 Angela Angela has dedicated her career to holistic health and wellness. As both a highly trained yoga instructor and a talented massage therapist she has helped her students achieve their goals with her vast array of knowledge about the human body. Angela teaches numerous styles of yoga including both hot and traditional and she holds specialized workshops focusing on therapeutic yoga practices for the neck and back. Angela traveled to Nasik, India to study under Sir Vishwar Madlik at Yoga Vidya Dham College of India and has since brought her knowledge and experience to Japan and various studios in the U.S. She brings her 20+ years of experience as a military spouse (USMC) to Stafford House of Yoga where she is both instructor and co-owner of the studio. Yoga for her is a natural alternative to preventing physical, mental and emotional illness. In making yoga a way of life, we build ourselves daily to be more responsible and active citizens, able to make conscious choices to live more healthy, compassionate and peaceful lives. As a result we better ourselves, our families and our communities!
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 Akhila is a certified prenatal yoga instructor. She gave birth to her daughter in February 2012. She has been practicing yoga on and off for over 25 years but has recommitted to her mat and her physical practice. Join her for a fun, relaxing, invigorating class! Om shanti!
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 April is approaching the six year mark of dedicated study to the practice of yoga. She believes that yoga helps create physical, mental, emotional and spiritual strength; calming yet energizing the body soul and spirit. April’s class provides a daily dose of inspiration to help students safely and fearlessly honor their bodies, hearts and minds. She provides guidance to press and not push the student’s edge, aligning them with their own truth.
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 Yoga is a huge and constant part of Ayra’a life. Passing forward the knowledge of listening to the body and quieting the mind, increasing strength and energy while lowering anxiety and stress is Ayra’s main goal in her classes. The synchronization of movement and breath has made Vinyasa her style of choice, incorporating a fun loving practice that encourages students to test the boundaries of the body without surpassing it, focusing on alignment, strength building and releasing into postures.
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 Barbara has been teaching yoga for over five years and has over two decades of dedicated personal practice. She has been inspired by Kundalini, Anusara, Svaroopa, Yin, Ashtanga and other types of yoga, and incorporates many asanas from these disciplines into her classes. Having practiced in Costa Rica, India, Panama, Jamaica, Australia and other places, Barbara finds joy in helping each student find his or her own meaning and peace through yoga, regardless of age, fitness or experience.
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 Bill has been teaching yoga for four years. After many years of personal practice he finds that the practice of yoga brings joy, vitality, and contentment to his life. Bill’s classes are informed by his philosophy that the mind-body connection is designed to be used, not abused. He guides his students to relate to their yoga practice with mindfulness and kindness. Bill is currently pursuing a meditation teacher certification through the Meditation Teacher Training Institute.
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 Elena is an experienced instructor with over three decades of teaching experience and 10 years of dedicated yoga instruction. She began her personal practice of yoga over two decades ago after a knee injury left her in need of a different form of exercise. She soon discovered that yoga was more than exercise, but a lifestyle that she embraced. Elena holds a BS in Elementary Education from George Mason University and her MED in Special education from UVA. In addition to being an exceptional yoga teacher, she is a retired Special Education teacher, currently working in Stafford County Schools part time. She is also passionate about riding horses, kayaking and attracting small wildlife to North Stafford with native plantings.
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 Jen has practiced yoga for 26 years. Her style is a blend of Ashtanga and vinyasa flow combined with Iyengar -style alignment. In Jen’s classes you will really learn the poses! She is off the mat as much as she is on it, always looking to offer students deeper opportunity to explore each pose for greater energetic flow as well as safety and efficiency of the body.
Jen was a professional actor for 20 years and is proud to have directed and produced for Circus Millennia, a narrative theatrical circus company. She now lives on a mini-farm in Stafford with her four small children and directs for the professional theatre. Certifications: |
 Jenna began her yoga journey in 2008 as way to rebuild strength after having children and to reduce stress. She fell in love with the practice and continued with Teacher Training where she was given her sanskrit name Ramani, meaning ‘joyful one’. She tries to cultivate inner joy in her practice and with her students. Jenna loves teaching children and she has three girls of her own at home. Her primary profession is a Professional Chef, most recently working in the field of Child Nutrition and School Lunch Reform. Jenna also teaches vegetarian cooking workshops and private cooking lessons. She hopes you will come find your Joy with her in the Mommy & Me classes where you will move & stretch, laugh & play, restore & bond with your child.
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 Jill has been practicing yoga for over a decade, having originally discovered the practice as a way of reducing stress and preventing running injuries. Her practice combines postures (asanas) and breathing techniques to help students be at ease and create peace in their mind, body and spirit. Jill has a devoted practice of meditation and spirituality, which allows her to incorporate the yoga philosophy on and off the mat. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of Texas, Health Science Center at Houston. She is a Registered Dietitian, and currently works in the biotech industry. Jill is passionate about health, nutrition, yoga, cooking, gardening, traveling, and spirituality. She lives in Stafford, VA with her husband, 2 stepchildren, and 2 dogs.
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 Joanie, a Boston native and recent import from Colorado Springs, offers a fun, spiritual and meditative practice. She provides a supportive and challenging environment inviting a life affirming exploration of mind, body and spirit. She teaches an array of styles, incorporating many elements from the Kripalu tradition. Joanie brings a sense of adventure to her classes, is adept at fostering community and maintains the sense of humor she necessarily developed while growing up in a family of ten kids!
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 Kairavi is trained in Integral Yoga. She incorporates pranayama (breathing techniques), meditation during Savasana, and OM chanting into her classes. Kairavi, her Sanskrit name, means “celestial being” which serves as a reminder to her to approach her yoga practice, on and off the mat, with humility. She is delighted to share yoga with the local community in Stafford and she is a passionate young teacher who also has an interest in the use of essential oils as a wellness therapy. She lives with her husband and two children who support her completely on her mission to contribute to the yoga and holistic communities.
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 Kiersten has been practicing yoga for 8 years. She believes life’s greatest adventure is to challenge oneself to grow as a person. Through her practice she encourages students to challenge themselves on all levels, physically mentally and emotionally in order to discover the kind of person they are. She encourages her students to become stronger, more confident and to seek a higher degree of clarity. Kiersten is passionate about sharing the benefits of yoga with others both on and off the mat, teaching her students to listen to their bodies by stilling the mind, and to find awareness in their yoga practice, at work and at home.
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 Maartje has been an enthusiastic and passionate yoga teacher for three years. She enjoys guiding her students back to themselves, and teaching them to see their world with compassion, empathy, kindness and without judgment. She challenges her students to focus on possibilities, not problems; teaching mindfulness, intention, and the act of being kind to ourselves and our bodies. Yoga is a way of living a purposeful life and feeling good about ourselves while achieving a healthier and more flexible physical state. Born in the Netherlands, she moved to the U.S. in September 2008 to be with her American husband. She has three boys and 2 grown stepdaughters. She is a trained speech-language pathologist and she currently has a foot reflexology practice in Fredericksburg where she works with essential oils to address her clients’ wellness needs. She enjoys backpacking with her husband in the great outdoors, growing veggies and herbs in her backyard and playing cards.
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 Rita has over two decades of dedicated personal yoga practice. She began an intensive study of the practice of yoga in a formal setting with Susan Van Nuys, Angelika Stadel and Doug Keller to improve her knowledge of alignment and anatomy in yoga and the practice of pranayama and meditation. She believes that yoga is an individual journey into an awareness of our physical, mental and spiritual alignment. It is a beautiful, peaceful, loving awakening with each class.
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 Stephen has been dedicated to his personal practice for eleven years. He shares his experience and knowledge in both his role as a yoga instructor and as a college Professor at Germanna and NOVA Community Colleges. Stephen, a Stafford Native, finds that yoga is the ultimate way to relax and reflect both internally and externally. After years of dedicated practice he still fondly recalls the euphoria he discovered after completing his first yoga class!
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 Terri’s dharma (meaning soul’s purpose) is to help people. She has been a yoga instructor since 2006 and a fitness instructor since 1997. She has always believed in the idea of a balanced exercise routine – namely cardiovascular training, resistance training and flexibility training. She is on a mission to dispel myths and misunderstandings surrounding balance and flexibility training. She helps her students develop new methods to improve personal stability, providing them with guidance to manage all aspects and challenges of their lives – simply. She cues with modifications to help meet the needs of any student that is participating in her class. Terri is an engineer by trade and she is happily married with plans to celebrate her 23rd wedding anniversary this year.
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 Yari (pronounced Jar-eeh) began to practice yoga 4 years ago because she found that too often we underestimate the power of a smile, a kind word, an honest compliment, or a small act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. In her Vinyasa classes, Yari focuses on the alignment of movement and breath; a method that turns static poses into a dynamic flow. She teaches her students to place attention on the breath and to enjoy the journey between the poses rather than solely on achieving perfect body alignment in any pose. Through her dedicated practice of yoga she found a genuine concern for others and their ultimate daily joy. Her intention is to extend all the understanding she can muster, so that students can find what they are looking for when they come through the studio door.
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