Below are all of our active instructors, more photos and bios are coming soon.
RYT - Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance IKYTA - International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association
To learn more about the classes they offer, check out our class schedule.
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Aimee Seal, RYT Multi-Level Yoga, Yin-Yang Yoga Once Aimee attended her first yoga class in 1996 it did not take her long to realize the profound sense of serenity, empowerment, and physical strength yoga offered. Previously a fitness instructor, teaching yoga seemed like a natural progression. With a psychology background and fueled by the desire to delve deeper into understanding yoga principles, philosophy and spirituality, she completed her 200 and 500 hour teacher trainings at Golden Heart Yoga in 2009 and recently attended a prenatal yoga teacher training with Jacci Reynolds. She incorporates breathing, stretching and relaxation to help relieve stress and gain focus and confidence. Integrating breath with movement, Aimee shares her passion for yoga while guiding students of all levels on their individual journeys toward discovering peace, joy, and creative expression. |
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Andrea "Andie" Lichtenstein, Owner, RN, RYT She teaches NIA technique which is a blend of yoga, martial arts, tai chi, tai kwondo, jazz, and modern duncan dance. |
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Anita Ewing Pilates Since begging my mother for dance classes when I was in kindergarten, I have always been a ‘mover’ with a life-long interest in dance, yoga and now Pilates. After being diagnosed with scoliosis in my mid 50s, I have experienced in my own body the transformative power of Pilates. The regular practice of Pilates has helped me reduce my pain, support my spine, and generally become stronger. Realizing that Pilates would be a permanent part of my life, I became certified by the Physical Mind Institute in 2008. Pilates is a unique, mindful form of exercise that targets the muscles that support the spine. It can be tailored for various ages and bodies. It certainly worked for me and I love sharing it with others. |
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Becki Roemer, RYT Beginning Vinyasa Flow Rebecca Roemer is a 200 hour RYT® certified instructor from Annapolis, Maryland . She has been practicing yoga intensely for the past 5 years and was certified in Costa Rica in 2009 through Frog Lotus Yoga, an organization recognized by Yoga Alliance. Rebecca uses a dynamic vinyasa flow style, breath work, and connection to rhythm to create a moving meditation. In this way, attention is placed on the journey between postures as well as the postures themselves. Interested in the many psychological benefits that yoga presents in addition to the physical, she believes that finding meditative motion within the body, can quiet the mind, and stir the spirit. |
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Billy Greer Tai Chi (Chen) Shifu Billy Greer is owner of Jing Ying Institute of Kung Fu & Tai Chi. He is the winner of numerous medals in Tai Chi competition including a 2008 sweep of gold medals for Advanced Restricted Step Push Hands, Advanced Tai Chi forms, and Advanced Moving Step Push Hands. He has trained with top masters from around the world and has brought them to the local area for many workshops. |
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Denise Traynor, RYT
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Donna Curry, RYT Yoga, Core and More • Yoga Enhancement • Beginning/Intermediate Yoga Donna completed her vinyasa teacher training at Divine Light Yoga in 2008. Her flowing style of yoga emphasizes awareness of your own body through movement and breath. She has also completed the Radiant Child teacher training. She is a RYT with Yoga Alliance. |
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Nam Hari, RYT, IKYTA Kundalini Yoga I've been on a spiritual path since I was a child, but my journey with yoga began twelve years ago with Hatha Yoga. I really enjoyed it and attended classes regularly until one day I walked into what I thought was a Vinyasa class. Turns out I read the brochure wrong and instead, found myself in a Kundalini class! I was curious and decided to stay as there must have been a reason I had ended up in this room. The energetic shift I experienced at the end of that first class was both palpable and profound - not like anything I had experienced in any other yoga class before. In that moment I was totally hooked, and thus I began my study of Kundalini Yoga. I trained with Darshan Kaur Khalsa, a master teacher of Kundalini Yoga for 30+ years who studied directly with Yogi Bhajan. I am currently certified by the International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association and Yoga Alliance. I have also been certified by the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health to teach Kripalu Yoga Dance - a unique blending of yoga, music and dance, to energize and heal the chakras. I invite you to experience a Kundalini Yoga class and look forward to meeting you! |
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JoAnne Hockman, RYT Sunrise Yoga • Yoga Up the Wall • Saturday Yoga JoAnne Hockman, RYT, completed her 200 hour teacher training with the Yoga Matrix Studio in Orlando Florida under the supervision of Edely Wallace. Her classes draw on traditional Hatha yoga principles including regulated diaphragmatic breathing, static and dynamic asana, and focused relaxation. JoAnne provides modifications of asana to promote participation of students at all levels of experience. She is also a licensed psychotherapist and incorporates many of the healing components of yoga into her practice. |
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Justin Landers T. Justin Landers is an acupunturist and taijiquan (tai chi chuan) instructor.
He holds a Masters of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. He holds a Diplomate of Oriental Medicine from the National Commission for Certification of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM), and he holds a license to practice in the state of Maryland. Mr. Landers has over six years experience in acupuncture and specializes in pain management and sports medicine.
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Kater Leatherman, RYT Lunchtime Yoga • Reflective Yoga Kater is trained in Anusara yoga, a heart centered style of Hatha yoga, and has been teaching for thirteen years. She is also certified in laughter yoga and conducts partner yoga workshops. Her teaching style is gentle with a focus on creating space in the body through stretching to release tightness, tension and stress in order to restore the body to its natural state of being. |
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Katherine Coldiron, RYT Candelight Yoga • Yin Yoga • Saturday Yoga Katharine Coldiron has been teaching at Ridgely Retreat since December 2009. She received teacher training from the White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara , California . She has attended workshops with Anodea Judith, Michael Stone, Shiva Rea, Shala Worsley, and others. In June 2010, she earned a certificate to teach yin yoga from Asheville Yoga Center . Her vinyasa classes emphasize strong, continuous, graceful movement, with safe anatomical alignment for a wide range of bodies. |
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Lauren Kelly-Washington BLiS Moves™ • BLiS Moves™ with Live Drumming Lauren (BA Ethnic Studies), founder of BliS Moves™ (Body Language is Somatic), has honed her passion for dance and music for nearly 2 decades by studying and performing dance forms such as The Nia Technique™, modern, African, Haitian and Middle Eastern. Lauren has also studied a variety of choral and traditional music from the African Diaspora and Eastern Europe . Her earthy alto voice captures the sacred nature of this music. A perfect compliment to many exercise forms, BliS Moves™ drawsfrom a variety of somatic movements & ethnic dance. Lauren guides classes through, mind centering, a rhythmic warm-up, energetically balanced movements and floor exploration, all while taking an eclectic musical journey around the globe! Lauren has a reputation as an open and loving teacher who is gifted at the art of inviting her students to explore their joy and full potential. |
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Lynn Gardner, M.A.H.A.A Svaroopa Yoga Lynn Gardner, M.A.H.A.A is certified as a Foundations instructor in Svaroopa Yoga, of the Hatha yoga style from Master Yoga Foundation and she has her Master of Arts in Applied Healing Arts from the Tai Sophia Institute Her emphasis is on deepening meditation and stillness through the Svaroopa practice releasing and softening the tension in the tailbone, sacrum and lower spine. Her life long practice that she shares in her classes has been to heal from within, tending to the inner core to achieve transformation, optimum health and inner peace. Her passion is helping students unravel their psychic centers of the chakras opening the places and spaces for the prana energy to move, open and release. Using breath work, various meditation practices, music, contemplations, and essential oils her classes are ideal for those with lower back issues, scoliosis, severe arthritis, fibromyalgia, physical challenges from accidents or atrophy. She has a welcoming presence and shares in grace for every ones inner healing. Her classes are a unique compliment to all the other yoga modalities. |
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Nina Gallant Bardo Dance Nina Gallant has been dancing in her living room all her life. She has also always been a seeker. She has combined her love of movement and spiritual connection by creating a program called Bardo Dance. "Bardo Dance provides a safe and nurturing venue for people to express themselves through dance while being gently led to connect to a place of gratitude and love. An awareness of the chakra system is brought to light, as well as an appreciation of self, community, and the world at large. Over-riding it all is a spirit of having fun, and of taking ourselves lightly," says Nina. She has offered Bardo Dance throughout the metro DC area at various corporate, academic, dance and wellness venues, and is a returning Movement Facilitator at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY. She is also a certified Journey Dance instructor, and through that discipline has led and assisted programs at the Kripalu Institute in Stockbridge, MA and other locations. |
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Mischelle Wilbricht Pilates I sailed into Annapolis ten years ago, where I now live with my husband and two sons. Jane Opie and Stefanie O'Rourke began teaching me Pilates in 2005, and now I enjoy teaching along side of them in the studio. I have been a certified instructor since 2008, from Physcal Mind Pilates. Pilates has become an important part of my life, and I hope to share that with you. |
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Paul Malley, RYT Beginning/Intermediate Yoga • Intermediate/Advanced Yoga • Multi-Level Yoga Paul began yoga in 1976 as a teen. Instantly intrigued, he sampled various styles through his teens and twenties. In his early thirties he became devoted to Iyengar Yoga, a type of yoga that focuses on anatomy and alignment. During that time he met John Friend of Anusara Yoga, which refines the anatomy and alignment aspect of yoga even further. He spent the next ten years following John around the country for his training. Currently Paul assimilates his training into his teaching to focus on correct alignment and the following anatomical benefits in his various leveled yoga classes. |
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Renee Smith, RYT Prenatal Yoga Renee Smith, RYT 500 Renee has been studying and practicing yoga since 1996. Renee practiced and studied Iyengar yoga for nine years at Unity Woods Yoga. She has also been influenced by Anusara and Para Yoga, and has gained a great appreciation for the therapeutic applications of yoga through her teacher training programs. Renee completed her 200 and 500-hour training programs at Golden Heart Yoga. She continues to attend workshops and trainings on the many aspects of yoga and yogic philosophy, yoga therapy, tantra and ayurveda. She recently completed the Radiant Child Teacher Training (level 3). Renee has a deep love of yoga and hopes to share the many physical, mental and spiritual benefits of yoga through her teaching. She lives in Annapolis with her husband and two children. |
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Su Choy, RYT Lunch Time Yoga • Gentle Yoga • Yoga Basics Su Choy, M.A., has been teaching yoga and pilates since 1996. Before moving to Maryland in 2010, she was teaching and leading workshops in Tampa , Florida , specializing in Yoga Therapy and the Chakras. Having graduated from both Kripalu and Krishnamacharya yoga teacher training programs, she enjoys sharing a breath-focused, meditative approach to yoga which includes transformative work in pranayama (breathing techniques), mudra (therapeutic hand gestures), the bandhas (energy locks), and the chanting of sacred mantra (Japa Yoga). Recently she has been studying the Yoga of Sound (Naad Yoga) and regularly offers healing gong meditations to the community. She's also a black belt martial artist and certified Qi Gong instructor, and believes all these disciplines share a similar goal: healing, transformation and spiritual evolution. |
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Wendy Resnick RN, RYT, IKYTA Kundalini Yoga Wendy is a Nurse Educator in Psychiatry with special interests in nutrition and fitness. She has been student of Yoga since her teenage years. In her experience with Kundalini Yoga, consistent practice opens the heart and brings change on every level – body, mind, and spirit. As a teacher, Wendy shares the transformational possibilities of Kundalini Yoga with others, helping them to be the best they can – Healthy, Happy, and Whole. |
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