Sara Rose, r.y.t., DIRECTOR
Sara is a Certified Anusara Yoga Teacher and a 500 Hour Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance (R.Y.T.) She has taught in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts for 14 years, and is the Director of Yoga Sanctuary, open since 1999. She has studied extensively with John Friend, Anusara’s founder, and also studies Rajanaka Tantra Philosophy with Dr. Douglas Brooks. Sara has been a student of yoga for 18 years and offers classes that are heartfelt, poetic, fun, challenging and healing. The richness of her teaching is inspired by the influence of her own amazing teachers, her personal dedication to yoga, and her life-long commitment to a spiritual path of healing and transformation. Sara is dedicated to supporting each student to recognize and celebrate their inherent worthiness and to uncover their infinite potential.

Kim Bressem
Kim has an extensive base in Iyengar yoga, and has completed a teacher training at the Karuna Center (Noho). Kim is a former preschool teacher & current school psychologist. She brings 10 years of experience working with children to her kids classes.

Sarah McAnulty
Sarah is a long-time student of yoga who has completed teacher trainings in both Kripalu and Iyengar Yoga. She is also studying Anusara Yoga. Sarah brings warmth, encouragement and a playful attitude to her teaching.

Lynne Paterson
Lynne, R.Y.T., Certified Anusara Yoga Teacher, has trained extensively with John Friend. She creatively and skillfully conveys the Spirit and principles of Anusara Yoga. Lynne is known for her passionate approach to the transformative power of yoga, her humor, radiance and joy. Lynne offers workshops, retreats and is available for private yoga instruction and therapeutic yoga sessions.

Amy Reed, Office Manager
Amy has been studying yoga and meditation since she was 17 years old! For the past 3 years she has trained intensively in the Anusara Style with Deb Neubauer, as well as with Sara Rose and Lynne Paterson. Her classes are steeped with sweetness and enthusiasm, turing the yoga practice into a time for celebration, wonder and self-inquiry. She delights at the opportunity to share and explore the vivid, intricate and often mysterious experience of being embodied with others.

Andrew Rivin (certified Anusara Teacher)
"I started my exploration with yoga in 1989 when I moved to Berkeley from Cambridge. At the time I figured it was the California thing to do, and turning 30 that year, I also decided that it was something that my body sorely needed. As a football player, a pole-vaulter, a skier, a biker and a runner, I have been physically active my entire life. Mostly I was very skilled at torturing my body in hard, physical training. I had a "no pain, no gain" attitude to all things athletic. Practicing yoga was a life altering shift in perspective and it took me many years to fully commit myself to a softer, more open and reflective posture. It's one that I'm still learning.

My Style of teaching is light, fun and I hope uplifting. I still have a bit of the coach in me and I must've heard too many cheerleaders over the years, because that's there too. Come prepared to push to your edge, wherever that might be, in a safe, supportive and connected community of like minded yogis."

DAVID RUSSELL
Dave Russell led his first kirtans in 1971 at age 19 as a yoga instructor in the  Integral Yoga Institute, an ashram led by Swami Satchidananda. Over the past four decades, Dave has studied and practiced with a wide array of spiritual mentors including Ram Dass, Amma,  and  Neem Karoli Baba ( aka Maharaji)  who has been his most constant inspiration for the past 35 years.  For the past several years, Dave has played at kirtans all over New England, including Northampton, New Haven, Boston, Kripalu (in Lenox), and Brattleboro. Most recently, he led kirtan for Arun Gandhi, the grandson of Mohatma Ghandhi, who was on a speaking tour of America. Dave is delighted to call the Yoga Sanctuary his home base.  You can find out more at www.kirtanguy.org.

LIZZY TYLER
Lizzy Tyler has a diverse background in dance, yoga, pilates and Body-Mind Centering™. She has trained extensively in Ashtanga and Anusara Yoga and she weaves all of these movement practices into an eclectic and joyful yoga class.