The Dream Team

Luann

Fulbright

Dream Yoga’s Founder

& Co-Owner

Creator of the

for-credit yoga

program at

George Mason University

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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., C-IAYT (International Association of Yoga Therapy-Certified Yoga Therapist); CEOLS (Certified End-of-Life Specialist); IYT-500 (Professional-Level Integrative Yoga Therapist); KYT-500 (Professional Level Kripalu Yoga Teacher); E-RYT 500 (Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance);  500 YACEP (Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider); Dynamic Gentle Yoga (80 Hours); Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra Instructor (40 Hours), and Advanced Level Reiki Certification in the Usui System of Natural Healing. In 2017 at the sacred site of Moray, Peru, Luann was initiated by Q’ero elder Don Sebastian Flores of the Incan lineage as Pampomesayoc (Earth Keeper).

Professional Affiliations: Member & Certified Yoga Therapist, International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT); Kripalu Yoga and Ayurveda Association (KYAA), National Yoga Alliance (YA)

Provides:  Yoga and Meditation Instruction--Groups & Privates, Therapeutic Yoga, Life & End-of-Life Coaching, and Dream Interpretation for Individuals and Groups

Luann has been practicing meditation and yoga since 1975 and teaching since 1999. Her teaching reflects her years of studying a variety of yoga and meditation styles with some of the nation’s foremost instructors. These include Kripalu/Pranakriya Master Teacher Yoganand Michael Carroll; Jonathan Foust, founder of the Mindfulness Training Institute of Washington; Judith Lasater;  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 an 80-Hour certification in Dynamic Gentle Yoga; 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 Registered Yoga Teacher, E-RYT 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 meditation and yoga can do for the body, mind and spirit. She began  these practices at l, 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.

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Lauren C. Fulbright

Dream Yoga

Certifications:  M.A., 500 E-RYT (Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher), 500-KYT (Professional Level Kripalu Yoga Teache)r, RYT-500; Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra Instructor; Five-Element Yoga Instructor; Kripalu Yoga in the Schools; Dynamic Gentle Yoga; and Radiant Child Yoga; Advanced Level Reiki Certification in Usui System of Natural Healing

Professional Affiliations: Kripalu Yoga and Ayurveda Association (KYAA), and Yoga Alliance

Provides: Yoga and Yoga Nidra Guided Meditation Instruction for Teens, Tweens, Children, Families and Adults (Group Classes, Privates, Off-Site, and Parties); Freelance Musician/Music Booking (for a variety of venues, including yoga studios/events); and Life Coaching.  Private Yoga Instruction includes Pre-Wedding Yoga for reducing stress and increasing joy.

After beginning her yoga practice as a teenager, Lauren quickly fell in love—finding that yoga helped her manage stress, the pressures of schoolwork, body image issues, and to feel more confident both on and off the mat.

Over the past decade, she has experienced firsthand how yoga can be a vital component in balancing the everyday pressures, work stresses and activities of a busy and fulfilling life. With the dream of extending these benefits to others, Lauren completed her 200-hour yoga teaching training under Kripalu Master Teacher Jovinna Chan. She completed her 300-Hour Kripalu Teacher Certification with a special focus on Guiding Meditation for Transformational Yoga; Instructing Yoga for Special Populations; and Leading Kripalu Vinyasa, Advanced Asana and Pranayama.

The daughter of Studio Director Luann Fulbright, Lauren is excited to be teaching at Dream Yoga, and enjoys bringing her love of creative languaging and expressive music to both her vinyasa flow classes for adults and children's/teen programming. She is especially delighted to teach tweens and teens, as she has had a long-held interest in working with young people.

Lauren also supports the Studio on the business side as Dream’s Marketing Manager. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Randolph-Macon Woman's College and a M.A. in Journalism and Public Affairs from American University.

Lauren hopes to share with both her students and the wider Dream community how the regular practice of Kripalu Yoga, Yoga Nidra and the yogic lifestyle can help you make lasting changes, find balance and peace, pursue your calling, and build a full and beautiful life.

In addition to teaching yoga and Life Coaching, Lauren is a professional singer/songwriter and journalist in the DC area. Visit her at www.laurenfulbright.com and find her on facebook at: www.facebook.com/laurenfulbrightmusic. For music booking and other inquiries, contact laurenfulbrightmusic@gmail.com

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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! 

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Maria Patricia Diaz

Certifications: MS, KYT-200 (Kripalu Yoga Teacher), RYT-200® (Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance), and Health Supportive Chef from The Natural Gourmet Institute

Professional Affiliations: National Yoga Alliance, Kripalu Yoga and Ayurveda Association (KYAA), Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), Association of Talent Development (ATD)

Provides: Yoga Basics and meditation instruction for group classes and private clients. Life and professional/executive coaching. 

Patricia’s yoga journey began in 1989 when she was diagnosed with stage four terminal cancer. During the most difficult time in her life, and with the help of friends, family and life mentors, she turned to yoga, plant-based diets, and other wellness techniques to manage her crisis and then gently restore her health after cancer treatments.

The lessons Patricia learned and years of yoga practice led to an enthusiasm for well-being, a search for a depth of knowledge, and provided a compass for her life and career. In 2019, motivated by a desire to start sharing this knowledge with others, she completed a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training Program at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health.  It also led her to pursue training in the plant-based chef program at the Natural Gourmet Institute in New York City.

Patricia’s teaching style reflects the influence of gurus and teachers that have come into her life. She is passionate about teaching the foundations of yoga to beginners and all ... partly because she spent many years working on the basics, but also because she believes that anyone – no matter the physical challenge – can practice yoga. She loves to help others connect with their inner wellness coach, and she believes that a genuine practice starts with a strong foundation honoring the principles of ‘ahimsa’ – first do no harm. 

Patricia is also a writer, health-supportive chef, and a human resources expert. Visit her website and “Colorful Ever After” blog about her lessons learned after cancer at www.mpatriciadiaz.com.

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Colette

DiTullio

Certifications: B.A., KYT-200, RYT-200, Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra, Therapeutic  Yoga for Seniors Professional Training/Duke University/Integrative Medicine, Dynamic Gentle Yoga

Professional Affiliations: Kripalu and Ayurveda Association (KYAA), Yoga Alliance, and International Association of Yoga Therapists

Provides: Yoga and meditation instruction for groups and private students, including Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra 

Colette, a certified Kripalu Yoga Instructor, has practiced yoga for over 20 years and continually takes workshops with a variety of yoga masters.

She enjoys working with students of all ages and activity levels, including seniors, and believes yoga is a wonderful way to heal the body, mind and spirit and prevent illness. She believes in and shares a holistic approach to well-being and that, through proper nutrition, movement, breath work and meditation, one can achieve and maintain a healthy well-balanced lifestyle. There is no better investment than one’s health!

Colette feels that a consistent yoga practice helps students reap the many benefits of yoga. She recognizes that each student is unique and strives to provide a welcoming, safe and noncompetitive class at a comfortable pace with easy-to-follow verbal cues and options where students feel comfortable and enjoy themselves through mindful exploration. She enjoys getting to know her students and their needs and encouraging them to challenge themselves to be their best. 

Colette’s classes focus on muscle imbalances, posture, circulation, flexibility, strength, balance, cleansing the lymphatic system and boosting the immune system. She emphasizes being mindful of the breath throughout the entire practice using the breath as a tool to be present, nourish the body, move energy, clear the mind and de-stress.

Her hope is that each student will realize the benefits of what yoga has to offer and enjoy a never-ending yoga journey that will help them live a life of greater ease, in a positive, happy, peaceful manner. 

Colette comes to teaching yoga after a career in the commercial interior design field. She’s a mother of two grown sons, an avid gardener and community volunteer. 

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Anita L. Schill

Certifications:  PhD, MPH, MA, RYT 500 (Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher 500-hours), C-IAYT (International Association of Yoga Therapy-Certified Yoga Therapist), Certified Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist (Himalayan Institute), Certified Ashaya Yoga® Teacher, Certified Body Balance Yoga® Therapist, Certified Sacred Centers Chakra Healer, Certified Eden Energy Medicine Practitioner

Professional Affiliations: Yoga Alliance (YA), Member & Certified Yoga Therapist, International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT); Kripalu Yoga and Ayurveda Association (KYAA)

Provides:  Group & Private Yoga Instruction, Therapeutic Yoga Classes & Private Sessions, Energy Medicine Private Sessions

Anita is passionate about teaching students students of all levels and abilities, with a special interest in guiding “Silver Warriors” – yoga students in their wisdom years.  Inspired by her own Silver Warrior journey to retain strength, flexibility and balance as she ages and helping her parents through their trials and tribulations of aging, she is sensitive to the needs of students who, perhaps, have become “creaky” with age or wear-and-tear by physical exercise or life events. She skillfully offers students modifications to poses to help them find their optimal pose expression.  Her yoga classes weave yoga postures (asanas) with yoga philosophy and themes that apply to modern living.  Anita’s classes also incorporate therapeutic fascial release techniques to help your body slide and glide as it was designed to do and energy medicine practices that re-pattern energy imbalances that impede optimal health and well-being. 

Anita loves sharing the knowledge she has gained in her studies with Dream yoga students, which she has done since 2013. She has been practicing yoga since 1999 and teaching since 2011.  Anita teaches an alignment-based, heart-oriented yoga style that includes a spiritual dimension for a practice designed to safely open the body, mind, heart and spirit.  Her 200-hour yoga teacher training was in the Anusara® tradition.  She subsequently completed a 500-hour course of study in Body Balance Yoga®, and a 300-hour advanced teacher training program in the Ashaya Yoga® method.  She began her studies of the energetic body with Anodea Judith and became a Certified Sacred Centers Healer in 2020.  Intrigued by the subtle body’s energetic systems, Anita went on to study Eden Energy Medicine and she is in her third year of studies.

This winter, in classes, Anita will focus on feet as the means to your quality of life, building strength so you can fend off the loss of muscle mass that comes with aging, and balance to withstand the challenges of daily life.  Into that mix, she’ll sprinkle energy medicine techniques to empower you to achieve your highest levels of health and well-being.  

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Nevin Turk

Certifications:   500 Hr-KYT Professional Level Kripalu Yoga Teacher; Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra; Dynamic Gentle Yoga; Qigong Practice Leader by Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi. IFS (Internal Family Systems) Level 1 certified practitioner. Also completing two-year mindfulness meditation teacher training by UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, led by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach.  

Professional Affiliations: Kripalu Yoga and Ayurveda Association (KYAA), Yoga Alliance, National Qigong Association

Provides: Private and Group Yoga, Yoga Nidra, QiGong, Meditation and IFS-Based Life Coaching

Nevin is a strong believer of “body benefits from movement and mind benefits from stillness.” In her yoga classes, she might add in energetic aspects of Qigong to create a richer practice. She also includes many mindful inquiries in the movement practices to invite the practitioners to be aware of the interplay between the body and mind.

She guides accessible yoga, using a self-empowering and mindful approach that facilitates deep release and inner connection for beginners as well as experienced practitioners.

Her career history includes a unique blend of over 20 years of corporate work at the WBG with over seven years of movement and mindfulness meditation teaching and life coaching.   

Nevin’s intention is to share the benefits of yoga and mindfulness and to incorporate them into our daily lives to increase compassionate self-acceptance and get in touch with the very essence of who we are. 

Visit her at www.moveintostillness.com; https://www.facebook.com/Investinyourselfnow. For contact nevin.turk@gmail.com.

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