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Integrative Yoga Therapy International Association of Yoga Therapists 
National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine | Certifications KYT=Certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher RYT=Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance E-RYT= Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance 500=Professional Level (the highest highest level of certification sanctioned by the Yoga Alliance) IAYT=International Association of Yoga Therapists MAYA=Mid-Atlantic Yoga Association CMT= Certified Massage Therapist NCTMB=Nationally Certified in Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork | |
| | Meet Our Wonderful Instructors & Healing Arts Service Providers! Experienced. Well-Trained. Professional. Dedicated. Caring. Holistic. The teachers and healing arts professionals at Dream Yoga are the best! They have training in a variety of yoga, meditation, massage, acupuncture, and other holistic disciplines that are proven to enhance health, well-being and personal transformation. All have made their yoga or meditation practice, and/or the healing arts service they provide, central to their lives. For us, teaching yoga and meditation, and providing a healing arts service…is simply sharing what we love and what we know works. Most of Dream’s yoga teachers are trained in or influenced by Kripalu Yoga—a yoga practice that teaches the basic mechanics of yoga postures and breath…while encouraging inner focus, feeling, and mind-body awareness.) Kripalu Yoga is often referred to as "the yoga of life.") Many also have additional training and experience in using "yoga as medicine" or "therapeutic yoga." It is our pleasure and blessing to serve you.
The Dream Team by Service | Luann Fulbright  Dream Yoga’s Founder & Director Creator of the for-credit yoga program at George Mason University Email Luann Call Luann 703-448-YOGA (9642) 703-917-0067 How has your yoga helped you?! What practices have helped you most? Luann wants to know. She's working on a book to help students of yoga develop a well-rounded home practice for greater peace, health and joy. Share your yoga experiences with Luann to help others know the many and diverse gifts of Yoga and Meditation. | Certifications: M.A., Professional Yoga Therapist (Integrative Yoga Therapy-500), Kripalu Yoga Teacher (KYT-500), Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT 500), and Reiki Professional Affiliations: Member of the International Assocation of Yoga Therapists, Kripalu Yoga Teachers Association, and the Mid-Atlantic Yoga Association Provides: Yoga and Meditation Instruction, Therapeutic Yoga and Dream Interpretation Luann has been practicing yoga since 1979 and teaching since 1999. Her teaching reflects her years of studying a variety of yoga styles with some of the nation’s foremost yoga instructors. These include founder of Integrative Yoga Therapy Joseph Le Page; Kripalu/Pranakriya Master Teacher Yoganand Michael Carroll; Jonathan Foust, founder of the Mindfulness Training Institute of Washington; Judith Lasater; Anusara Yoga Founder John Friend; Betsey Downing, founder of The Health Advantage Yoga Center; Doug Keller; Advaita and Kashmiri yoga master Richard Miller; Chakra system author Anodea Judith; Viniyogi's Lex Gillan and Stan Hafner; Hillary Blackton; and the Swamis at Satchidananda Ashram/Integral Yoga Center. In addition to being a Professionally certified Kripalu Yoga Instructor, Luann also completed a 200-Hour certification in the Iyengar style of hatha yoga; and spent two years in The Haden Institute’s Dream Interpretation Group Leader Certification program. She is acknowledged as a Experienced Yoga Teacher-500 by the national Yoga Alliance. She has also completed her 500-Level Certification as a Professional Yoga Therapist in Joseph LePage's Integrative Yoga Therapy program. Luann is amazed at what yoga can do for the body, mind and spirit. She began yoga, like many do, to better manage stress. Yoga has also helped her overcome physical challenges—including arthritis, pleurisy, a painfully swayed back, and a torn meniscus. Even more, yoga has strengthened Luann's love and sense of awe. Her goal as a yoga teacher and therapist is to inspire her students to embrace yoga as a tool to help them become healthier. To make their bodies more limber and strong, their hearts more open and joyful, their minds more clear and calm. Luann loves sharing the gift of yoga and its profound healing effects with both beginners and advanced students of all ages, shapes and sizes in both group classes and private sessions. She wants to break down the perceived barriers people have to doing yoga...so everyone--despite limitations--can practice and receive its many benefits. She has used the tools of yoga and meditation to help people manage and heal pain (in their back, shoulders, hips, knees, feet, etc.). She’s helped students with poor posture, sciatica, scoliosis, fatigue, asthma, insomnia, infertility, menopausal and mensus issues, pregnancy, post-natal recovery, organ prolapse, anxiety, panic attacks, depression, high blood pressure/hypertension, weight loss, hyper- & hypo-thyroidism, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, plantar fasciitis, more. A journalist and former communications director and university instructor, Luann is committed to personal, one-on-one communication with her students. [BACK TO TOP]
| | | | | Lauren Anderson  | Certifications: 200-Hour KYT Professional Affiliations: Member, Kripalu Yoga Teachers Association Provides: Yoga Instruction Lauren was first drawn to yoga after discovering its healing ability for anxiety and depression, which she has experienced after undergoing a major life trauma. Lauren believes that, through movement and breathing, you can connect with your true feeling self, something more intuitive and loving than the thinking self. Continuously coming back to her mat to connect with her true self, Lauren has experienced more acceptance, peace and joy in her life. Lauren is known for having “great music,” adding excitement to her classes; leading breathing exercises (pranayama) that help create shifts in energy; and helping students build postures from the ground up. For her Yoga Workout class at Dream, she likes to do for students what she has done for herself - get moving in order to really connect with the body and true self. As someone who played sports her whole life and continues to be an avid runner, Lauren brings athletic exercises into her yoga, allowing the whole body a workout. She aims to show students how vigorous yoga - especially paired with adequate cool-down and relaxation - can bring a new awareness to the creativity, joy and love that is sometimes stuck within you - and you only need to get moving to release some of it! Lauren’s hope in teaching is to cultivate a space for her students to tap into the natural energy and light inside of them, while showing them that non-judgmental awareness and breath can move you through any physical, mental and emotional pain. For her, true and surrendered relaxation occurs after more rigorous movement, so her classes integrate both concepts. [BACK TO TOP] | | | | | Mark Bell | Certifications: CMT, NCTMB Provides: Healing Arts—Therapeutic Deep Tissue Massage & Body Work, Sports Massage Therapy, Swedish Massage, Cranial-Sacral Therapy, Chakra Balancing Mark Bell has more than 30 years experience with 20,000 "bodies under thumb, forearm and elbow” in sports and therapeutic massage. He's known for his ability to use deep tissue massage to help people recover from injuries and muscular strains and perform better in athletic competitions. Regular massage, he has found, can cut the recovery time from surgery and strenuous activities by up to 80 percent! Mark, a Dream Yogi since 2003, has been an active member of the National Capital Area Sports Massage Team (NCASMT) for 17 years. This group of sports massage therapists provides services for 100-mile races, marathons and triathlons. For 10 years, he was the men's massage therapist at the Pentagon. Mark, an 18-year member of AMTA (the American Massage Therapy Association), also brings in other healing modalities as needed to increase, balance and remove blockages from a client's energy system. Mark holds a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting. As a former accountant, he understands the stresses and strains desk, computer and other office work puts on the body. He enjoys helping folks work out what he calls “OWies”… however they got there! [BACK TO TOP]
| | | | | Forbes Robbins Blair 
| Certifications: CHT (Clinical Hypnotherapist) Provides: Dream Interpretation; Hypnosis for easing stress, anxiety, depression, chronic conditions; and Instruction in Self-Hypnosis Forbes Robbins Blair is the author of the #1 hypnosis book, Instant Self-Hypnosis: How to Hypnotize Yourself with Your Eyes Open as well as Self-Hypnosis Revolution: The Amazingly Simple Way to Use Self-Hypnosis to Change Your Life. He graduated from the University of Maryland in 1987 with a BA and became a certified clinical hypnotherapist from the American Institute of Hypnotherapy in 1996. He runs his own personal empowerment business called New Creations that focuses on clinical hypnotherapy and dream analysis. He has taught classes since 1998, facilitated dream groups, and has been a regular dream expert on the XM Satellite Radio show, Broadminded. His current emphasis in his practice is using hypnotherapy to generate love and joy which assists people in overcoming depression, anxiety and chronic conditions. | | | | | Janice Cooper 
| Certifications: B.A., M.A., MSW, 200-Hour KYT & RYT Professional Affiliations: Member of Kripalu Yoga Teachers Association, Yoga Alliance, and International Association of Yoga Therapists Provides: Yoga for Creaky People and Yoga for Athletes Jan has studied yoga and meditation for more than 25 years. Since becoming certified at the Kripalu School of Yoga and Health as a yoga teacher, Jan has taught yoga to seniors and to people with physical challenges. Jan is committed to bringing yoga to people who think they cannot do it – people who think they are not flexible enough, or those who think yoga is just about flexibility, and not about strength. Jan is committed to helping people explore how yoga can help them open to so much more. And for the record, she cannot do a headstand or wrap her leg around her neck, either. Jan has been affiliated with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington for 10 years. She is a distance runner, and recently completed the 2012 Marine Corps Marathon. [BACK TO TOP] | | | | | Lisa Danahy 
| Certifications: 200-Hour Pranakriya Yoga Instructor; RYT-200; Certified trainer under the Certified Trainer Program of the Office of the State Superintendent of Education, Division of Early Childhood Education (OSSE/ECE) for the District of Columbia Professional Affiliations: National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC); Yoga Alliance, and the Kripalu Yoga Teachers Association (KYTA) Provides: Yoga instruction at DreamYoga Studio; and, as a DYS affiliate, brings Dream Yoga classes offsite to schools, businesses and organizations throughout the DC area, specializing in yoga for teachers, parents and preschool-aged children. Some classes offered include Yoga for the Overworked Professional (gentle stretch & strengthening), Kids Yoga Parties (theme-based, yoga experiences for children), and Family Yoga Dance (an interactive combination of traditional yoga postures with modern dance designed to improve health and strengthen the connection between adult and child). Lisa is also affiliated with Olney Yoga in Olney, MD. Lisa began her yoga journey in 2001 as a student of DreamYoga Founder and Director Luann Fulbright. Recognizing immediately the physical benefits of yoga and gradually uncovering its profound spiritual dimensions, Lisa was moved by her practice of KripaluYoga. Her busy life as a mother of two boys, active community volunteer, and full-time professional in the fields of human resources and early childhood education often relegated Lisa's yoga practice to the sidelines. However, the mat kept calling her back. In 2011, driven by the desire to bring yoga into the lives of the students and faculty at the Friendship Children's Center where she is the Executive Director, Lisa completed her 200-hour training in Pranakriya Yoga, a classic form of yoga taught in the tradition of Swami Kripalu. Lisa believes that yoga is a practice that brings strength, joy and richness to life. Yoga is a building block for creating a community of active, aware and compassionate citizens. She is the founder and director of Dynamic Life Yoga, LLC, in Rockville, MD. Lisa’s long-time interest in serving children and families is supported by a BA in Psychology, with an emphasis on Child Psychology. | | | | | Linda Dunphy 
| Certifications: 200-RYT & Pranakriya Yoga Teacher; 500-KYT (Kripalu Yoga Teacher Certification) in process; CPR Professional Affiliations: Yoga Alliance, Kripalu Yoga Teachers Association Provides: Yoga Instruction With 20 years of yoga experience, Linda Dunphy offers her students an in-depth wellspring of balanced and invigorating yoga. She’s dedicated to and skilled in creating an environment of compassion, permission, acceptance and patience, while guiding each individual in the experience of being present in their practice and their life. A rich career in humanitarian nonprofit leadership lends to her teaching poise. Linda’s students receive careful attention to alignment, modifications for physical limitations, and safety (inclusive of props). Each class integrates a yogic theme to enrich and anchor the mind-body connection of practice. Linda’s life is anchored by her devotion to her personal home practice. The mat grounds her life through thick and thin, she says. “From the moment I finished my first yoga class 20 years ago, I intuitively knew I’d be doing this the rest of my life.” Dedicated to a path of deepening her yoga teaching palette, she deepens her yoga knowledge and skill every year with annual yoga retreats, workshops and trainings. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | Bonnie Elliott | Certifications & Training: MSW, RYT-200, 60 Hours–Therapeutic Yoga for Seniors, Duke Integrative Medicine; Structural Yoga Therapy; and Vertebral Column: Anatomy, Asana and Therapeutics & Experiential Anatomy with Judith Hanson Lasater Professional Affiliations: Yoga Alliance, International Association of Yoga Therapists, Registered Practicing Member, International Yoga Association Provides: Therapeutic Yoga Classes and Private Sessions, Specialized Yoga Workshops Bonnie is certified as a teacher of Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, the only psycho-spiritual based yoga in the U.S. In addition, she has extensive training in therapeutic yoga that meets the unique needs of the aging body and mind. She continues to enhance her expertise through study with nationally renowned yoga teachers including; Betsey Downing, Judith Hanson Lasater, Ellen Saltonstall and Amy Weintraub. Her classes are designed to address health challenges such as: high blood pressure, osteoporosis, heart disease, osteoarthritis, COPD, joint replacement, and Parkinson's disease. Bonnie’s teaching experience includes yoga classes for Boomers & Beyond: Dream Yoga Studio, senior centers, Sommerset Retirement Community, the Parkinson Foundation of the National Capital Area and Inova HealthSource. This fall, Bonnie begins providing yoga through Fairfax County's Independent Living Project. She is collaborating with a local healthy lifestyle professional and a Tai Chi instructor to build the Northern Virginia Osteoporosis Resource Center. Bonnie’s passion is sharing her knowledge and experience with others to ignite their curiosity and participation in the amazing journey of self discovery that can lead to balance, harmony and contentment. She has found that the unique approach of Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy is the perfect forum for investigating our inner wisdom and applying what we discover to our everyday interactions to live a life that is rich and meaningful. Bonnie’s classes facilitate students’ self-directed process of exploration while providing a safe space for students to learn from their own inner wisdom. She encourages students to observe their unique experience - their highest authority, and to be empowered by that learning to change and grow. As Carl Rogers said, “It is experience that I must return to again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming me.” As a practitioner of yoga since 2003, asana, pranayama and meditation practices with their multitude of benefits have become an integral part of Bonnie’s daily lifestyle. She is a strong believer in cultivating a well-balanced lifestyle that encompasses all aspects of physical, emotional and spiritual health care; and continuously seeks information on traditional and innovative practices that enhance well-being. Bonnie is committed to serving others through sharing newfound possibilities with each and everyone with whom she has the privilege of teaching and learning from. Also an EAP professional, Bonnie provides individual counseling, post-trauma intervention, management consultation and organizational development services. She has conducted trainings for employee groups including: Stress Management, Balancing Work and Family, Dealing with Difficult People and Healthy Lifestyles. [BACK TO TOP] | | | | | | | | Caroline Hesse | Certifications: 500-Hour Bikram Yoga Teacher, 200-Hour Pranakriya Yoga Provides: Yoga Instruction After many years of traditional exercise and athletics, and several years of daily intensive karate practice, Caroline’s back had reached its limit. Her mother introduced her to Bikram yoga; and in the Fall of 2001 she moved to Los Angeles for the intensive, two-month long, 500-hour Bikram Yoga Teacher Training. With a renewed spine, she set out to teach Bikram for several years. In 2002, Caroline was introduced to Yogiraj Amrit Desai, prominent student of Swami Kripalu and founder of Kripalu Yoga Center. The unique meditative and intention-based approach of the Kripalu style of hatha yoga was a true awakening for body, mind and spirit! Caroline further studied with Yogi Desai in 2003 participating in a Yoga Nidra (literally “yogic sleep”) meditation intensive. She was serendipitously introduced to Luann Fulbright’s Kriplau classes at Dream Yoga Studio in 2004, and continued her yoga practice at DYS through pregnancy and after the birth of her daughter in July 2006. She is also an avid self-study student of nutrition, wellness and healing arts. After three years of staying home with her daughter and too little yoga, Caroline has recently returned to her study of yoga -- this time, the Kripalu-based Pranakriya Yoga Teacher Training Program at Dream. She also has begun training for certification as a Nutritional Therapist, and is excited about sharing her experience with her Dream family. [BACK TO TOP]
| | | | | Larkin Goff 
| Certifications: 200-Hour KYT & RYT, Divine Life Yoga Nidra Instructor Professional Affiliations: Member of Kripalu Yoga Teachers Association Provides: Group & Private Instruction in Yoga and Yoga Nidra Guided Relaxation Larkin began practicing yoga when she was in high school. Inspired by her mother's yoga practice, and looking for something to balance her avid soccer playing, she found what she was looking for in Kripalu Yoga, as well as Power Vinyasa Yoga. As many do, she began to practice for the physical benefit, as well as the camaraderie of family and friends. Yoga didn’t always ‘feel good,’ but she always felt better after a class, without really knowing why. This experiential evidence was enough for her to return again and again. Yoga continued to weave in and out of Larkin’s life, staying mostly in the realm of a physical practice, until a relationship break-up prompted a life-changing swadhyaya (self-study) course with DC-based life coach Carolyn Butcher. This inspired a commitment to a regular practice of yoga, journaling and meditation, and began an investigation into yoga as a way of living. These valuable practices continue to transform Larkin’s life. In 2011, she felt it was time to share her passion and practice with others, and took the 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Certification Training at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health. She returned in May of 2012 to take the Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra Teacher Training.
Larkin’s teaching style is informed by Kripalu’s philosophy of compassionate self-inquiry. Her classes are an accessible blend of mind, body and breath convergence. She acts as a guide to create a collaborative experience between teacher and student, leading the class through centering, creative asana sequences, movement inquiry and relaxation. During her Yoga Nidra classes, Larkin leads the conscious mind on a journey through the koshas, or layers of being, providing the opportunity for healing and transformation on the physical, energetic, mental, emotional and spiritual layers. Larkin, also a photographer, incorporates imagery from her love of the natural world and her interest in the mind-body-spirit connection to craft an experience which is unique and meaningful. In addition to Yoga Nidra, Larkin leads a Yoga Workout class at Dream, during which she draws inspiration from her experience in power yoga, blending this strong physical practice with the mindfulness of Kripalu's holistic approach to yoga. [BACK TO TOP] | | | | | Katherine 'Kat' Katz 
| Certifications: KYT-500, RYT-500, NCMT Provides: Yoga & Meditation Instruction Kat began her yoga practice as a student of Dream Yoga Studio with Luann Fulbright, and has been teaching since 2004. Her love of yoga led her to seek basic and advanced yoga teacher training. She has taught all levels of yoga, from gentle to vigorous, at various area studios and enjoys working with students of all abilities, including teens. She is currently finishing up her second 500-hour training in Pranakriya Yoga with Yoganand Michael Carroll. In addition to being a yoga teacher, Kat is a graduate of the Northern Virginia School of Therapeutic Massage. She is also an artist and musician. Teens enjoy her instruction, which is skilled as well as playful with postures. They find her to be someone they can relate to. Adults appreciate her emphasis on alignment, breath, and experiencing the present moment. [BACK TO TOP]
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| | Cristina Kuhn | Certifications: E-RYT-200, 500-KYT Provides: Yoga Instruction for Adults and Children. Groups, privates and corporate yoga classes; prenatal Cristina loves yoga and how it truly connects her to her self and to others. She experiences its transformative effects daily and is grateful not only for the gift of her own practice, but also for the gifts the students give her by sharing their practices. A graduate of Pure Prana's 2009 yoga teacher training program and The Kripalu School of Yoga in 2012, where she is currently pursuing her 1000 hour in Yoga Therapy. She is registered as an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher-200 with the Yoga Alliance as and with Kripalu as a KYT-500. In addition to her studies of Kripalu Yoga, her teaching style is also influenced by other hatha yoga styles, including Jivamukti, Ashtanga, Anusara, Kundalini, Self-Awakening and Restorative Yoga. Cristina is also certified to teach The Rocket Vinyasa System and Itsy Bitsy Yoga. Her training and work in Interior Design gives her the fine attention to detail yoga teachers need to guide students’ safely in and out of poses. Cristina’s gentle approach to even the most effort-full practices allows students to engage without overdoing. If things get too serious, she’s likely to lighten the room with laughter and warmth. [BACK TO TOP] | | | | | | | | | | | Kelly Monahan | Certifications: B.A., RYT-C (200-hour training program for Family Yoga with an Emphasis on Children); YoKid & Radiant Child Yoga Certified; Certified YogaFit Instructor Provides: Yoga Instruction – Emphasis on Sports, Children and Youth Kelly is the Lead Teacher for Dream Yoga Studio’s “Yoga for Dream Kids” program. Children who regularly attend Dream’s weekly and monthly KIDS YOGA classes with Kelly adore her!! She is completing her RYT 200-Hour Certification in the “Radiant Child Yoga” school of teaching training with Shakta Kaur Khalsa. Kelly is five-year student of Dream Yoga Studio/Kripalu-Style Yoga, and also teaches yoga throughout the Washington Metro area. Kelly is also certified as a YogaFit instructor which she used while coaching girls lacrosse. She taught girls lacrosse teams yoga to improve mental clarity, athletic ability, team involvement & overall well-being. Kelly also provides Yoga Parties for children and teens at Dream Yoga Studio; works for a mobile enrichment program called YogaTales bringing yoga to preschools, middle schools and high schools throughout the Washington, D.C.; and teaches yoga to 2 to 5-year-olds at Langley Children's Center. While earning her B.A. in Religious Studies, Kelly focused on Buddhist practice and psychology. Her goal as a yoga teacher is to give children a chance to express themselves openly and creatively. “I gently teach good manners and listening skills, but I primarily try to let kids be kids,” Kelly says. “I want children to learn classic yoga while understanding you can do yoga in many ways on and off the mat.” Kelly also enjoys showing children and young adults how to use yoga to prevent and overcome sports injuries. [BACK TO TOP]
| | | | | Bernadette O'Donnell 
| Certifications: Reiki Master, Certified Massage Therapist, Interplay Leader, Healing Light I and II, Healing Health Coach, Certified Laughter Leader; BA, Psychology
Professional Affiliations: Member of Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals
Provides: Reiki, Aroma Touch Therapeutic Massage, Swedish Massage, Education on Doterra Essential Oils (including use of Zyto Compas Energy Body Scanning Technology), Healing Health Coach, InterPlay and Movement Instruction Bernadette has been a massage therapist since 2005, after graduating from Tai Chi Massage School in Herndon, Va. She is passionate about using Certified-Pure Therapeutic-Grade essential oils—what she calls “nature's medicine” – as a key part of her practice. Her Swedish massage with the oils is “not your normal” essential oil massage. The combination of the oils she uses, based on an intuitive and technology-supported scan and assessment of your body’s energy needs, enables her to use the oils to support your body’s own intelligence to heal--minimizing symptoms and addressing root causes of ailments. Her experience with and use of Reiki, Play and Movement, Health Coaching and laughter...combined with her gentle nature…makes a session with Bernadette particularly healing and, to many, life-changing.
A significant life event led Bernadette to her more naturalistic approach to healing. About 13 years ago, she went "Code Blue" in a hospital emergency room due to a reaction to antibiotics. The trauma induced a Grand Mal Seizure that left her in a coma for three days, as well as breaking two lumbar vertebrae in her back. While in the coma, she didn’t feel her body, just unconditional love and peace! For six months after awakening from the coma, she felt extreme pain from the broken ribs causing sleepless nights, difficulty breathing and unclear thinking. She discovered a strong mind-body connection between her thoughts, pain and healing her body. The body, she has confirmed, is an amazing tool that changes chemistry as thinking changes; with intricate emotional, mental, physical and spiritual connections. The more she noticed grievances, irritation and discomfort, she found herself saying, "Oh, here is an opportunity to heal." Bernadette has helped people address back and other pain, insomnia, anxiety, ADHD, IBS, hormonal imbalance, asthma, sprains and breaks, nausea, cancer recovery, more. She is delighted to be able to help facilitate healing for you at Dream. [BACK TO TOP] | | | | | Michael Peterson 
| Certifications: 200-KYT, 200-RYT, 500-Kripalu Yoga Teacher (Certification in Progress) Provides: Yoga Instruction & Private Sessions In New York City, Michael was dragged into his first yoga class against his will; but after one class, he realized he had found a home. It was the first time he had experienced quiet in the midst of the spinning, hectic, city environment. Michael was originally certified by Yoga to the People in New York City. He is training now with the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health for his 500-hour certification. Previously, he studied dance, the Alexander Technique, and acting at Boston University and is Reiki-certified. Michael believes that, since no two of us are exactly the same, each of us has a personal way of practicing yoga. His classes are an opportunity to discover what serves you so that you can make choices to create a suitable lifestyle for you. In keeping with his interest in personalizing yoga, he has also worked privately with students living with Arthritis, Hemophilia, heart conditions, Sciatic pain, and lower-back (lumbar) issues. | | | | | | [BACK TO TOP] | | | | | Alicia Reilly | Certifications: 200-Hour Pranakriya Yoga & RYT Professional Affiliations: Kripalu Yoga Teachers Association, International Association of Yoga Therapists, Yoga Alliance Provides: Yoga Instruction at Dream & for Businesses/Organizations As an owner and manager of a small business, Alicia embraces a regular yoga practice as part of a commitment to live a more balanced life. As she began to experience the many gifts a regular practice bestows—including an expanded sense of awareness and well-being—she was inspired to share and to help make it more accessible to family, friends, employees and colleagues. In addition to instructing at Dream, she takes her Yoga teaching ‘on-the-road’ to Northern Virginia schools’ teachers and staff. A long-time student of Luann’s and Kripalu Yoga, Alicia is certified, RYT-200 in Pranakriya Yoga, based in the Kripalu Yoga tradition. [BACK TO TOP] | | | | | Steve Ross 
| Certifications: Certified Laughter Yoga Instructor, MBA Provides: Laughter Yoga Instruction, Meditation Instruction Steve is a yogi and meditation teacher who received his certification as a Laughing Yoga Teacher at Satchidinanda Ashram (Yogaville). In 2007, Steve was challenged by his coach trainer to laugh and have more fun in life, and found Laughter Yoga. He welcomes the opportunity to share the many gifts of Laughter Yoga with students and friends at Dream Yoga Studio. When he's not laughing, Steve works full-time in telecommunications sales management. He received his MBA from UNC, and is getting certified as a Professional Leadership Coach. His partner, Sunny, a yoga instructor, is also a certified Laughing Yoga Instructor. Steve is from Brighton in the UK and has lived in the United States for 10 years, in San Francisco and Reston, Virginia. He is acknowledged for non-profit work with Washington D.C.'s Capital Partners for Education and Northern Virginia's Alternative House (ex-board member); and is currently learning Mandarin. | | | | | Camille Shiotsuski 
| Certifications: M.S., Certified Yoga Dance Teacher by Let Your Yoga Dance®, Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200), Certified Nia Instructor, Certified Ageless Grace® Educator Professional Affiliations: Let Your Yoga Dance® Teachers Association, Nia Technique, Kripalu Yoga Teachers Association Provides: Yoga Dance, Nia and Ageless Grace® classes, workshops and parties on- and off- site. Private/small group strength training. Camille has been a long-time student at Dream Yoga Studio where her Yoga journey began. In parallel to practicing Yoga, she studied fitness techniques and became certified for Personal Training (2004) and Pilates Mat (2005), and completed 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training (2006). She has taught customized fitness training sessions and Yoga classes in private and corporate settings, with emphasis on building and maintaining the body that enables one to fully enjoy life. In 2010, Camille’s love for dance and movements that was cultivated in earlier years by ballet and ballroom dancing nudged her to explore another avenue for life-time fitness. Camille completed Yoga Dance Teacher Training under Let Your Yoga Dance® at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health. She further expanded her offerings to include Nia, a holistic movement exercise incorporating moves from Martial Arts, Dance Arts. Her other classes also reach out for a wide range of populations: Family Yoga Dance for children and their caregivers, and Ageless Grace® for those who prefer a gentler approach to exercise. These offerings added another dimension to the programs at Dream Yoga Studio, making it the only yoga studio in Northern Virginia that provides multiple options for approaching fitness and wellness through movements to the rhythms of music. [BACK TO TOP] | | | | | Bethiny Stark 
| Certifications & Training: B.S., Communication Sciences and Disorders (Speech Pathology and Audiology); KYT-200; Budding Yogis 20-Hour Teacher Certification from Circle Yoga in Chevy Chase, MD; 14-hour Street Yoga Teacher Certification from Street Yoga in Portland, OR. Inclusive Trainer Certification and Inclusive Yoga Training from Kids Included Together in San Diego, CA. Continued Education in Early Childhood Special Education Professional Affiliations: Kripalu Yoga Teachers Association Provides: Kids Yoga, Family Yoga, Private Therapeutic Yoga for Kids Bethiny believes anyone and everyone can experience the many benefits of yoga, and strives to create a comfortable and accessible environment for all of her students, both children and adults. Her 200-hour training was completed through the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, a style of yoga which focuses on mindful practice and the balance of mind, body and spirit. Bethiny’s classes are grounded in this compassionate Kripalu style that combines creative movement, strengthening postures, meditation, breath awareness and deep relaxation. A certified Kids Yoga instructor with a professional background in inclusion, Bethiny enjoys teaching yoga to children of all ages and abilities. In her position of Inclusion Specialist for the Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital, she often taught inclusive yoga to girls of all abilities and also developed inclusive trainings for Girl Scout teens and adults that incorporate accessible yoga. She is especially inspired by nature, music, and the prana/life force energy we all possess. [BACK TO TOP] | | | | | Laurie Tarpey | Certifications & Training: RYT-200, Certified Pranakriya Yoga Instructor; Authorized Yoga Warriors Instructor-Warriors At Ease, “Fundamentals of Teaching Yoga and Mediation in Military Communities,” Certificate of Completion; Pranakriya Prenatal Yoga200-hour Pranakriya Yoga, Authorized Yoga Warriors Instructor Professional Affiliations: Kripalu Yoga Teachers Association; Yoga Alliance 200-hour RYT (Registered Yoga Teacher) Provides: Yoga & Prenatal Yoga Instruction Laurie had enjoyed a yoga class here and there, but turned to it regularly in January 2006 after deciding to turn around the New Year’s resolution process from thinking about what she should do in the New Year to what she wanted to do. Taking yoga was one of the answers. Already physically active, Laurie was mainly looking for a dedicated hour of peace and introspection – sort of a meditation in motion - in an otherwise typically busy Metro-DC life. It was actually the last 10 minutes of each class spent relaxing in Shavasana (relaxation) pose that initially hooked her. Ultimately, she saw that more peace can come from a compassionate observation of and change in patterns that no longer served her or the people she cares about. Yoga offered a pause from the busy-ness of everyday life to think about what to leave behind and what to embrace. Yoga also offered better strength, flexibility and balance. Laurie completed the Pranakriya Yoga 200-hour training in 2011, and continues to take workshops and trainings, including prenatal yoga and Warriors at Ease trainings. She looks forward to teaching these special populations, as well as classes at Dream Yoga, where Laurie has taught Gentle, Stretch and Strengthen, and Yoga Workout classes. She has also taught yoga at a retreat for peoplewith HIV/AIDS. She seeks to create a safe space for her students where they can pause, observe their experience and explore their edge. [BACK TO TOP] | | | | | Jon Waterman 
| Provides: Meditation Instruction, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Personal Coaching Jon Waterman began practicing yoga and meditation while teaching the martial arts in the early seventies. Since then, he has studied extensively with teachers from around the world with a concentration, since 1994, on Buddhist insight meditation. In the past decade, he has strengthened his personal practice by attending over 100 retreats and workshops. The majority of these being seven to thirty-day, silent, residential retreat settings. His classes, workshops and retreats focus on strengthening continuity of present moment awareness by synthesizing mindful movement, insight dialogue, and various meditation techniques within a relaxed environment. He is one of the founding directors of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington (IMCW), and has been a member of that organization’s Teacher’s Council since its inception. Jon is fortunate to be able to dedicate his career to this work. His courses are well-received in high school, hospital, prison and business environments. He enjoys a successful personal coaching practice, and is also a founding partner of Mind-Body Health Associates, a group dedicated to bringing stress reduction programs into the community and workplace. [BACK TO TOP]
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