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Instructors
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Suzy in
Adhomukha Svanasana
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Susan Pennington
- Certified Iyengar, E-RYT 500
Suzy is a certified Iyengar
instructor, RYT 500, and the
founder and Director of
Susquehanna Yoga. She has
studied comparative philosophy
since 1976, Iyengar Yoga since
1993 and has been to India to study
with Mr. B.K.S. Iyengar and his
family, Geeta and Prashant
Iyengar. Suzy continues to
apprentice with John Schumacher
of Unity Woods Yoga Center.
Suzy has a B.S. in psychology
and a MBA, and likes to swim,
hike and travel. She's a
challenging and inspiring
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Bonnie Caslow Allan - Iyengar Tradition,
RYT 500
After teaching art to middle school students for over
25 years, Bonnie decided that it was time for a change. She loves
to paint outdoors, but all of her energy for that was going to her
students. Bonnie began taking yoga with Patti Quicksilver of
Susquehanna Yoga. She looked forward to her weekly class, and
noticed the effects Yoga was having on her entire well-being. The
more she practiced, the more she enjoyed the way it made her feel.
Her decision to teach yoga stemmed from that. She has been doing
yoga for 6 years and is finishing up the apprenticeship program.
Her desire to share her knowledge of yoga and to grow in it, informs her
classes.
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Lance David
Bergerson - Meditation
Lance began
his spiritual training in 1970 at AUM, the Aquarian University of
Maryland. Inspired by the Beatles eastern philosophy he studied
meditation and Kundalini yoga at the 3HO Ashram in Baltimore.
Comparative philosophy followed and several years of camping and
traveling around the country. In San Diego, Lance played in a
blues band and taught Astrology in an Adult Education Program. He
has been heavily influenced by Michail Pinder of the Moody Blues and the
Book of Urantia, Ken Wilber and Peter Russell. Lance is now part
of the
Tibetan Meditation Center of Frederick and leads the meditation
at Susquehanna Yoga. He works at Gramaphone as a sound system
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Mark
Hambleton - Meditation
Mark has practiced meditation,
yoga and other healing and
spiritual disciplines for over
25 years. He has been a
student and practitioner of both
eastern and western philosophy,
and of various healing
techniques including hands on
healing, belief system
modification, reiki, energy
work, herbology and fasting.
Mark draws on his many and
varied personal and professional
life experiences in his
teachings. He is the
father of 2 sons and enjoys
cooking, music and land
husbandry.
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Linda in Gomukhasana |
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Linda Howard -
Hatha, E-RYT 500
Linda Howard,
RYT500, is founder and owner of
Easing Into Yoga™. She is
Iyengar-influenced and Anusara
affiliated. Linda has been
teaching yoga full-time since
receiving her teaching
certificate in 1993. Well
versed in therapeutics and
communicating alignment, she
brings her students a blend of
styles from her studies with
many of today’s yoga masters.
She is well loved for her
practical, upbeat, and engaging
teaching style, which blends
humor and a lighthearted
attitude with attentive interest
in each student, detailed,
individualized instruction, and
hands-on assistance to provide a
carefully tailored approach for
every member of the class.
For more information, see:
easingintoyoga.com
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Robyn in Handstand |
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Robyn Katz -
Iyengar Tradition, RYT 500
Robyn, a native of Baltimore, fell in love with yoga
16 years ago when she and three of her best friends went to the New Age
Health Spa in New York. There she took her first yoga class which,
as she put it, was a “huge life-changing experience”. Robyn
pursued her passion by studying Iyengar Yoga under Stan Andrzejewski,
Bob Glickstein and then John Schumacher. Currently, Robyn is
studying with Liz Marx, certified Iyengar teacher at Unity Woods in
Bethesda, Maryland and Kofi Busia, certified Senior Iyengar teacher
based in Santa Cruz, California.
Robyn brings her love for yoga to each class emphasizing precision,
alignment, strength and flexibility.
Her approach to teaching is
based on the Iyengar system's belief that anyone can do yoga postures,
regardless of physical or emotional limitations. She seeks to
teach with compassion and gratitude for each student. An open
mind, a willingness to try and a sense of humor are all that you need to
bring to class. Robyn teaches beginning and intermediate levels
and also instructs prenatal, school-aged kids and senior classes.
For more information, see:
robynkatzyoga.com |
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Betty in Sukasana with Namaste |
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Betty Lewis -
Certified Iyengar,
RYT 500
Betty Lewis is a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher and is
also a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance. She is
the Director of Yoga with Betty and Friends and has been teaching Yoga
in the Baltimore metropolitan area since 1997. She has studied
with John Schumacher for the past nine (9) years and apprenticed with
and assisted John from 2001 to 2005. She has studied with the
members of the Iyengar family in India, California and Colorado.
Also she has studied with many senior nationally and internationally
known yoga teachers. In addition to John, the teachers that have
influenced her teaching and yoga practice the most are Joan White and
Patricia Walden.
Betty is happiest when teaching Yoga. She
especially enjoys teaching others how to begin the process of quieting
the body and stilling the mind so that they can discover their own true
being. When Betty is not doing Yoga, she studies Pilates and
volunteers as a tour guide for the Baltimore Museum of Art and The
Maryland African American Museum of History and Culture. When not
teaching yoga, she studies the yoga sutras.
Betty's Website:
Yoga With Betty
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Patti in
Caturanga Dandasana |
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Patti Quicksilver
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Iyengar Style, RYT 200
Patti is a registered Yoga
Alliance teacher in the Iyengar style, graduating from Susquehanna Yoga
Apprenticeship program. Patti is also a certified Johnny
G. spinning instructor and has been teaching for the past six years.
She enjoys spending time with her three children and husband, and
traveling. Patti also teaches at MAC and Meadow Mill Athletic Club.
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Eric in
Bhujapidasana |
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Eric
Reid - Iyengar Tradition, RYT 200
Eric has
practiced Yoga since the
mid-seventies and has taught
Yoga for 14 years. He has
studied with many well-known
teachers and considers Iyengar
Yoga a style that "covers all
the bases". As a teacher,
Eric’s greatest reward is
watching the positive changes
that happen to students who
practice over a period of time.
Born in Liverpool, England, Eric
enjoys hiking, rock climbing and
disc-golf. He is the proud
father of four wonderful
children and is the director of
Patapsco Valley Yoga in Ellicott
City, MD.
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Gina |
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Gina L. Sager, MD, RYT
Gina is a retired board-certified general surgeon, named one of
Baltimore’s Top Docs in October 2000. She permanently left the practice
of traditional Western medicine in May 2002 to explore her long time
interest in holistic healing. She has studied and practiced Buddhism in
the Tibetan tradition, studied the ancient wisdom traditions including
Traditional Chinese wisdom and 5 element theory at Tai Sophia Institute,
and has been a daily yoga practitioner since 1991.She has studied and
practiced Ayurveda for personal healing since 2000, and is currently
enrolled in a professional Ayurvedic Nutrition training program with
internationally known teacher and author, Amadea Morningstar
She leads bi-annual mindfulness retreats
at Casa del Sol in Abiquiu, New Mexico, and is increasingly
incorporating mindful Ayurvedic cooking into these retreats.
Gina has taught Mindfulness classes, Integrative Yoga and yoga nidra in
Baltimore and Harford Counties since 2004, and teaches weekly at
HopeWell Cancer Support in Brooklandville, MD. She works with Calvert’s
Gift Farm, a Sparks based organic farm, to encourage the use of
seasonal, local, organic produce for health and well-being.
In Ayurveda, it is said that the best physician is one who teaches
patients to care for themselves. In this spirit, Gina believes that her
path is to share what she has learned on her transformative journey by
offering others the opportunity to reconnect with their own deepest
nature, and learn to care for themselves using these ancient, holistic
practices.
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Lotus Niraja
Lotus enjoys all forms of movement and sharing it
with others. Not only is she a dancer, choreographer and teacher, she is
the Director of The NDC a Baltimore based international dance company.
She has studied, taught and performed throughout the United States,
Europe, and Egypt. She is passionate about health and creative movement
and enjoys helping people utilizing their bodies in physically holistic
movement.
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