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Ashtanga

Mary Flinn
Mary has been teaching yoga since 1995. She began studying Mysore style Ashtanga yoga in New York 1997. In 2000 she practiced with Pattabhi Jois in NY, and continued each year until she went to AYRI in India to study with Pattabhi Jois, Sharath Rangaswami and Saraswati. She spent ten months in Mysore from October of 1995 until February of 2007. In January of 2007 she was authorized to teach Ashtanga Yoga from Pattabhi Jois and the AYRI.   While in India she studied yoga philosophy and pranayama with Shankaranarayan Jois. Along with her Ashtanga practices she has studied Kundalini and White Tantric yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan. In 1997 she studied yoga at 'The Divine Life Society-Sivananda' in Rishikesh India, and received a certificate to teach from Swami Madhavananda and Swami Krishna.

Mary has an MFA from Queens College in NY. She has had numerous one Woman art exhibitions in NY, as well as shows in Maryland, Vermont, and New Hampshire.

Mary has been a model for Dorlin Kinersly books "Kundalini Yoga" and "Kiss Yoga" by Shakti Kaur. She was featured in the article "Mary's Loft" by Trish Dalton in Ascent Magazine in the fall 2001 issue. She directed and co-directed teacher training programs in NYC in 2003-5.   She has lead national and international workshops in Tokyo, Canada, and Costa Rica.

Mary teaches Ashtanga in the light of her Guru Shri K Pattabhi Jois.

John McCarthy
John has been practicing yoga for 15 years and teaching Mysore Style Ashtanga Yoga since 1999. He was trained by and worked and studied extensively with Manju Jois. Additionally, he spent many years working with Master Teacher and Practitioner Dee Silvers. John also spent an extended period of time in California practicing with Tim Miller. Additional training has come from workshops given by senior teachers David Swenson, David Williams, Beryl Bender Birch, and Doug Swenson. John has also extensively studied Anatomy and Physiology.

One of the greatest teachings John received from Manju was to make sure that students had fun while practicing. Manju often said that following the path of yoga as it was intended, teaches us not to take life, and correspondingly time spent on our mats, so seriously. While yoga is done in a peaceful space with inward focus, it also provides a time to experiment and have fun. While the primary, intermediate and advanced series of Ashtanga Yoga provide the backbone of the Mysore practice, John works with each individual student to develop a "custom" practice tailored to generate optimal well being and to ready them to move deeper into the Ashtanga sequences.

Heather Marie Miller
Heather Marie Miller has been studying yoga for 17 years. Some of her past teachers include Baron Baptiste, Dee Silvers, Jennifer McLaughlin and David Swenson. In 2004, Heather Marie completed a 200-hour teacher training with Corina Benner at Wake Up Yoga. For three years, her primary teacher has been David Keil, and she's excited to be going to New Zealand to study with David's teacher, John Scott, this winter.

Heather Marie studied philosophy, psychology, music and math in college, and attended graduate school in psychology, while working as a certified personal trainer and bodyworker.

Heather Marie first began teaching yoga at the Ben Franklin Clinic in Philadelphia. While running the fitness center at a retirement community, she taught yoga to the residents. For the last ten years, Heather Marie has taught students of all ages one-on-one.

When not practicing and teaching yoga and doing bodywork, Heather Marie loves to read, travel, listen to music, practice body rolling, and hang out with her husband and two cats.

Heather Marie teaches from her heart, having experienced the transformative energy of yoga personally and deeply in her life. She appreciates and shares the meditative aspects of ashtanga yoga by teaching using vinyasa counting in Sanskrit and focusing on the breath, and she encourages students to cultivate curiosity and compassion in place of judgments and distracting thoughts. She's very grateful to all of her teachers and guides along the way, as well as for the opportunity to teach and connect with others through yoga.

Naidia Borowsky
Naidia has been practicing yoga since 1994. In 2003 she began studying with esteemed Ashtanga master teacher and practitioner teacher Dee Silver where she was taught to assist during mysore practice and teach led and private classes.

In her early 20's she had the good fortune to meet and receive shaktipat (the transmission of spiritual energy) from Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, a spiritual and meditation master from the Siddha Yoga Linage. She has studied and practiced the teachings of Siddha Yoga for 25 years where she continues to have a daily practice of meditation, chanting and japa. Naidia says "Chanting is one of the most joyous practices" and it is through this practice that she has come to understand how the vibrational quality of a person can be elevated.

Naidia has been seriously committed to a holistic approach to life since 1980 while studying food, energy and our environment. She brings a wealth of information to students on how to support their practice through diet and meditation. She graduated in 1999 with a B.S. in Nursing from Villanova University and in 2005 she became a Reki Master. She is the mother of three amazing children.

Jill Manning
Jill Manning has devoted herself to the study, practice and teaching of yoga since 2000. She received her initial certification from Integral Yoga Institute in New York City, but has gone on to study with many of the world's most revered living yoga masters, including Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, with whom she has spent eight weeks at his yoga shala during her 2006 and 2007 trips to Mysore, India. Jill's other notable teachers and mentors include David Keil, Joan White and Rodney Yee.

A graduate of New York University, Jill has studied the intellectual aspects of yoga as well as the physical and spiritual ones. Her scholarly understanding of the Bhagavad-Gita and the Yoga Sutra's, along with other Shastras, brings an important dimension to her own practice as well as her teaching style. During her weeks traveling throughout India, Jill immersed herself in the country's culture (and the Great Ganga). She has studied Sanskrit with Manorama and with Sri Lakshmish Bhat of Mysore, India, to further round her understanding of the yoga tradition and to place an asana practice in a larger context for herself and her students.

In her classes, Jill achieves a focus on the mind-body connection by carefully orchestrating a series of poses that fit together as a beneficial whole. An emphasis on precise alignment is a hallmark of Jill's teaching style, a result of her experience with the Iyengar Yoga method. Jill has co-taught Wake Up Yoga's 250-hour Yoga Alliance registered teacher training program for the past four years. She practices the yoga of life and family in the East Falls section of Philadelphia with her husband, Mike, and their dog, Angie.

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Iyengar

Caroline Cahill
Caroline Cahill began studying Iyengar yoga in 1991 with her primary teacher, Joan White, and has taught since 1996. She has completed intensive Teacher Training with Joan White and has also taken numerous workshops with other senior level Iyengar instructors, such as Mira Mehta and John Schumacher, and participated in the Yoga Journal Convention with BKS Iyengar in 2005.

Caroline received a bachelor's degree in painting and art history, and spent over ten years working at the University of Pennsylvania as the administrative coordinator for a large graduate program. It was while working at Penn that she first discovered the benefits of Iyengar yoga in classes with Joan White. For Caroline, Iyengar yoga provided a gradual physical transformation that lead to a much deeper personal transformation, as well as an intense devotion to the discipline, and a desire to share of benefits of Iyengar yoga with others through teaching.

Caroline has taught Iyengar yoga at the University of Pennsylvania since 1997, and at other locations both public and private throughout the Philadelphia area. Since leaving her administrative job in 1998, she has had two children while continuing with her study, practice and teaching.

Caroline teaches with a great amount of compassion for her students, and strives to help students to discover that Iyengar yoga is primarily about awareness, awareness of the specific movements of the body and the breath, as well as awareness of the alignment that underlies each posture. It is through awareness and attention that students can achieve a sense of grace in the pose, and begin to understand how Iyengar yoga can discipline and transform not only the body, but the mind.

Robin Lowry
Robin has been studying Iyengar yoga exclusively since 1986 and with Joan White since 1987. Since undertaking the certification process Patricia Walden has become her second mentoring teacher. She has studied with the Iyengars in Pune three times, most recently the Summer of 2007.

Robin's teaching style is based on her study of the Yoga Sutras and the syllabus designed and continuously refined by BKS Iyengar and his daughter Geeta. Her perpetual participation within the Iyengar Yoga Teacher Assessment process is cultivating her skills as both a student and teacher.

Robin is a doctoral candidate at Temple University researching yoga pedagogy and teaches Health and Physical Education full-time at Simon Gratz High School in Philadelphia. Robin has achieved 'Junior Intermediate I' in the Iyengar Teacher Assessment System.

Adinah Ghen
Philadelphia native, Adina Ghen arrived in NYC in 1974 as a student in the Whitney Museum Independent Studio Program.   Ms. Ghen remained in New York as a full time artist for nearly twenty-five years prior to becoming interested in self-health orientations. In 1993 she became a licensed massage therapist studying at the Swedish Massage Institute and in 1995 she began practicing yoga. In addition to maintaining a reflexology practice, Ms. Ghen has taught yoga to others for the past 7 years.   Currently, Ms. Ghen teaches Iyengar (gentle) yoga at Integral Yoga Institute, Yoga Sutra, and in her private yoga studio. Since 1997, Adina has been studying with Brooke Myers a senior Iyengar teacher and she is currently in her second year of Teacher Training at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of New York. She teaches gentle, fundamental, and level 1 yoga classes in the Iyengar Tradition. Having just returned from the birthday celebration and yoga workshop in India with Dr. Geeta Iyengar and Mr. BKS Iyengar, she is scheduled to study for 6 weeks at the RIMYI Institute, December-January 2006-07.

Jill Jones
Jill began to study yoga in the Iyengar tradition in 1994. The Iyengar method's emphasis on inward focus through detailed alignment in each asana, what B.K.S. Iyengar refers to as meditation in action, is what immediately captivated Jill's interest in yoga and she has remained a dedicated student of this method ever since. In 2002, reminded by a senior teacher of the importance of giving back to the community, she started to teach and share with a then budding Pittsburgh Iyengar community what she had learned from her primary teacher, Joan White.   Teaching has become an essential part of the learning process and practice for Jill. Her goal in teaching is to pass on the tradition as faithfully and passionately as possible and to help spark passion for the subject of yoga & self-study in others. Jill continues to train under Joan, as well as with other senior Iyengar teachers as frequently as time and funds will allow. In November of 2007 Jill passed her first Iyengar Certification Assessment exam and will be continuing on to the next level of assessment in the fall of 2008.

Helena Dobromilska
Helena Dobromilska is a certified Iyengar yoga teacher who as been teaching since 1995 in the Art Museum area of Philadelphia where she resides. Since 1991,she has studied continuously as a practioner of Iyengar yoga under Joan White, Director of the BKS Iyengar Yoga School of Central Philadelphia. She has been a continuous participant in the yoga teacher training conducted by Joan White since 1994.   She believes in the transformative process of yoga in mind, body, and spirit and looks to convey this experience through her teaching.

Russ Taylor
Russ Taylor is a certified Iyengar yoga teacher. He has been practicing Iyengar Yoga for over 30 years and has been teaching for 15 years. He has studied in India with the Iyengars on 5 separate occasions. On one of his trips there, he studied for 11 consecutive months. He was also formally trained in the US in the physical therapy profession. His teaching is strongly influenced by Manouso Manos, who he apprenticed with for 7 years.

Liz Templeton
Elizabeth Templeton is a certified Iyengar yoga teacher. For the past six years she has taught in a variety of yoga venues including Temple University and private studios in Fishtown and Old City. Elizabeth's primary teacher is Joan White with whom she has had the privilege of studying since 1993. Elizabeth has also studied yoga with the Iyengar family in Pune, India for a month in 2005, and with Sri Rudra Dev on the banks of Ganges in Rishikesh for a month in 2001. In addition to her devoted yoga practice, Elizabeth holds a Master's degree in Dance/Movement therapy and Doctorate in Dance Education. She is an adjunct faculty member at Temple and Drexel Universities.

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Hatha/Vinyasa

Jillian Bird
Jillian Bird has been studying Hatha yoga since 1992 and has been teaching since 2003. Her primary influences have been teachers Deva Parnell, Shoban Richard Faulds, Megha Nancy Buttenheim, Sudhir Jonathan Faust and the many others of the Kripalu community.

In addition to teaching Kripalu yoga Jillian is currently practicing as a holistic health counselor, utilizing various forms of massage, nutrition counseling and such mindfulness based methods as meditation and yoga to support an individual to reach their health and lifestyle goals.

Jillian's background in dance and the performing arts inform her teaching style which focuses greatly on alignment and the joy of the moving body. Jillian believes the answers for ones personal transformation lie within. Her classes aim to create a supportive and safe environment wherein everyone can create their perfect practice, align with the universe and feel greater joy and connection in their lives.

Galit Carthy
Practicing yoga on her own since 1997 (guided by a book by BKS Iyengar), Galit began her formal study of yoga with David Newman at Yoga on Main in Manayunk, where she completed teacher's training program focusing on the spiritual and devotional aspects of yoga. In 2003, after completing the teacher's training program with Corina Benner at Wake Up Yoga, she began her teaching journey.

Since 2003 Galit has focused her practice and study of the Iyengar system mainly with Joan White and other Iyengar teachers such as Kofi Busia.

Inspired by her various teachers, Galit's approach to yoga teaching encourages attentiveness to alignment and precision through which students cultivate mindfulness in their practice, hopefully carried off the mat and into life.

Galit holds a master degree in Art History; she graduated from Wharton Management Program and is also trained as a professional Chef (now happily cooking for her friends and family).

Tara Culp
Tara encourages her students to uncover and discover the depths of who we are through the practice of yoga. She received her certification from It's Yoga in San Francisco in 2000. Her classes are inspired by the amazing and devoted teachers that she had while living and teaching in New York City, Dharma Mittra, Amy Ippoliti, Jyhoti larson and Rev. Frank Jude Boccio. Tara is also a certified pre-natal instructor through Ma Yoga NYC.  

Nora Drummond
Nora Drummond began practicing yoga in earnest in 2001, and has been teaching full time since 2004. Her initial 200 hour teacher training was under the tutelage of Yogiraj Alan Finger at BeYoga (now YogaWorks) in NYC. She has also been greatly influenced and inspired by her studies with Rod Stryker, A.G. and Indra Mohan, and Twee Merrigan.

Nora's yogic path began while attending the North Carolina School of The Arts as a ballet major. When an injury forced her out of the dance studio one of her teachers introduced her to a few yoga poses. The practice which at first felt awkward and a little silly, became a refuge of healing for both an injured body and an anxious mind. After graduation she moved to New York City, and found her heart leading her up four flights of stairs to Alan Finger's yoga class. The rest, as they say, is history.

Upon moving to Philadelphia in 2005 she has taught extensively throughout the city. She has also created and implemented a 200 hour teacher training course that has graduated 15 yoga teachers to date, all of which have taught or are currently teaching in Philadelphia.

Nora went back to NYC to complete a Pre-Natal Yoga Training at YogaWorks, and is also a trained Doula. In her prenatal classes she creates a nurturing and fun atmosphere for woman to explore not only the changes in their bodies, but also the changes in their lives.

Teri Gerbec
Teri Gerbec has been teaching yoga since 2004. She first turned to yoga to balance out some of the physical implications of long-distance running. But it was not long before she realized it served as a perfect balance for so much more, including the rigors of working life, and the simple, day-to-day trials of life in general.   She received her teaching certification in New York City at the Laughing Lotus College of Yoga under the tutelage of Dana Flynn and Jasmine Tarkeshi, to whom she is very grateful for planting in her the seeds that would sprout into a love of the yoga practice.

In her classes, Teri shares a spirited vinyasa sequence, linked with the breath and complimented by music. By offering insights into the philosophy behind the physical poses, Teri hopes to help her students find a hint of the peace that yoga brings: one that can be found not only on the mat, but can also be wrapped up to go.

Katy Hawkins
Katy Hawkins took her first yoga class in 2002 when pregnant with her first child. She continued to study Vinyasa yoga in New York City until relocating to Philadelphia in 2006, where her primary influences have been Jill Manning, Corina Benner, and Sophie Simpson. She did her teacher training at Wake Up Yoga.

While completing a Ph.D in Comparative Literature at New York University, Katy's academic work began to take on a yogic flavor. Her dissertation came to focus on how "Eastern" frameworks, especially Hindu and Mahayana Buddhist influences, appear in several contemporary American studies of illness.  

Katy studied modern dance from the age of four. In addition to collaborative performances with members of Martha Graham, José Limon, Mary Anthony, and Bill T. Jones companies, she has performed solo at several New York venues, most recently a sequence of yoga poems set to movement and cello.

The two real keys to her soul and sanity are her partner Dan and a daily meditation practice that has guided her through the wild and rugged wilderness of stay-at-home motherhood.

Her teaching style is a Vinyasa flow (with Ashtanga and Iyengar influences) colored by her keen interest in mindfulness practices.

Julia Horn
Julia Horn is not quite sure when it all began. From the time she was just a squirt, she was swinging from the arms of an om'ing mother. Next it was the limbs of the towering oak in the backyard. The rest is history. What ensued was a lifetime of study and exploration of movement, breath and the interior of the self. Her study of dance continued at North Carolina School of the Arts and then on to Tisch School of the Arts in New York City.   She's had an eclectic mix of teachers along the way- more than she could name, but to whom she will be ever grateful. Her love of music, dance, literature, sculpture, theater, travel, and nature have all been equal informants to her path of practice.

Julia grew up in the hills of Cakilaki (translation: Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina) which she stills considers to be one of the most magical places on earth.

She is currently a member of Tripsichore Yoga Theatre, with whom she trots the globe for performances of yogic dance and workshops.

In her classes, Julia utilizes in equal parts movement (or stillness), breath, and the steady beat of the musica (or silence) to dive in. To dive out. To play. To explore. To sweat. And to eventually bring it all back home- to the seat of the heart.

Brianna Jones
A Philadelphia native and seasoned New Yorker, Brianna's teachings are as diverse as the influences that inspire her. She was introduced to yoga at 16, it resonated with her because of how well it complemented her athletic aptitude in track and field, distance running and rock climbing. After one year of the obligatory college experience, she dismissed western institutionalization to pursue a life outside of the mundane parameters of normalcy. By 21 years old, through the guidance of her beloved teachers, she fully immersed herself in the mastery of asana and the study of yoga scripture and philosophy. After much resistance to the concept, she received her 'certification' as a vinyasa instructor but threads many other methods into her guidance to the practice. As a student, she views yoga as a divine and continuous unfolding. As a teacher, her classes are challenging, informative, contemplative and humbling.   Yoga is a precious gem; in the state of it's growing popularity, Brianna's foundation and focus is rooted in the necessary preservation of the teachings of the tradition.

Don Maiorano
Don Maiorano has studied Classical Hatha Yoga since 1982 with Dr. Pratop at Sky Foundation Yoga School in Philadelphia.

He has been teaching since 1994 in Phila. Don takes a gentle approach while teaching the asanas insisting you hold them for as long as you feel comfortable. The benefits of each asana are explained as well.

Pranayama techniques are not ignored in his class.

As well as teaching Yoga, Don is a certified public school teacher in Philadelphia.

Tricia Sletten
Tricia Sletten has studied yoga since 1995 when she attended her first yoga class in Fargo, North Dakota. After moving east to Philadelphia, she continued to practice with Durga Das (David Newman), and eventually found her way to the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health where she studied with Yoganand Michael Caroll and Martha Abbott. She received her 200-hour Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training in 2001. Tricia also has studied Thai yoga therapy with Kam Thye Chow at Lotus Palm in Montreal, and Tanya Boigenzahn at the Yoga Center of Minneapolis. Other major influences in her study and practice of yoga include Judith Hanson Lasater, Scott Blossom, and Shiva Rea, with whom Tricia is completing her 500-hour Prana Flow teacher training.

Possessing a strongly creative spark, Tricia has studied many forms of expression from acting, singing, and classical ballet to writing and drawing, including printmaking and painting. She has a Bachelors degree in English from Moorhead State University (MN) and completed the four-year certificate in printmaking from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

A lifelong student, Tricia continues to deepen her understanding and appreciation of the Vedic origins of yoga and Ayurveda at the Kripalu School of Ayurveda where she has studied with Drs. David Frawley, Claudia Welch, Jaye Apte, and Vasant Lad.

In her work as an artist, yoga instructor, Thai yoga therapist, and Ayurveda practitioner-in-training, Tricia is drawn to the practice and expression of health and healing. Her focus in teaching is to explore the inherent strength and flexibility of the body through disciplined awareness of the breath (Prana Vayus). She encourages her students to embrace the innate creativity of living yoga allowing it to express itself through the body. The result is a fresh and dynamic approach to an ancient practice. Whatever their level of practice, her goal is to bring each student to their 'edge' - the place where they discover something new about themselves and their practice.

Kelly Smith
Kelly's journey in yoga began as a desire to change direction in life. Like many yoga practioners, her yoga practice began as a search for peace and health, and over time evolved into a way of life and source of love. Kelly's dedication to teaching yoga is an extension of her commitment to her practice as well as a response to a call for peace and health among people today.   Kelly is the founder of Inner Bliss Yoga Center, a welcoming center established to provide a safe, nurturing and empowering place for anyone seeking physical, mental or spiritual health.

An experienced Yoga and Pilates instructor, Kelly was recognized twice in 2005 by Philadelphia Magazine as one of the best in the city for both Yoga and Pilates instruction. Her studies include multiple trainings in Shiva Rea's fluent and powerful Vinyasa method, the freedom of Angela Farmer's intuitive approach to yoga, and weekly classes with Joan White, a senior Iyengar teacher living in Philadelphia. Kelly has completed trainings is many areas of special interest including prenatal yoga, yoga for scoliosis and yoga therapy.

Kelly also studies Indian Ayurveda holistic nutrition, and is informed by 18 years of dance experience. She recently began Martial Arts training. She holds a BA in Psychology from Villanova University and has taken many post-graduate courses in the areas of psychology and kinesiology.

The style of yoga Kelly teaches is challenging and nurturing; incorporating yoga philosophy and knowledge of the physical and subtle body. After 7 years of teaching yoga, Kelly believes this blend of balanced yoga will guide students toward a deep experience of yoga on many levels.

Miko Doi Smith (Summer)
Miko Doi-Smith, originally from southern California, was introduced to yoga in 1988 while attending the University of Hawaii but did not begin serious study until 1994 after sustaining an injury while dancing. She received her teacher's training certification from It's Yoga in San Francisco in 1998 and continues to study with her teacher Kofi Busia. She has taught at various studios and gyms in Philadelphia including the Sporting Club at the Bellevue,12th Street Gym, Yoga 105 and Practice Yoga. In addition to practicing yoga she is a professional contemporary modern dancer, registered nurse and mother of a wonderful four year old daughter.

Brian Stern
(coming soon)

Robin Trent
In 1999 Robin Trent was introduced to yoga by a medical doctor to help deal with stress, anxiety and migraine headaches. Her first formal teacher training was in 2002 at Lourdes Institute of Holistic Studies in Collingswood, NJ in the Kirpalu tradition. Since then she has studied with and has been influenced by Erich Shiffmann, Paul Grilley and Jhani Chapman. Other teaching certificates include Yin Yoga and Yoga for the Cancer Patient. Robin received her B.S. In Psychology and is pursuing a masters in Occupational Therapy from Thomas Jefferson University. In class Robin tries to make people feel better than when they came in. Expect a peaceful pace and a well rounded practice with some laughter woven through. Her interests include her pit bull named Butter, food, and down time.

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Management & Staff

David Kelman, Managing Director
David has been a dedicated practitioner of Ashtanga Yoga for over ten years. After spending almost ten years as a mergers & acquisitions specialist at several large Wall Street investment banks, David decided to pursue a more balanced approach to business and life, and founded Yoga Sutra with his teacher and friend, Christopher Hildebrandt.

First and foremost, David is the dedicated father of two beautiful children, Charlotte and Wyatt. He is grateful to everyone that has made Yoga Sutra possible and takes great pride in the faculty, staff, and community that has grown and prospered since opening in 2004.

David earned his BS cum laude from Babson College and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Al Kelman, Coach
Al has been an ardent practitioner of yoga for six years, and it has been a life altering experience for him. He is convinced that it is the key to “aging gracefully.”

Yoga Sutra is the next chapter for Al, after almost 35 years in management consulting. Al is thrilled about the prospect of working closely with his son, David, to establish a genuine yoga community in Philadelphia.

Al is indebted to all of his yoga teachers, without whose help and caring his practice would have never come to happen. He strongly believes that the only way to pay them back is to “pay it forward.”

Al has been a resident of Center City, Philadelphia for 35 years.

Megan Weisman, Director of Operations
Megan began practicing yoga at an early age as an accompaniment to her regular training as an ice dancer. Long after she hung up her skates, she continued to deepen her practice as she earned her BFA in acting from North Carolina School of the Arts. After moving to New York City she worked as an actress in the theater and on television. Megan moved to Philadelphia in July of 2007 and immediately fell in love with the city. She believes that yoga is a vital component to a physically, mentally, and spiritually balanced life.

Megan is thrilled to be a part of the Yoga Sutra family and excited to help bring high quality yoga in to the lives of Philadelphians. At Yoga Sutra, she oversees the managerial staff, daily operations of the center, assists in programming, and gets done anything else that needs to get done! Megan is very happily married to David Weisman and lives in Old City.

Rebecca Anderson, Assistant Manager
Rebecca Anderson grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and now resides in the Northeast section of the city. She comes to Yoga Sutra after a two year stint as a public relations professional on the Main Line.

She began practicing yoga shortly after graduating from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Communications/Journalism and a minor in Spanish. Rebecca was introduced to yoga by a friend and quickly fell in love with the practice and balance it brought to her life. For the past two years, she has continued to practice yoga and deepen her study. Rebecca believes the benefits of yoga and connectivity of the mind and body are essential to overall health. She plans on receiving certification in yoga-teacher training in the next few years to further the experience.

In her spare time, Rebecca enjoys exploring the beautiful and historical city of Philadelphia. She also likes to read, cheer on the Phillies and spend time with her fabulous family and friends. Rebecca is estatic to join the Yoga Sutra family and embark on a new venture!

Krystal Frazao, Assistant Manager
Krystal Frazao grew up in Newington, CT where she spent most of her childhood in dance classes. After graduating from high school she came to Philadelphia where she earned her BFA in Dance Performance from the University of the Arts. She fell in love with the Philadelphia arts community which is what made her decide to stay and reside in Philadelphia. She has taught and choreographed for a variety of different schools and studios throughout the Philadelphia suburbs as well as performed in several different productions with companies such as Alchemy Dance Company right in Philadelphia. Her passion and interest in yoga started after she realized she needed something to help solidify and calm her body. Yoga helped her to relieve some of the daily aches and pains that she had from everyday dance training as well as calm her mind. She is excited and honored to be able to grow this passion in such a great atmosphere like Yoga Sutra.

Anna Matijasic, Assistant Manager
Anna Matijasic hails from Charlottesville, Virginia, where she received yoga teacher's certification from the Satchidananda Ashram in 2004. In addition to having managed a studio in Charlottesville, she has also instructed hatha yoga and worked in a community outreach effort to bring free yoga classes to the public.

Anna is a classically trained violinist who delights in exploring numerous styles of music ranging from experimental to country western. In the practices of both music and yoga she has found steadiness and joy.

She is honored to be part of the blossoming branch of Yoga Sutra in Philadelphia.

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