Breathing Time Yoga

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.

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.

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!

 

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!

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

 

Melissa completed her massage therapy certification in February of 2003 through Thomas F. Ahern, Jr., chief instructor at Ahern's Massage Therapy School in Mariposa, California. Melissa has practiced consistently in Rhode Island since her graduation - building her practice while working directly with Chiropractors, owning and operating Santosha Yoga Studio, studying and teaching yoga and yoga instructors, as well as being a Mom to her daughter Sophia. Abiding Wellness is her very first fully independent venture.

Melissa has received training in many modalities including Swedish & Deep Tissue Massage, Thai Massage, Reiki (Energy Healing), Amrit Methods of Yoga & Yoga Nidra, in addition to years of personal experience with Healthy Living, Exercise & Weight Training and Personal Growth. Her caring nature allows her to share her gifts genuinely through her healing touch, intuitive awareness, and loving kindness.
Melissa's approach to bodywork and healing is infused with an authentic desire to help others. She truly loves her work and makes every effort to provide the highest quality of care with each client that she has the pleasure of treating. It is her intention to not only provide a service, but to educate her clients about their bodies and the best way to consistently support their wellbeing.

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.

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.

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.

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.