Sara Rose, E-ryt, DIRECTOR
Sara is a Certified Anusara Yoga Teacher and a 500 Hour Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance (E-RYT 500) 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.

ABIGAIL CLARKE
Abigail is a certified yoga teacher in the Embodyoga style. Her many years of dance, movement, meditation and yoga as well as a profound love of the human form blend into a deeply restful and fluid yet also invigorating and strengthening practice. Her children's classes create space for children to explore movement, and find the peace yoga offers. Her toddler's and parents class is a joyful experience for both children and adults!

Julie Feinland
Julie has been studying Anusara Yoga since 2002 and is on the path to become a Certified Anusara Yoga Teacher. Prior to discovering Anusara, she danced professionally and studied Jivamukti Yoga. She is incredibly grateful to all her teachers and to have the opportunity to share Anusara Yoga with others.

SARAH MCANULTY, R.N.
Sarah, a certified pre-natal yoga teacher, is a long-time student of yoga who has completed teacher trainings in both Kripalu and Iyengar, and studies Anusara Yoga. Sarah brings warmth, encouragement and a playful attitude to her teaching.

Brandt Bhanu PassalacquaÝ
Brandt is a certified hatha yoga teacher, Licensed Massage Therapist and Structural Yoga Therapist. After struggling with weight, food and substance addiction, and serious illness, he found his way to yoga practice. He has maintained his health and lost 100 pounds by being kind to his body. He currently works as a private yoga therapist, massage therapist, and food coach in New York City and Northampton, MA. He is also chasing a 4-year-old in circles. He is the author ofÝPeaceful Weight Loss through YogaÝand gives seminars on weight loss around the country. You can contact him at brandt@breathingdeeply.com

Amy Reed
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
Andrew comes to yoga from an athletic background. His 20 years of yoga practice, masters in business from Yale and experiences initiating micro-enterprises in Africa, have given him an unusual and well-rounded life perspective. In 1985, Andrew co-founded Global Routes, an international educational non-profit. Today Andrew finds that sharing Anusara yoga's life-enhancing philosophy is yet another way for him to continue creating community connection and transformation.

DAVID RUSSELL
Dave discovered the joy of chanting while exploring Eastern spirituality with Swami Satchidananda and Ram Dass in the early 1970s. He led his first kirtans in 1972 and has chanted, with some detours, ever since. In addition to his Northampton, MA kirtans, he leads kirtans on a regular basis at Kripalu Center for Yoga in Lenox, MA.

Kirtan is a very powerful group practice of singing call and response repetitions of simple Sanskrit mantras set to easy melodies. The chants roll and vibrate through our bodies, bringing physical and emotional healing, and a heightened awareness of our inner spiritual authority. With humor, Dave's approach is to encourage participants to open their hearts and enjoy themselves.

Karen Sheingold, R.Y.T.
Karen is an Anusara-inspired teacher who has been a student of yoga for fifteen years and has studied many forms of yoga. Her personal transformation through yoga inspired her to become a teacher. Through her teacher training with Todd Norian, as well as her studies with John Friend and many outstanding Anusara teachers, she has become deeply committed to the richness and elegance of Anusara yoga. With warmth and humor, Karen teaches classes that are open-hearted and challenging. She honors the uniqueness of each student.

Katie Shults

TARA STARLING
Tara is a certified prenatal/postnatal yoga teacher and has been teaching in MA and CT since 1996. She has been a dedicated student of Anusara Yoga for the past 10 years and her teaching and practice has been most influenced by Desiree Rumbaugh, Sianna Sherman and Amy Ipollitti. Tara is also a Certified Nurse Midwife at Baystate Midwifery and Women's Health in Springfield, MA. It is her honor and delight to bring the beauty and healing of yoga to her students and to support women to connect more deeply to their bodies and babies during the very sacred time of pregnancy.

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.