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	Debra Campagna Debra worked in children’s hospital administration for over 20 years. She currently works with chronic and acute pain patients in the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center and stroke patients at Hartford Hospital. She has over 400 hours of training in yoga instruction and yoga therapy as a certified Kripalu teacher and has special training through Integrative Yoga Therapy, a nationally recognized program. She is also specially trained to work with MS patients and in gentle, adaptive and restorative yoga for people with chronic pain, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome. She is certified in facilitated gentle stretching for relief from chronic pain caused by injuries or repetitive motion stress and is a trained emergency medical technician. Debra specializes in classes and workshops and yoga therapy private sessions with people with physical and medical challenges.
	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.
	Shaun English 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. She treasures her yoga classes as a place for students to focus on their breath, increase strength, and leave feeling more connected to other people and themselves. In addition to teaching Power Vinyasa and Forrest style yoga classes, Shaun is delighted to be bringing Itsy Bitsy yoga to Connecticut shoreline families.
	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.
	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.
	Cherly Roby Is a Certified Kripalu YogaDance® (formerly Kripalu DansKinetics) instructor, Reiki Master and Certified Spiritual Healer. She teaches Kripalu YogaDance, speaks on human energy and the chakras; offers individual energy healing and Reiki sessions and is the author of the Roby Chart of chakras and related beliefs. Her mission is to support you along the path to health, freedom, joy and self expression.
	Kerry Seltzer Kerry began practicing yoga and completed her teacher training with Mimi Louriero of O2 Yoga in Boston. She practices a dynamic vinyasa style that is based on Ashtanga yoga. Kerry believes that the basis of practice for new and experienced students is to focus on the breath, learn correct alignment to prevent injury, and a desire to reach beyond current limits. She enjoys teaching beginner students the basics of yoga practice and challenging more experienced practitioners with new postures and sequences. Kerry continued to practice throughout her two pregnancies, experiences that taught her to release expectations on her own practice and respect what the body is telling you at one moment in time. In addition, Kerry is a licensed physical therapist and has been working with children and adults with movement dysfunction for nearly 10 years.
	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
	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.