Yoga People
160 Montague St. 2nd Fl.
Brooklyn, NY 11201
info@yoga-people.com
718.522.3113
Teachers ~
 Yiannis Andritsos Yiannis, originally from a small village in Greece, began his study of yoga after coming to the US in search of higher knowledge and freedom. Yiannis completed the teacher training at Atmanhada studio in Manhattan in 2003. After meeting Sri Dharma Mittra he began practicing Asana and Meditation full time with this great master teacher. He now teaches a variety of Vinyasa classes in Manhattan and Brooklyn. His previous work in professional dance, fitness training, and his current work in Thai yoga massage enlighten his teachings and knowledge of the body dynamics. He has also studied extensively the raw vegan diet as part of a completely spiritual lifestyle. His warm hearted humor and sincere devotion make every class a unique and pleasurable experience. CLASSES WITH YIANNIS: Fridays 9:30-11am Dharma Yoga |
 Donnalynn Civello Donnalynn is a certified Yoga Alliance teacher in New York City having completed the Yoga Synthesis 300 hour Vinyasa Teacher Training with Raji Thron in 2004. Her training focused on several yogic disciplines including Vinyasa, Ashtanga, Iyengar, Viniyoga, Classical Hatha and Anusara. She combines her studies in meditation, pranayama and spiritual philosophy with her study of asana to create a challenging and comprehensive asana practice with inspiring words of wisdom for20living in today’s world. Donnalynn applies a nurturing hands-on approach to alignment and aromatherapy massage to further nurture and relax the soul. Donnalynn has been a practitioner at the Jivamukti Yoga School, New York City for over 11 years and more recently a practitioner of Yoga Works in New York and L.A. for the last 3 years. CLASSES WITH DONNAYLYNN: Monday 8:15-9:30 Basic, Saturday 10-11:30am Vinyasa |
 Barbara ElovicBarbara left a career in publishing to become involved in fitness training. She's been studying Pilates for 9 years and teaching it for 7. She's certified in both the Classic and Contemporary method and has worked with a wide range of clients from distance runners and tennis players to members of the Crown Heights Hasidic community. CLASSES WITH BARBARA: Monday 1:15-2:15pm Pilates |
 Tara GlazierTara is a Certified Anusara Teacher who revels in the beauty that yoga offers to her. She was introduced to yoga at a modern dance festival about 11 years ago and has been practicing ever since. She has been teaching at Yoga People for the past 5 years and is also certified through Yoga Alliance. Tara honors her teachers from the past that have brought her to where she is today. In past years she studied under teachers from Jivamukti and The Shala. In recent years,Tara has been drawn to Anusara yoga and it's deep, therapeutic qualities. She has traveled and studied extensively with John Friend, the creator of Anusara Yoga and master teacher Sianna Sherman. She is eternally grateful to her main NYC teacher, Zhenja LaRosa who continues to offer revelation after revelation. Tara teaches an Anusara class that incorporates her love of the elegant system of Anusara and the life affirming philosophy that has so positively shifted her life. This alignment and spirit enhancing, based style ofyoga teaches the proper principles to optimally place the body, while keeping a deep connection to the heart. It is Tara's hope to offer her students not only a physical experience on the mat but to also offer them powerful tools that they can carry with them into their lives, off the mat. She will be inspiring students now internationally as she embarks for Spain this summer and Italy in the fall. See abhayayoga.com for more info. CLASSES WITH TARA: Tuesday 6:30-8pm Basic, Friday 6:30-8pm & Sunday 10:00-11:30am Anusara |
 Julia Haramis A New York native and a practitioner of yoga for more than 10 years, Julia Haramis has studied many different forms of yoga including Anusara, Vinyasa and Jivamukti. She was first drawn to yoga while in college, seeking stress relief and a complement to playing various sports. Today, Julia looks to her practice to help attain harmony and balance between the mind and body. She completed her RYA teacher training at Yoga People. CLASSES WITH JULIA: Weds 8:15-9:30pm Basic II, Sunday 12-1:30pm Basic II |
 Saysha HeinzmanSaysha's yoga practice developed form a lifelong love of movement and creative expression. Originally hailing from Detroit, MI, she received her BFA in Performing Arts from Wayne State University. After touring with several theater companies, she eventually landed in NYC. She took her first yoga class in a gym and has been hooked ever since. Saysha teaches an Anusara influenced Vinyasa. She strives to create intelligently sequenced classes with a focus on precise alignment and breath awareness. Her approach has developed from working in many disciplines including Thai Yoga Massage, Ayurveda, Martial Arts and Traditional Chinese Medicine. She is continuously inspired by many senior teachers of Anusara, Iyengar and Vinyasa, her study of comparative spirituality, and the real ancient text, our daily living experience. She received her teacher training certification through Virayoga under the guidance of Zhenja LaRosa. She intends to become fully Anusara certified in the next year. Off the mat, Saysha works as a personal trainer and is cultivating a daily sahhana which includes a balanced diet, meditation, mantra, Sanskrit studies and gratitude. CLASSES WITH SAYSHA: Thurs 9:30-11am Anusara, Sun 2-3:15 Gentle Restorative Yoga |
Emily Johnson Emily would like to thank her teacher, Kristin Leal, for her constant inspiration and guidance, as well as her family and friends for their love and support. |
 Stacey Matthews Stacey is originally from Boston, where she started dancing at the age of ten and she hasn't stopped moving since. First introduced to yoga back in 2000, she quickly fell in love with the graceful moving meditation aspect of a vinyasa class and the playful curiosity that develops as you try new things. As a professional dancer & musical theater performer, Stacey found yoga to be incredibly grounding, allowing her to find some clarity, space and balance with which to negotiate this topsy turvy life in NYC. Not to mention the added benefits of developing strength and courage and also increasing flexibility of both body and mind - all this wrapped up into one little vinyasa class! She completed her teacher training at OM Yoga Center, her children's training at Karma Kids in NYC and has also studied at the Shambhala Meditation Center of NY. Stacey teaches a fun flowing vinyasa class with special attention to breath and alignment to help students find a balance between effort and ease throughout their practice. Her favorite quote right now that she draws inspiration from reads: "Understand that the journey is as important as the destination. Enjoy each moment. Live life fully." |
 Rebekah Morin Rebekah was guided to the practice of yoga by older, wiser dancers who promised increased strength and flexibility and fewer injuries. When she found that those benefits extended to strength and flexibilty of mind and emotion and in general made her less irritable she decided it was an important thing to share. Rebekah received her certification to teach vinyasa style hatha yoga from Laughing Lotus in 2002. Since then she has been bringing the practice to studios, schools, businesses, and parks all around the city. She currently teaches public classes at Yoga People in downtown Brooklyn and Levitate Yoga in midtown Manhattan. Rebekah continues to dance with both Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects and The Equus Projects. CLASSES WITH REBEKAH: Lunchtime Yoga 1:00-2:00pm Tuesdays & Thursdays |
| Jessica Outlaw Jessica Outlaw has been a student of yoga for over 15 years. In 1998 she completed teacher training at the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center in India. She continued her studies with Shiva Rea and received an Advanced Vinyasa Flow certification. Additionally, she trained in pre/postnatal yoga and fitness with Janice Clarfield and Julie Tupler. Along with private and corporate yoga instruction, Jessica enjoys leading partner yoga and massage workshops for expecting couples. She is active in the community at large as both teacher and mentor bringing yoga to pregnant teenagers in foster care at Inwood House, recovering substance abusers at the Lower Eastside Harm Reduction Center, inner cityyouth at Catholic Big Brothers Big Sisters, and college-age women at leadership training retreats at the Woodhull Institute. CLASSES WITH JESSICA OUTLAW: Tuesdays 11:30-12:45pm Prenatal |
 Jessica Pagan Jessica Pagan had been practicing Vinyasa Yoga for 6 years before completing her Certification at New York Yoga .A native New Yorker she spent last year in Philadelphia teaching yoga full-time. She is thrilled to be back in her hometown of New York City. Also pursuing a career as a professional Actress, she approaches her teaching as she does her acting, as an exploration of the human condition. “Vinyasa yoga to me is the practice most welcoming and accepting of all types and caters to each individual person and each individual journey.” CLASSES WITH JESSICA PAGAN: Mon 9:30-11am Basic, Mon 4:30-5:45pm Vinyasa |
 Rachel Page Rachel, originally from Newmarket, England began studying yoga in 2001 after returning from the Peace Corps in Africa. Rachel feels blessed to have studied with Sharon Gannon and David Life, Dharma Mittra, Manju Jois, Doug Swenson, Desiree Rumbaugh and Swami Asokananda; she continues to study with these and other great teachers. She is Yoga Alliance Certified at the 200-hour level in Hatha and Integral Yoga and is also a member of the Integral Yoga Teachers Association. She will soon be certified at the 500-hour level. In 2006, Rachel studied Nuad Bo-Rarn (traditional northern Thai massage) in Thailand under Chongkol Setthakorn. She earned advanced certification from the ITM Massage School which is accredited by the Thai Ministry of Education. Rachel firmly believes in the purity of the original yogic philosophy and tries to stay true to that in both her classes and her everyday life. Her classes reflect her diverse background and always include chanting, pranayama (breath control) and dhyana (meditation) in addition to a flowing asana practice. Rachel’s love of practicing and sharing yoga shines through in her creative and inspirational classes. CLASSES WITH RACHEL PAGE: Tuesday 8:15-9:30pm Vinyasa |
 Jorja Rivero Jorja is endlessly fascinated and inspired by anusara yoga, rajanaka yoga, and gestalt psychotherapy and how each supports choice, engagement, and mind-body expansion. Her intention is for you cultivate deep appreciation of these connections and find a meaningful expression of these in your practice and life. In 2007 she completed her teacher training with Zhenja LaRosa. She began studying anusara in 2003 and has since been inspired by Elena Brower's teaching and presence. She is also trained in gestalt psychotherapy and offers services as a holistic life coach ( www.mindbodyexpansion.com ). CLASSES WITH JORJA: Thursdays 6:30-8pm Anusara |
 Tamar Samir Tamar was born in Michigan, but grew up in Israel, with the dual cultural influences of an Israeli father and Scottish mother. She moved to New York to pursue a career in fashion design and later, broadcast design. It was in New York, at the Jivamukti Yoga School, that she discovered yoga as an all-encompassing system of transformational practices for spreading happiness and freedom to all beings. Tamar was blessed with the opportunity to study with Jivamukti founders Sharon Gannon and David Life, and Advanced Certified Jivamukti Yoga teacher Narayani (Nicole Nichols). Tamar received 800-hour yoga teacher certification through Jivamukti Yoga School. She also holds an MFA from Parsons School of Design in New York. Tamar's classes includes breath awareness, flowing vinyasa sequencing, specific alignment instruction, restorative poses, chanting and teachings from yogic texts, meditation, relaxation, and energizing, uplifting music.She aims to challenge and inspire students with practical insights, compassion and humor. |
 Matthew Seidman My yoga practice has followed a familiar NYC trajectory – starting in the mid-90’s in my generation’s Ground Zero of yoga, Jivamukti, where the ex-junky, artist, ex-ex began to revive … and the logical progression through Mysore ashtanga practice to presently a more creative self-practice, maintaining ashtanga’s gaze & breathing principles along with intelligent alignment and acceptance of time’s impact on the physical … My present teaching hopefully sets my students upon a similar path, ultimately to a place of self-created practice … Yoga practice heals, brings into balance and reflects. My classes are physically challenging – the physical practice as a means of accessing the other human realms; my hands-on assists are fine-tuned and my speech precise (usually) and sparse. It’s your time. I don’t use recorded music. I see a yoga practice as a media-free space – a refuge. Unmediated/immediate experience, rarer and rarer. I was certified to teach yoga in ’98 through Cyndi Lee at OM Yoga Center; I ran the Ashtanga Yoga Limb there until it was dismantled. I taught monks & laity at Dai Bosatsu Zendo in the Catskills for three years in a row; I’ve taught free groups for High School students, and I’ve led yoga & theater-studies workshops at NYU and in Trinidad, the West Indies. I’ve also taught at various studios & gyms around the city, and teach privately. I’m an experimental/margin artist, with a number of means of expressing my inner world: theater, prose, visual art & music, separately and at times simultaneously. I’ve performed in Europe, Japan, and here in NY. (atravelingyeshivasideshow.com) The ferocious reflected tension that is the collision of yoga & our current strain of terminal global capitalism interests me more and more of late. I will be directing the Yoga People Teacher Training come the fall in ’08; my extra-yogic interests will be a part of the flavor of the training. For instance, a question: ‘Unmediated/immediate experience, rarer and rarer.’ But isn’t the practice itself a mediation? CLASSES WITH MATTHEW: Mon 6:30-8pm Vinyasa, Weds 9:30-11am Vinyasa, Sun 5-6:30pm Ashtanga |
 Olga Shafran Olga is originally from Ukraine. She has been a dedicated student of Yoga for two years, studying with Sri Dharma Mittra at his New York center. She completed the Life Of a Yogi Teacher Training and is a certified Dharma Mittra Yoga teacher. Olga is teaching in a spirit of her Guru. She is inspired by the way that Yoga has transformed her life and feels grateful and blessed to be able to share the teachings in a positive and inspiring way. Olga is deeply interested in helping others to reach full potential of healthy and peaceful life. Olga's classes are appropriate for all levels of practitioners. Her warm presence and smile makes every class a pleasurable experience. CLASSES WITH OLGA: Mon & Weds 7:00-8:15am Dharma Yoga, and Saturday 8:15-9:45am Dharma Yoga |
 Lisa Starr From the age of 3 through young adulthood Lisa practiced Cecchetti (classical) ballet. In 1999, she took her first yoga class was instantly hooked--Vinyasa style yoga felt like dancing! After many years practicing yoga, in 2005 Lisa received her teaching certification at Be Yoga in the Integrated Science of Hatha, Tantra, and Ayurveda (ISHTA) style of yoga. This style of yoga draws from the alignment principals of B.K.S. Iyengar and focuses on individualizing the asana practice for each student. Later that year, Lisa continued her training and became certified in prenatal yoga. Now a mother of twins, she loves working with mothers-to-be and new moms helping them to connect with their bodies and babies. CLASSES WITH LISA: Sat 2-3:15pm Prenatal Yoga |
 Jennifer WhitneyAfter four years of practicing vinyasa yoga in New Orleans, and then Hawaii, Jen had the good karma to attend the Jivamukti Yoga Teacher Training in 2007. In the fall of that year, Jen left Hawaii to study in India, and subsequently with the many masters living and teaching in New York. She has taught at Yoga Hawaii, Kaimuki and Jivamukti Yoga School, New York. The integral tenets of Jivamukti yoga are the foundation of her classes and personal sadhana. In addition to vigorous uplifting flow, her classes include chanting, meditation, yoga philosophy, and stories, She believes the beauties of vinyasa are its creativity, its dance with breath, and the space to explore and sink into a pose and oneself. She continues her studies with Alanna Kaivalya (Jivamukti Yoga), Manorama (Sanskrit and Yoga Philosophy), and teachers in the Alignment Based Vinyasa, and Iyengar traditions. She loves each chance to pass on the joy and peace of the teachings. *Lokah Samasta Sukinoh Bhavantu* CLASSES WITH JENNIFER: Weds 6:30-8pm & Sat 4-5:30pm Jivamukti Yoga |
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