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Our Teachers are highly trained and certified to
standards set by the Yoga Alliance. All are involved with continued
training and development. Each teacher brings her own special
touches to the classes. You can contact teachers with email to
info@serenityyoga.com.
Bios for each teacher are
presented in alphabetical order by first name for:
Corinna Hall
Cyndy Overgaag
Edi Pasalis
Diane Eastwood
Karen Verrill
Jim Austin
Lisa Perry-Wood
Pamela Worden
Sara Rolley
Toni Bradley
Corinne Hall
(Kripalu)
is a certified Kripalu Yoga instructor who teaches with enthusiasm and
compassion. She brings her 10 years of Yoga
experience, as well as her experience as a Wellness Educator and Reiki
practitioner, to her teaching. Her classes incorporate
both a focused practice & a light-hearted approach.
Corinna has taught all levels of Kripalu yoga, Mom & Babies and Prenatal
yoga. She has developed classes for plus-size women,
for trauma survivors, and for those in recovery from mental illness.
She recently taught throughout her own first
pregnancy, and is looking forward to the joys and challenges of
motherhood. "For me, Yoga is the practice of
being present, meeting yourself where you are, and greeting your body and
life's challenges with openness and compassion."
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CYNDY OVERGAAG, RYT (Kripalu)
is a certified 200 hour Kripalu Yoga Instructor, a Registered Yoga Teacher
(RYT). and is
currently working on
her advanced level teaching degree. Cyndy's background includes dancing
with the Eliot Feld Ballet in NYC and the
practice of Pilates. She has studied the Iyengar,
Ashtanga, Kundalini,
as well as Anusara styles of yoga.
"It is the Kripalu way to
learn and explore the many facets of yoga, so that I may share the
blessings of all approaches with my students. My goal is to provide
a safe, sacred environment for people to open up their hearts, bodies and
minds. Together we learn to center ourselves in this busy world, bringing
any edges we may have into prospective as we evolve and grow. Through yoga
we discover the many gifts of love, laughter, grace, strength, serenity
and wellness that we all have within. I encourage students to understand,
explore and appreciate the bodies they live in."
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Diane Eastwood, RYT (Kripalu)
is a certified 200 hour Kripalu Yoga Instructor, a Registered Yoga Teacher
(RYT), a Reiki 1 practitioner and a member of the Kripalu Yoga Teacher's
Association. Her classes focus on stress relief and relaxation in the
traditional Kripalu style. Diane utilizes modifications, and props
and emphasizes breathing coordinated with movement, allowing students to
deeply connect with the physical, emotional and energetic body.
Diane is married, the mother of two young children and an avid baker.
Prior to joining Serenity Yoga Studio, Diane was an instructor and manager
of Shakti Yoga & Healing Arts Center in Chelmsford MA. She is
enrolled in Kripalu's Advanced Teacher Training, working towards the
500-hour Professional Certification. Diane has been a yoga
practitioner for 6 years. She is a graduate of Merrimack College in
North Andover MA (B.S. Health Science).
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Edi Pasalis
(Kripalu)
is a certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher, former Scholar-in-Residence at
Kripalu, and a graduate of the Harvard Divinity School. Edi's Yoga
and spritual work brings to life the inner aspects of Yoga and helps
students find a more comfortable relationship to themselves and their life
experience. She is the creator of I Do Yoga. Edi is a
registered wedding officiate with the State of Massachusetts, serving all
couples who desire a soulful and authentic wedding celebration.
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Jim
Austin
(Kripalu)
is a Kripalu certified Yoga teacher. In his classes, he focuses on
bringing the qualities of present moment awareness and mindfulness to the
experience of asana practice. He has had a personal Yoga practice for
20 years in a variety of styles, including Iyengar, Bikram and Kripalu, and
has been a student of meditation practices, particularly in the Buddhist
Vipassana tradition, for more than 25 years. He is particularly
interested in how the development of healthy attitudes in our approach to
Yoga asana practice can enhance the stress reduction benefits of Yoga by
helping to prevent the buld-up of stress in daily life. Jim is also a
musician, and a graduate of Berklee College of Music.
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Karen Verrill
(Kripalu)
is a Kripalu Yoga instructor, having received her certification at the Kripalu
Yoga Center in Lenox, Massachusetts in 1999. She leads classes for adults,
seniors, and children as well as classes for specialized groups including:
Girl Scout and Brownie troops, teens, summer camp, chair-yoga, birthdays,
and private in-home instruction. She resides in Carlisle, Massachusetts
with her husband, two children, a dog and cat. She enjoys gardening,
hiking, and cross-country skiing.
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Lisa
Perry-Wood, RYT (Viniyoga)
received her 500-hour certification in the Viniyoga tradition, in a
two-year program with Gary Kraftsow, well-known author of the books Yoga
for Wellness and Yoga for Transformation. She is currently
studying Yoga therapy and has a strong interest in Ayurvedic medicine. Lisa
also has a background in counseling and education, which inform her
supportive and instructive yoga teaching style.
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Pamela Worden
(Kripalu)
is an artist and a certified Kripalu Yoga instructor.
She teaches classic Hatha Yoga using the Kripalu methodology. Pamela
was in her mid-fifties before she began a regular Yoga practice.
After a long career in public art as the first Director of the Cambridge
(MA) Arts Council and the founder and Director of UrbanArts, Inc. in
Boston, Pamela found herself in the role of caregiver to her husband
during a long illness. During this time Yoga helped both Pamela and
her husband to achieve a sense of tranquility, acceptance and peace on
what might otherwise have been a nearly unbearable journey. In the
year 2000, Pamela decided to shift her career away from administration and
public art and to make a full commitment to the practice and teaching of
Yoga and to the production of art that was more intimate in scale and more
personal in content.
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Sara Rolley
(Kripalu)
was recently certified as a Yoga teacher at the Kripalu Center in Lenox,
Massachusetts where she studied with Pritti Robyn Ross and Jairaj Randall
Williams. Sara has studied with Serenity Yoga’s very own Edi Pasalis and
Jim Austin. She is interested in Yoga’s enhancement of well-being and
reduction of stress. Yoga’s ability to foster a reflective mind, making it
possible to observe habits and break free from them, has helped her to
lose thirty pounds since she began to practice regularly. Sara’s classes
begin with gentle warm-ups focusing on breath and sensation, move into
asana practice, and close with relaxation and meditation. Sara practiced
law prior to raising two children and volunteering for a variety of
educational organizations.
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Toni Bradley,
R.Y.T. (Kripalu)
is the founder and Director of Serenity Yoga & Wellness Center. She
is a certified Professional Level Yoga Teacher by the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health,
and is a Registered
Yoga Teacher (RYT) with the Yoga Alliance. Toni is a member of the
International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT), the Massachusetts
Yoga Network, the Kripalu Yoga Teachers Association (KYTA), and the
California Yoga Teachers Association (CYTA).
Toni is a Systems Engineer by profession who took
her first Yoga class in 1995 to aid in recovering from illness.
As a devoted "exercise-avoider", Toni found something very different about
the Yoga class -- a sense of harmony in the movements and breathing, and a
feeling of well being that lasted between classes.
In her Professional-Level Certification studies, Toni
focused on the application of Therapeutic Yoga techniques to help with chronic problems as well as diseases. Toni provides detailed instruction in all of her classes, guiding each individual according to her or his own ability. She works individually with people dealing with Fibromyalgia, Multiple Sclerosis, Cancer,
Multiple System Atrophy, 'Lou Gehrig's' Disease, Depression,
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder, Scoliosis, various spinal and
joint problems, joint replacements, and recovery from various surgeries
and injuries.
She established Serenity Yoga Studio in January
2000 and nine months later she expanded to Serenity Yoga & Wellness
Center where visitors can find Yoga, Massage and Acupunture. Toni is committed to improving the quality of life through the
practice of Yoga and complementary Healing Arts. She is a graduate
of Boston University (BA mathematics) and Northeastern University (MS
Engineering). She now works full time teaching Yoga (private and
groups) and managing the Center.
Email Our Teachers
or call 781-275-4092, ext 0
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