Bending Bodhi Yoga

Sarah was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. She was trained in Vinyasa Flow 200+hr. Her practice started in 1999 with Anusara Yoga where she feels the root of her teaching comes from. She studies many different styles of yoga including Iyengar, Ashtanga, Kundalini, and Anusara.
Sarah believes in balancing your practice with masculine and feminine, muscular energy and organic energy, mind and body as well as heart opening.
Her personal philosophy is to go upside-down everyday!
She loves to challenge her students to not only try something new and exciting physically but to open up your mental and emotional possibilities to what the hour or so holds for you.
Sarah believes yoga is a way to create a controlled confrontational situation so that when you get out into the world you have the resources to breath and realign your body and mind in a way that will handle any stress.
Most importantly Sarah loves to “play” and experiment with new and fun postures. She was also trained by Miniyogis, in Santa Monica, CA, to teach Kids Yoga.

Sarah Tretter is a 200 hour aligned vinyasa RYT, NASM certified personal trainer and nutrition coach. After earning her fitness and nutrition certification in the U.S in 2021, she traveled to Asia to do an intensive yoga teacher training under Valerie Jeremijenko at Yama Yoga Studio in Koh Phangan, Thailand. 

Sarah had taken yoga classes sporadically for years but it wasn't until 2019 that she dove deep into her practice and discovered the  healing power of yoga. What started as a way to exercise turned into one of the most transformational practices of her life. She is an avid practitioner and hopes as a teacher, to help others come into themselves and discover their own path to healing empowerment & self love.

Off the mat you can find Sarah on a mountain side, at a concert, or playing with one of her four legged best friends.

Chelsea completed her 200 hr training through the Yoga Life institute in 2019. As well as a 25hr Yoga Trapeze certification through YOGABODY^®. Chelsea likes the simple things in life and wants you to create space to enjoy the little parts of your practice that you may not always pay attention to. Through these little practices we can create a space for mindfulness and gratitude. Chelsea’s classes range from relaxing and restorative to upbeat and motivational. She invites you to join her in any of her offered classes to help inspire your passion for your unique practice.

Annie is a 200hr RYT and a licensed acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist. She received her B.S. in Neuroscience from the University of New England and her Masters of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from the New England School of Acupuncture.
Annie is passionate about the mind-body connection and is always striving to learn more in order to improve her own health as well as aid in the healing of others. Her favorite style of yoga to practice and teach are fun and challenging vinyasa flows and especially loves yoga classes that take place in breweries!
In addition to yoga, Annie teaches myofascial release: the act of putting pressure on trigger points in order to release tight muscles. When off the mat, Annie tries to spend as much time outdoors as possible and loves hiking, swimming, paddle boarding, snowshoeing, and skiing. Annie lives with her husband, Rich, and their three fur babies, Tux, Bandit, and Ghost.

Marina Bowie received her RYT-200 teacher training certification from Boston Yoga School in January, 2020 while studying with Ame Wren, Bethany McCorkle, and Melissa Holmes Perkins. She was originally drawn to yoga in 2014 as a form of exercise, and to increase flexibility. Instead, she has found a profound benefit to the practice that extends beyond her original expectations.

Over time, the simple connection of movement and breath has become an outlet for Marina to relieve stress, to calm anxiety, and to connect more intimately with mind and body to cultivate both physical and personal growth. She believes in the power of yoga to help individuals move through the world with greater ease and equanimity. Marina’s goal is to inspire others to exercise yoga in a way that’s safe for their body, and encourages props where helpful to support a practice that is beneficial long-term.

Marina also studied economics and sustainability at the University of New Hampshire and is passionate about sustainable rural development. Beyond the mat, she enjoys the myriad benefits of living in New England and the various opportunities to recreate outdoors – hiking, biking, skiing, etc, especially when the activity is accompanied by good friends and tasty beers.

Rachel received her RTY200 in February of 2021 and has always been an athlete. She loves
horseback riding, volleyball, hiking, and running, and as a result has had personal experience
with physical injuries. Rachel chooses to see her experience with injuries as an advantage, as it
provides her the ability to both empathize and sympathize with students who may need
additional assistance or modifications. After dozens of surgeries and other life-altering traumas,
Rachel’s energy drove her right into the opening arms of Yoga and all of its practices. Through
the practice of physical poses, breath work, and Meditation, Rachel discovered a part of herself
that she never knew existed.
Rachel’s hope and intent is to guide students through their practice and to provide a safe space
where students can cultivate and thrive in their own Yoga practice. Rachel is over the moon to
be lucky enough to have the sincere opportunity to teach and share the Yoga lineage, all the
while, forever remaining a grateful student of Yoga. She is also a “Trauma Informed Facilitator”

Have you ever stood in a place that simultaneously filled you with excitement, peace, happiness, love, fear, trust, hope, despair, gratitude, longing and belonging? A place that sets your vibration so high, you become aware of a deeper meaning to life? The rocky shores of Maine did just that for Katie, and she has since held nothing but love, respect and gratitude for the sea. Much like this connection to nature, yoga became a way of life for her, beginning in 2009. She has since been certified as a Yoga Alliance 200 hour registered teacher and World Paddle Association certified level 2 SUP Yoga instructor. She currently works for the Seacoast-based yoga outreach non-profit organization, Yoga in Action and enjoys working to bring yoga to those in need. Katie's curiosity for life and human condition will continue to shape her teaching, as yoga, community and nature continue to feed her soul. Using breath, alignment, and the knowledge that everyone is different, Katie encourages students to reach their own individual goals in their practice. Striving to live with light, love and kindness, she teaches classes that help others connect to a greater goodness to take out into the world.

Emily Yao - Instructor

Emily is a 200hr RYT, who has been practicing since early childhood. Emily believes the body has an innate ability to heal itself of various ailments if you are willing to give it the attention and time it needs to heal. She is guided by her desire to help individuals connect mind, body, and soul through the power of movement. Emily provides her students with tools that will help aid them along their journey of self-love, something she personally has been practicing along her own healing journey. Emily strongly believes that yoga is for everyone, no matter what age, race, sex. All are welcome. All can benefit, heal, and connect. In her off time Emily enjoys spending time with her dog and going to different workout classes, and you can always find her by the ocean.

Erin Murphy - Instructor

Erin Murphy completed her 200hr+ Vinyasa Flow Yoga certification through Happy Love Yoga with Sarah Jones.
Erin has explored different styles of yoga but feels a deep connection with vinyasa flow. Yoga allows Erin to feel united with the Earth and appreciate the world around her.  She loves SUP yoga, beach yoga, or any way she can bring her practice to the great outdoors.
Erin believes that there is a strong connection between the energy of breath and body.  Through her practice and teaching, she hopes to spread love, peace, and compassion with those she meets.  Teaching allows her to help students see their great strengths and vast capabilities while having fun on the mat.
Outside of yoga Erin works as an elementary school music teacher at Garrison Elementary School in Dover and plays the clarinet. Off the mat Erin enjoys hiking, adventuring, live music, and spending time with her pets and friends.
“Just the act of inhaling and exhaling can be a tremendous love affair.” B.K.S. Iyengar

Heather Campbell - StudioOwner

Heather Campbell is a 200hr E-RYT. She teaches both adults and children. She teaches and practices yoga regularly and is always seeking to learn and evolve in both. She believes strongly in the benefits of a regular asana practice along with pranayama and meditation. She also believes that yoga has no boundaries and that people of all ages, body types, and backgrounds can reap these benefits equally.
She is passionate about yoga’s ability to help us heal from injury, trauma, stress, depression and anxiety, and has witnessed some amazing transformations first hand, including within her own journey.
Heather’s main goal when she is teaching yoga is to make it accessible to all and for her students to leave her classes feelingempowered, confident, and at peace.

Bethany Walker - Studio Manager

Bethany Walker began her yoga practice in 2003 and practiced intermittently for many years. She decided to dedicate time to a daily practice. This love and devotion of her journey fueled her to take a teacher training. In 2015 she completed a 200 hr training in Shakti flow at At Om Yoga with Asa Dustin and Nel Norwesh. In 2016 she completed a second 200 hr Vinyasa training with Sarah Jones at Happy Love Yoga. She is currently enrolled in a 300hr Yin Yoga training with Josh Summers, and has completed the Foundations and Mindfulness Modules.
Bethany loves to create dynamic sequences for her classes. Whether you attend an All Levels, Gentle, or Yin Yoga class she strives to cultivate kindness, compassion and wisdom for body and mind.

Lee is a certified STOTT pilates mat instructor (2009) and STOTT reformer trained.  She received her 200 hr. RYT certification from Yoga on York Studio in 2011, after experiencing for herself the improvements in flexibility and strength realized from a regular practice of yoga.  Her pilates and yoga trainings are an ongoing commitment to build knowledge and expand her teaching approach.  This includes a training program with Sara Meeks, Yoga for a healthy spine, with an emphasis in osteopenia and osteoporosis.   Lee began her pilates and yoga practice 25 years ago to regain strength and flexibility that were compromised from a misalignment in the knee joints.  Even after knee joint replacement nearly 13 years ago, Lee has continued her practice with determination and purpose.  Lee’s goal is to challenge and inspire all fitness levels with a functional workout improving core strength and overall health.  She has been teaching in various locations around the Seacoast for several years.

Shelly Grande - Instructor

Shelly Grande is an international Yoga Teacher, Reiki Master and creator of malas. She connected with yoga while living in Australia and found home on her mat. Inspired by her teacher Kimberly Dahlmann's ability to hold space for her students, she traveled to Maui to immerse in teacher training with Eddie Modestini and Nicid Doane. Her classes are a practice of self love inspired by Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Kundalini, and cosmic astrology. She believes in taking the qualities we strive for on the mat - things like honesty, integrity, and compassion - off the mat and into our world. Shelly is passionate about sharing the tools that continuously help her land in presence, release negativity and realign with her true essence of love and joy. She whole-heartedly believes in the infinite healing abilities of Yoga, Reiki and Meditation. Join Shelly for practice on the mat and invite peace and ease into your world.

Dawn Zitney - Instructor

After many savasanas (final resting pose) in tears, Dawn knew that yoga had come into her life as a healing modality that she needed. Yoga and the yoga community has offered her a tender yet strong space to be, explore, and accept her whole self – mind, body, heart, and spirit. Wanting to go deeper into her own practice and offer the philosophy of yoga to others, she completed her 200 hour RYT training at Bending Bodhi.  
 Dawn’s authenticity, wisdom, and wit make her yoga classes accessible and healing to all identities, body shapes, and life histories. She believes that the strength and vulnerability that transpires on the mat creates a foundation of personal freedom and wisdom off the mat. To aid in this insight and transformation, she gives her students permission to do less and gentle encouragement to use their strength and wisdom to sometimes do more. Her encouraging style helps students meet their bodies and minds with curiosity, gratitude, authenticity, and non-judgement. Dawn integrates compassion, mindfulness, playfulness, and joy into all her classes.  
 You can also find Dawn at the University of New Hampshire where she is a wellness educator/counselor at the campus medical facility, Health & Wellness.

Annie Wagoner - Instructor

Annie Wagoner studied Psychology at Connecticut College and knew all along that she wanted to interconnect her passion for counseling with movement and mind-body nutrition.
She started practicing yoga in 2001 to help aid in her training as a field hockey player and rower Ln college. Yoga brought balance and healing to her body, and helped her tap into deep core power and discover greater strength.
Annie’s classes explore this powerful fusion of yoga and strength. offering dynamic flowing sequences that move from the core and invite vitality, mindfulness, flexibility, balance, and playfulness in.
She strongly believes in preventative medicine and feels that consistent stretching, strengthening, and self-care can heal and restore the body and mind.
Annie is also a Certified Holistic Heath Coach. owner of Core Nourishment, mom of 2 amazing kids, wife of her soul partner, a personal trainer. a foodie, a runner, motivational speaker, and podcaster. Annie is deeply passionate about educating and empowering others to make positive lifestyle choices so that they can fuel their bodies, work, relationships, passions and dreams.
Annie has her 200hr Certified Yoga Teacher (CYT) certification through the Yoga of Energy Flow teacher training at Dover Yoga, her 40hr Still Point Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training certification. and her 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher certification.
She is enormously grateful to be a part of the incredible spiritual] and healing community along the Seacoast and honored to share her passions and teaching at Bending Bodhi.

Olivia Carvalho - Instructor

Olivia was trained in Vinyasa Flow 200+ hr with Happy Love Yoga RYS at Bending Bodhi with Sarah Jones.
She was originally introduced to yoga through the Piyo DVDs. She began deepening her practice in October 2015.
She believes in letting her practice flow organically.
After experiencing the mental and physical benefits from a regular practice she wants to share these benefits with everyone who is interested.

Sarah Hebert - Instructor

Sarah was introduced to Vinyasa yoga back in 2007 after her third daughter was born. Having a bout of post-partum depression, yoga helped her work through her recovery.
After years of intermittently practicing , she realized how beneficial yoga is for not just the body but for her mind and soul as well.
She also loves how yoga provides her with a sense of community and gives her chance to meet new people.
Deciding to join the Yoga 101 program offered through Bending Bodhi Yoga, gave Sarah a new found love and appreciation for yoga and decided she needed to deepen her practice by signing up for the YTT, also offered by Bending Bodhi.
She loves experiencing different styles of yoga but continues to be drawn back to Vinyasa style.
Breath has a very important role in our lives and Sarah feels the connection of your breath through the asanas can be a magical experience and would like to share that with others.
Off the mat, Sarah enjoys spending time with her family, lobster fishing with her husband, and spending time outdoors.

Sarah Goudreault - Instructor

Sarah began practicing yoga in 2015 and has enjoyed the benefits that the transformative practice of yoga brings on and off the mat.
She believes that yoga is a tool for self exploration and growth and that through the practice you can learn to examine the boundaries you have set for yourself in your body and mind.
Sarah enjoys practicing many styles of yoga including Vinyasa, Ashtanga, and Yin.
She completed her 200hr Vinyasa Flow Yoga certification with Sarah Jones through Happy Love Yoga.
Sarah shares her love of yoga with her students in the hope that they cultivate peace within themselves so that the same peace can be shared with others.

Korrie Von Wedel – RTT Mat, BARRE, Reformer 1-3; GRX-TRX; CARDIOSport, IHP Level 1;

Korrie began her journey into Pilates by working one-on-one with an instructor to ease pain from a long-lasting back injury, which led to a vast improvement in her health overall. After having great success but seeing how quiet the world was with their knowledge of Pilates, she felt motivated to educate others. She dove right into teacher training, which led to many other certifications in various body movement modalities. Korrie successfully got Pilates off the ground in Dover with her own practice for many years. Her passion and enthusiasm for teaching exudes in every single class. She takes great care and dedication in helping those achieve their goals, physically and mentally. She understands both sides of that mat and showing up can sometimes be the hardest part. She promises to always make you laugh, bring an amazing playlist, and to build a stronger mind body connection! Her other passions include attending live music, brewery hopping, completing road races, and her four-legged fur babies, Cooper & Penny. Her motto in life is to simply keep it balanced, with a lot of fun, and a lot of sweat!

Jennifer Hill has been practicing yoga since 1998.  She wandered into a yoga class at her local gym, and quickly realized that it was going to form a vital part of her path.  Formerly a Spanish teacher, she has woven yoga practice and mindfulness into schools since the early 2000s.  She has taught yoga in Segovia, Spain and throughout New England.  She completed her 200 hour teacher training from YogaLife NH in Exeter.  She believes in making yoga accessible for all, and enjoys introducing bits of yoga philosophy into her classes.  When not on her mat, you can be sure to find Jen with some combination of her beloved kids and adorable dogs, listening to Spanish pop music and making food for everyone.

Charlene Chandler - Instructor

Charlene is passionate about the transformative power of yoga, meditation, and the energy system of the body.
Her mission is to empower her students to investigate, understand, forgive, laugh and heal, in an effort to release tension and stress. Inviting a journey to our highest self and greatest purpose.
Charlene became certified in The Rasamaya Method of Yoga in 2013 in an intensive training on Star Island, one of the Isles of Shoals. She returns to Star Island annually to teach at the Star Island Yoga Retreat.

Elizabeth (she/her) first discovered yoga in the shelves at the Dover Public Library at the age of 8, which sums up two of her passions -- wellness and reading.  She started actively practicing yoga in 2003 and obtained a 200-hour vinyasa-based teaching certification in 2012 from Breathe in Rochester, NY. Since then, she has taught in a variety of settings and her relationship with yoga has naturally evolved. In working through recovery from a traumatic birth experience, she rediscovered the integral part that intentional movement plays in the healing process and “coming home” to your body. She focuses on releasing the influence of the ego and finding ease, both on and off the mat. 

Elizabeth currently works full time as a parent to twin daughters, whom she is raising on dirt, homemade croissants, and the Hamilton soundtrack. In her free time, she is learning web design and writing for Seacoast Moms and Trail Sisters. As an avid trail runner, she is always finding ways to bring yoga into running and vice versa. 

Carol has been practicing and teaching yoga for many years. She believes practicing and teaching yoga has made her more flexible, calmer and a nicer person! At this stage in her teaching she finds herself diving deeper into the interior aspects of yoga such as slowing down her practice, holding poses, and loving the stillness of yin yoga. She loves to share these more contemplative teachings with her students. She is a perpetual student, land ately has been researching somatic theory, trauma informed yoga, and our intricate nervous systems. 

Vanessa Levin is a Certified 500 hr Therapeutic Yoga Teacher, Certified Barre, Pilates and Qi Gong Teacher, NASM Certified Personal Trainer, and Meditation Guide since 1999. After a severe back injury, she found yoga to rehab herself back to vitality and gratitude. As a licensed Mental Health Counseling in her business RiverShen Counseling & Bodyworks, she specialises in Somatic therapies for Disordered Eating, Anxiety, Grief and Loss, Adjustment Disorders, and Life Transitions.  She is also a Massage Therapist and utilizes her combined skills to bring a nuanced palette to yoga classes. Living in Buddhist Monastic Communities in Texas, , California, Massachusetts,  Upstate New York and NYC, has helped her continue to cultivate curiosity and community. Vanessa spends her free time playing in the woods and on waterways,  wild foraging and making herbal medicines, artwork,and music to honor and respect the earth and all she gives. 

Emma’s goal as a guide of Yoga practice and as a bodywork practitioner is to create a compassionate space for healing and growth. Her hope is to encourage students to listen to and honor their bodies, to exist fully in their experience without judgement, and to compassionately challenge unsupportive mental patterns through embodiment practices.

She has been guiding Yoga and meditation on the Seacoast for a number of years and offers private bodywork and energetic support sessions as a Licensed Holistic Massage Therapist. In classes, she often integrates music, energy awareness, Qigong, meditation, singing bowls, and light touch massage.

Mickey Barr is a Licensed Massage Therapist and Registered Yoga Teacher (ERYT500). He has extensively studied Ashtanga Yoga for over a decade, completing the 4th series. During that time he concurrently studied Iyengar Yoga, focusing on restorative and working with aging populations. Most recently he has studied Yoga therapy with Australian Physiotherapist Simon Borg-Olivier. His teaching is informed by his years of practice, apprenticeships, and passion for anatomy and physiology.