Virayoga

Elizabeth Rossa

karen — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:33:05 +0000

Elizabeth Rossa is the founder/director of Shriyoga. Voted “Best Next Generation of Yoga” by New York Magazine in 2005, Shriyoga and Elizabeth have continued to evolve. Offering a fresh perspective which allows both the ancient and esoteric to become modern and real, students are encouraged to cultivate curiosity as they pause, breathe, and deeply listen to what life is revealing right here, right now. Elizabeth, now teaching yoga for over 10 years, has received multiple yoga teaching certifications and studied extensively with master teachers Erich Schiffman, John Friend, Max Strom and Guru Singh. Her on-going studies are primarily with her long-time mentor, meditation master, Sally Kempton, and her main yoga teachers, the legendary Richard Freeman and his wife, Mary Taylor of the Yoga Workshop in Boulder, CO. Elizabeth just completed another 200 hour month long teacher training intensive in Ashtanga Vinyasa with them this past summer of 2011. Also a guest presenter at Kripalu, Elizabeth is a Level 3 Reiki Professional working towards mastership in 2012 with Wendy Miner of Sloane-Kettering’s Integrative Medicine Center. Philanthropically, Elizabeth spearheaded with Elena Brower a successful Give Your Yoga benefit for Women For Women International at Urban Zen in 2010 with plans underway for another in 2012.

Hillary Cohen

karen — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:49:28 +0000

Hillary began studying yoga in 1997 to relieve chronic back pain from a childhood injury. She learned to receive her experience as an opportunity to heal her body, mind and heart through the process of yoga. She became a committed student of Anusara in 1999, and was Certified in 2007. Hillary’s teaching style is challenging, empowering and playful. As a longtime student of Dr. Douglas Brooks, Hillary has made five journeys to South India with him to directly experience the teachings. Inspired both by her travels to India and her philosophical studies, Hillary’s photography reflects her passion for yoga, the expression of the heart, and the evocative nature of concealment in all aspects of our lives. She lives in New Jersey with her 16-year old son and dog Gracie.

Allison Terracio

karen — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:41:25 +0000

Allison is a Certified Anusara Yoga Teacher who recently moved back to Brooklyn from Louisville, where she pioneered the growth of Anusara in her home state of Kentucky. Allison’s first taste of yoga was at the Crunch Gym in SoHo, mostly because the lengthy class times were appealing to a young lady with time on her hands. But the messages from her teachers there, especially Julie Dohrman, began to shift her from bored to inspired by the greatness of nature. She followed the life-affirming qualities of this yoga to Virayoga, where she completed her first teacher training with Lois Nesbitt. From 2005 on, Allison has created, hosted, taught, nurtured, and never given up on the healing possibilities of Anusara. She is so happy and humbled to serve the kula in New York.

Tracy Toon Spencer

karen — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:32:01 +0000

Tracy Toon Spencer is an Anusara Inspired instructor on the path to certification. Her discovery and love of Anusara Yoga began with a workshop with John Friend in 2001. Since then she has studied with John Friend and teachers in the New York City kula including Amy Ippoliti, Zhenja La Rosa, and Ellen Saltonstall. She has been teaching yoga since 2003. Her love of yoga and life coaching and her desire to serve and be a leader in her community inspired her to create Yoga for Fertility in 2005 to support women on the path to conception. Her yoga teaching is infused with the strength, compassion, grace and humor she has learned through her personal challenges as a woman and mother. She teaches group classes in conjunction with NYU Fertility Center and at World Yoga Center in Manhattan. She also leads Fertility Mind/Body Support groups and teaches and coaches individuals. Her website is www.fertilelifenyc.com.

Mindy Bacharach

karen — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:21:12 +0000

Mindy Bacharach is a seriously playful and inspiring yoga teacher. Her teachings invite a meaningful connection and are full of self-discovery. They express a depth of knowledge and help connect students of all levels, to their greatest potential.

Mindy teaches publicly and privately. She mentors new yoga teachers and leads seriously playful workshops. Her classes weave the historic traditions of yoga with a current relevance to explore asana, meditation and pranyama. Her yoga, since 1996, on and off the mat, is a life-long practice.

In addition to studying closely with John Friend, the founder of Anusara® yoga and his skilled Certified teachers since 1999, she broadens her studies with renowned philosophy scholars as well as extensive exploration in meditation and pranyama. Mindy is certified with Yoga Alliance 200-hour standards since 2003 and continually studies with many other nationally recognized teachers and the extremely talented teachers around NYC.

Mindy lives in New York, NY, and is grateful for the lessons and inspiration she receives every day.

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Hannah Gruber

karen — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:42:26 +0000

Hannah Gruber is a spirited individual, whose enthusiasm and dedication shine through in her teaching and personal practice. Her classes are inspired by the wonder of everyday experience and infused with storytelling. She believes that all individuals, regardless of age, physicality, or background, possess the freedom and potential to explore and create. In class, Hannah encourages her students to expand their boundaries with the courage of a full heart.

A student of yoga since 2002, Hannah expresses gratitude to all of her teachers and students, who have shared their guidance and wisdom along this path.

Jenny Ingwersen

karen — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:15:00 +0000

Practicing since 2001, Jenny teaches the gifts of yoga with creativity, care, humor and intelligence. Her main inspirations in the Anusara community have been Denise Benitez, with whom she took her Teacher Training, Elena Brower and Zhenja La Rosa; she was also very fortunate to have taken Immersion with John Friend. Now an Anusara Inspired teacher, Jenny is thrilled and grateful to practice and teach in such an elegant system of yoga.

Shoko Dubiski

karen — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:59:54 +0000

Shoko is an Anusara® inspired teacher. Initially arriving in New York in 1999 to study dance, it wasn’t long before she discovered the freedom and joy yoga can bring to one’s busy life. She has been practicing different styles of yoga for 10 years. Since 2006, she has studied Anusara Yoga extensively and completed over one thousand hours of classes with her gifted teachers. Shoko completed teacher training with Zhenja La Rosa in 2009.

Her class is an informative, respectful, and flowing practice for all levels. By engaging playful and introspective themes, one will learn not only how to more deeply trust and believe in one’s self, but also how to celebrate the ever-deepening possibilities of yoga while always enjoying the moment.

Shoko is deeply grateful to her family & friends and all of her teachers, students and Virayoga staff, especially, Elena Brower, Zhenja La Rosa, Dana Covello, Sharon Kenny, and Eric Stoneberg. She teaches throughout New York City, New Jersey and Japan. www.shokoyoga.com

Cass Ghiorse

karen — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:11:13 +0000

Cass was first introduced to yoga at an early age as a complement to her dance background. She is continually inspired by the refined alignment principles, deep heart themes, and unyielding abundance that Anusara offers. Cass provides clear and thorough instruction in both breath and alignment while maintaining a sense of humor and heart throughout. She is deeply grateful to her teachers Elena Brower, Lois Nesbitt and Zhenja La Rosa for their continued inspiration and guidance.

kevin lamb

lynn — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:24:45 +0000

Kevin began practicing yoga with the dawn of the new millennium and has been deeply in love ever since, completing his first Hatha Yoga teacher’s training in ’05 at Yoga on Main in Philadelphia, studying under the guidance of David Newman, Shiva Das and Dr.Ed Zadlo. From Philadelphia to Hawaii, Kevin has been expanding his practice and teaching through the years, now blissfully aligned with a passionate Anusara practice and gleefully working towards a full Anusara certification, having completed the first level of study within this divine methodology in August of 2009 at Virayoga, studying under Zhenja LaRosa, Eric Stoneberg and Dr.Douglas Brooks. He stands here and now with immense gratitude to his family for all their support and love, Elena Brower for her generous spirit shared so freely, and his friends and teachers who allow him to see himself more clearly each and every day.