Janet Gabel

Janet Gabel has been practicing yoga since 2000. In 2007, she graduated from Soma Yoga and is a certified yoga teacher. Janet is also certified in Radiant Child Yoga and is a member of the Yoga Alliance. She is a Reiki Master and Magnified Healer, and a professional astrologer for 15 years. Janet’s intention is to inspire her students to “look within” for wisdom, self-awareness and inner peace. She is also available at Elevate for Private Yoga sessions which include, spiritual direction and healing.

Dina Crosta

Yoga began to weave its way into Dina’s life during her last year of college when a friend would tell her great stories about her experiences of practicing yoga. Dina was intrigued by the beauty and fluidity of yoga but was hesitant to bring it into her life. It wasn’t until she entered “the real world” and befriended a woman aptly named Hope that yoga began to dance into Dina’s life. Hope convinced her to attend a yoga class where she met Emily Dubin (now Huresky), her first Anusara teacher. As soon as she came into her first Down Dog and felt both the challenge and the freedom in it, she knew that this was something she wanted to experience again.

Seven years later Dina has seen her life moved in so many ways by her connection to practicing yoga – the most profound being the ever-widening circle of friends, teachers and students and the ever-deepening connection to herself. She is forever grateful to all of her teachers both through yoga and throughout her life. Dina aspires to inspire in others all that yoga has graciously given to her.

Denise Tranchina

Denise found yoga a dozen years ago and vowed she would never forget the day she first touched her toes! Certified and teaching for 5 years, she views the students as her gurus.Perhaps as an RN in a tough NYC hospital, perhaps through personal experience, she saw the effect time and circumstance have on the body and the spirit. With this thought in mind, Denise teaches strong prenatal classes, is certified in Radiant Child Yoga, instructs young adults at Brookdale College, including the men’s lacrosse team, and has a strong bond with students over the age of 40. Favoring a vigorous flow, her classes will challenge without frustration. Taking her yoga off her mat, Denise approaches her practice as she does her life, with strength, grace and a smile.

Kathy King

Kathy began the practice of yoga in 1995, discovering, through inner stillness, how transformative a yoga practice can be. As a result of this passion and willingness to share yoga with others, Kathy became certified to teach through Yoga Fit in 2005. Additional certifications include Chair Yoga and Padme Yoga’s 200 hour Teacher Training program. She continues to grow and develop as a participant in various workshops in restorative yoga and pranayama. With a focus on breath, and proper alignment, Kathy’s classes build strength and flexibility, while renewing the body, mind and spirit.

Nicole Lombardo

Registered with Yoga Alliance at the 200-hour level (RYT) in the YogaWorks Method, Nicole is inspired by the quest of finding presence, acceptance, and balance in each moment. Ayurveda, pranayama, and asana with emphasis on alignment and mindfulness are integrated into all her classes. As in the YogaWorks method, Nicole’s classes combine the Ashtanga series and the school of B.K.S Iyengar through the use of props and proper alignment. Modifications are offered to the asana portion to truly make her classes accessible to all levels of strength and flexibility.

Synthesizing a lifelong interest in wellness and self-awareness with her love of movement, yoga naturally became a tool to unify her life and to find peace of mind. Nicole brings forth her experience and education in Nursing and is also a Childbirth Educator (CBE), Lactation Counselor (CLE), and Birth Doula (CBD) registered with CAPPA, and Certified Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga Teacher (PRYT) registered with Yoga Alliance. Her prenatal and postnatal yoga classes offer a sense of community and friendship, laughter, and support.

Steven Russell

Steven Russell (DYRT) seeks to enable others to find a body of vibrant health, a mind free from restlessness, and a soul that radiantly sings from the core of existence. He combines his experience as a yogi and a musician, working with breath, vibration, concentration, and movement, to present uplifting and relaxing yoga classes. Steven has been practicing yoga for over ten years. He is a certified teacher of Dharma Yoga, having studied with Sri Dharma Mittra in NYC, and Christian Valeriani in NJ. All are welcome to attend his classes, from the beginner to the experienced. Steven is a professional musician, having taught music in schools, directed the music in churches, and directed choruses for many years. He is also a singer and pianist with degrees in Music Education and Conducting from Westminster Choir College and Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. For more about Steven, visit www.stevenarussell.com

Mary Christensen

Mary began her yoga practice in 2007 after retiring from a 20 year career as a Buyer and Product Development Manager for several National Speciality Retail stores. She credits Yoga with helping her to transition gracefully into this next phase of her life. She completed YogaWorks Teacher Training in March of 2011, and has continued her education, recently studying with Alan Finger and Jillian Pransky.

It has truly been an amazing journey as she continues to learn more about herself everyday. Mary looks forward to the opportunity to share yoga, and finds the practice of restorative yoga of great interest. She finds there are endless benefits to restorative yoga, both mental and physical.

Believing that it is important in our busy modern lives to slow down, she likes to teach classes dedicated to taking time to be present and breathe. She hopes that students will take the experience of her classes and carry it into their daily lives.

Liz Tyburczy

Liz has been practicing yoga for 4 years. While she has always been physically active with cardio activities and strength training, she never really took yoga seriously until January of 2010 when she happened upon Elevate Yoga. Initially she just wanted to add another dimension to her physical workouts. She was having some lower back issues at the time and had heard yoga could possibly help. One class led to another until she was hooked. Liz intended for yoga to be just another facet of her gym workouts. What she didn’t expect to find was the passion she would develop for yoga and all it has to offer.

Liz was certified to teach yoga in March 2011 in the 200 Hr YogaWorks method. She also recently completed the Restorative Yoga Basics Teacher Training. Her goal is to create classes that everyone can enjoy. She hopes her students will leave her class with a better understanding of alignment and a deeper awareness of their body.

Shannon Hokanson

Shannon is deeply grateful for all the brilliant students and teachers of yoga–many of whom are one and the same–who continue to share their gifts with her. Forever humbled by those inspiring people, she aims to teach yoga in a way that honors those who have come before her while drawing on her own supportive, empathic nature.

Intuitive and lovingly taught, her classes come straight from her heart to yours. Shannon uses fluid movement, hands on healing, inspiring music, and meditation to create a safe space for deep healing on the mat. She welcomes students at all levels of practice to join her in connecting with their own intuition while moving safely in concert with their own breath, at their own pace, and guided by their own intention.

Vanessa Van Noy

I have been teaching for about 10 years now- it’s all I do. I am very blessed. Most of my classes are challenging, however, I do teach basics, senior gentle, restorative and pre-natal yoga and stretch. The practices are fluid and non-denominational. The sequences that I have been working with for some time, work for people of all fitness levels. My students and I enjoy the progression and flow that these practices provide. A touch of humor definitely helps.

I am not a practicing Hindu or Buddhist, every path that leads to your spiritual self is correct for you- it is not my choice to make for my students. Each of my classes is a bit different from the last, I believe each one of us should have a different practice; we all have different body issues and needs.   The lesson is in the connection to your inner self. That little voice inside of us all is our own true teacher, all I want to do is turn up everyones volume.