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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:
Asha Ramseh
Becky Small
Charlotte Ott
Corinna Hall
Cyndy Overgaag
Diane Eastwood
Eric Read
Faith Hill
Nadia Puttini
Nina Carmel
Pamela Worden
Sara Rolley
Toni Bradley
Asha Ramesh,
RYT
is a certified Hatha yoga teacher from The Yoga Studio in Boston.
She is a registered yoga teacher with the Yoga Alliance. She has been
practicing yoga for over twenty years. Asha believes that yoga is the
only form of physical and mental exercise that offers multiplicity and
variations.
Hence
she is a firm believer that a yoga way of living is suitable for anyone
at any given point of time in their lives. Asha who is originally from
South India, has made Massachusetts her home for more than fifteen years.
She shares a sensitivity to students' needs in her teaching.
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Becky Small
is a certified Yoga
instructor at the 200 hour level. She has been teaching
Yoga for a year but practicing Yoga for over 6 years. Becky
completed her teacher training through YogaWorks under the guidance of
Natasha Rizopolous. She has taught
Yoga to students ranging from 3 to 73 years old.
Her classes are taught in a Vinyasa style with a
focus on alignment. She started GEM (Girls Empowering Movement) to
introduce young girls to Yoga and to teach them how it can be used to help
cope with the day-to-day stresses that come from interactions with
parents, peers and the pressures of school. Becky modifies her classes
for each individual student, offering options for each posture.
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Charlotte
Ott
(Kripalu; 500 Hr.)
has been practicing Yoga since the early 90's. She received her
200-hour certification at Kripalu in 2005 and her 300-hour certification
with Shiva Rea in 2009. Additional certifications include:
Circus Yoga, Yoga Ed, Thai Yoga Massage, and Reiki Level I.
Charlotte's classes have a smooth and flowing nature to them.
Students are encouraged to use their breath to transition from one posture
to another. Personal attention and hand-on assists are offered to
those interested. Charlotte's style of Yoga has a Kripalu base,
which emphasizes how the postures feel in your body rather than how you
look doing them, integrated with a flowing nature. The results is a
flowing style of Yoga that encourages you to feel the postures from the
inside out. Charlotte uses a technique of grooving, or pulsing in a
pose to help students connect with their ideal expression of a pose in
addition to facilitating emotional and physical release. Charlotte
has created several specialized classes including: Family Yoga, Anatomy
and Physiology Through Yoga for High School Students, Yoga for Young
Shakespeare Performers, Yoga for Aspiring Runway Models, and
Yoga/Science/Nutrition for Homeschool. Charlotte's intention for her
students it to cultivate an ability to see and listen to your body on a
deeper and subtler level in addition to wakening and sustaining
consciousness.
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Corinna 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 -
500 Hr)
is certified as a Professional Level (500 hours) Yoga Teacher by the
Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, and a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT).
Cyndy's background includes dancing with the Eliot Feld Ballet in New York
City and the practice of Pilates. She has studied Iyengar, Ashthanga,
Kundalini and 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 perspective 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. Diane also assists Toni in managing Serenity Yoga Studio and
keeping things running smoothly for students and teachers. 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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Eric Read
(Frog Pond)
is a 200 hour certified
instructor in the Raja Yoga tradition trained at Frog Pond Yoga in
Princeton, MA in 2001. He came to Yoga through meditation practice, study
of spiritual writings and appreciation of the possibilities our bodies
express in the physical movements of sport and dance. His special
interests include the teachings of the Yoga Sutra, individualized
practice and offering Yoga to all types of people.
“I seek to connect
every moment of life to the principles of yoga.”
“As we practice
together, may we accept the changes that allow us to be who we truly
are.”
“I thank my teachers
for the countless ways they have helped me to travel my path in this
tradition.”
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Faith Hill
(Kripalu)
has been a certified Kripalu Yoga instructor since November 2003.
Faith has a degree in Computer Science, a background in database
development and spends her days as a Data Architect. She began
practicing Yoga in March 2001 after being diagnosed with a panic disorder.
Her doctor suggested medication and avoiding anything that might cause her
stress. Since the main thing that caused her stress was leaving the
house, she decided to try another approach - she found Serenity Yoga
Studio in the yellow pages and called Toni. The biggest challenge in
that first class was to stay in the room. During that class, she
learned a breathing technique that allowed her to experience the present
moment and stop trying to anticipate the future. Ever since that
first class, she has been able to breathe through all of the challenges
life has to offer. Faith loves guiding students in their practice,
encouraging everyone to challenge themselves physically and mentally and
to listen to their bodies - sometimes the greatest challenge is being true
to one's Self.
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Nadia Puttini (Kripalu - 500 Hr)
is a certified 200 hour Kripalu Yoga Instructor working toward her 500
hour Professional-Level Certification. She started meditating at a
young age, and has continued to explore the richness of the inner world
ever since. About twelve years ago, she discovered Kripalu Yoga and
became deeply committed to the practice of postures, breath and self-inquiry
under the guidance of beloved senior teacher Shobbhan Richard Faulds.
She graduated from Lesley College with an MA in Creative Arts Therapies
which sparked a passionate relationship to dance and movement and the
exploration of moving from within. After working in the mental
health field for a few years, Nadia became a Mom-at-home while continuing
the study of Yoga. If asked, she will say that Yoga is a fascinating
life path, complete in its physical, emotional and spiritual components
and that there is always more to learn, which is the best part (here she
usually chuckles!). Of course, being the mother of an young daughter
is possibly the greatest teaching of all. She teaches classes as
well as private sessions.
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Nina
Carmel, RYT
(Kripalu)
is a certified Kripalu Yoga Instructor and
Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance. She has twenty
years of experience teaching Yoga and Meditation in Europe and the United
States. She is founder and Director of The Therapy Center for Mind
and Body, LLC in the Boston area. She is a psychotherapist (MSW), and
a consultant and coach with specialties in mind-body therapies, trauma and
the interface of psychology and the existential. The heart of her
work as both a therapist and teacher is to help others learn to be in
relationship with themselves, and with others and with the existential
dimension of life.
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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 Urban Arts, 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 -
500 Hr)
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 - 500 Hr)
is the founder and Director of Serenity Yoga & Wellness Center. She
is a certified Professional Level (500 hrs) 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 Acupuncture. 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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