Breathing Time Yoga

Kathy does yoga for both the mental and physical health benefits. It helps her manage stress on the job and at home.

She has been coming to Breathing Time since 2011. She joined the Seva program and takes pride in keeping our Moonrise room clean.

Yoga is the experience of being in this moment, right now, fully inhabiting this body-mind, creating a state of clarity from which we can act with authenticity, or at least have a moment before impulsive reactions set in. Cultivating presence we relax about getting it or not getting it and surrender to the moment as it is.

Ana Navascues says of yoga, “I do yoga for the incredible sense of grounding and calm it brings into my life. The essence of yoga for is this grounding stability.”

Ana started yoga with Breathing Time in 2003 when we were located in a church parish hall and has been involved in the seva program since 2012. She is reliable and dedicated.

Ana recently completed her Graphic Design Certificate at RISD Continuing Education.

Rebecca Lyn Gold is an author, editor, writing coach and yoga teacher. She received her 200-hour yoga and meditation teacher certification through All That Matters Yoga and Holistic Health Center in Rhode Island, which inspired her to create ‘Yogic Writing’ ~ a practice that combines yoga, meditation and journaling for writers of all levels to find their voice and write their stories. She is also a certified Yin Yoga instructor, under the under the tutelage of Alicia Barry.

Rebecca leads workshops, retreats and online programs using Yogic Writing as a tool to create a narrative to: Write Your Life Story; Write Your Yoga Story; Write Your Adoption Story; Write Your Act 2 Story.

Rebecca’s passion is to inspire others to connect mind and body to unleash deeply held stories and capture them on paper.

“I am passionate about yoga as a practice that is intensely personal to each individual. It helps us know our limits--and possibly shift them--while staying in integrity with our bodies and selves. Above all, yoga teaches us how to be present for ourselves and each other, and to develop internal stability in an ever changing world.”

Liz started practicing yoga over ten years ago, because it seemed like the “right” thing to do. She struggled in her classes for years, feeling like she didn't belong and didn't have the right kind of body for yoga. After connecting with Forrest Yoga, she learned how to listen to her body and discover and develop its capabilities. She is moved by the empowering possibilities of a strength-based yoga practice, and these days is especially interested in the exploration of the authentic movement that arises when we allow for its expression. She is a 500 RYT and has studied Forrest Yoga, Yoga Tune-Ups, Yin, and Restorative. She is also a licensed massage therapist, craniosacral worker, and mindfulness meditation instructor. Her love of somatics and embodiment suffuses the movement, meditation, and self-care workshops she teaches at Breathing Time, RISD, and Brown University.

“I am passionate about yoga as a practice that is intensely personal to each individual. It helps us know our limits--and possibly shift them--while staying in integrity with our bodies and selves. Above all, yoga teaches us how to be present for ourselves and each other, and to develop internal stability in an ever changing world.”

Liz started practicing yoga over ten years ago, because it seemed like the “right” thing to do. She struggled in her classes for years, feeling like she didn't belong and didn't have the right kind of body for yoga. After connecting with Forrest Yoga, she learned how to listen to her body and discover and develop its capabilities. She is moved by the empowering possibilities of a strength-based yoga practice, and these days is especially interested in the exploration of the authentic movement that arises when we allow for its expression. She is a 500 RYT and has studied Forrest Yoga, Yoga Tune-Ups, Yin, and Restorative. She is also a licensed massage therapist, craniosacral worker, and mindfulness meditation instructor. Her love of somatics and embodiment suffuses the movement, meditation, and self-care workshops she teaches at Breathing Time, RISD, and Brown University.

Liz started practicing yoga over ten years ago, because it seemed like the “right” thing to do. She struggled in her classes for years, feeling like she didn't belong and didn't have the right kind of body for yoga. After connecting with Forrest Yoga, she learned how to listen to her body and discover and develop its capabilities.

Liz came to teaching yoga after finishing her PhD in art history. She developed sciatica during the last few stages of writing her dissertation and decided to complete a yoga teacher training to heal her body from the long and painful hours of sitting at a desk and the emotional wounds of graduate school. She found an unexpected passion in teaching yoga and has devoted herself to sharing the practice that has done so much for her physical and mental health.

Allie's Yoga practice began in 2007, when Allie experienced Yoga’s tremendous healing capacity while in treatment for an eating disorder. Her interest in Yoga represents over a decade of exploration, cultivation, and learning. Allie deeply believes in Yoga as a way to begin to quiet the mind and forge kinder, more present relationships with oneself and others.

Aleta Johnson is Licensed Clinical Social Worker with offices in Providence and Barrington, Rhode Island. She specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, cultural and identity struggles, academic concerns, post-traumatic-stress-disorder, and relationship issues. Her areas of particular clinical interest are racial and ethnic experience and identity as it impacts mental health, and she enjoys working with individuals of color. Aleta has over 30 years of experience, 25 of which were in college mental health at Brown University's Counseling and Psychological Services.

Aleta is currently completing her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training with Jane Viscolosi of Believe You Can Yoga School.

Yoga is a tool for personal transformation. In our fast-passed non-stop world, we use yoga to take a moment of quiet to transform ourselves spiritually and physically. Through yoga, we learn to see the interconnectedness of our inner and outer worlds.

Janice started practicing yoga in 1994 and completed her teaching training at Breathing Time Yoga in 2017. Yoga has helped her physically and emotionally, keeping her body and mind flexible. She is an avid ballroom dancer and enjoys volunteering for animal rescue organizations. She has her B.S. in Biology with a minor in Environmental Science.

She invites her students to meet themselves where they are. She fosters a sense of inclusion in her classes. We all come into yoga for different reasons. Come into class with an open heart and discover what works for you.

Having always been fascinated by movement and creating art with the body, Nicole completed ten years of dance education while in grade school. In college, she discovered yoga. While dance was beautiful, the practice consisted of forcing the body into an already pre-existing shape. She loved the freedom that yoga gave her: being able to create the shapes with the body. Yoga helped her discover a new found creative gateway that lead to a deeper understanding of herself. Wanting to deepen her practice and to be able to share this connection of mind and body with others, she completed her 200 hour Viniyoga certification at Breathing Time Yoga. Nicole's classes are a shared space surrounded by the belief that each student is having a unique experience; and to develop compassion towards the self to meet ourselves exactly where we are, as we are.

I see asana practice as one of the most concrete ways of bringing mind, body and spirit together. The word Yoga in Sanskrit means union; union of mind, body and spirit.

Through learning poses and proper alignment, and possibly the Sanskrit names for them we are using our minds while practicing. I will always share with students ways we can listen to our bodies while practicing asanas, discerning if a pose or sequence is actually beneficial for your body at this time.

As a yoga instructor I feel one of the most important things I do for my students is to hold a safe container for their practice, one that will allow them to feel simultaneously inspired and challenged and held gently.

My Gentle Flow Vinyasa classes bring us from gentle stretches where the breath & movement combine, into slow and thoughtful vinyasa flows and then back to the mat for the equally important part of practice...unwinding and entering Sāvāsana.

I have practiced many styles of Yoga with many teachers over many years- and all of them influence and inform my teaching. My formal training is a 200hr Vinyasa Teaching Training I received in 2019 with Coral Brown through All That Matters in Wakefield RI. I have been a student at Breathing Time Yoga on and off for many years and am so very happy and honored to join the teaching staff!

Evan L McManamy LMT (RI MT02510) is a licensed massage therapist in a trauma therapy bodywork practice. The foundation of his work is a mindfulness-based approach to embodied trauma therapy that is currently being studied by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) at NIH. He works in concert with other healthcare providers here in Rhode Island: his work forms part of a multidimensional approach in addressing the psychological and embodied effects of trauma and chronic pain.

Evan has studied with Pat Archer ATC LMT at the Discoverypoint School of Massage in Seattle, WA. He has also trained with Cynthia Price PhD LMT, researcher at the University of Washington School of Nursing, in her Mindful Awareness Body-oriented Therapy program for trauma therapy bodywork. Evan’s course of study has included Myofascial Release, Dermo-Neuro Modulation, Neuromuscular techniques, and basic lymphatic drainage.

Evan is a lifelong Quaker from a coastal town in New England. Intrinsic to Quakerism is the practice of listening meditation; Evan’s bodywork supports us as we listen for the movements of our deeper selves.

For more on Evan see https://elmtherapies.com

Our Essence is far beyond what the mind has ever dreamed possible. When we are in a state of Yoga (Union) our Essence shines through inner qualities of Joy, Peace, and Bliss. Each path of Yoga has a unique way of calming the restlessness in our minds, giving us an opportunity to experience what rests beyond the personality. Remembering, reconnecting, and Realizing who we are has been the promise of Yoga for time immemorial. Allow a moment to close your eyes and look around! There is an entire universe within waiting to be discovered!

David is passionate about restoring the larger promise of all yogic paths, Self-Realization. He has served as a Yoga Instructor, Mediation Teacher, Reiki Master, Whole Food Farmacist, Energy Healer, Kirtan Artist, and Spiritual Counselor to the South Coast Massachusetts and Rhode Island Communities. In 2016, David received his 200hr Yoga teacher training from Mt. Madonna Institute in California and has had the honor of teaching students from widely varying backgrounds.

Yoga has been practicing on David formally for 10 years! Living Yoga is the deeper invitation; that we may use our on the mat practice to inspire and remind ourselves of the wellspring of Peace that lies within, even in our day to day life. And from that contentment a desire to share our wholeness with others, that they too may be awakened within!

Irene is a mind-body therapist and emotional freedom coach focused on healing-centered engagement and trauma resolution, nurturing her client’s strengths to empower dynamic balance from within themselves.

With specialized experience in women’s health, persistent Lyme disease, substance use recovery, and chronic pain management, Irene guides clients in an exploration of the ways in which they can access their own innate wisdom and move toward greater freedom and peaceful power. Her therapeutic practice support clients in navigating the complexities of how their own individual body, mind, breath, spirit, and cultural context all mutually reinforce one another.

Irene's philosophy is deeply rooted in respect and care for the self as but one aspect of cultivating the greater good and connecting with others. She believes that when we cultivate awareness, honesty, and acceptance within ourselves, we are better equipped with the tools to truly listen, to live more fully, and to approach others with compassion.

Irene holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Sociology from Wesleyan University, a Master of Science in Yoga Therapy from Maryland University of Integrative Health (MUIH), and is certified by the International Association of Yoga Therapists.
Additionally, she holds certifications in prenatal yoga (Integral Yoga, NYC), kids’ yoga (Karma Kids, NYC), Thai massage (Sunshine Massage Network, Thailand), and is trained as a birth doula.

Julie Bannon has been a dedicated yoga practitioner for 14 years in a variety of styles. She earned her Anusara 200 hour Yoga Teacher Immersion and Training certificate in June of 2019 with Sara Davidson Flanders. She successfully completed 35 hours of study and practice in yin yoga asana & anatomy, five element & basic meridian alignment theories of TCM, & mindfulness basics as applied to yin yoga. This Yin Yoga Immersion Training was led by Tracey M. Sondik, Psy.D., E-RYT and Jenn Thomas, RYT in November of 2019. Julie is passionate about making yoga accessible to everybody and welcomes all students. She is a trained practitioner of Neelakantha Meditation which has brought her a deeper connection to herself and the yogic philosophy. She is enthusiastic about sharing the benefits of yoga with others.

Mystical Michael has been a DJ for over thirty years. He inspires creative, meditative, and joyful movement with a genre-bending mix of rhythmic and spacious music from around the globe. He is cofounder of We Need To Dance in Providence, was co-facilitator of NYC's freestyle dance Barefoot Boogie, and DJs at Dance Friday Boston and Dance New England's annual summer camp. He has also been a Reiki Teaching Master and Counselor for more than 25 years. He has a small private practice, Providence Holistic Counseling, Coaching and Reiki, and Volunteer Coordinator with Dance New England. www.michaelswerdloff.com

Elyse can’t think of a better way to spend her days than being in the company of children, and sharing with them the magic of yoga. Elyse is able to take this ancient practice and translate it into language that every child from a rambunctious toddler to the moody teen can understand and enjoy. Her classes are playful and full of fun, yet challenging and thought provoking as well. Elyse loves what she does, and it shines through in every creative and imaginative class she teaches, as it is easy to see that she is having as much fun as the kids.

Elyse had a career in the business world and later taught in the NYC public schools until moving to RI in 1999, where she continued with her education by earning her MA in elementary education from RIC. A yogi since the early nineties, it wasn’t until her two young daughters began mimicking what they saw their mom doing on her yoga mat, that Elyse made the connection between yoga and kids. A chance encounter with an old friend on Facebook planted the seed, and in 2010, Elyse opened OM Kids Yoga Center in Pawtucket, a one of a kind yoga studio just for kids. During it’s five year run as a stand alone studio, Elyse taught thousands of yoga classes, camps, special events and parties to families all over Rhode Island. This year she closed the studio, and now offers many of her trademark classes and events all over RI in schools, private homes, yoga studios, dance studios and summer camps.

Elyse is certified to teach children’s yoga through the following teacher trainings: Karma Kids Yoga, Karma Kids Yoga Teen Intensive, Radiant Child Yoga, Rainbow Kids Yoga, Yoga Mom, Buddha Baby and Zenergy Yoga Therapy from Australia.

Srinivas began his musical training as a guitarist and composer. In 1998 he graduated from Brown University with a BA in South Asian Studies and completed his senior project entitled NaadaSat, a multi-instrumental ensemble piece that reflected his growing interest in South Asian philosophy and music.

After moving to San Francisco in 1998, Srinivas met his guru and mentor Sri Partha Chatterjee, a direct disciple of the late sitar maestro Pandit Nikhil Banerjee. Since then Srinivas has dedicated himself to Indian classical music and rigorously trained with his teacher in the traditional guru-shishya style. Srinivas is a professional concert sitarist and has given numerous recitals in the US, India and Europe. He has three albums to his credit: GITA (1999), Sitar & Tabla (2001) and Hemant & Jog (2008).

In 2011 Srinivas graduated from UC Berkeley with a PhD in South and Southeast Asian Studies. Under the guidance of Professor George Hart he studied Sanskrit, Tamil and Telugu literary traditions and completed his thesis on the Vijayanagara emperor Krishnadevaraya and his grand Telugu epic Amuktamalyada. A translation of the work entitled Giver of the Worn Garland was published by Penguin Books in 2010. With the same publisher Srinivas has also released two translations in the Complete Kalidasa series: The Dancer and the King (Malavikagnimitram) and The Cloud Message (Meghadutam). He is now working on a biography of the south Indian emperor Krishnadevaraya.

For five years Srinivas worked as Assistant Professor of South and Southeast Asian Studies at IIT Gandhinagar in Gujarat, India and is currently visiting professor of Religious Studies and Contemplative Studies at Brown University. He lives in Rhode Island and spend his time performing, teaching and conducting research around the world.

Tom takes a lighthearted approach to yoga with a deep understanding of the practice.

He is a publicity shy introvert who has taught for more than 31 years, owned four yoga studios, lead 34 yoga teacher trainings, and many thousands of yoga classes. In the sunset of his life, Tom is just beginning to get the hang of it. It has always been about the breath.

He has returned back to his praanaayaama roots of Kripalu Ashram in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Everyday in the early morning, he dives deep in a one hour Anuloma Viloma practice. This is the doorway of the yoga tradition.

Tom initially began his yoga practice at Colgate University in 1976. His yoga heart was awakened in 1986 by Yogi Amrit Desai known as Gurudev. For the next three years Tom hung out with Gurudev in St Croix. Tom moved into Kripalu Ashram in 1989 and lived there for 6 years. It was a time of devoted spiritual foment. He became one of the directors Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training at the ashram. Tom dove into Vipassanna, Iyengar, Bikram, Lakulish, and Ashtanga Yoga, making three trips to India. Tom has followed so many extraordinary teachers and a little bit of all them show up in his work. Most of all, he let his teaching evolve over time out of the public eye.

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Tamara Lee Standard radiates warmth and compassion. A Kundalini Yoga Teacher and Gong Master, she brings a calming presence to her teaching.

A self-proclaimed “wild wisdom yogini”, Tamara has used conventional and unconventional methods to experience liberation and realize yogic empowerment. Graced by yoga teachings in childhood, initially from her father, Tamara officially began her own teaching journey in 2001 after completing her first training within the Sivananda lineage. In the following years she fell more and more in love with yoga and the Dharma, studying and teaching all over the US and abroad. In 2014, she completed a 3-year meditation retreat in which she was able to deepen her own personalized sadhana (spiritual practice) in remote wilderness, using various advanced trainings in Kundalini & Anusara Yoga, Vedanta & Vajrayana (Tantric) Buddhism, along with profoundly surrendering to listen to and apply inner wisdom.

Tamara’s experiences give her a unique perspective, deep intuitive insight and the ability to assist others in developing their personal yoga practice. Adept in fear elimination and mental yoga, she is an excellent guide to navigating through old habits and embracing a new lifestyle in line with yogic wisdom. Tamara teaches with charisma, a down to earth nature, and shares a wealth of practical experience.

Drawing from over 15 years of work as a community organizing and an adult educator, Mimi is able to connect with her students where they are at and to create an environment that feels open and welcoming. She been practicing yoga for over a decade, and received her Vinyasa teacher certification in 2010 from Tom Gillette at Eyes of the World. Since then Mimi has taught in a variety of settings including studios, medical clinics, homeless shelters, drug rehab facilities, and schools.

Prompted by an urge to more explicitly help people use yoga as a tool for healing, from both physical and emotional injuries, Mimi recently received her certification in Therapeutic Yoga from Cheri Clampett and Arturo Peal and has studied Restorative Yoga with Jillian Pransky. Additionally she has participated in workshops about yoga’s benefits for dealing with depression/anxiety and PTSD with Bo Forbes, Bessel van der Kolk, and Dana Moore.

Whether leading more challenging classes for experienced yogis, or teaching classes to complete beginners and populations with limited mobility and significant physical/emotional challenges, Mimi likes to remind her students that yoga is about more than the physical postures- that the asana are a vehicle to help bring about a more unified state of consciousness and that the real work of yoga takes place off the mat. Mimi’s aim is to guide people through an experience on their yoga mat that creates space in her students’ lives to connect in deeper and more meaningful ways with themselves, their community, and the world around them.

Jenny Little (E-RYT 200, RYT 500, MS) believes yoga offers an opportunity to experience profound freedom and profound integration- physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually, and her primary intention in teaching yoga is to assist students toward self-discovery and healing. Jenny weaves her knowledge and appreciation of anatomy with various yoga asana techniques and with yogic philosophy to provide a holistic approach to yoga and to assist students in uprooting core beliefs and habits that are affecting their ability to thrive. She teaches from the heart with authenticity, humor and kindness.

Jenny began a daily practice of yoga in 2002 and began teaching in 2013. She received her 200 RYT certification in 2013 with 8 Limbs Yoga Centers in Seattle, WA; earned her 300 RYT certification in 2016 with Theresa Murphy in Providence, RI and completed her PYT Certification with Prenatal Yoga Center located in New York City. Jenny has been fortunate to learn from, and continue to learn from, many experienced and practiced teachers and in particular, expresses deep gratitude to Anne Phyfe Palmer, Melina Meza, Jenny Hayo, Theresa Murphy, as well as her children Lucy and Theo.

Jenny currently teaches group classes, individuals, and specialty workshops in the New England area. See jennylittleyoga.com for more info!

Siri Brahma Kaur Khalsa has been a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher since 2010. She has studied with many senior teachers and certified to teach SuperHealth, Yogic Science for Addictive Behavior with Mukta Kaur Khalsa, Y12SR with Nicki Meyers, and mostly recently studied Kundalini Yoga for Trauma Recovery with Shanti Shanti Kaur Khalsa. Siri Brahma moves from a place of deep integrity and gives herself fully. She is a genuine leader who seeks and inspires ongoing development and improvement in her undertakings, have led to her authentic open heart from which to live and teach.

Kathy is a regular at Karen’s Sunday morning Transformation class. Kathy says, BTY offers “open arms, and is willing to embrace who ever wants to join our community.”

For Kathy the essence of yoga is a felt sense of groundedness and healing. It is a physical, emotional and spiritual practice.

Kathy is one of our most excellent laundresses, keeping our towels and blankets clean.

Originally from Ontario, Canada, Heather Bryant takes a playful approach to the teaching of yoga, and strives to cultivate both positivity and accessibility in her classes. Her training includes certifications in yoga and exercise through Aura Wellness, Shri Yoga, Oh Baby! Fitness, the American Council of Exercise and Yoga Fit Prenatal; she is currently pursuing Senior Fitness Certification through the National Academy of Sports Medicine. Outside of teaching, Heather works in the non-profit sector, and trains women with specific health needs through Juno Fitness.

Class is by donation and led by a rotating group of yoga teachers of color.

All levels are welcome and supported.

Bring yourself, bring a friend, bring a mat if you have one.

Sat Siri first experienced yoga's profoundly transformative healing power in college. Hatha yoga and Vipassana Meditation formed the basis of her private sadhana (personal practice) during a twenty-year career in book publishing. That career ended when she was sidelined by a multi-year period of severe illness brought about by undiagnosed Lyme Disease. During that time Sat Siri found her own motto: “If you can breathe, you can do yoga.”

Introduced to Kundalini Yoga in 1999, it became the primary vehicle for her healing process, providing the road map to other modalities as well. Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan inspired her to become a teacher, to share this form of healing. Her own teacher is Guru Dev Singh Khalsa, the Master of Sat Nam Rasayan®. Guru Dev was Yogi Bhajan’s chosen student, the one to whom he gave the lineage of Sat Nam Rasayan®. Guru Dev inspired Sat Siri to become a Sat Nam Rasayan® healer and teacher. Sat Nam Rasayan® is a meditative state that allows those who practice it to open their inner universe to the discovery of the Universal Self and to dissolve the resistances that block the flow of life and the obstacles that stand in the way for the complete realization of one's own life.

Sat Siri has been teaching Kundalini Yoga since 2003 and has been practicing Sat Nam Rasayan since 2006. Sat Siri has also studied with Yogi Amrit Desai and is a certified Amrit Method® Yoga Nidra Facilitator.

Sat Siri is a compassionate and loving teacher whose joy is in supporting others in their journey of healing.

Nicole has been a dedicated educator in the city of Providence for 22 years and currently serves as Principal at Mt Pleasant High School. During a high stress time in her life working full time, commuting to Boston on a daily basis, and finishing her Ph. D. in Education Policy, Nicole began to practice yoga as a way to relieve stress and restore emotional balance to her life. Nicole points to yoga as one of the pivotal leverages of change that helped transform her physical health and ushered in a more restorative peaceful lifestyle.

Her goal is to share yoga with students of color in the city and also to Providence teachers as a way to improve educational outcomes for city schools and urban communities. Nicole's love and passion for yoga shows up both in her daily practice and in every opportunity she gets to teach classes to new and curious students. She graduated from Breathing Time Yoga's Yoga Teacher Training in 2011.

Accreditation:
200 hours of Anusara Immersion and Teacher Training Certification from All That Matters

“Yoga helps me to connect with my consciousness and happiness. While practicing yoga I can remain in the present and take the time to see the true beauty in everything and everyone which brings me happiness. Yoga helps me to relaxed, be happy, reset and listen to my inner voice.

I am very passionate about helping people obtain their health and wellness goals. Yoga helps improve the body, heart and mind of all fitness levels. I have attended many different trainings in order to be able to provide yoga instruction to people of all fitness levels. I am here to get people moving to a healthier and happier life. It is my goal for yoga to be fun, relaxing, exciting and challenging for my clients at all fitness levels!” - Brandy Isom

Liz believes that yoga can positively affect the wellbeing of any person open to the experience, and as a teacher is committed to meeting her students where they are.

 

She strives to provide a non-competitive space for students of all levels to discover, explore, and grow their yoga practice. Her sequences are designed to spark courage, curiosity and kindness, while honoring the sense of vast interconnection and peace that yoga opens up within us.

 

Liz has been a dedicated yoga practitioner since 2003. She received her 200 hour certification in vinyasa yoga in 2009 with Tom Gillette and trained in prenatal yoga with Jacci Reynolds in 2010. She is currently pursuing her 500 hour certification with Theresa Murphy.

Divya says, “The essence of yoga is a joyful expansion of our best selves through the vehicle of the physical body. It is a given that we all face challenges. Yoga helps us meet the challenges by practicing being n this moment with wisdom and compassion.”

Divya's joy of being in the body and her honesty permeate her teaching.

She has been teaching yoga since 1988. Her initial training was in Kripalu Yoga. In recent years, her main inspirations have been Sara Powers' Insight Yoga, Vipassanna meditation, Anusaura yoga, and Iyengar yoga.

Diyva Epstein-Lubow holds a Masters Degree in Dance Education from New York University.

Strength. Balance. Perspective. Kindness. A shared experience. A grounding. Flight, physically and metaphorically. For me, at its core, yoga is a way to get out of my head and into the universe. Yoga is, simply, showing up for yourself."

Kaeli Sutton has worked with over 1800 mothers and families over the past 10 years. A mother herself, her most demanding and in depth training has taken place through her own pregnancy and ongoing study of motherhood, as well as hundreds of hours of observation and interaction with Rhode Island families.

A Rhode Island licensed Massage Therapist, Kaeli holds advanced certification in Prenatal, Labor and Postnatal Massage, and in Thai Yoga Massage. She is a Yoga Alliance Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher, birth Doula, and mindfullness-based childbirth educator. Kaeli served as head yoga-consultant in a National Institute of Mental Health funded study on Yoga and Mood Disorders in Pregnancy, and is certified in Happiest Baby on the Block and Infant Massage instruction.

Kaeli is committed to supporting women and families through the deeply breathtaking, exhausting, challenging, sometimes frightening and comical journey of parenthood. She believes that the United States can do significantly better in caring for it's families, and that holistic care should be available to all citizens, regardless of their cultural background or socio-economic status.

Denise teaches yoga in English and En Espanñol. She graduated from Breathing Time Yoga's Teacher Training in 2017.