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Allyson Debrocke Allyson Debrocke started practicing yoga in 1997 when her doctor suggested it after a back injury and was hooked immediately. Allyson is now a 100 hour certified teacher of Rasamaya yoga. This method works on expanding your skeletal and joint structure using a balance between flexibility, core strength, muscle tone and stability. Being a busy mother of two beautiful girls and working full time in the financial industry, yoga has taught me to find the true balance in my life. Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind. Its the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are. |
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Paula Goodwin Paula is a wife and mother of three, business owner, in a challenging economy and marathon runner, she walked into her first yoga class with tight hamstrings, aching knees, unable to focus and a heavy heart. Yoga not only opened her tight hamstring and strengthened her aching knees, but it also opened her heart and lightened her emotional load. Simply put- “I am grateful for what yoga
continues to do for me on and off the mat and I want to
share the gift of yoga with others”.
Paula has been working in
health and fitness for over 20 years as both a personal
trainer and group fitness instructor/manager and studio
owner. In 1998 she began her yoga journey with Fitness
Resources and in 1999 completed a 100 hour teacher training
at Fitchburg State College. In 2007 she completed a
200 hour RYT (registered yoga teacher) with a Yoga Alliance
school and is now in the process of completing the Yoga
Alliance 500 hour RYT program.
To sum it up "Yoga is a light once lit will never
dim", BKS Iyengar.
Paula teaches an alignment-based class
that emphasizes joint stability and strength, muscle
flexibility and conscious breathing. Her style is energetic
and joyful with detailed instructions that enable all
students, including beginners, to feel confident and
comfortable in her class. We will focus on and empower the
things you can do and not the things you can not. |
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Barbara Sterling, Studio Owner Barbara started practicing yoga in 2004 as a way of healing from back surgery and overcoming challenges in her day to day encounters. So sure she would love it the moment she stepped on her mat, Barbara bought a 7-week membership to a local studio. Imagine her surprise and disappointment when she left the first class with the opposite reaction! It wasn't the physical aspect as much as the learning to breathe at the beginning and end of class that was more of a challenge. Actually sitting/lying still for more than a second and being in the moment was much more difficult than she could have imagined. However having been raised in a large family who understood "bang for buck" Barbara returned for the remaining 6 classes and never looked back. It was, as it turned out, exactly for her! The physical challenge that yoga offered was what Barbara was looking for to work through the kinks and healing of surgery. But the breathing and being present in each pose and moment went beyond anything she could have imagined and has continued to be her favorite part of the experience. Barbara has continued practicing all forms of yoga including a home practice and meditation. She joined Self Awakening as a student in January of 2009 when she entered the studio to purchase a gift certificate for a friend. The energy, teachers and overall first impression were so positive that she bought herself a monthly unlimited pass and never looked back. In July of 2009 Barbara was laid off from her high-level, high-pressure Human Resources position and purchased the studio in October of 2009. Barbara started teaching in December of 2009 and continues to learn , grow, and genuinely be honored by all that come to the studio. |
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Julia Finnegan, RYT Julia's practice and teaching sprouted in Boston in 2002 and has been teaching yoga since 2005. She obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Physical Education, but deviated from this path due injuries she picked up during her years in college playing Rugby. Gym workouts furthered her imbalances to injuries and were far too mundane. She discovered amazing weight management and strengthening through Vinyasa yoga and has furthered her studies since then to discover incredible flow and lightness in life. Since 2002 she has practiced various styles ranging from Restorative yoga toar Ashtanga to Vinyasa to Power, but she has found her passion to be in her eclectic style with the desire to bring the student into his or her own body. When this awareness is activated, many wonderful things can and do happen. She has realized the calm and peace yoga brings after a continued practice and wants to share this magic with as many as she can. Each class is based on the energy of the moment, and Julia enjoys bringing fun and lightness to her challenging class. Sometimes music is included only to enhance a particular class, but always there is emphasis on the breath. Although her class may be challenging, the intention behind them is to encourage the students to honor their body by resting when they need, and adversely pushing when they feel they should. Julia'sYoga education includes training and Study with Taylor and Phillipe Wells, Sara Meeks, Gurmukh, Ana Forrest, David Vendetti and Shiva Rea. She is certified with the Yoga Alliance. Julia has also discovered the joys of energy healing through becoming a Reiki Master and is currently exploring other healing modalities to deepen her work and practice. |
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Jennifer Brown - RYT 200 Hr. in The Yoga of Energy Flow and O2Yoga
When Jenn walked
into her first yoga class many years ago she immediately
fell in love with the practice. Shortly after that first
class she was told that she had a detached retina in her
right eye. After ten surgeries the doctors were not able to
restore the retina leaving her blind in that eye. There was
a time in her life when she felt she may not be able to
practice due to the retinal detachment problems. This was a
very trying time for her. She had to take a step back and
look deep inside herself. She found meditation as a way to
quiet her mind, stay centered and think positively that the
future would hold good things. She received the ok from her
doctors to resume her yoga practice in 2004 and hasn't
looked back. Having gone through the good, the
bad and the downright ugly, Jenn was finally able to go
after her dream of becoming a yoga teacher. She found
the teacher training program at Dover Yoga in Dover, NH to
be just what she was looking for. It suited her
lifestyle and she was given the opportunity to start
teaching classes in October of 2006. She completed the
teacher training program and is a certified instructor in
"The Yoga of Energy Flow". She would like to thank
Monica Veneziano, Carrie Tyler, Daniel Orlansky, Mari Rigdon
and the many other great teachers under whom she
studied. She continues to learn and broaden her knowledge
of yoga on a daily basis by reading books, studying with
other teachers and attending seminars and conferences.
In April 2008 she decided it was
time to open her own studio and Bendable Bodies Yoga was
born. This is a very exciting time for her and she's
looking forward to the future with her "eye" wide open.
Always one for adventure she plunged forward with no
expectations just simply living in the moment. She hopes
that you will fall in love with the practice as she
has. Her classes mix various styles of yoga and each class
is different, fun and interesting as well as challenging.
She encourages students to make the mind, body, breath
connection allowing them to tune in and experience all the
benefits of yoga. |
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Gail Gendron Gail is a Certified Yoga Instructor and Medical Assistant. She began practicing Yoga in 2004 because of Lupus, a chronic inflammatory disease. Yoga had such a huge impact on her well-being that she went on to become an instructor and received her 200 hour certification through Zarnay Yoga. She received additional training through ChildLight Yoga in 2008 and YogaFit Pre/Postnatal in 2010. Her background includes 11 years of traditional dance experience and teaching the following styles: Gentle, Prenatal and Vinyasa Flow. She currently teaches Prenatal Yoga at Elliot Hospital and Hatha Flow at Work Out World. Gail is passionate about sharing the power of yoga because it lifts the spirit and whips the body into shape! |
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Tammy Kennelly Tammy began practicing yoga sporadically back in 2000. She knew something resonated but didn’t connect with it fully until 2004 when yoga became a consistent practice. Connecting breath to movement and a focus on the present moment transformed her way of being. Tammy believes that yoga can break barriers and beliefs allowing you to see that there is much more available to you, on and off your mat, than you believe. Tammy has a Level 1 certification through Yogafit and is currently working towards her 200hr certification through Rasamaya in Newburyport, MA. Tammy has taken workshops with Baron Baptiste and at the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health. |
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Lois went to her first hot power vinyasa
class at the Baptiste Cambridge studio in 2000 to stop the
incessant pleading of a close friend who insisted she would
love it. Sure enough, that first class was all it took to
open up a new world to her. Always an athlete, this
particular style of yoga offered benefits that other
workouts had not touched - something beyond physical,
something stripped of competition, something amazing on many
levels. Lois continues to run marathons and credits her
ability to endure the distance to her yoga practice. Lois is a certified Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga instructor. She completed Levels I, II and III Baptiste Power Yoga Institute (BPYI) Teacher Training, as well as their Assistants Training Program, and assisted at the studios for two years. She continues her studies with Baron Baptiste and the community of Baptiste teachers. She finds there is something more to learn every day from her own practice, from her teaching and from her students. Watching her students transform themselves and their lives through yoga practice has been exciting and powerful for her. Her goal in teaching is to help guide people at all levels of experience to find what they need to live their fullest and most satisfying lives through exploring their body, breath and mind. “I feel honored to come and share what I love with the students of Self Awakening Yoga Studio, a studio I hold a very special place in my heart for. The studio has such positive energy – I can’t wait to fill the space with breath, being, and the beauty of personal transformation.” Lois |
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Patti fell in love with yoga
the first second of the first pose to which she was exposed
(knee – down twist). She was in her mid 30s at the time and
remembers thinking, "Where have you been all of my life??"
Since then hers has been a complete love affair. Patti is a 200 hour certified Kripalu yoga teacher who loves to incorporate various yoga styles into her classes. She has studied with Yoganand Michael Carroll, Shiva Rea, Ana Forrest, Natasha Rizopoulos, and Baron Baptiste and finds that each tradition offers its own beauty. She loves nothing more than to learn and grow in her own practice and to share that knowledge with her students. Coming to yoga as a means of relieving stress and stretching, Patti was surprised to find how physically challenging yoga could be. And being a lifetime athlete, this endeared her to the practice all the more. She loves to challenge her students to find their edge in each pose, to find "aliveness" in each moment, to break down barriers, and to relish in the joy that comes from both the subtle and profound lessons yoga offers. "Yoga heals, nourishes, and challenges us. The practice infiltrates every corner of our lives." - Valerie Jeremijenko |
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