Balance Yoga

Lynn, co-owner of Balance studio, is a 500 hr RYT with a passion
for yoga and empowering students and clients in personal healing /
health. Lynn’s practice began many years ago with meditation and
was followed by her yoga practice which was self study. Her yoga
practice was truly enriched when she went from self study to studio
practice. Enlivened by community and strengthened by various
teachers whose styles and refinements continued her growth, Lynn
views yoga as one of the best forms of health insurance.
Her certifications and trainings include: 200 hour yoga teacher
training at Himalayan Institute, Advanced Singing Bowls, Gong
Training as well as Gong Summit Master Classes (Mitch Nur, Mike
Tamburo, Michael Bettine, Jens Zygar, Sheila Whitaker), Reiki level
III, 300 hour teacher training at ShivaShakti, and Tuning Fork
training with John Beaulieu,
In addition to her interest in sound work and teaching all
levels classes, Lynn seeks to find ways to make yoga accessible to
the apprehensive, believing that everyone can benefit greatly from
improved balance, flexibility, and relaxation for mind, body, and
spirit. She has worked extensively to create chair yoga classes
where students get all the yoga with options that eliminate the
floor (stress on knees, wrists, and transitions) and keep the
standing poses (though allowing options for support if needed).
Lynn's sound therapy work (with singing bowls, tuning forks,
gongs and more) includes one on one work,  sessions for 2, and
sound immersion for groups.   Contact her at balanceyogavt@gmail.com for
immersion events, restorative with sound, and private/group
sessions.

Lynn, co-owner of Balance studio, is a 500 hr RYT with a passion for yoga and empowering students and clients in personal healing / health. Lynn’s practice began many years ago with meditation and was followed by her yoga practice which was self study. Her yoga practice was truly enriched when she went from self study to studio practice. Enlivened by community and strengthened by various teachers whose styles and refinements continued her growth, Lynn views yoga as one of the best forms of health insurance.

Her certifications and trainings include: 200 hour yoga teacher training at Himalayan Institute, Advanced Singing Bowls, Gong Training as well as Gong Summit Master Classes (Mitch Nur, Mike Tamburo, Michael Bettine, Jens Zygar, Sheila Whitaker), Reiki level III, 300 hour teacher training at ShivaShakti, and Tuning Fork training with John Beaulieu,

In addition to her interest in sound work and teaching all levels classes, Lynn seeks to find ways to make yoga accessible to the apprehensive, believing that everyone can benefit greatly from improved balance, flexibility, and relaxation for mind, body, and spirit. She has worked extensively to create chair yoga classes where students get all the yoga with options that eliminate the floor (stress on knees, wrists, and transitions) and keep the standing poses (though allowing options for support if needed).

Lynn's sound therapy work (with singing bowls, tuning forks, gongs and more) includes one on one work,  sessions for 2, and sound immersion for groups.   Contact her at balanceyogavt@gmail.com for immersion events, restorative with sound, and private/group sessions.

Hillary Lindsay is a certified yoga and pilates
instructor with a focus on holistic healing and wellness. She
has taught in her home state of New York and is now immersing
herself in the wonderful yoga world of Vermont. Having begun her
movement practice as a trained dancer, her primary yoga style is
Vinyasa, highlighting the breath and the asanas as dance partners
and creating meditation in motion. She also has an advanced teacher
training through Kula for Karma in therapeutic yoga for mental
health, trauma, and addiction and continues to volunteer with this
incredible nonprofit. In addition to
yoga, Hillary is a master's graduate of the Slow
Food affiliated University of Gastronomic Sciences in Italy and
founder of The Green Onion, an agricultural community center in the
organic Black Dirt farms in the Hudson Valley. The Green Onion
focused on connecting local producers and consumers through
markets, events, and education. She is now launching the next
iteration of her business, Green Onion Wellness, which is a
coaching program designed to help clients build a personalized
daily practice of yoga, meditation, and nutrition aligned with the
principles of Ayurveda. 

Hillary Lindsay is a certified yoga and pilates instructor with a focus on holistic healing and wellness. She has taught in her home state of New York and is now immersing herself in the wonderful yoga world of Vermont. Having begun her movement practice as a trained dancer, her primary yoga style is Vinyasa, highlighting the breath and the asanas as dance partners and creating meditation in motion. She also has an advanced teacher training through Kula for Karma in therapeutic yoga for mental health, trauma, and addiction and continues to volunteer with this incredible nonprofit. In addition to yoga, Hillary is a master's graduate of the Slow Food affiliated University of Gastronomic Sciences in Italy and founder of The Green Onion, an agricultural community center in the organic Black Dirt farms in the Hudson Valley. The Green Onion focused on connecting local producers and consumers through markets, events, and education. She is now launching the next iteration of her business, Green Onion Wellness, which is a coaching program designed to help clients build a personalized daily practice of yoga, meditation, and nutrition aligned with the principles of Ayurveda. 

Kerry is the co-owner of Balance Yoga. She began practicing yoga
in 1998. Initially drawn to yoga for its ability to strengthen the
body and increase flexibility, she soon grew to crave the mental
calm experienced during and after asana practice. In 2010 after 12
years of personal practice she attending a 200 hour yoga teacher
training at the Himalayan Institute. She has been teaching yoga
classes ever since. In 2019, she completed an 800 hour therapeutic
Yoga program through Spanda Yoga with Dr. Jaime Stover Schmitt.
This training involved studying the connections between the body,
mind, and spirit. It Focused on one-on-one work with the aim of
helping people move from areas where they feel stuck (both
physically and emotionally) to greater freedom and happiness. 
Whether teaching beginners classes, specialty therapeutic classes,
Hatha yoga or Vinyasa, Kerry focuses on proper alignment, pranayama
techniques and the balance of effort and ease. 
Kerry is also a certified massage therapist and has been in
practice for almost three decades. She is calm, non-judgemental and
a lover of anatomy. 

Lee has been practicing yoga
since 2001. Health issues originally brought Lee to the practice of
yoga. She believes the body has the power to heal if we slow down
enough to given it a chance.
In 2012, Lee completed her
200-hour yoga teacher training at UVM with John McConnell. She
continues to study Principle-Based Partner Yoga™ with Elysabeth
Williamson and has completed both Bodhi & Mind Yoga training
and Level I Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy training.
Lee enjoys incorporating class
themes and great music to help students gently move, flow and let
go. She encourages the use of yoga props to ease students into more
challenging postures and often adds a partner yoga or group pose to
classes for added fun. You can expect a class that focuses on
alignment and letting go, incorporating effort and ease as you rest
and breathe in a safe place that is most comfortable for you. Check
your ego and your busy day at the door!
Besides teaching at Balance Yoga,
Lee teaches yoga at “MMU After Dark”. Lee is the original organizer
behind the free, annual community yoga event in Burlington, “Yoga
On Church Street”. She lives with her husband Luke and her
basenji-lab mix Parker in Richmond.

Lee has been practicing yoga since 2001. Health issues originally brought Lee to the practice of yoga. She believes the body has the power to heal if we slow down enough to given it a chance.

In 2012, Lee completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training at UVM with John McConnell. She continues to study Principle-Based Partner Yoga™ with Elysabeth Williamson and has completed both Bodhi & Mind Yoga training and Level I Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy training.

Lee enjoys incorporating class themes and great music to help students gently move, flow and let go. She encourages the use of yoga props to ease students into more challenging postures and often adds a partner yoga or group pose to classes for added fun. You can expect a class that focuses on alignment and letting go, incorporating effort and ease as you rest and breathe in a safe place that is most comfortable for you. Check your ego and your busy day at the door!

Besides teaching at Balance Yoga, Lee teaches yoga at “MMU After Dark”. Lee is the original organizer behind the free, annual community yoga event in Burlington, “Yoga On Church Street”. She lives with her husband Luke and her basenji-lab mix Parker in Richmond.

Joann discovered Asthanga yoga in
her 20s. She continued practicing in this style until it became
unsustainable during her first pregnancy. After the birth of her
first child she began her personal fitness business while dabbling
in various local yoga classes. Knowing yoga would bring balance to
her fitness training and her clients she found an alignment based
practitioner trained in the Anusura style. In 2012 a viral illness
changed Joann’s life course. Recovery meant leaving her fitness
business and she sought refuge in yoga. Anusara’s heart centered
and alignment based classes offered a space for healing. When Joann
studied Ashaya Yoga with Todd Norian, she found the fuel to boost
her healing to the next level. Joann graduated from her 200 hour
training with Todd Norian in the spring of 2017. Joann teaches
Ashaya Yoga and Yin yoga in Vermont. Joann holds Personal Training
certification through the American Council on Exercise and is a
Balanced Body pilates instructor. Joann is a TRE provider (Tension
& Trauma release exercise). She is a 200 hour RYT Certified and
Licensed Ashaya Yoga teacher currently studying for her 500 hour
certification.

Joann discovered Asthanga yoga in her 20s. She continued practicing in this style until it became unsustainable during her first pregnancy. After the birth of her first child she began her personal fitness business while dabbling in various local yoga classes. Knowing yoga would bring balance to her fitness training and her clients she found an alignment based practitioner trained in the Anusura style. In 2012 a viral illness changed Joann’s life course. Recovery meant leaving her fitness business and she sought refuge in yoga. Anusara’s heart centered and alignment based classes offered a space for healing. When Joann studied Ashaya Yoga with Todd Norian, she found the fuel to boost her healing to the next level. Joann graduated from her 200 hour training with Todd Norian in the spring of 2017. Joann teaches Ashaya Yoga and Yin yoga in Vermont. Joann holds Personal Training certification through the American Council on Exercise and is a Balanced Body pilates instructor. Joann is a TRE provider (Tension & Trauma release exercise). She is a 200 hour RYT Certified and Licensed Ashaya Yoga teacher currently studying for her 500 hour certification.

For some strange reason, Maggie Mae Anderson's father brought
home B.K.S. Iyengar's “Light on Yoga” when she was only 13 years
old. Though the text was completely above her comprehension at the
time, she followed along with the pictures and a love of yoga was
born.11 years later, when studying massage and holistic health at
the Heartwood Institute in northern California, she was lucky
enough to study four days a week with Gayna Uransky, a senior
Iyengar teacher. She started teaching in 2001 and received her 200
hour training at the Sivananda Ashram on Paradise Island in 2006.
She completed her 1000 hour Integrative Yoga Therapist program in
January of 2015 and has had the honor of studying with Anna Forest,
Desiree Rumbaugh, and Joseph and Lilian LePage.
A massage therapist since 1999, Maggie Mae can't help but adjust
her students and guide them into the best alignment for their own
bodies. She is a high energy person but teaches a slower paced
class, encouraging people to breathe, stay as present as possible
and really listen to their bodies.
When not teaching yoga or massaging, you will most likely find
Maggie Mae riding her bike, hiking a mountain, swimming in the open
water, out on her cross-country skis or enjoying a great meal with
her family. She will complete her undergraduate degree in
Professional Studies with a focus on Psychology and Wellness and
Alternative Medicine this December and hopes to do more Yoga
Therapy in the future.

Jen has been studying and practicing yoga and meditation for more
than 11 years. She has over 1000 hours of yoga teaching experience
and has been instructing and sharing yoga since 2012.

Both her personal practice and teaching are grounded in awakening
to the mind, body, spirit connection.  She is passionate about
the restorative and healing power of embodiment that yoga offers
and loves sharing that with others.  

Through her studies and her own personal healing journey through a
back injury she has developed a gentle and accessible teaching
style influenced by both yin and yang asana traditions.  She
also incorporates Reiki into her classes to enhance energetic
healing and balance for students in their practice. Students and
clients who work with Jen appreciate her gentle and supportive
presence and have experienced deep growth and healing in their work
with her. 

She received her 200hr RYT from Asheville Yoga Center and is a
registered Yoga Alliance instructor.  She is a Reiki Master
and has over 200 additional training hours related to study of
Viniyoga, Yin Yoga, Somatic Movement, Physiology and Anatomy,
Fascial Systems, Yoga Therapeutics, Thai Massage, Ashtanga Vinyasa
and Yoga Philosophy. She is grateful to her teachers Gary Kraftsow,
Sarah Powers, Liz Koch, Tom Myers, Elissa Cobb, Kristin Borquist,
Heidi Bock, Christine Hoar, Nancy Gilgoff, David Garrigues, David
Williams, Shala Worsley, Gil Hedley, Michael Johnson, Brook
Thomas, and Joe Taft. 

Carolyn has been a Feldenkrais™ Practitioner since 1987, when
she graduated from a Professional Training Program in Toronto. She
became interested in this method while attending a workshop at
Omega Institute, and discovering its potential for lifelong changes
in herself and others. She has taught weekly classes and workshops
in Burlington and Montpelier, and offers individual sessions in her
home in Richmond. In addition, she is a Special Education teacher
in South Burlington. There, she is also a leader in the Wellness
and Resilience Program, offering Mindfulness activities to students
and adults alike.
Carolyn lives in Richmond with her husband Matt Buckley and two
dogs and a cat. She spends a lot of time hiking or skiing with the
dogs, gardening, and just about anything else to keep her outdoors.
Traditional music is a big part of life in her household, and she
is learning to play the Irish flute. She has discovered that the
application of Feldenkrais™ principles and movements has deepened
the skill and pleasure in all these endeavors and more.

LaVerne was first a self taught yogi using Sri Swami
Satchidananda's book Integral Yoga Hatha in the
1970's.  She was a dedicated Ashtanga Yoga practitioner for
many years.  Time passed, life happened and after completing a
20 year career as a family dentist she found herself in physical
pain from the many years bending over dental patients.  In
2004 a friend suggested that she try Pilates to help with her
chronic pain.  In 2006 LaVerne was comprehensively certified
by Peak Pilates to teach Classical Pilates, and she has been
teaching Pilates ever since.  In 2005 she rekindled her
passion for yoga and found that yoga and Pilates complimented each
other beautifully.  She moved to Vermont in 2014 and earned
her 200 hour yoga certification at the UVM Yoga School with John
McConnell.  She has been teaching yoga and Pilates at UVM
since then.  In 2019 she completed her 500 hour yoga
teacher training at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in
Stockbridge, MA.  Her Kripalu experience has inspired her
practice in meditation and pranayama, as well as the physical
practices of yoga and Pilates.

Melissa King has been practicing yoga for more than 10 years and
considers herself an “accidental yogini,” because she stumbled onto
yoga following years of running and other pursuits that never quite
put a dent into life's trials and tribulations. Melissa has found
joy, insight, and a greater sense of calm that comes from the
physical, mental, spiritual, and philosophical aspects of a Hatha
yoga practice. In December she will complete her 300 hour (500
total) training at Laughing River Yoga in Burlington. Melissa
believes in the benefits of yoga to all, particularly those who
believe they “can't” cultivate a meaningful yoga practice. She
lives in Underhill with her husband, teenage children, dogs, and
cat; when not teaching yoga she works as an educational consultant
and enjoys the outdoors, cooking, reading, and spending time with
friends.
Since 2013, her mission statement remains the same:
I will use my knowledge of yoga, humor, empathy, and own path of
suffering and awakening to help others find inner contentment,
self-knowledge, and freedom from past wounds and future worries,
one class at a time.