Teacher Profiles
Abbie Galvin  |
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| My yoga instruction is informed by my own creative process as a filmmaker and from my exploration of the therapeutic process from psychoanalytic training. I have learned over and over that truly participating in any formal process of self-exploration leads to transformation whether it be physical, psychological or intellectual. My goal is to engage students of yoga in the dialogue between their conscious and their unconscious selves. It is through that effort that we potentiate ourselves. It is my intention as a teacher to cajole each student in that most rigorous effort to be grounded, to grow upwards, and to open one's heart in order to create their best self. | |||
Beth Mendoza |
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| I was introduced to power of yoga while working in the corporate world. It was so inspiring that when I came back onto the mat about 7 years ago at the Katonah Yoga Center I knew that I wanted to share my experience of yoga with others. Through my practice and teaching, understanding, compassion and a sense of humor are encouraged and nurtured. | |||
Carol Offman |
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| Carol has been an ongoing student of Katonah Yoga for the past 10 years and has been teaching for 5 years. She began practicing yoga 10 years ago as a way to manage symptoms she was experiencing from Multiple Sclerosis. A continued practice of Yoga, meditation, and pranayama in combination with living a healthy life style has proved extremely helpful in coping with and managing her symptoms. Teaching others is her way of giving back the gift that was given to her. | |||
Carrie Kane-Massage Therapist |
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| Carrie Kane has been a massage therapist for 27 years. She acquired her license from the New School of Massage Therapy and Research. Carrie’s major focus is a highly specialized form of massage called the Cayce – Reilly Technique. This unique treatment was birthed from the collaborative efforts of Edgar Cayce, world renowned medical psychic, and Dr. Harold Reilly, (who from 1935 – 1965 had a world renowned health spa in Rockefeller Center. His center was the impetus for the famous phrase, “Living the Life of Reilly”). The treatment is centered on creating a rhythm which is deep and soothing. It also includes special eye packs and moist heat for the back and legs. The treatment is geared to stay with the patient for many days unlike some traditional massage which leaves the individual at the first sign of stress. Carrie’s studies have not ceased there. She went on to master a rare form of oriental massage called Amma. This style is consistent with Oriental modalities. Together her specialties embrace her clients from both “East and West” bringing them the best of both worlds. Carrie’s experience and unique talents have enabled her to read and then tune a body with her hands. Clients consistently marvel at how she knew “that was the spot!” Her work has been from NYC to the surrounding suburbs. Her clients have included those from all walks of life including celebrities and socialites. Katonah Yoga has opened up a whole new world for her. She has been diligently working on her personal yoga practice at Katonah Yoga for 4 years and has enhanced her massage practice as a result of it. Now she is a part of the Katonah Yoga Team. Carrie lives with her husband and boys in Somers, N.Y. | |||
Celia Hirsch |
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| I do yoga because I love it. I teach yoga because the dimension that it adds to ones life is endless. The excitement and reward of passing on the expansiveness is the gift. | |||
Charles Jones |
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| Charles Jones is VP R&D for Needs-Intelligence Institute and the primary developer of the material presented in this course. Charles’ career has been shaped by a life-long fascination with the nature of human consciousness and an enduring concern for the future of humanity. His 1984 college thesis posed the question: “What changes will we need to make to our individual and collective consciousness in order for humanity to become sustainable?” Since then, he has studied with several cutting edge researchers at the intersection of language, embodiment, and spirit. Building on the work of these and other theorists, Charles developed a radical new theory of emotion which, when applied, leads to extraordinary increases in personal and social effectiveness. In early 2008, Charles founded an Institute to commercialize this new theory and is currently seeking investment capital and distribution partners. | |||
David Nayor |
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Elizabeth Andes-Bell |
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| Elizabeth will be substitute teaching for Abbie this Thursday. She is a long-time student and certified teacher of Katonah Yoga Center and teaches at her own studio in New York City. | |||
Ellen Sirot |
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| Ellen Sirot danced professionally for many years and has studied at Katonah Yoga with Nevine and Abbie since 1995. Ellen is available for private sessions on all weekends. Ellen works extensively with beginning students and with teenagers. She can be contacted via email on the Contact Us page by scrolling down to her name. | |||
Gail Greenstein |
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| Gail Greenstein has practiced yoga since 1969 and has taught since 1984. She taught elementary school for 20 years (first grade), is a trained dancer and actress as well as body worker, Tarot reader and leader of spiritual ritual and ceremony. | |||
Genevieve Boulanger |
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| Genevieve Boulanger is a classically certified Pilates Instructor, who has been teaching for over five years. As a ballet dancer with scoliosis, she was encouraged to practice Pilates and found an engaging means of assessing and improving posture, muscular imbalances and movement patterns. Genevieve loves to practice yoga as well, continuously seeking knowledge and insight into the never ending intricacies of the human body and mind. She passionately and enthusiastically teaches Pilates and recently yoga, encouraging her students to find their fullest potential through mindful movement. | |||
Gina Sharpe |
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| Gina Sharpe is a co-founder and a Guiding Teacher of New York Insight Meditation Center. She has been studying and practicing meditation in the Zen, Tibetan and Theravada traditions of Buddhism for over 30 years. She trained at the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, is a graduate of the first Spirit Rock Community Dharma Leaders Program and is currently mentored by Jack Kornfield. She has taught at New York Insight, Asia Society, Tibet House, the New York Open Center, Hunter College, Mid America Dharma, the Garrison Institute and elsewhere. She has been teaching at the Katonah Yoga Center for more than 10 years. | |||
Harriet Schreger |
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| As a former long-distance runner the transition to yoga was a life-changing decision. Yoga has added insight, awareness and balance to my life. | |||
Ivy Ray |
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Jennifer Llewellyn |
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| Jennifer has been an avid practitioner of yoga for over 15 years, as well as a professional mixed media artist, printmaker and designer. Her background also includes dance and martial arts; yoga was a natural next step in the exploration of the body-mind connection. For Jennifer, yoga has always been like the art she creates: a boundless expression of passion, grace, imagination and strength. Her teaching style emphasizes the physical, intellectual and emotional benefits of yoga and meditation both in personal practice and integrated into our daily lives. Jennifer is a graduate of the OM Yoga Center 200-hour teacher training program under the direction of Gina Norman, Cyndi Lee and David Nichtern at Om Yoga Center in Manhattan and Greenwich Yoga. She also trains with Nevine Michaan of Katonah Yoga: a beautiful synthesis of classical Taoist Chinese theory and traditional hatha yoga postures and meditation. ??Her interests and studies blossom daily, from art and yoga to music and meditation. She is forever grateful to voyage on this beautiful earth. "O ship aboard the ship! Ship of the body, ship of the soul, voyaging, voyaging, voyaging." -Walt Whitman | |||
Lauren Godes |
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| Lauren has been a student and teacher at Katonah Yoga for many years. A real sports enthusiast, she likes to bike, ski, run and hang out with her family and Labradoodle Cora. | |||
Lisa Park |
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| I come to Yoga with a diverse background, having worked in public television, education and most recently, entering the field of Social Work. Reflected in my practice are the lessons and insights Ive gained through all of these experiences. Practicing Yoga has helped me gain a new understanding and a new experience of myself and those around me and has enhanced my life in countless ways. As a Beginning Yoga Instructor, my aim is to lay the foundation which will allow each student to create a practice that will serve them on their own journey of self discovery. | |||
Mauri Cramer Pioppo |
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| Mauri Cramer Pioppo has been teaching yoga for many years. She is an former professional Modern dancer. | |||
May Kirk |
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| May has spent her life learning to cultivate both sides of her brain, architecture and computer science, but her true passion was revealed to her in 1996 when she stepped into her first yoga class. She has studied and practiced a variety of yoga styles including Iyengar, Vinyasa, Ashtanga, and Bikram yoga. However, Nevine Michaan at Katonah Yoga was by far the most intelligent, structured practice that appealed to her inquisitive mind and made her carve her busy schedule starting in 2001 to include regular training for certification. May currently works for a major corporation managing large web hosting projects. May sees yoga as the absolute union of the physical, spiritual, and intellectual realms that she has spent her life exploring. She brings her love for yoga and boundless energy to her classes. | |||
Meryl Yoss |
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| I began my yoga practice twenty-five years ago when I was invited, on the spur of the moment, to attend a class in NYC with Nevine. Not really knowing what to expect, I dove in and have been doing downward dogs ever since. Personal experience has taught me that the body is not always ready or willing to respond to ones mental demands. Hence, perseverance has paved the way toward a life and teaching approach of patience, compassion, and respect. | |||
Michael Baier-Thai Yoga Massage/Intuitive Healing |
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| Michael Baier is a gifted healer and teacher with more than 13 years experience in the healing arts. He has taught bodywork, meditation, and spiritual development classes at schools and healing centers since 1999. In addition to his studies in the mainland United States, Michael has traveled to India, Nepal, Thailand, Brazil, and the Hawaiian Islands to study with master healers and spiritual teachers. The fundamental influences that inspire his life and work come from Buddhist, Taoist, and Yogic traditions. Michael’s deeply spiritual nature permeates all of his work. His primary intent is to assist people in their personal healing, spiritual evolution, and the embodiment of their true nature. | |||
Michele Kern Rappy |
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| Michele first explored yoga with Nevine at Katonah Yoga in 1996 to find balance in a busy life. She went to India to study with a guru and deepen her practice. During the past three years Michele has combined the Taoist principles learned at Katonah Yoga with the breath work, alignment and postures learned during her 200 hour Kripalu Yoga training to give her students the tools to cultivate health and facilitate growth. She is honored to teach yoga here. | |||
Nevine Michaan |
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| I feel that Katonah Yoga represents an achieved synthesis of my work. I am grateful for all the things that Yoga has given me, and hope that as many people as possible may share in the blessings that a Yoga practice bestows on those who study it with diligence and faith. | |||
Ophira Herman |
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| Ophira has been a student of Katonah Yoga for the past 8 years. She is also certified to teach children's yoga and has been teaching children, as well as adults, as co-owner of Little Buddha Family Yoga for the past 4 years. Ophira's children's yoga certifications include Next Generation Yoga for Kids with Jodi Komitor, Yoga for the Special Child with Sonia Sumar, Baby Om, and Pre and Post Natal teacher training. She is grateful to share the magic of yoga with her students. | |||
Sandra Lee Perlow |
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| Sandra began her introduction and study of yoga with Nevine over 15 years ago, where she earned her teaching certification and taught hatha yoga. Five years ago, after experiencing a 3-hour Kundalini Yoga workshop, she went on to earn her certification in Kundalini. She has studied extensively with Gurmukh of Golden Bridge Yoga, has traveled to India a number of times to continue her studies and is trained in Vipassana meditation. She feels honored to have worked with Nevine, Sharon Gannon, Rodney Yee, Shiva Rea, Sean Corn and Sally Kempton. Sandra is full of gratitude to be able to share these uplifting teachings which have transformed her life. Katonah and Kundalini Certified | |||
Indicates teachers who have completed the Katonah Yoga Certification Program.