Lindsay Gibson Lindsay Gibson BA (Bowdoin college), MS (Boston University), is the founder of Majestic Yoga Studio, Cambridge, MA. She began her career with an intensive study of Applied Anatomy and Physiology and has co-authored several important scientific papers. For over 25 years, Lindsay has studied Anusara Yoga, Iyengar Yoga, Yoga Therapeutics, and Yoga Philosophy, Pilates, and Gyrotonics. She has been fortunate to be able to study with Deb Neubauer, Desiree Rumbaugh, Sianna Sherman, Karin Stephan, and Donald Moyer. Lindsay has extensive experience in the therapeutic aspects of yoga and has for years helped her students in their healing process. With her unique background in yoga and the biomechanics of the human body, and years of personal practice and training, she teaches classes that inspire her students to touch their inner bright and shining light and to reach their full physical potential. Laughter, self awareness, and joy are hallmarks of all her teachings. Namaste.
Sarah Baumert Drawing from years of experience working in-depth with the body, Sarah aims to facilitate whole body alignment in her students, both physically and energetically. She specializes in vinyasa yoga, a breath-inspired practice that focuses on flowing in and out of poses with ease. Sarah's passion for yoga stems from a deep understanding and love of movement, meditation, dance, and the precise alignment of the body. She has 8 years of experience teaching yoga working with bodies suffering from chronic pain, injury, illness and other forms of dis-ease. She received her 200 hour training at Om Yoga Center with Cyndi Lee, and her 500 hour training work was under the direction of Patty Townsend, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, and Barbara Benagh. Along with yoga, her classes are informed by her studies of Feldenkrais, Alexander technique, Cranial Sacral therapy, and her love of anatomy.
Dan BoyneDan Boyne has studied and practiced mind/body disciplines for over twenty years, beginning with several years of martial arts training including Tai Chi and Chi Gung. He has studied yoga for a decade, attracted primarily to the Ashtanga tradition and the following teachers: Richard Freeman, Manu Jois, Baron Baptise, and Mimi Loureiro. He has also studied with Arthur Kilmurray, Barbara Benaugh, Paulie Zink, and Ana Forrest. Dan teaches an eclectic "vinyasa" style practice, where creativity and fun are encouraged along with a sense of proper alignment. He is also a level II reiki practitioner.
Elizabeth Brown, MA Twenty years ago, Elizabeth began the study and practice of yoga and meditation; for over ten years, she has been teaching nationally in San Francisco and Cambridge, as well as internationally in Asia, South America, and Africa. A writer, musician, and scholar, Elizabeth has a master's in Education and English; in 1994-5 she developed and launched a public reading program in Zimbabwe. She met John Friend in 2002 at a meditation center where they both lived and practiced, and thus began her Anusara teaching life. Since 2006 she has led yoga and meditation retreats for students to grow deeper roots in practice and application; a 2010 retreat to Peru and Bolivia included building solar ovens at 14,000 feet in a community with no running water, trees, or electricity. Elizabeth has studied with Dr. Douglas Brooks, one of the world's leading scholars of Hindu Tantrism and Rajanaka Yoga for six years, and has thousands of hours of therapeutic Anusara Yoga training with John Friend, Sianna Sherman, and Noah Maze. She is grateful to Sarah Powers, her first teacher in the Iyengar, Ashtanga and Yin traditions. Elizabeth is currently studying Sanskrit at Harvard.
Claire Carroll Claire uses a strong foundation in technique combined with sensitive intuition and humor to offer classes that balance exacting instruction with fluid movement and deep breath. Initially trained in the Iyengar method, Claire was mentored for many years by Patricia Walden and traveled to India three times for extended study at the Iyengar institute in Pune. She’s also a graduate of Ana Forrest’s Foundation and Advanced Teacher Training programs. She loves learning new methods of movement and meditation and integrating them into her own teaching and practice. Claire began practicing yoga in the early 1990s and teaching in 2000. Before becoming a yoga teacher, Claire worked on humanitarian assistance projects around the world. Before that, she earned a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and worked on Wall Street. She currently directs the study abroad program at Lesley University.
Shireen DamghaniShireen has been practicing yoga for 15 years through the guidance of many wonderful & inspiring teachers. She is excited to share her experience with the community. Her studies began in New York City where she had the good luck of practicing with seasoned teachers from the Jivamukti Yoga School and the Kula Yoga Project. Having had a consistent teacher/mentor while she worked at her "job-job," Shireen's path to Yoga deepened more and more as she was introduced to Buddhism and other complimentary readings. Her career in Textile Design flourished while she continued to have a dedicated focus on Yoga and Holistic Health. Within that time, she has studied the Anusara, Ashtanga, Iyengar, Jivamukti, Kripalu, Power Yoga, and Sivananda Yoga systems with well known teachers from each system. Her studies have taken her to India twice, so far, where she has studied Ayurveda. Shireen respects all styles of yoga and believes that the pose is not the Yoga, but the actual practice of mindfulness, presence in body, mind and spirit while practicing completely and fully. She studied and continues to study with Natasha Rizopoulus of YogaWorks and has been certified to teach at long last! It is with shear joy, great passion, pleasure, engagement, and inspiration that Shireen wishes to share her experience with the students at Majestic and beyond.
Julia Djeke, MA RYT
As a "career woman" by day and yoga instructor by night, Julia incorporates life experiences into her yoga teaching. She infuses classes with an authentic voice, recognizing the joys and challenges that comprise everyday living. With skillful instruction, a compassionate attitude and a sprinkle of humor, Julia encourages each of her practitioners to honor their physical abilities and boundaries. Her years of experience teaching in classrooms have translated into passionate instruction on the mat.
Julia currently serves as Student Coordinator for Harvard development and formerly taught at Lesley University. She holds an M.A. in English from Simmons College and a B.A. in Comparative Literature from UC Santa Barbara. Julia is YogaWorks certified under the tutelage of Natasha Rizopoulos and has completed Anusara Immersion 1 with Marc St. Pierre and Nikki Jacobs. She seeks to complete Anusara-Inspired certification, punctuated by her Immersion 2 this summer with Sianna Sherman.
Hannah Emlen Hannah Emlen is an Anusara-Inspired yoga teacher with over eight years of teaching experience. Originally from the coast of Maine, she has recently returned to New England after living in Austin, Texas for the past five years. Her greatest aim is to instill truthful, accurate, and radiant living both on and off the mat. She is devoted to recognizing, embodying and sharing the abundance of life and the transformational power of yoga. Hannah's classes blend biomechanical precision, artful expression, breath, and silence. She strives to offer asana practices that are both challenging and nourishing to the spirit. She holds a BA in Music from Swarthmore College, and is completing a Master's degree in Clinical and Somatic Psychology. She is currently pursuing Anusara Yoga certification.
Andrea Fotopoulos Andrea Fotopoulos is a mother and an Anusara-Inspired Yoga Teacher. Having first stepped onto the mat and into the practice of yoga in 1995, after the passing of her father, she had no idea then how it would profoundly shift her life. With over 500 hours of teacher training in Anusara Yoga (a style of Hatha), and years of skillful application in assisting students with injuries, Andrea takes loving care of all her students, both in public classes and in private instruction.
Andrea delights in weaving a space for her students that is deeply supportive, creative and focused. She teaches her students that by aligning with the spiritual pulse of their hearts, they can experience their own greatness in every expression of their lives.
She is profoundly grateful to all her teachers for their gifts of Grace, wisdom and ability to make the work so much fun. She especially thanks her teachers Stacey Rosenberg, Abby Tucker, and John Friend for making this path to the heart such a joy.
James GotzJames has been practicing vinyasa yoga daily since 2003, and under the guidance of his teacher Bo Forbes since 2005. Initially a (successful) tool to lose weight and manage the stress of his former legal career, yoga now provides James with a blueprint for mindful living and health. A graduate of Bo's Elemental Yoga Mind-Body 200-hour and advanced 500-hour training programs, James regularly assists Bo in national workshops and continues under her supervision at the Center for Integrative Yoga Therapeutics. Through a dedicated focus on alignment and safety, James guides his students in Elemental Yoga's approach towards optimal mind-body growth. A heart-opening, humor-filled and empowering style infuses his challenging-but-slow-paced therapeutically-focused class.
Julia HanlonJulia Hanlon began practicing Vinyasa yoga at the age of 16 and is still amazed by the daily gifts her practice brings her. Through yoga, Julia has found deep joy, transformation, and an amazing community. After completing her 200 hour RYT teacher training, Julia founded the Bates Yoga Kula, an organization that hosts free yoga classes for students, faculty, and staff at Bates College in Lewiston, ME. At Bates, Julia is a studying ethnomusicology, religion, and psychology. Julia is deeply thankful to her teachers Bonnie Argo and Chanel Luck for their endless support and creative insight. Julia is honored to be a part of the Majestic community and share her love of yoga in the neighborhood she grew up in.
Alice HellerAlice Heller has been a mover and shaker all her life sharing her passion by teaching and performing in the Boston area. She discovered NIA and adding this practice to her 25 years of African dance, jazz, martial arts, contact improv and other forms. Her flexibility and sensitivity has successfully propelled her teaching to children and adults of all levels and abilities. www.alicehellerdance.com
Jane HendersonJane Henderson teaches a strong, flowing Vinyasa class. Influenced by many styles of yoga, Jane found her true passion in the combining of breath and movement in Vinyasa practice. Jane is known for her ability to connect and tune into the physical and emotional aspects of the body. She believes in creating a strong structure and foundation in an effort to encourage an environment of freedom and balance. She has trained with Coeli Marsh since February 2008 and is a senior member and trainer in the Teacher's Study Project. Jane's calling is to share all that yoga has given her: strength to do things she thought impossible, serenity in the midst of chaos and courage to undertake challenges. More than forty years of life experience has been Jane's greatest teacher. Surviving breast cancer has been one of the most powerful forces in her growth. Jane truly believes that yoga is for everyone and there is power and beauty in stepping into practice no matter where you are.
Susan JennessSusan came to yoga in 2000, while studying for her Masters Degree with a Concentration in Conflict Resolution. She found she always felt much better after some time on the mat. It was after reading the groundbreaking book on mediation co-authored by Roger Fischer and Daniel Shapiro, Beyond Reason-Using Emotions to Negotiate that she became dedicated to merging the two passionate areas of study for her, as a means of using emotional energy beneath the surface to transform life circumstances into a way of living a more authentic life. In 2008 she earned her 40 hour certification in Viniyoga at Fitness Resource Associates. In 2010, she graduated from Soni Yoga Teacher Training, and is now a 200 RYT, registered with Yoga Alliance. During her teacher training, she discovered that Restorative Yoga was where she found her deepest sense of relaxation and calm. She credits Restorative Yoga with her being able to take in the abundance of her training with steadiness and ease, while conserving her physical energy as well. Today at Majestic Yoga, she humbly sets an environment in her classes based on her own direct, successful experiences of her own practice. She says, "Restorative Yoga taught me to honor the practices of checking in on how I was feeling on a regular basis, then using my renewed state of relaxation to direct me down a path of grace, illuminating the resources and blessings available to me in daily life."
Tara Rachel Jones, M.Ed., RYT 500, E-RYT 500, RCYT Tara Rachel has studied yoga since the early 90's. She has completed 4 teacher training courses, most recently with Tias Little. She is well known to the Boston yoga community. Tara Rachel was both a student and teacher under Boston master teachers Barbara Benagh and Arthur Kilmurray. She has studied Iyengar yoga with Zoe Stewart. Her profound interest in the mind body connection led her to The School for Body Mind Centering to study infant developmental movement, somatic anatomy and its relationship to yoga. Over the past 10 years, Tara Rachel has enriched her studies with private courses and workshops in anatomy and physiology with Yaron Gal Carmel, Tom Myers, Andrea Olson, and others. She is also a certified Zen Shiatsu Therapist. Her classes for adults are unique, flowing and relaxed, yet grounded in attention to proper postural alignment. In addition, Tara Rachel has been a pioneer of children's yoga in the Boston area. She has worked professionally with children since 1989. She has developed her own approach to children's yoga, which is simply, yet uniquely, a synthesis of education, developmental movement, and yogic teachings.
Jennifer KrierJennifer Krier has studied Iyengar yoga for thirteen years and has been teaching since 2005. In 2010-2011 she trained and received certification in Elemental Yoga. She teaches in the Iyengar and Elemental Yoga tradition. In addition, Jennifer is a certified Life Coach, holds a Ph.D. in anthropology, and is studying Integrated Yoga Therapy. In her work, Jennifer aims to cultivate awareness of our physical, mental and cultural patterns so that we can live and move with more consciousness, choice and freedom.
Coeli MarshCoeli Marsh was born in Boston and lived in Canada and Chile before returning to her roots in Massachusetts. It was here that she began to bring together her love for yoga with her lifelong commitment to serving people in learning and healing. After studying the Iyengar system, Coeli found Baptiste yoga in 1998. From Baron Baptiste she learned the craft of training teachers and classroom assistants and fell in love with the profound work and commitment required in learning to teach Vinyasa yoga. Coeli is the founder of the Teachers Study Project, a professional training and mentoring school for yoga teachers. The workshops and intensives offered in teaching technique, feedback and anatomy have been recognized in the yoga community as vital for impactful teacher development. Coeli is certified as a Master Baptiste teacher, and by Yoga Alliance at the 500-hour and E-RYT 500 level. She received her EdM from Harvard Graduate School of Education and has also been trained by Outward Bound and the National Outdoor Leadership School.
Abby Murphy, MS, OTR/L, RYT-200Abby has been practicing yoga for over half her life. She fell in love with Anusara's alignment and life affirming principles in 2007 when she experienced amazing openings just by putting those principles into practice! Her background as an occupational therapist gives her further knowledge of anatomy and physiology which made it easy to see that Anusara's Universal Principles of Alignment just make sense! Abby has been fortunate enough to complete her immersion and teacher trainings with world-renowned Anusara teacher Sianna Sherman. In addition Abby has accrued over 1,000 training hours with Anusara Certified teachers Todd Norian, Desiree Rumbaugh, Jordan Bloom, Amy Ippoliti, and the founder of Anusara John Friend. Abby is also trained in several styles of children's yoga. Abby strives to build a playful, safe and engaging atmosphere for all her students; one that empowers her students to reach for the next level both in class and in the world!
Theresa MurphyTheresa Murphy, E-RYT500 and senior Prajna yoga teacher, has studied with Tias Little for 11 years and was the first to receive a 500 hour certification from the Prajna Yoga school. A student of yoga for 20 years and a teacher for 12, she directed yoga studios in Omaha for 8 years and ran teacher training for 6. Theresa cross-pollinates from a wide variety of internationally renowned teachers such as Erich Schiffman, Rolf Gates, Sarah Powers, Bikram Choudry, John Friend, Dharma Mittra, Amy Matthews, Leslie Kaminoff, and many others. She has studied Iyengar yoga for many years and currently studies with Patricia Walden and Peentz Dubble. She also studies Taoist yoga, Shadow Yoga, Trans-personal Psychology, and Buddhist philosophy with Sarah Powers and the Insight Yoga Institute. Theresa teaches workshops all over the country and assists both Tias Little and Rolf Gates nationally. Her classes blend skillful physical practice with rigor, precision, contemplative inquiry and self-study. www.TheresaMurphy.net
Solange Voss, RYTSolange Voss is a Kripalu certified yoga instructor who has been practicing yoga since 1995. Beginning with asana in the Iyengar tradition, she has since incorporated other styles in her practice, including Power Yoga, Vinyassa, Svaroopa, Forrest Yoga, and Anusara. Solange has studied with renowned yoga instructors Barbara Benaugh, Baron Baptiste, Rolf Gates, Glen Cunningham, John Curchill, as well as Desiree Raumbaugh and Deb Neubauer. She integrates her diverse experiences into her classes by focusing on alignment, breath and flow. Taking a holistic approach to the body, Solange helps her students find balance in their lives through proper food and nutrition.
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