. She regularly contributes to Rodale’s 
While attending my first yoga class at University of Hartford as part of my Elementary Education degree, I fell in love with yoga and began the path of profound personal transformation and the birth of a lifelong journey of exploration. As my relationship with yoga developed, I found the courage to end a personal relationship that I had been struggling with for some time, and without much trepidation, I replaced my cigarette habit with pranayama, asana and meditation. During which, I moved to Hawaii, taught Elementary school full time, and studied Viniyoga privately with Gary Kraftsow. I began to see the benefits of using yoga techniques with my Third Graders in the classroom and learned the value of sequencing asana practices for each individuals needs.
A native to Sag Harbor, Alex fled to New York City to pursue a degree in fashion at FIT. It was not long before she became exasperated by the endless whirlwind and began to search for more meaning. She knew that she needed to slow down and become more present. Her love of yoga and dedication to her own practice awakened a desire to further her study and humbly pursue the possibility of teaching. And once she began, there was no turning back!
Jenna Minardi is a certified Integral Yoga instructor. She has been doing yoga for 21 years and teaching for the past nine. Jenna directed the yoga program at Naturopathica Spa in East Hampton and in 2005 opened the Minardi Training and Route 114 Yoga Center with her husband Jimmy Minardi in East Hampton NY. She also started a kids yoga program with her friend and college Kate Rabinowitz at the Springs School in East Hampton where yoga is taught to children kindergarten thru 6th grade through out the year.
Mayan Montanari-Perez was lucky enough to begin her yoga experience under the guidance of Megan Chaskey, while attending The Ross School. Upon graduation in 2004 she worked as a Mother’s Helper to many lovely families, cementing her love of children. While pregnant she began taking prenatal classes with Kate Rabinowitz. Astounded by Kate’s incredible style of teaching, she hoped to one day be able to educate people in the same loving manner. She is trained to teach children through Karma Kids Yoga and is currently looking into their prenatal teaching program.
Kelly Morris is one of only 5 senior Jivamukti instructors in the world and is the founder of 
Muriel Murphy has been in the healing arts field since 1992. She began studying the body as a Fitness Instructor/Health Sciences major at the University of California, San Diego. She graduated from the Phillips School of Massage CMT in 1995. Completed a 500 hours of intensive study with certified Rolfer, Bill Sitkin, in 1997. Additional trained in Neuro-muscular Reprogramming at the Alive and Well Institute 2003. To date she has 700 hours of yoga teacher training. Most recently studying, Touch for the Health, in 2009 and Thai massage in 2011.
In 1997, after several teacher trainings and almost a decade of daily Ashtanga Yoga practice, Lois met John Friend, founder of Anusara Yoga. Lois credits John with transforming not only her yoga practice but her whole outlook on inspired living. Certified in Anusara Yoga in 2000, Lois now serves on the Anusara Yoga Curriculum and Certification Video Committees, where she helps shape the future of teaching Anusara. Lois has also spent hundreds of hours studying yoga philosophy under Professor Douglas Brooks, a world-renown scholar of Hindu Tantra. 
Kate Northrup fell in love with movement at the early age of three when she took her first dance class. Kate began studying yoga with her West African dance company at Brown University, where she earned her BA in The History of Art and Architecture. 
A former dancer, Lynda has been exploring movement and anatomy her entire life. Presently, Lynda finds great inspiration through extensive studies with her primary teachers, Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee. She also continues to study whenever possible with Richard Freeman, Sharon Gannon and David Life, creators of Jivamukti Yoga, the humble and brilliant Lady Ruth Lauer Manenti and Robert Thurman.
Originally from Quebec, Eric began his career as a professional dancer and continues to pursue his passion for movement and healing through yoga, massage and homeopathy. He earned his yoga teaching certificate while studying with Cyndi Lee at OM Yoga Center in New York City. Then, combining his love of yoga & dance and to increase his knowledge of the human body he studied at Finger Lakes School of Massage, achieving his license in massage therapy. His studies also include: Yoga for cancer survivors, pilates, polarity, reflexology, applied kinesiology, cranio sacral therapy and herbal medicine. 
Kate Rabinowitz has been studying and practicing yoga since 1972. She has trained extensively with BKS Iyengar, his son Prashant and daughter Geeta in India, and senior teachers in Europe and the USA, including Dona Holleman, Karin Stephan, Patricia Walden, Rodney Yee, Mary Dunn, Judith Lasater, Mark Whitwell and many others. Kate has taught for twenty five years refining the therapeutic aspects of yoga teaching adults, seniors, pre natal and treating injuries. After birthing her own children, now 10 and 12 she trained in Yoga Ed, becoming certified to teach children and school teachers in yoga and wellness. She believes yoga for children is essential for this new generation, to give them tools to navigate the challenging times.
John is a certified Anusara Yoga instructor teaching group classes in the Hamptons and seasonally in New York City. He also offers individual instruction and the healing art of Yoga Therapeutics. A student of ha-tha yoga since 1973 with an always growing and an ever more seriously playful devotion to the practices, he has been teaching since 1992.
Zev came to yoga after many years of studying martial arts, earning blackbelts in Judo, Jujitsu, Iwama Ryu Aikido and Yoshinkan Aikido. At the age of 16, while in the midst of competing in Ironman triathlons and martial arts training, a friend of the family gave him the book Light on Yoga. The images of Iyengar's incredible asana practice, followed by the wisdom of the text slowly drew him to seek out yoga teachers. In 2008, he certified to teach yoga at Atmananda in NYC. His classes are energetically influenced by his martial arts training.
Aaron is a healer, acupuncturist, and Kundalini Yoga teacher. His healing practice uniquely integrates acupuncture, herbal medicine, and Sat Nam Rasayan - the meditative healing tradition of Kundalini Yoga. In his work, Aaron guides people inward to an experience of heightened awareness, and creates a state of balanced prana, which becomes a catalyst for physical healing, personal transformation, and spiritual growth.
Barbara Verrochi has been studying yoga since 1990. She practices Ashtanga Yoga with Eddie Stern and studies singing and harmonium with Gulum Mohamed Kahn. In 1997 she made the first of many trips to Mysore, India to study with Sri K Pattabhi Jois and his family, grandson R. Sharath Jois and daughter R. Saraswati. Barbara received Guruji's blessing to teach Ashtanga Yoga in 2002. She is also a board member of 
Mitten was introduced to Yoga at the age of 55 and in her very first class realized that the asana practice is a special gift to the body, mind, and spirit. She believes that it gives one the opportunity and ability to move with greater harmony and grace through the rhythms of life. Having lived in NYC for 60 years, of which 30 of those years she taught early childhood education at Park Avenue Christian School, Mitten was more than delighted to move east and continue teaching here, this time Yoga to adults as well as children. With practical insights, she encourages her students to take a playful but carefully aligned asana practice on the mat out into their daily life. Mitten honors her many Anusara teachers and John Friend’s tradition, gives gratitude to those who have encouraged her to teach, and appreciates the many students who continually open her eyes to new possibilities.
Julie is Yoga Shanti certified and has been practicing yoga for over 26 years. She is active in the community teaching the Tuesday evening Yoga Shanti community class and also teaching yoga with Southampton Hospital Wellness Center. Bringing yoga into the community with the elementary school teachers of Springs and Sag Harbor. Julie has been a full time resident in the Hamptons for over ten years.
Rodney Yee has been curious about the mind and body for as long as he can remember. He was a gymnast, a ballet dancer, and a philosophy and physical therapy major. Following the thread of curiosity about mind and body, he took his first yoga class in 1980. He went to yoga in search of flexibility and found a practice that would turn into his life-long passion and career. In 1981, Rodney began to study yoga full time at the San Francisco Iyengar Yoga Institute and at The Yoga Room in Berkeley. In 1987, after becoming a certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher, he opened the Piedmont Yoga Studio in Oakland, CA, with Richard Rosen and Claire Finn. 
Lisa’s formal certification was with Sivananda but that doesn't really reflect her style of teaching. She has been inspired by the Jivamukti, Ashtanga, and Iyengar lineages. She is studied in Om, influenced by Yee Yoga and Anusara. She has had the privilege of studying with, and access to some of today’s modern master teachers. Her vinyasa style of teaching is a cohesive eclectic blend of it all. Her vinyasa class (zalogayoga) is "a seamless experience" not just a class, and includes a theme, rockin' music, concentration, and focus on breath being the leader through a flow of intelligent sequencing. In class Lisa encourages students to challenge their 'edges', to honor their bodies but to remember that being complacent or comfortable doesn't always teach us the more profound life lessons. Her classes include a psyco-spiritual element including yogic philosophy and 'real life' tools to guide students toward developing a stronger moral compass. Lisa’s classes are challenging for every level but with a gentle force.