Maggie was first introduced to yoga through a book her father gave her when she was 13. Unable to truly digest the text, she followed along with the pictures and a seed was planted. While in massage school, she studied yoga intensely with an Iyengar teacher and later received her teacher training through Sivananda. In her gentle classes she focuses on being as therapeutic as possible, paying special attention to alignment, spending extra time in the postures to allow for deep releases, and providing hands on assists. She has been teaching in the Stowe area for 10 years and strives to make her classes a healing experience that is accessible to everyone.

Anjali is passionate about sharing her love of yoga with others and has been immersed in the study of Anusara Yoga since 2004, when she met her first Anusara Teacher, Todd Norian. She completed a comprehensive 200-hour AnusaraYoga Teacher Training with Deb Neubauer in 2006, and has trained and practiced with a wide variety of Anusara teachers, including Anusara's Founder, John Friend. Anjali has had the honor of assisting Todd Norian's Teacher Trainings and Immersions as well as Deb Neubauer's Immersions. She has studied Rajanaka Tantric Philosophy extensively with Douglass Brooks and has also studied with Paul Muller-Ortega. Anjali lives in Montpelier, Vermont, where she is the owner and director of Yoga Mountain studio.

Meronica discovered Yoga at age 14 and formed an immediate and lasting bond to her practice. She received her 200 hour training from Fred Busch in Power Yoga while living in Lima, Peru, and is working toward her 500 hour certification. Meronica moved to Stowe from Peru in July of 2011 and began working with Elisa von Trapp to enhance her teaching and yoga skills. She has been inspired and influenced by Swami venkatesanda, Pantanjali and Buddhism. Meronica invites all levels to enjoy a powerful yet lighthearted and positively energetic yoga experience with her.

My life has taken a quiet and disciplined turn since I made the personal decision to follow the yogic path. Compassion for all living beings along with studying the eight limbs of yoga has changed how I approach each moment of the day. I deeply enjoy the art of yoga, teaching asana or postures and posture flow from a body who has suffered many injuries over many years. My right hip replacement is always there to remind me of my limits and reminds me to be forever grateful for having an injury that modern medicine has an answer to. How many of us have injuries where chronic pain defines our day. I do believe that working and learning the right postures and good posture movement can provide a boost to our daily lives. My dream or goal would be for anyone who is in my class to find their own version of the postures. If you can get in the textbook posture great if you are in your version great. What is most important to me is once you’re in the posture you relax and quiet the mind in order for you to connect with your divine self. My training with Dharma Mittra has included both a 200 hour and 500 hour training modules. I live in Stowe Vermont with my beautiful wife, Judith, who lives, teaches and functions as a yogi; how fortunate am I?

Judith's initial yoga training was through The International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre. She continued training with renowned instructors such as Shiva Rea and Judith Hanson Lasater, with whom she received her restorative yoga Relax & Renew® certification. Most recently, Judith completed her advanced Yoga Alliance 500RYT certification with Sri Dharma Mittra at the Dharma Yoga Center in New York City. With both formal and self study of all Eight Limbs of Hatha Raja yoga, Judith views yoga as not just a form of physical exercise but as a lifestyle. Judith is a nationally certified massage therapist and esthetician living in Stowe with her yogi husband, Frank, and three dogs. Visit Judith at www.sauchavt.com.

Jacquie has completed her 200 hour yoga teacher certification with Kathy McNames of Yoga Vermont, and she is continuing to study towards her 500 hour. Jacquie has studied with American Ashtanga gurus Nany Gilgoff, David Swenson, Shelley Washington and David Williams. Jacquie began her yoga studies in 1991 in Puna, India under the direction of Pushba-tai where she studied Vedanta yoga. Jacquie lives locally with her husband and two children.

I found yoga about 10 years ago through a phys ed requirement in college. Throughout the next 5 or so years I dabbled in the practice. It wasn’t until I graduated college in 2006 that I was reunited with my mat in a much more intimate way.

I practiced 5 days a week, various styles like Power Vinyasa, Forrest, Vinyasa Flow, and Ashtanga. The more I practiced, the more interested I became in doing a teacher training. My intention was not to become a teacher, but to immerse myself deeper into the transformation that was beginning to take shape. This person that I was becoming, I liked. Soon I realized, that it wasn’t that I was becoming something I wasn’t already, the yoga just revealed to me the beauty and strength that already existed, inherent in my own being.

My training took place at Nosara Yoga Institute in January of 2007 with Don and Amba Stapleton. After receiving my 200 hour Interdisciplinary Teacher Training Certificate, I decided that I wanted to share with others what the practice had and continues to show me. A note about Interdisciplinary Yoga: it is a vinyasa based (linking breath and movement) practice that draws from different disciplines of yoga and meditation where the true teacher in the practice is your own experience.

Since my 200 hour training I have also completed a month long intensive with Ana Forrest; immersions with Shiva Rea and Coral Brown in Prana Flow Yoga; immersions with Anne Greene and Todd Norian in Anusara Yoga. I have also done workshops with Richard Freeman, David Swenson, Alanna Kaivalya and the Yogaslackers. My teaching style is a vinyasa flow based practice that infuses wisdom from all these disciplines using the breath as the guiding force to move and create space in the body. Coupled with a strong emphasis on physical alignment, I teach with compassion and encouragement to listen to the wisdom of your body.

Elisa's exposure to yoga began in her mother's womb in 1979. After a childhood of homemade granola and no television Elisa finally gave in and started to practice at age 18, she became a yoga instructor at age 24. She continues to enjoy sharing the benefits that yoga has bestowed upon her. Her daily personal practice and steady yoga research informs and sustains her good spirit and excellent health. She studied Ashtanga under Tim Miller, David Swenson, Shelley Washington, David Williams and Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. Her Iyengar instruction began under Sarana Miller, Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman. Elisa also studied Anusara with Kia Meaux, John Friend and Desiree Rumbaugh.