We are a community of teachers, trained in the Kripalu yoga tradition, which embraces the union of mind, body and spirit.
Teachers
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."
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.
Presenters
Franklin Shire
Franklin Shire is a certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher whose practice is based on breath and body awareness as self-awareness. Trained by senior Kripalu teachers Brahmani Liebman and Jashoda Edmunds, he is honored to share this great lineage with others. Franklin has taught in Westchester at yoga studios, schools and health clubs. He has enjoyed teaching yoga at Purchase College Dance Conservatory, and as a volunteer at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility and Public Schools in South Bronx, NYC.
Janet Weir and the Hudson Sound Healers
Janet Weir, aka Hudson Sound Healing, Is a professional sound healer who performs sound baths with the intention to create inner peace and increased awareness. Orlginally a planist and composer, she wrote and produced music for television such as "Reading Rainbow" for 25 years.
During this time, she also studied yoga, meditation and kirtan (chanting) at the SYDA Yoga Ashram.
Love of sound and spiritual studies merged along with a desire to serve, leading Janet to study Sound Healing at the Sage Academy, the Open Center and Integral Yoga.
Michael Jay is a Sound Healing educator, Gong Master, Sonic Alchemist and Reiki Master.
Dasha Alexander is a professional educator, student of sound healing and the proud daughter of Janet Weir.
Steve Horelick's soundscapes, with their natural rhythms of waves, are designed to harmonize the mind, body, and soul.
Lucia Rich
Lucia Rich (She/Her) is a Movement Arts Educator, SomaSource Practitioner and Yoga/Wellness Instructor devoted to the practice of embodiment through her personal practice and teaching for over 20 years. She has taught at The New School, Hunter College, Manhattan School of Music, Professional Performing Arts School and Horace Mann School in NYC, as well as Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School and The Actor’s Academy in CO and the University of Connecticut.