Transform in every sense of the word. Vastly exceeds the Yoga Alliance requirements.

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Intermediate Vinyasa, w/ Anton Brandt. 50min.

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Sweet Vinyasa

FigFlix Grace Dubery

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FigFlix Anton Myofascial

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Figflix Atmospheric

Yoga, Breathwork, Meditation and More. Anytime. Anywhere. 
With the world’s best teachers.  

Awe-inspiring Anywhere

I began my practice over a decade ago in an attempt to metabolize deep grief and to understand the human condition through my own. After countless hours of practice + self study I began to shed the protective layers of my personality. I found myself thinking less and feeling more. I know now that our true nature is to love and to move from a space of open hearted compassion. I aim to get students back to this simple truth.In my classes, elements of Ashtanga, Kundalini Gosh + Katonah Yoga are woven together to create a rigorous inward exploration of the self.&nbsp; I also use vedic meditation, mantra and kriya as tools to reach higher states of consciousness through the physical form.&nbsp;My goal is for practitioners to leave with a stronger connection to themselves and to all sentient beings.&nbsp;Tony Lupinacci, Yoga + Meditation Teacher, E-RYT 500Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tonylupinacci/">@tonylupinacci</a>Preferred Pronoun: He/Him&nbsp;

Tony Lupinacci

Tony is a Portugal-based Yoga, Meditation + Mantra teacher. 

Yoga + Meditation Teacher 

Jules Mitchell (she/her) MS, CMT, ERYT500 is a yoga teacher, educator, and massage therapist. Her unique approach blends the tradition of yoga with her extensive study in biomechanics to help teachers develop their craft and empower them with education. Jules’s methods intend to achieve ease in movement through deliberate effort, thus her teachings integrate numerous modalities, balancing the somatic aspects of yoga with the most current exercise science. Bringing the most useful and applicable pieces of that science into the yoga community is her passion. She regularly contributes to teacher training programs and leads workshops and courses worldwide. Her book,&nbsp;Yoga Biomechanics: Stretching&nbsp;Redefined, is a must read for any yoga teacher. As adjunct faculty at ASU, she serves as a yoga consultant on various research studies measuring the effects of yoga therapy on special populations. Her most influential teachers include Leeann Carey (Yapana Yoga), <a href="http://www.gilhedley.com/">Gil Hedley</a> (Integral Anatomy), John Casey (yoga philosophy and Sanskrit), and the many dedicated scientists who collect, analyze and publish data so we may continue to ask more questions, even when it invokes a discerning analysis of tradition. For more info visit&nbsp;<a href="http://www.julesmitchell.com/">JulesMitchell.com</a>Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/julesyoga/?hl=en">@julesyoga</a>

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Jules Mitchell

Jules is the author of Yoga Biomechanics: Stretching Redefined, and co-authored our 200hr anatomy curriculum.

Teacher + Author + Biomechanics

Raghav-ji comes from a family lineage steeped in the Vedantic tradition - a background which has guided him &amp; shaped his spiritual pursuits. He is committed to leading a life dedicated to self-enquiry (Atma-vichara) along the lines of Yoga and particularly Vedanta. For almost twenty years, he has been in full-time pursuit of sadhana (spiritual disciplines) and charitable service to underprivileged sections of Indian society through the Ramakrishna Mission organization.In 2001, Raghav first traveled the Himalayas, to Uttarkashi &amp; Rishikesh, where he studied Sanskrit, Vedanta and Yoga Philosophy under the guidance of Swami Dayananda Saraswati and other respected spiritual teachers connected with the Kailash Ashram tradition. Since 2004, he has been dividing his time between Uttarkashi in the Himalayas, Thiruvannamalai in Southern India near the ashram of Sri Ramana Maharshi, and teaching Yoga philosophy and Vedanta.We are honored to have Raghav-ji as lead faculty for philosophy, pranayama &amp; meditation on our 200 hour teacher trainings.Preferred Pronoun: He/Him

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Raghav-ji

Raghav-ji is a Brahmin Sanskrit scholar and philosophy teacher. 

Vedanta Philosophy

Chloe has established herself as a Yoga practitioner in England, after originally training as a dancer. Acknowledging that biology isn’t binary; she creates a safe space for students to delve into their physical, emotional and energetic body. Chloe weaves <a href="https://www.katonahyoga.com/">Katonah Yoga</a>, Vinyasa, Somatics and her background in Contemporary Dance, to create a potent experience for those practising. She has an incredible passion for creative sequencing, musically-driven practices and empowering those she teaches.Chloe is a faculty teacher for <a href="https://www.thesacredfig.com/">The Sacred Fig</a>, guest-teaching on 200hr Yoga Teacher Trainings and featuring on <a href="http://figflix./">FigFlix.&nbsp;</a>Most recently, Chloe has founded <a href="https://thespace-bath.com/">The Space</a>: A Wellness &amp; Creative space in the heart of Bath, U.K. With a vision for profound connection &amp; welcoming community, her dharma is cultivating joy through movement.

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Chloe Knowlden

Teacher

Teaching a blend of fluid movement, pranayama, Kundalini, and meditation, Josie artfully crafts each teaching experience with intention and intelligence, providing a cohesive structure for an eye-opening, transformative journey. Present moment awareness is at the heart, a truth that permeates every movement, stillness and breath.She is heavily influenced by her dear teacher Nevine Michaan, the founder of <a href="https://www.katonahyoga.com/">Katonah Yoga</a>. Her time spent learning from Nevine and her teachers, continues to be a life changing experience.Josie is a well rounded + multifaceted yoga teacher (Yoga Alliance, E-RYT.) She has created and cultivated her own unique 200 + 300 hour teacher trainings. You can find her at her studio <a href="https://www.thespacecolumbus.com/">The Space</a> in Columbus, Ohio, leading communal classes, therapeutic privates, workshops and yoga teacher trainings.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/josieschweitzer/?hl=en">Instagram @josieschweitzer</a>Preferred Pronoun: she/her

Josie Schweitzer 

Josie is a Colorado-based Katonah Yoga Teacher.

Yoga Teacher

I’m Anton. I’m the founder of The Sacred Fig. I love teaching, and having the opportunity to mentor new teachers along their path is one of the great joys of my life.My biggest inspiration is the beauty &amp; wisdom of the natural world. As a teacher, I integrate my love for nature into my classes, drawing on its rhythms and cycles to guide my students on a journey of self-discovery. I believe that by connecting with the natural world, we can tap into our innate intelligence, and learn to move and breathe with grace.In addition to my work with yoga, I also work with sacred medicines, where I delve into the realms of consciousness, spirituality, and the interconnectedness of all beings (read: yoga!). I believe that these experiences enrich my teachings, and allow me to approach my teachings with emotional depth.I’m passionate about guiding my students to explore their own places of strength as well as tenderness, ultimately aiming to create a space of compassionate self-inquiry. Through my classes, I offer a profound space for exploration, inquiry, and growth.I live with my partner and our many animals at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cocoonportugal.com/">Cocoon Portugal</a>.&nbsp;Cocoon is a 275 acre farm + yoga retreat centre on the Atlantic coast of Portugal.&nbsp;"When you meet a spirit with an exceptionally radiant, guiding light, you feel the desire to surround yourself with their presence. And if you’re fortunate enough to find this light source, it’s a gift. Anton has a sparkle that exudes from an authentic place of ease and happiness deep within."&nbsp;Pronouns: He/HimInstagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/antonbrandt/?hl=en">@antonbrandt</a>

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Krissy (she/her) is the founder of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.skytingyoga.com/">SKY TING YOGA</a>. Her teaching philosophy is seeded in 20 years of dedicated yet varied practice of deconstructing form through yoga and dance. Krissy's method is steeped in geometric alignment principles, pranayama, and Taoist studies, as taught by her mentor Nevine Michaan of <a href="https://www.katonahyoga.com/">Katonah Yoga</a>.&nbsp; The focus of her teaching style is to give people practical tools to handle life more gracefully and support their own well-being. She has led many yoga teacher training programs, workshops, mentorship programs, and retreats around the world.&nbsp; Together, Krissy and <a href="http://thesacredfig.com/teachers/chloe/">Chloe</a> developed the SKY TING YOGA method and SKY TING teacher training program.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/krissy_jones/?hl=en">@krissy_jones</a>

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Krissy Jones

Born +&nbsp;raised on the island of Guam, Chloe moved to NYC initially for college and has never left. To find her calm midst the city madness, she took up a yoga practice which led her to many trainings and becoming a teacher in 2011. In 2015 she co-founded <a href="http://www.skytingyoga.com/">SKY TING YOGA</a>, which now has three studio locations in NYC. Through her teachings she works to&nbsp;help students&nbsp;better connect with themselves and the world-wide-web of life.&nbsp;Whether its expanding your vision, helping anchor you down, making you more radiant, or sparking joy -&nbsp;she believes&nbsp;yoga&nbsp;is magic if you understand how to use it. Beyond yoga, Chloe LOVES the ocean and traveling the world and occasionally teaching yoga near an ocean while traveling the world ;)&nbsp;Preferred Pronoun: She/HerInstagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/chloe_kernaghan/">@chloe_kernaghan</a>

Chloe Kernaghan

I've been teaching yoga and various other movement practices for over 20 years. For me, yoga has become a practice of curious self-inquiry. Tias Little calls yoga one of the great "internal arts" which is what it feels like to me. During my self practice I look inward and explore my organs, tissues, boundaries, emotions. I'm not only interested in my own 'internal art" but am also continuously refining and codifying a language I can use to help me guide others to go inward. I believe once we have turned our attention inward with a sense of wonder, we are often better in our relationships. When we are better in our relationships we are better citizens in the world. I teach at <a href="http://www.kulayoga.com/kula/">Kula Yoga Project</a> in NYC and specialize in working with private clients and teaching other teachers. My favorite aspect of leading trainings is getting to witness others take the grace, intelligence, and generosity they already have within and bring it all to light while they teach. I travel around the world leading retreats and workshops on anything from the spine to inversions to pranayama. Learn more about Rebecca (she/her) here: <a href="http://ketchumyoga.com/">ketchumyoga.com</a> Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ketchumyoga/">@ketchumyoga</a>&nbsp;

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Rebecca Ketchum

 Yoga Teacher

Using a non-dogmatic approach, Grace views the physical practice of yoga as gateway, not an end in itself. For her, the practice of yoga asana teaches us to not only broaden the breath, but also to expand stillness within ourselves. To inhabit that space more frequently and more comfortably is her ultimate goal, in practice, and in teaching. Her vinyasa classes are fun and creative, with attention to technique and alignment. They include variations suitable for all levels of experience.As an ambassador for Lolë Women, Grace was chosen to lead the Lolë White Yoga Tour sessions in Toronto, Edmonton and Paris - an event that brings together thousands of people for uplifting yoga sessions dedicated to peace.Grace’s teaching is rooted in a deep personal exploration of the Ashtanga Vinyasa system. An individual’s journey inward must ultimately lead back outward, to engagement with the community. This realization inspired her to deepen her commitment to development projects, both locally and abroad with the belief that the ultimate goals of yoga are not intended to be confined to the mat.Preferred Pronoun: She/HerInstagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/gracedubery/?hl=en">@gracedubery</a>

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Grace Dubery

Matt is an Integral Coach &amp; Organizational Design Consultant. He uses his extensive knowledge of people development theories to create custom leadership and coaching programs so that groups and individuals experience their true potential and create businesses and lives they are inspired to lead.Matt holds a BCOM in Human Resources and a MBA from the Copenhagen Business School, and is an Experienced-200 HR Registered Yoga Teacher – leading embodied leadership trainings + yoga workshops around the world.He is an athletic opportunist, an avid traveler, and loves sharing that extra scoop of ice cream with the love of his life.Preferred Pronoun: He/Him<a href="http://www.mattcorker.com/">mattcorker.com</a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/matt_corker/?hl=en">@matt_corker</a>

Matt Corker

Matt is an Integral Coach & Organizational Design Consultant

Performance Coach

Nikki is the co-director of <a href="http://kulayoga.com">Kula Yoga Project</a> in NYC where she has been teaching for the past fourteen years. She is at the helm of the 200 hour Kula Flow Foundations teacher training program, co-leads Kula’s 75 hour advanced TT, was a contributor and editor of the Wanderlust 200 hour training manual, and guest teaches in other programs around the world. She has written for Yoga Journal and was named as one of <a href="https://www.sonima.com/yoga/100-most-influential-yoga-teachers-in-america-2016/">America’s 100 Most Influential&nbsp;Teachers</a>.&nbsp;As a teacher, she strives to include the perfect alchemy of alignment, intelligence, intention, and space into her classes. As a teacher trainer, she wants to unpack the mystery of putting together an inspired vinyasa sequence so that you can step away from the stress of “following a methodology”, cultivate your authentic voice and enjoy your job! She is also known for giving some of the most kick ass assists in NYC.Pronouns: she / herInstagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nikkivilella/">@nikkivilella</a>

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Nikki Vilella

Dr. Rose Erin Vaughan is a Yoga teacher, Bhakti Yogi, Acupuncturist, Myofascial Therapist, and Anatomy specialist. She serves others with a blend of traditional and alternative healing methods. She holds a Master of Science in Acupuncture and a BS in Biology. She has done numerous trainings in Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Dharma Yoga and Mind Body Centering and has studied over 1000 hours with Sri Dharma Mittra.Her Story: "I study the art of science - human biology and the Art of Tantra - understanding reality and consciousness through the physical and symbolic. I arrived in NYC in 2003 after teaching yoga for a couple of years in southern USA where I am from. I came here to live with my then teacher, Bhagavan Das. I am a Bhakti. My other spiritual teachers include Amma, Dharma Mittra, Geshe Michael Roach. Since age 11, reading many philosophies, I devoted my life to the service of others. I am here to help you on your path. I began Yoga practice in 1996. I have studied and practiced Myofascial based healing since 2000. I developed the Science of Meridians practices and Teacher Training as a way to develop Yoga into a deeper and more real physical, emotional and spiritual practice. Rather than transcending the body, we go into the body through specific channels and observe all kinds of emotions."Learn more about Erin at <a href="https://www.bodyawarenewyork.com/">bodyawarenewyork.com</a>Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/?next=/erin_bodyaware/%3Fhl%3Den">@erin_bodyaware</a>Photo by <a href="https://montystilson.nyc/erin">Monty Stilson</a>

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Dr. Rose Erin Vaughan

Rose Erin is an Acupuncturist, Myofascial Therapist + Anatomy Specialist.  

Yoga teacher & Acupuncturist

Dr.&nbsp;Sharada&nbsp;has dedicated her life to the study of Holistic Medicine. After graduating as a medical doctor in the Indian systems of Medicine, she did her post-grad in Physiology and went on to teach aspiring doctors in medical&nbsp;school for eight years. She also holds a post-graduate degree in modern Psychology and Counseling,&nbsp;and has taught as guest faculty at a medical University in Canada. Her background in both modern and traditional holistic medicine, psychology and physiology makes her acutely aware of the need for Yoga, ayurveda and holistic medicine and also some inherent limitations of the modern allopathic medical approach to human health and well-being. Dr. Sharada has also been a long-time student of Indian Spiritual traditions and loves to help and heal people and share her knowledge of Ayurveda, holistic health care and physiology.Preferred Pronoun: She/Her

Dr. Sharada

Ayurvedic Doctor

Sofia Araujo is a yoga teacher, therapist, chef and writer that shares an enthusiastic passion for holistic health and movement education. She is trained in the alchemy of the 5 Elements through Yoga, Ayurveda, Macrobiotic Nutrition and Counselling, Ayurvedic Yoga Massage and Chi Nei Tsang (Visceral Massage) with over 1500 hours of certified yoga studies.Her ability to listen people through their movements, breath rhythms and nature cycles is what makes her a skilful yoga therapist, teacher and holistic health counselor. She offers a view on the human experience that is rich in mindful movement and committed in living in awareness with the principles of Nature.She is the director of international Swara Yoga School and travels extensively, educating people from all backgrounds and nationalities. She has also developed the social entrepreneurial aspect to her business and sponsors several yoga and meditation projects to unprivileged communities in countries like Indonesia, India, Belize, Guinea-Bissau and Nepal.In the last few years she started focusing on developing yoga curriculums and programs for women where she shares her knowledge and experience of 18 years as a yoga student and teacher of teachers. Curating transformative spaces and facilitating the process of recognizing Spirit through the harmony of body and mind sums up what she´s passionate about!Preferred Pronoun: She/HerInstagram @miss_sofia_ji

Sofia Araujo 

Sofia is the founder of Swara Yoga School.

Alex is a globally recognized teacher and teacher-trainer in the method of <a href="https://www.katonahyoga.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Katonah Yoga</a>.&nbsp; She has been teaching locally and abroad for 15 years and has been on the founding team of two New York City studios – <a href="https://www.skyting.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sky Ting</a> and <a href="http://www.thestudio.yoga/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Studio</a> (formally known as Katonah Yoga on Bowery).&nbsp; Alex’s mission is to seamlessly combine the esoteric and pragmatic in order to maintain teaching as an inclusive and generous practice.&nbsp; While the underpinnings of her training are rooted in the ancient techniques of Hatha Yoga, Zen Meditation, and Taoist philosophy, Alex is constantly designing curriculum that evolves with modern times.In her classes you will hear esoteric banter inspired by <a href="https://www.katonahyoga.com/nevine-michaan" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nevine Michaan</a> (founder of Katonah Yoga); insights from studying the psyche and soma with Abbie Galvin (founder of The Studio); liberatory pedagogy inspired by Bell Hooks (Teaching to Transgress); philosophies of meditation and self-inquiry echoing Tara Brach and Ally Bogard; an adeptness at body reading and anatomy a la Katonah Yoga Diagnostics; and an overall buoyancy that reflects Alex’s passion for themes and theories that connect each and every individual to the greater whole.&nbsp; Alex’s primary philosophy is that yoga is one technique amongst many that enhances one’s capacity to live well, cope with life, and feel powerful.&nbsp;&nbsp; Alex is a published author of her book, Practical Magic along with articles and interviews on her teachings, learnings, and curriculum design.&nbsp; She lives in Nyack, NY with her husband Taylor and dog Bean.&nbsp;&nbsp;Pronoun: She/Her<a href="http://alexsharry.com/">AlexSharry.com</a>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/alexsharry/?hl=en">@alexsharry</a>

Alex Sharry

Alex is an author and NY-based Katonah Yoga Teacher.

Antonia is a Berlin-based Katonah yoga teacher.Antonia completed her first 200hr YTT with Anton Brandt and The Sacred Fig and started to dive deeply into the Katonah Yoga material right after. <a href="https://www.katonahyoga.com/">Katonah Yoga</a> is a Hatha based practice from New York developed by Nevine Michaan over the last 40 years. Since then she trained with her teachers Abbie Galvin, Dages Juvelier Keates, <a href="https://www.thesacredfig.com/about/teachers/alex-sharry">Alex Sharry</a> and Nevine Michaan. &nbsp;Katonah Yoga incorporates Chinese medicine, Taoist theory, geometry, metaphor, mythology and imagination. The goal is to look around yourself, to be well adjusted and to develop a sense of personal measure. Katonah Yoga invites us to question our familiarities and habits, to explore new perspectives and angles within and around our bodies, and notice how that translates from our practice into our life experience.&nbsp;Preferred Pronouns: she / herInstagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/antonialingemann/?hl=en">@antonialingemann</a>

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Antonia Lingemann

Antonia is a Berlin-based Katonah Yoga teacher.

Katonah Yoga Teacher

Having always carried a passion for the healing arts, I’ve infused this inquiry into most aspects of my life. From academics through to motherhood, I’ve felt a consistent calling toward “the healed life” which eventually rooted me in the world of wellness. With over a dozen years of experience, I have taught in a variety of different roles, contexts, and countries, and yet the consistent throughline has been one of sacred empowerment.&nbsp; Working with clients, I quickly realized that without agency, personal responsibility, and integrity, healing becomes impossible. And thus, it is those qualities that I work to instill and promote as the foundation of a healed life.&nbsp;I hold an MA from New York University in the humanities which allowed me to study how culture utilizes ritual as a means of transcendence. From Mark Rothko’s color fields to Candomlé rituals involving percussion and dance, I dedicated my time in academia to researching methodologies that allowed predominately oppressed peoples and cultures to transcend their sufferings. It was evident to me then, as it is to me now, that empowerment was a critical component of this transcendence.Ultimately, however, it has been my own search for healing and empowerment that has informed my work the most profoundly. I have an intimate relationship with the practices in which I teach and work to transmit their efficacy with the deepest respect possible.Perhaps my greatest teachings (and learnings) have come from motherhood, as it is those lessons in softening, patience, and nurturance that encouraged me to create <a href="https://www.mothernidra.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">MotherNidra</a>, a company rooted in compassionate listening and witnessing.Preferred Pronoun: She/Her&nbsp;

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Amber Leigh Kelsey

Amber is a Mallorcan based Spiritual Coach.

Founder of MotherNidra

Tiago (he/him) is a former top-level gymnast that very early on immersed himself in studies of dance, theatre and dramatic arts. He graduated in Fine Arts at the same time he developed a career as an interpreter, dancer and performer inside a circus language all over the world where he lived and sculpted his creativity and practice. Along the way, Tiago studied several languages ​​dedicated to Movement - the body in its entirety - <a href="https://www.idoportal.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ido Portal</a>, <a href="https://fightingmonkey.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fighting Monkey</a>, <a href="https://www.gagapeople.com/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gaga Method</a>, Tom Weklser, Shai Faran, Peeping Tom, Wanderkeybus, Zambrano among many others. All the mentioned names helped to create a path and studies to learn and practice to observe the body as a vehicle of functionality, intellect and artistic expression. In the meanwhile, he studied Physical exercise, Improvisation and hosted / organised several international workshops within Movement Culture and participated in more than 50 events. Co-Founder of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/movement_lisboa/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Movement Lisboa</a>, teacher and practitioner. &nbsp;What to expect in a Movement Class with Tiago?Exposing the body to unknown situations, chaos and complexity that are transformative to the moment and structure. In this confrontation, we learn to deal with the inter-connectivity of seeing and doing, doing and feeling, feeling and being through paradigms, questions and puzzles while creating situations of mobility, organic strength, balance, coordination or locomotion. As a whole, the practice of Movement creates and shapes forms of global development of a body that moves in an increasingly intelligent - and above all - human way.&nbsp;Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tiago_movementlisboa/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">@tiago_movementlisboa</a>

Tiago Martins

Tiago is a movement educator & the co-founder of Movement Lisboa

Movement Educator

Nevine seamlessly relates her approach to yoga through comparing it to the likes of a musician.She says, “I like to play with the idea that&nbsp;yoga&nbsp;is music, and there are lots of different types of music – but all music is playing with the same notes, the same chords; so how are you going to time it, how are you going to put it all together? How are you going to use time to your advantage so you put together a piece of music that is joyful to play, and that is joyful for others to listen to?”Nevine’s artful use of metaphor is one of her most well honed techniques when articulating her teachings, which are empowered by her practical approach to integrating the mind, the body and the breath.“What’s really powerful is to develop the mind, body, and breath to work together. I think everyone should be self-responsible, to have integrity and to integrate all three”, which is why she has spent much of the past decade developing her <a href="https://www.katonahyoga.com/maps-material">Meditation Maps</a>. “A reason to use a map is so you can understand the territory of the mind, body and breath. It’s so you can&nbsp;articulate territory and so you can explore territory; so you can eventually get to where you want to go.&nbsp;And where everyone wants to go is to find Joy.”&nbsp;&nbsp;Born in Egypt in 1954, Nevine moved to New York at the age of three. In her early 20’s, while studying history and comparative religion at Vassar College, she discovered meditation. She understood that there is a function, a formality and a fit to the universe and that yoga is a tool, a technique – a practice with repetition which gives us the opportunity to participate in life with intelligence and joy.&nbsp;Nevine started a daily practice in NYC with renowned yoga instructor Allan Bateman in the 1970s and became fully immersed in what would become her life’s work. She began teaching Yoga in 1980, and founded the Katonah Yoga Center in Katonah, New York in 1986.Nevine continues to teach both online and in person through her studio and others’.<a href="https://www.katonahyoga.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">katonahyoga.com</a>

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Nevine Michaan

Founder, Katonah Yoga

Rebecca Hajek is a New Yorker recently transplanted to Lisbon, Portugal who has been studying yoga and meditation for over 25 years.&nbsp; She was a former opera singer who got her Masters in Music at SUNY Purchase and accredits the discipline and understanding of&nbsp; subtlety in her practice to her years of strict training. She followed her love of yoga out of the opera world and into her 200hr training over 15 years ago in NYC and discovered her life’s purpose. Eager to soak up the vast wealth of yogic wisdom in NYC Rebecca explored Ashtanga, Iyengar, Forrest, Hatha, Kundalini, Dharma and Bhakti yoga which allowed her to deepen her practice and refine her distinctive style of teaching.&nbsp;Her 500hr Advanced Teacher Training (ERYT) was completed with her long time mentor Yogi Charu of Saraswati lineage in Hatha yoga and Tantric meditation in 2015. She has sense delved more deeply into bhakti yoga - the yoga of devotion and studying yoga philosophy through the Vedic texts and mantra with her teachers Raghunath Cappo, Kausthuba Das and Radhanath Swami.&nbsp;Dedicated to the yogic path Rebecca will always consider herself a student first, and a teacher second.&nbsp;In addition to teaching online and in person with group classes and privates Rebecca leads workshops, teacher trainings, kirtans and yoga retreats around the globe.

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Rebecca Hajek

Rebecca is a Lisbon-based Bhakti Yoga teacher.