Annette has 25 years of experience teaching creative dance and ballet to children and adults. In 1999 she turned to yoga to work through some old dance injuries and found the benefits to be far beyond the physical. She trained with Libby Kellington in Montpelier and at Kripalu Institute. Annette has been teaching her own blend of Kripalu, Hatha and Flow Yoga in Shelburne and Milton since 2002. It has been described as a 'whole body make-over'.

Caroline has been a student of yoga since 2000, studying several styles through the years. Currently she deeply resonates with Anusara and Iyengar Yoga. She is a certified Hatha Yoga Instructor and completed her training with Jonas Westring in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Yoga has helped bring more joy, spontaneity and peace to Caroline's life and her classes will guide students to listen to their body's intuition, enjoying the union of breath, body, mind and spirit. She believes each individual makes art with their body in a unique way and encourages students to tune into their personal strengths and understand their limitations.

Cristen began practicing yoga in 2000 and quickly found it instilled peace and calm in her hectic life. She has been a student of and influenced by Piper Petrie, Sofi Diffof and many others in the Burlington yoga community. After the birth of her son Benjamin in July 2006, Cristen wanted to be able to share the joys of yoga with her child. Cristen trained with Itsy Bitsy Yoga founder Helen Garabedian and is excited to share the joy of yoga with the tots of the local community.

A student of Yoga for many years, Debbie has studied various forms of Hatha Yoga and is certified in Integrative Yoga Therapy (IYT). Through her own personal practice, she has seen how Yoga can strengthen the body, mind, and spirit. To learn more about Debbie - and her new line of "Clothing with a Conscience" apparel which benefits greyhound rescues - please visit her website: www.downdogyogastudio.com

Emily Garrett is a Kripalu certified yoga instructor with a background in modern dance. Emily’s personal experience with yoga has given her tools to work with physical and emotional blocks in an effort to heal herself. She deeply believes in yoga’s ability to awaken the body and cultivate a peaceful state of mind. Emily has been influenced by many wonderful teachers in her life. Currently, she studies mainly with Jill Saterfield and Arlene Griffin. For more information contact emilygarrettyoga.com

Eva Davant began practicing yoga in 1999 and has been teaching yoga off and on since 2002. Since then she’s practiced many forms of yoga with many great teachers and practitioners. Her teaching is influenced mostly by Anusara, Shiva Rea, and Astanga Yoga. She began to immerse herself in Anusara yoga after first being exposed to it in 2005 because of how it made her feel and because it helped her regain a vigorous practice even with various body ailments. With the Anusara influence, her practice became more heartfelt, touched occasionally with absolute joy and freedom. With the help of yoga she has learned that through dedication and practice, it is possible to fulfill dreams and goals that at one time didn’t seem possible. She brings those qualities to her teaching, combining physical, energetic and spiritual aspects of yoga to allow students to gain self-awareness by playing with breath and movement, opening their awareness of grace, and finding deep inner strength that resides naturally within. When these aspects of life seem absent, once touched by them, it’s easier to remember that they are available and will be felt again in the future.

Hinda Miller, a seeker and yoga practitioner for over 30 years, received her early training in the 70’s from Swami Satchidananda in NYC, where she earned her teaching certificate in Integral Yoga. She later continued her studies with Amrit Desai and became a certified Kripalu yoga teacher. In Vermont, during the past decade, she has had the opportunity to learn from many talented teachers such as Kathy McNames, Christine Hoar, Beryl Bender, Arlene Griffin and Piper Petrie. Hinda has taught yoga in prison, to teenage moms, women in mid-life cycle and many other populations. She believes that a strong inner voyage is the foundation of a fulfilling and purposeful life. Most recently, she has added a deeper dimension to her practice through the study of Naam Yoga, a combination of Yoga and Universal Kabbalah as taught by Gurunam, Joseph Michael Levry, at the Universal Force Healing Center in NYC.

Jane began practicing yoga during college after a fateful journey to India. She has studied with Sri Dharma Mittra, Nancy Gilgoff, Rusty Wells, Piper Petrie, and Cathy Louise Broda of Purple Yoga Hawaii. Jane is certified in Kripalu Yoga. She considers yoga to be the pathway to peaceful life. Jane sees yoga as both a lifestyle and a tool for preventing illness, cultivating self-awareness, compassion and a gateway to universal truth. Her class is a flowing tribute to all of her teachers with an emphasis on breath, alignment, and the individual. Jane is devoted to studying and sharing yoga as yoga has opened Jane to herself and the world.

John has been practicing and experiencing the joy of yoga for 7 years. Yoga has given him the realization that all we need for a complete and joyous life is within each of us, patiently waiting to be unveiled. In teaching, John creates a light-hearted sanctuary where each student can discover his or her own complete goodness, and bask in the glory of that discovery. John is on the path to becoming a certified Ansuara Instructor and has studied Anusara with Carolyn Conner, John Friend, Todd Norian, Ann Greene, Mitchel Bleier, Deb Neubaur and Sara Rose. When not on the mat, John and his wife can be found retaining their breath while rolling kayaks on Lake Champlain.

John took his first class in 1970 as a freshman at UVM and has been practicing and teaching consistently for more than 25 years. He has studied extensively with Erich Schiffman, Kali Ray, Richard Freeman, Shiva Rae and White Lotus. He lived and taught at Kripalu over several years. He has a consistent meditation practice and is an accomplished endurance athlete. John approaches his own practice and teaching as a spiritual practice, guiding students towards their own wholeness.

Julia has been practicing yoga since 2003, upon moving to Burlington - a mecca for yoga folk. Yoga has allowed Julia to put the best version of herself forward when tackling the issues she’s passionate about. Her teaching and practicing style is accented by influences of the phenomenal teachers here in Burlington with a spirit and deliberation that is uniquely her own. Expect a class with Julia to have the perfect combination of verve and alacrity with hints of serenity.

Kate Stewart is a certified Anusara inspired yoga instructor. Kate left environmental engineering, corporate America, and Boston in 1997 to take up full time residence in Vermont. While working as a ski and mountain bike instructor at Killington, she transformed her longstanding occasional practice of a few yoga postures into a dedicated daily practice. Initially she studied Ishtar and Ashtanga yoga. Later, through her practice at Burlington Yoga, she studied Iyengar, Kripalu and Restorative yoga. Finally, in 2004, she discovered her true calling in Anusara yoga. Today she has completed over 450 hours of yoga teacher training, including 300 hours of Anusara teacher training.

Lisa Limoge began practicing yoga intuitively as a teenager in Burlington, Vermont. She leads a passionate, dynamic and inspirational class in the methods of Kripalu and Kali Ray Tri Yoga. The blending of these styles offers concise application of alignment, fluid spinal wave-like motion with attention to the inner journey of meditation for connection to spirit and perfect health. Lisa is certified as a massage therapist and yoga teacher with 15 years experience. She has studied with many yoga masters in the USA and India.

Melissa began practicing yoga over 20 years ago, running home from school to catch Lilias on public television. Her long Rapunzel-like braids were the first catch, the therapeutic asanas and pranayama worked to be the primary motivators to continue practice. Over the years, Melissa has practiced many different styles of hatha yoga. She continues to be drawn to the intuition of our flow of body and breath. Melissa has been blessed with practicing with insightful teachers including Jenny Sugar, Kathy McNames, Beryl Bender Birch, Kevin Gardiner, and Piper Petrie. She continues to work with many of the incredibly talented teachers in Burlington as well as Rod Stryker and Cyndi Lee. Melissa's classes are intended to create joy and space....space between the vertebrae and the spine, between thought and action, between holding and letting go. Students are consistently challenged to be where they are at in that moment as well as practicing spontaneity, going inward, breathing deeply, and playing with balance. She is an intuitive, creative, knowledgeable, and dedicated student and teacher who is incredibly inspired by her students' insights, energy, and adventures on and off the mat. Off the mat, yoga continues in Melissa's social work with people who are HIV positive. She is currently learning how to create flow while standing on a surf board....

Patrick McAndrew became a serious student of yoga at age 17 when he had an oceanic experience learning Hamsa Sohum meditation from the dancer Margaret Beals, a devotee of Swami Muktananda. In pursuit of deepening that connection, he has practiced with many great teachers through-out California, Vermont, and his native New York City. He is a graduate of the Kripalu 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training, the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and Goddard College.

Piper Petrie, ERYT 500 (Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher 500+ hrs) has been practicing yoga for 13 years. She received her IYT (Integrative Yoga Therapy) in 1996. She has studied Astanga and Power Yoga extensively with teachers including Beryl Bender Birch, Baron Baptiste, David and Doug Swenson, Kathy McNames, David Williams and many others. Her continued Iyengar training includes intensives with Kevin Gardiner, co-founder if the Iyengar Institute of NY and Joan White. Piper studies Anusara with John Friend and Deb Neubauer. She is certified in Yoga Marma for hands-on adjustments with Rod Stryker. Her Guru is Dharmanidhi Sarasvati founder of the Trika Kula school of classical nondual Tantra in Berkeley, CA.

When Steph first tried yoga with Penny Holden in the early '90s, it was one more thing she couldn't do due to injuries from an accident. After much patience and perseverance, yoga helped her discover she was no longer limited. Since then she has studied extensively with many certified Iyengar Yoga teachers, including Patricia Walden, Peentz Dubble, Janice Vien, Jyoti Hansa, Kevin Gardiner and Lydia Hill. She finished the Iyengar Introductory Teacher Training Program in 2005. Recently she completed the Iyengar Teacher in Training Program, Part 1 (fall '07-spring '08) and will take Part 2 in the fall of 2008. Her enthusiasm for yoga includes Sutra and Sanskrit study. "I am deeply grateful for the gifts of yoga. One of the reasons I love to teach is so I can, as best I can, give back."