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The teachers at Follow Your Heart are dedicated to their teaching as well as to their own yoga practice. In total they bring many years of experience to the Yoga Center. Most teachers are Anusara-trained either through specific Anusara-trainings or through other trainings that included some Anusara study. All our teachers have many hours of training with continuing study each year. Our teachers always have the safety, health and well-being of their students in mind at all times. Teaching body alignment is essential to this end, and the therapeutic application of this alignment can benefit students both on and off the mat. Most importantly, our teachers are dedicated to seeing that each student has a good yoga experience. Once you learn the yoga poses, we don’t always do them with you, so that you can experience them fully in your own body. This then gives us more opportunity to help enhance students’ experience of the pose by either verbally suggesting or manually adjusting the student in the pose. We also want to help students become more aware of their bodies and their breath. Becoming more familiar with the outer body can then help students connect more with their inner body. Breath plays a huge roll in practicing yoga and is a tool for moving/awakening Prana or life force (like Chi in Chinese medicine). At the end of a class if students can leave feeling relaxed, renewed, and a little more joyful – we know we’ve done a good job. |
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KATHY THOMPSON, RYT500, After a 29-year human resources career Kathy first started her own business in 2001 as a professional life coach in order to support others in following their true hearts desires. Then in 2004 she opened Follow Your Heart Yoga Center. She started practicing yoga in 1996 and began to teach in 2001. She became a Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance and an Affilated Anusara Yoga teacher in 2003. Her teachers include: John Friend, Suzie Hurley, Moses Brown, Desiree Rumbaugh, and Betsey Downing, all master certified yoga teachers. More recently, Kathy has been studying with Rod Stryker, creator of Para Yoga. Para Yoga's aim is to inspire and empower students to achieve their full (physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual) potential so that they may enjoy a richer, more rewarding life. Para Yoga provides knowledge, wisdom, and tools that enhance all aspects of modern life through the timeless spirit and teachings of Yoga. Kathy's teaching is influenced by her Para Yoga studies. Kathy brings vitality, joy, and grace to her students through her teaching.
SIGAL AYALI has completed extensive Anusara Yoga Teacher Trainings including the Heart of Yoga Teacher Training program with Kathleen Hogan & Moses Brown and a 35-hour training with Kathleen Hogan and Mary Romeu, and workshops taught by John Friend. Sigal is a devoted & advanced yoga practitioner.
Kandi completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training at the Yoga Center of Columbia in 2007. She regularly continues her education throughout each year with workshops led by Todd Norian and Diego del Sol. She's taken instruction from world renown teachers Amy Ippoliti and Rod Stryker. Her certification in pre-natal yoga was accomplished in the fall of 2008 the Kirpalu Yoga Center in Lenox, Mass. She's completed 16 hours of Sanskrit training by Vyass Houston founder of the American Sanksrit Institute. Sanskrit is as much like music as language, bringing the mind into a beautiful flow. It is Kandi's goal to lead you on a journey of transformation,as she leads her classes through the mental, physical and spiritual aspects of yoga. With a reflective attitude, mindfulness and balance, she connects with students hearts,inspiring them to express yoga from the inside out. Each is a class of reflective moves leading you to awareness of your inner strengths and beauty.
Chris Gamble - Chris' classes provide a compassionate, nurturing, and sacred space where students can experience the transformative nature of yoga. Chris uses her experience as a former elementary school teacher to carefully explain the asana sequence and asana modifications. Chris has been practicing yoga since the birth of her twin boys in 2001. Her training (CYT200) and experiences include Anusara, Ashtanga, Iyengar, and various Hatha flow styles of yoga. Chris holds a B.A. in Sociology/Social Work and an elementary teaching certification. She was an elementary school teacher for seven years. She has also coached competitive and non-competitive gymnastics for thirteen years. In her spare time, Chris enjoys weight lifting and running. She runs in many local races every year and has completed two Marine Corps Marathons.
Scott Moore initially came to yoga as just a form of exercise for a healthy lifestyle. Discovering the complete benefits of yoga for body, mind, and heart, he completed an Anusara Immersion Program in 2008 and continued on to complete an Anusara Teacher Training through Willow Street Yoga Center in 2009. Scott’s teaching is marked by curiosity and a passion to share the meaning and mechanics behind the art and science of yoga. Off the mat, Scott’s broad interests include cooking, reading, design, data analysis and fire juggling.
Susan has been practicing yoga for 10 years, and completed her teacher training (RYT200) in 2009 at the Yoga Center of Columbia, studying with Kathy Donnelly and Cheryl Catrabone. Susan holds a master’s degree in wellness management, and has a special interest in anatomy and therapeutic yoga. She has attended workshops with Martin Kirk and Douglas Keller, and loves to bring therapeutic principles back to her students. Susan brings a light-hearted approach to her classes, believing strongly that it’s fine to take yoga seriously, as long as we don’t take ourselves too seriously. Off the mat, she enjoys cycling, swimming, triathlon, and spending time with her husband and three children.