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Liza Dousson After 12 years of personal yoga study, Liza Dousson left the corporate world to further explore her passion for yoga. In 1999 she began studies with regarded teachers -- Tracey Rich and Ganga White, Erich Schiffmann and Patricia Walden -- and taught yoga in group classes, in corporate settings and privately in Boston, MA. When the opportunity to travel to India appeared, she promptly accepted. What started off as a 1 year journey became 7 years of traveling and living in India and South East Asia. The profound cultural immersion imbued by those countries and accompanying life lessons have deepened her study and practice of classical hatha yoga, yoga therapy, Thai massage, meditation and Qi Gong. During visits to the USA Liza regularly assists resident and visiting teachers including Sudha Carolyn Lundeen, Angela Farmer and Paul & Suzee Grilley at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, MA. |
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Shaun English is a Marriage and Family Therapist who recently decided to become a yoga instructor. She completed teacher training with Baron Baptiste; Baptiste Power Vinyasa, Ana Forrest; Forrest Yoga, and Helen Garabedian, the creator of Itsy Bitsy Yoga. |
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Grace Erhart, RYT Grace is a professional level(500 hr.) yoga instructor recognized by the National Yoga Alliance and the Kripaluu Center. She is also a Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist, Licensed Massage Therapist and nurse. She has been practicing and teaching yoga for over 20 Years. |
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Ken Law Ken is a Kripalu yoga certified instructor who creates a safe place for his students to open their hearts and awaken their spirit by nurturing present moment awareness. This happens naturally when attention is given to the breath. Ken emphasizes the need to deepen our connection to the rhythmic flow of the breath. His gentle, spiritual, approach to teaching involves using modifications and assists. Ken draws upon the wisdom of Thich Hnat Hanh, the poetry of Rumi and Hafiz, and the spirit or Mother Earth. Ken has studied Hatha Yoga with Dharma Mittra, Vinyasa Flow Yoga with Tom Gillette and is influenced by the music and chant of Krishna Das. |
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Rachel Kondon Rachel teaches a thoughtful and challenging vinyasa class, with a focus on the connection between body, breath, and mind. She believes that experiencing a pose fully takes time and that by working with the breath, substantial benefits can unfold. Her classes provide students with time and space to seek compassion, openness, and honesty through observation and reflection. A graduate of the New York Yoga teacher training program, Rachel has a master’s degree in public health, and in addition to teaching yoga, works as a medical writer.She has tremendous gratitude for her many teachers—and for her own mat, both of which inform and inspire her teaching. |
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Kathy Monte Kathy is a licensed massage therapist, and yoga instructor. She has practiced and taught Kripalu-style yoga since 2005. Training at Kripalu Yoga Center in Lenox Mass. She discovered Svaroopa-style yoga in 2008, and has continued her training in this style since, finding that this practice provides a much deeper release of spinal tension, and is accesible to just about all levels. Beyond the basic training held at Master Yoga foundations headquarters in Malvern, Pa. she has attended workshops with Swami Nirmalanda (formerly Rama Berch) the founder of Svaroopa-style yoga. She looks forward to sharing this deep, intospective, and healing yoga with others. In teaching, I hope to provide the experience, which allows one to go deep within, to find peace, sense of self, and tap into their higher consciousness. |
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Kate Novack Kate Novack is a Certified Personal Trainer and Goddess Yoga Instructor. Relating to the Kripalu master lineage, Kate has studied with Jeff Migdow, Amrit & Kamini Desai and assists Sierra Bender. A healer, Kate enjoys her days as an In-home Life Coach for the Connecticut shoreline motivating families and elders to open their hearts and keep moving. Spiritually, Kate is a humble student of The Condor Eagle union. She is attuned with and respects traditions of the elders of North American and South American natives. |
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Jennifer Shultz Following her passion and calling to pour out joy, peace, and love to others, Jennifer was on a 20+ year journey as a group fitness and wellness instructor while she was guided “home” to the yoga mat as both a student and as a teacher. Focused on joining with, inviting, and guiding others to become aware of and surrender to the mind, body, spiritual connection, Jennifer is inspired by the Power Vinyasa practice which is physically and mentally challenging, athletic, and energizing. This practice can serve as a transformational trigger for unearthing the authentic self through the movement, the challenge, the stillness, and the surrender. Jennifer teaches with a joyful spirit and brings lightness, humor, compassion, and freedom to her classes. She encourages everyone to completely show up on their mat, and become completely present to each moment by surrendering to their own beautiful breath. A RYT teacher with Yoga Alliance, Jennifer completed the CorePower Yoga Teaching Training Program in Minnesota, and is thankful for the many teachers who continue to inspire, teach and guide her. She is humbled by the path which God leads her down, and follows Him with a grateful heart. |
Emrys Tetu Emrys Tetu is passionate about our whole relationships with ourselves. She has been fascinated with food, wellness, and movement from a young age. In addition to yoga, her background includes ten years of studying modern dance, as well as work as a fitness instructor. She started studying yoga and meditation 17 years ago. While grounded in the Iyengar tradition, she has also explored Yin Yoga, Vinyassa, Forrest Yoga, both locally and abroad. In addition to her local teachers, she has spent time studying with Catherine de los Santos, Seane Corne, Anna Forrest, Josh Summers, Cora Wen, and others. While in Pune, India, she spent time at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute, the Osho Meditation Resort, and sitting in open satsang w Dolano. An adjunct professor of health, wellness, and nutrition at Three Rivers Community College, Emrys is also a Certified Holistic Health Counselor in private practice in Chester and writes a wellness column for INK magazine.
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Arlington Smith Arlington (Arlie) Smith is a well respected yoga teacher, co-founding the Yoga Studio in New Haven in 1993. He is a certified Kripalu yoga instructor and a trained Iyengar teacher. Arlington blends gentle “meditation in motion” style of Kripalu yoga with the attention to detail and spinal alignment that is the hallmark of Iyengar yoga. Together these styles provide a highly therapeutic experience sure to soothe frayed nerves, ease aches and pains and increase your sense of vitality. |
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Kimberly
Smith, M.A. PYT Kimberly is the founder of Riverdog Yoga. She has holds a Bachelors degree in Kinesiological Sciences from the University of Maryland, and a Masters degree in Exercise Physiology/Cardiac Rehabilitation from the University of Connecticut. She has studied Yoga with David Swenson, Joseph LePage, with whom she is completing her 500 hour Professional Yoga Therapist studies, and has also studied with Richard Freeman, David Life, Rod Stryker, Donna Fahri and of course, Kathy McNames of YogaVermont. Kimberly deeply thanks all of her teachers, including Riverdog teachers, friends and family, And most importantly ALL of the many students from her many classes over the years. “Each of you has added to the creation of Riverdog Yoga…..We truly are building community one breath at a time!” Read Kimberly's full bio here |
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Yuji Claire Smith Yuji loves yoga class and will be teaching toddler yoga with her mom |
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Ava Tyler Ava's first introduction to yoga was thirty-two years ago as a dancer. Her enthusiasm and dedication as a practitioner had led her to a decision to teach. She has studied Kripalu, Jivamukti, Iyengar, and Ashtanga styles. She is a certified Kripalu instructor. Ava continues to deepen her commitment through continuous study with other teachers as well as living a daily spiritual practice. She would like to share with others how fulfilling yoga can be emotionally, physically, and spiritually to ones life. |