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320 Libbie Ave
Richmond, VA 23226
804.282.Yoga (9642)
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Elany Ajemian
Elany became a devoted practitioner of Ashtanga Yoga following the birth of her second child, Balthazar. She recognized that the strength and flexibility of the mind, could be influenced by the state of the body. Inspired by her husband Charles, a dedicated follower of Tibetan meditation, she began merging her yoga practice and teaching with the spacious compliment of meditation. Elany's classes have a quest for freedom and fun, while concentrating on the fluidity of movement with the breath. She believes the discovery of ones own potential for creative energy, strength, and wisdom, can be found through the practice of yoga. Elany has completed Michael Hamilton's Ashtanga Teacher Intensive and her 200hr. Yoga Alliance Teacher Certification. She has attended workshops with Tim Miller, Kino MacGregor, and Michael Gannon, and is especially grateful for the insight and teachings of Tibetan Lama Dawa Tarchin, Michael Hamilton, Kyra Haigh, Eddie Stern, and Sharath Rangaswamy during his 2008 tour of the US. Elany enjoys gardening and is a continuing student in the study of Ayurvedic medicine and nutrition. She is a native to Richmond, Virginia, and shares her life with her husband Charles, and their two spirited children, Kyria and Balthazar.
Laura has been practicing yoga for nearly a decade. She began with a home practice using yoga and meditation DVDs and then in 2005 became absolutely hooked after taking her first heated Power Yoga class while living in Boston. Since that first Power Yoga studio experience, Laura has been practicing daily. My day is not complete until I have stepped onto my mat. Laura has a deep love for the Vinyasa practice and the way it dynamically flows from one pose to another in perfect unison with the breath. She also enjoys dropping in on an occasional Ashtanga or Bikram class. Laura completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training at Prana Power Yoga in Boston in April 2009 and is a registered member of Yoga Alliance. She believes that yoga is for everyone whether you are seven or seventy and her only regret is that she didnt start practicing sooner. This is what fuels Lauras passion to teach and inspire kids to incorporate yoga into their daily lives now and forever! Laura currently teaches kids yoga classes at St. Catherines School and Anna Julia Cooper Episcopal School, Power Yoga at the Country Club of Virginia and Vinyasa-style classes to teens and adults in her home studio. Laura lives in The Fan with her husband Anderson, daughter Elle and French Bulldog Tessa.
Laura McNeill
J Miles
Martial artist, yogi, community activist, father, and the son of a preacher, Jonathan Miles is the co-founder of Project Yoga Richmond in RVA. A passionate instructor, each class is an invigorating blend, of philosophy, humor and a continuous effort to cultivate an indrawn awareness and focus on the bodys natural rhythm and patterns of breath. Students are skillfully guided through movements that build strength, courage and confidence.
Practicing kung fu and capoeira since 1997, Jonathan began a yoga practice in 2001, and obtain his initial 200 certification through integral yoga, under the guidance of Nora Pozzi in 2003. In 2009 an additional 200 hr traing was completed under the instruction of the late Arlene Bjork. Since he has gone on to study and practice with other great teachers and luminaries such as Zhenja la Rosa, Faith Hunter, Jill Abelson, Terence Ollivierra, David Life and Sharon Gannon.
Peggy Boon
Peggy was born and raised in the Chicago area. She received her 200 hour training through Glenmore Yoga, and additional training for teaching children and teens at Asheville Yoga Center.
The philosophy is what first drew her to yoga, but the transformative power of the asanas keeps her returning to the mat. She enjoys practicing yoga with a wide variety of people and thinks that yoga is accessible to all.
Peggy enjoys reading, traveling, cooking, gardening, and spending time with family and friends.
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Siv started practicing yoga many years ago guided by B.K.S. Iyengar's book Light on Yoga. Over the years several teachers in many different cities have influenced and inspired her in her own practice. Eventually, Siv decided to share with others her knowledge, experience, and belief in the many benefits, from physical to mental, that yoga provides. She is a Certified Integral Yoga® Teacher and registered with Yoga Alliance at the 200 hour level.
Siv brings a meditative aspect to her yoga classes combining physical postures with breathing, meditation, and deep relaxation. She believes that yoga is a lifelong path for nurturing the body, mind, and spirit and hopes to guide her students to their worn path.
Siv Ranko
Nitya Griffith
Nitya Griffith has spent the last 12 years on a spiritual journey through her deeply rooted Faith and Devotion to Tibetan Bon Buddhism and Yoga. She is a certified Integral Yoga® Teacher since 2005.
Over the years Nitya has become a master in teaching children's yoga throughout the Richmond community, by using her gifted voice and creative sense of story telling to create a truly unique classroom format richly rooted in traditional hatha yoga. She also has co-created an in depth summer yoga camp program that she offers every year to Elementary school age children. She has been featured on Richmond's Local Cable Access Channel and on the Channel 6 Morning Show.
Nitya's goal in teaching yoga to young and old is how to learn to Live Yoga ~ peaceful of mind, easeful of body, purposeful in our lives with grace, compassion and love for all.
Sue Agee, RN, RYT-500
Having worked in Richmond for over 20 years as a Registered Nurse, Sue was led to yoga by her deeping interest in the connection of body/ mind/spirit and how it relates to health and wellness. She received her RYT-500 from Glenmore Yoga and studies extensively with renowned teachers. A member of the Himalayan Institute where she was intiated into the unbroken lineage of yoga teachers, Sue is currently studying under the guidance of Pandit Rajmani Tigunait.
Teaching a variety of classes, private instruction, and workshops to students and instructors, Sue enjoys encouraging yogis of all levels to find versions of each asana that are appropriate for them. When not studying yoga, she loves to spend time with her high school sweetheart husband, traveling to visit her college-aged sons, playing tennis, cooking, photography, and continuing to train her dogs.
"The Joy is in the Journey." Lilias Folan
Sue Agee
Elizabeth Sobka
Elizabeth began practicing yoga in 2006 as a way to regain flexibility after years of physically intense sports. What started as a cross-training tool quickly became a primary form of exercise after discovering the amazing benefits of Baptiste Power yoga while recovering from an injury. Her favorite style of yoga is a blend between the Ashtanga tradition and Baptiste Power, which satisfies her passion for alignment, heat, and flow.
Elizabeth received her 200-hour certification in 2010 from the Center for Health & Healing in Toms River, New Jersey and is looking forward to continuing her yoga education in the near future. Her other passions include graphic design, illustration, and being near the ocean as often as possible.
Ellie Gompert
Becky grew up in Richmond, VA, where she attended school and lived, until she went onto graduate from James Madison University with a degree in psychology. She is currently teaching preschool (will be teaching Junior Kindergarten in the Fall), teaching yoga, and exploring photography.
She is a 200 hour RYT, and trained very closely under Arlene Bjork through Grace Yoga Training Systems, before she passed away late last year. Becky has been able to meet some amazing individuals through her yoga training, which just happened to fall into her lap after college graduation. She was back home in Richmond and began going to classes at The ACAC Health Club, and was hooked immediately. She knew that this was something she had to do include in her life, and soon after she began networking, searching, and practicing at other Richmond studios. Arlene was introduced to Becky by one of her very first teachers (and very dear friend). They went onto become close friends, and she inspired Becky to enter her teacher training program, and the rest is history. Yoga has been very healing for Becky, as it gives her a way to stay balanced mentally and physically. In fact, she doesnt know how she lived for 24 years without it! It has opened her eyes to so many beautiful philosophies and ways of living, and it has led her to meet many astounding individuals. When life gets crazy and uncertain, there is one thing that she is certain of yoga will always be there.
Some of Becky's passions include: teaching the beautiful children of this world (school and yoga), taking pictures/freelance photography, doing anything that has to do with being in nature: running, hiking, kayaking, canoeing, and spending time with the ones she loves. Art and sharing art with others has always been a huge part of Becky's life, and she has found yoga to be one of the most beautiful forms of art yet. It is a gift that keeps on giving. Becky is honored and grateful to be able to share the gift of yoga with others. Namaste.
Becky Eschenroeder
Susan Kratzer
Susan has been a competitive athlete for most of her life. She was initially drawn to yoga for its athletic challenge, but then discovered the powerfully transformative nature of the practice. Susan completed the Yoga Source Teacher Training Program under the direction of Sandra Pleasants and Jennifer Elliott and is registered with Yoga Alliance at the 200 hour level.
She is totally hooked on yoga because she loves the way it uses her physical body to tap deep into her soul. Susan loves that yoga only gets deeper the more it is practiced and studied, and that it has the capacity to challenge and interest her for the rest of her life.
Karen (Kalyani) Levitt
Karen's classes combine several of the branches of yoga so students can experience a range of benefits. Certified through Integral Yoga in 1999, she found the training to be transformational. With more focus, acceptance, and awareness, Karen wanted to share the benefits of yoga with the community. Her teaching has involved lots of karma yoga, including leading classes at the Bon Air Correctional Facility, various free classes around town, and helping to train subsequent teachers in the Integral tradition. By incorporating elements of Raja Yoga in class, she tries to reach the individual on their own terms for as long as it takes them to attain the state of Yoga. "We also spend time discussing how, as practicing yogis, we can radiate some of our own positive practice into the world around us."
Dana grew up in Richmond and attended Virginia Commonwealth University, where she graduated with honors, majoring in Psychology and minoring in Religion with a focus on Asian philosophical traditions. She has practiced yoga for nearly twelve years and recently used its techniques to help rehabilitate herself following an accident in 2007. This experience led her to pursue teacher training and Dana has been teaching individuals and groups since 2008. She enjoys greater flexibility, strength and balance, as a result of practicing yoga and wants to impart those skills to her students. She especially enjoys the inner peace and sense of connection that the practice of yoga on and off the mat can provide.
She is certified at the 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200) level with Yoga Alliance and believes that anyone can practice yoga. Her style is best described as Hatha-Vinyasa, and she also enjoys teaching Restorative Yoga. Dana lives in Richmond with her husband and her two dogs and enjoys working out, reading, vegetarian cooking, gardening, and riding her scooter.
Dana Walters
Originally from the Washington, DC area, Ellie was first drawn to the fire and intensity of Ashtanga yoga while living in Vermont in 2000. She completed her 200-hour teacher training in the fall of 2005, followed by a 40-hour Ashtanga Teacher Training with David Swenson. She will be completing the 300-hour YogaWorks Professional Program in April 2010. While she has been taught and inspired by several well-known yoga teachers, Ellie continues to be awed by what teaches and inspires her on the mat and in her daily life.
Through regular practice, Ellie has not only experienced extraordinary physical benefits including increased strength, flexibility, and overall health, but she has experienced a profound sense of mental and emotional balance and well-being, connectedness with, and compassion for the world around her, and internal and external peace. She hopes that through her teaching all people will feel welcomed, comfortably challenged, and open to the countless benefits of yoga. The aim of her teaching is to encourage students to discover the place of perfect peace that resides within each of them, and to realize that it is always within their reach regardless of internal or external circumstance.
"Let nothing dim the light that shines from within."
- Maya Angelou
Ellie Burke
Kelly Kostecki
Kelly is an RYT 200 hour instructor, with a love for the intensity and clarity that the practice of yoga brings. In her yoga regimen, she has drawn from the many rich traditions of power and vinyasa flow. She came into her yoga practice, after deciding to make a move to a more balanced exercise regimen after many years of competing in athletics at both the high school and college level.
Now after nearly a decade of dedication to the practice, Kelly has seen first hand how transformative yoga can be to one's body, mind, and soul. Kelly is delighted to share her love for yoga with others and encourages anyone with interest to be open to the many possibilities that it may bring.
Lacy Baldwin
Lacy has practiced yoga for the past eight years, finding intense dedication to her practice in the past three years of classes and teaching certification in New York. Prior to her yoga teacher training she has been a fly fishing guide, horse back riding instructor, and event planner. Her love of nature, music, and organization enrich her Vinyasa yoga classes. She is honored to take the seat of teacher!
Layton Grier
Layton began her yoga practice 10 years ago, but became more serious with her studies and the teaching of yoga in the last four years. She completed a 200 hour teacher training at Yoga Source in 2008, and finish her additional 300 hour teacher training through Yoga Works in 2010.
Layton's teaching style is hatha based and focuses on alignment, as well as encouraging students to find a balance between the physical and emotional benefits that a yoga practice brings.
Aimee Yowell
Discovering the bliss of yoga over fourteen years ago, Aimee received her 200RYT through the Yoga Source Teacher Training program under the direction of Sandra Pleasants and Jennifer Elliott in 2006. Aimee enjoys exploring all the yoga traditions and draws from those in her teaching. Aimee is finishing her 300/500 hour certification in Prana Flow™ with the Samudra Global School for Living Yoga led by Shiva Rea. She has had the opportunity to study with such teachers as David Life, Sharon Gannon, Annie Carpenter, Kino McGregor, Seane Corne, Cyndi Lee, and Richard Freeman as well as others. Aimee wants to encourage her students to come home to their essence on the mat and carry that peacefulness off their mat and into their world allowing the joy of yoga to benefit everyone.
Lauren is a yoga teacher who loves fun, heat, great music and flowing vinyasa. She began her teaching career in a rather unconventional way-- teaching classes before having a personal practice. Back in 2004 Lauren was teaching Pilates and spinning at gyms and studios in North Carolina when one of the gyms was desperate for a yoga teacher. Lauren checked out a book from the library by Rodney Yee, and is very grateful that her first students were so encouraging, warm and gracious with their burgeoning yogi. The rest, as they say, is history!
Since then, Lauren has completed her 200 hour with Baron Baptiste and studied with Debbie Williamson, Paige Elenson, Elizabeth Huntsman and Simon Parke. Lauren loves sharing her love for yoga with students and making it accessible, challenging, and above all, FUN!
Also a certified life coach, Lauren is bringing her unique combination of coaching and yoga workshops to studios around the country this fall.
Lauren Fritsch
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