We are a community of teachers, trained in the Kripalu yoga tradition, which embraces the union of mind, body and spirit.

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Chris Glover

Chris Glover was certified at the New Age Center with master teacher Tao Porchon Lynch. She has taught yoga classes and workshops throughout Westchester and Rockland County since 1990. A former professional modern dancer and circus performer, her training includes Iyengar, Ashtanga, and Kripalu techniques. She is an E-RYT 500 and has received Level II Reiki Attunement. She is a certified gymnastic and circus acrobatic instructor. Chris’s lifelong exploration of movement has given her insights into the body as a vehicle, but it was yoga – the connection of all the different aspects of our selves – that completed the connection. "It is a blessing to share the joy, light, and peace of yoga with all beings. The body is the vehicle to understand and direct life on all levels."

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Kathleen Conlon Hinge

Kathleen Conlon Hinge was the founding director of Yoga Shivaya in Tarrytown, NY for 13 years. She is a 500 hr Certified Yoga Teacher, a Reiki Master and a college professor. She has a PH.D in Mechanical Engineering. Kathleen Hinge teaches yoga with the philosophy that growth and flexibility happen only with compassionate acceptance of our bodies as they are. What’s more, by practicing compassion for ourselves, our hearts naturally open to greater compassion for others, bringing healing and peace into the world.

Her teaching features detailed instruction in safe alignment, informed by kindness and good humor. “Generous attention; spacious breath.

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Linda Caldwell

Linda Caldwell's positive, therapeutic approach offers students the opportunity to gain flexibility and strength, as well as mental focus using meditative techniques. She wishes for all her students to enhance the spirit in daily living. Linda has been practicing since she was 12 years old and is a 500 hr. certified yoga teacher. She has additional specialties in PreNatal, Restorative, Adaptive MS Yoga, and Positional Yoga Therapy, and is a Reiki Master. "Yoga practice connects us all, creating a deep inner peace and allowing me to share my joy with my students." 

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Suzanne Cohen

Suzanne Cohen has been a teacher of meditation and yoga for over 35 year, including 18 years teaching in a local adult continuing education program. She is a 500 hr. teacher and member of the Kripalu Yoga Association. Suzanne has completed the Yoga for Seniors Teacher Training course and focuses her continuing education by attending workshops and trainings in mindful styles of hatha yoga. “The reason I first began teaching yoga was in order to share the experience and the resulting feelings of well-being these practices give rise to naturally. I'm excited that now the medical community confirms the health benefits of both meditation and hatha yoga!"

Dr. Celine Daly

Dr. Celine Daly is a sound weaver and accomplished Native American-style flute player based in Dobbs Ferry, NY. She has studied sound healing at The Center of Lights, Biosonics, New York Open Center, Sage Academy of Sound Energy, and the Sound Healing Academy. Celine is also trained as a yoga teacher and is a longtime meditator. She has studied Craniosacral Therapy anDr. Celine Dalyd is certified in Medical Acupuncture. she plays flute and other traditional instruments in the Heartwood band.tory online can make all the difference.

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Lani Donlon

Lani Donlon LCSW, a member of our yoga community for 24 years, is a psychotherapist and teacher with over 35 years of experience bringing together western and eastern psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience, and making these teachings easily accessible. She was trained in “Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction” by Jon Kabat Zinn in 1993, has studied with master teachers of Buddhism and Nonduality. She has taught meditation and practical coping skills in numerous venues, including to staff and patients at Montefiore Medical Center and to psychotherapists for themselves and for those with whom they work.

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Julie Harris

Julie Harris is an award-winning Native American-style flute player who has studied Sound Healing at the Sound Healing Academy. She is a graduate of the Music for People leadership program founded by David Darling, Grammy Award-winning cellist. She is an ICRT registered Holy Fire II Karuna Reiki® Master, a minister in the Heart River Center for Intuitive Healing and is certified in the IGM®- Isabell Gatto Method of Intentional Wellness. She is an accomplished drummer who performs with master drummer Maxwell Kofi Donkor and his West African drumming and dance band, Sankofa. She plays world flutes, didgeridoo and percussion in the world fusion ensemble, Heartwood.

Marianne Petitbon

Marianne Petitbon came to yoga out of a desire to heal her own body. She was initiated into the ISHTA lineage of yoga by Yogiraj Alan Finger in 1994. Instantly hooked, the combination of pranayama, asana, and meditation, yoga proved to be profound and healing. She has taught in NYC and Westchester, practicing yoga and meditation for over 20 years, and is also certified in teen yoga. Marianne is a Reiki Master who loves the benefits of Reiki and Yoga in daily practice! “My teaching stems from a desire to support others in the journey of transformation and self exploration.”

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Kristin Prevallet

Kristin Prevallet is a writer, educator, and mindbody coach. Since 2010 she has taught guided visualization and trance workshops at a variety of places including The Open Center, Naropa University, Poet's House, Manhattanville College, and Spalding University. She is a certified consulting hypnotist and an integral health coach certified through the International Association of Counselors and Therapists and the National Guild of Hypnotists. She is the author of five books of poetry including I, Afterlife: Essay in Mourning Time (Essay Press) and Everywhere Here and in Brooklyn (Belladonna Collaborative) as well as two non-fiction books about healing and the unconscious mind: Trance Poetics: Your Writing Mind, and Visualize Comfort: Pain Management and the Unconscious Mind. Aside from working with private clients through her office in White Plains, NY Kristin is a professor for Bard College's Prison Initiative. website: mindbodystudies.com blog: trancepoetics.com

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Athina Pride

Athina Pride obtained her professional level yoga certification (E-RYT 500 hours) at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, MA and has been teaching yoga for the last 20 years. Athina’s specialty training includes Yoga for Skeletal Health, Thai Yoga, and Yoga Nidra. She is a Reiki Master and former owner of Infinite Yoga Center in Larchmont, NY. Her approach to yoga is one that links awareness and breath with experience, while cultivating the witness consciousness which is typical of the Kripalu style of yoga. She is conscious of the need to experience and feel the body in its most subtle level, allowing students to explore what they feel in a profound and safe way. She guides students with compassion and care through the 8-limb path of Raja Yoga.