Eileen has combined her passion and personal healing journey with the regenerative power of Yoga, Writing, snd Expressive Arts techniques to form her own unique, gentle, warm, and naturalistic style. She has a Master’s in Counseling, an MFA in Writing and has studied Expressive Arts Therapies. She has many influences including Yoga for Life, Phoenix Rising, and most currently Lindsay Gibson at Majestic Yoga. She brings these practices to schools, hospitals, yoga and health centers, retreats, clinics, colleges, and business.

Kayla is a young yogi who recently completed her first 200 hour yoga training and proudly graduated this year 2025. After rediscovering yoga while doing shadow work, she realized its potential to support women in their spiritual healing and reclamation of their wellness. 

While she is still discovering her focus she prioritizes respecting yoga’s cultural background and true origins of in India as a spiritual practice. For this reason she only practices yoga related to Patanjali’s 8 limbs, with a focus on Pranayama and Asana (breath and movement). 

Kayla utilizes an intersectional lens as a teacher and aims first to make each class as accessible and empowering as possible for everyone. This is reflected by the restorative nature and consistent focus on groundedness in most of her yoga flows. She is also inspired by astrology and sometimes connects the energies of current moon phases to her practice. For her day job, Kayla works at Massachusetts Historical Society.

Francesca fell in love with yoga at a time when she was feeling disconnected. Through the practice of asana she began to feel empowered and grateful for her body and this lifetime. Her pursuit of yogic knowledge brought her to the sacred valley of Peru to study ashtanga vinyasa, a Mysore practice in Italy, a Vipassana farm in Hawaii and finally to the foot of the Himalayas. Here she took a 6 month course in India at the Arya Marga Yoga Institute. The main focus of this time was based on a balancing and cleansing Hatha practice. While at this school she began teaching community classes and found that she had a passion for holding this space for others. Since then, she has moved back to the Boston area to be close to family and teaches preschool at a nonprofit in Cambridge. She likes to think of herself as more of a guide than an instructor, hoping students will always stay tapped into their own truth rather than forcing themselves into hers. Her classes range from slow flow, meditation, or yin to a more fiery Hatha or Vinyasa practice. As the motto of her last school states, “experience is soul,” a bit of wisdom she hopes someday she can help lead students to discover through their practice!

For more than 20 years, Nora has been teaching yoga and dance to students of all ages. She first discovered yoga as a dance major in college and was immediately drawn to a practice that cultivated greater strength, flexibility, and connection in both body and mind. Most importantly, yoga helped her develop a deeper appreciation and love for her body for the first time.

After moving to New York City, Nora completed her 200-hour teacher training at Atmananda Yoga and began teaching Vinyasa classes in Brooklyn while pursuing a career as a modern dancer and choreographer. Her teaching continues to be informed by years of study in Pilates, Feldenkrais, Hot Yoga, and Katonah Yoga.

Love and curiosity eventually took Nora abroad to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where the births of her two children inspired her to deepen her studies in prenatal and postnatal yoga. After returning to New York with a baby and toddler, she focused much of her teaching on supporting families and children through the various stages of development. During this time, she earned her Prenatal Yoga Certification through OM Yoga, a Developmental Movement and Baby Yoga Certification with Ellynne Skove, and a Kids Yoga Teacher Training through Karma Kids.

Since returning to the Boston area in 2021, Nora has taught private clients as well as classes at BREATHE and Majestic Yoga Studio. She also teaches children's classes at The Foundry in Cambridge and serves as the Theater Arts and Dance Specialist for students at Cambridge Montessori School.

Nora’s classes blend Iyengar-inspired alignment principles with thoughtful Vinyasa sequencing, creating practices that are both grounding and dynamic. With a healthy dose of playfulness, creativity, and movement exploration, she encourages students to find balance between effort and ease. When appropriate, she incorporates hands-on adjustments, core strengthening, and generous final relaxation. Her classes are musical, energizing, and rooted in gratitude, leaving students feeling both challenged and nourished.

After a lifetime of avoiding any sort of physical activity, Ilana re-discovered yoga in 2023, sparked by a pandemic-fueled need for both bodily movement and mental calm. She joined Majestic Yoga Studio as a student in the summer of 2023 and soon after embarked on Majestic Community Wellness’s Yoga Teacher Training program, proudly graduating in 2025.

Ilana brings to her teaching a deep curiosity about the body, the mind, and the practice of yoga itself. She is passionate about making yoga accessible, welcoming, and meaningful—believing wholeheartedly that yoga is for every body.

Originally from West Virginia, Ilana came to Boston for college and never left. She has lived in Watertown for 25 years. In her day job, she works at the Center for Continuing Education at Boston University School of Medicine, where she develops educational programs for practicing clinicians across the country.ription goes here

A yoga practitioner in the Hatha yoga tradition, co Founder of Legendary Yoga & Wellness , E-RYT 500, Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT), and certified Clinical Ayurvedic Practitioner, she runs 200/500 Yoga Trainings. She has more than a decade of Meditation, Ayurveda, Hatha Yoga and Ashtanga Vinyasa training from masters in India as well as 500 hour Ayurvedic Certification from Kerala.

Ali grew up attending yoga classes. For her, practicing yoga brought her comfort. During college when Ali decided to take her practice mostly off the mat, sometimes she would forget how to tap into the comfort feeling of mind-body-soul harmony. After graduating college, she decided to take a much-needed break from the go-go-go world in which she lived, and focus on yoga to help lead her in the right direction. In the course of this detour period, Ali earned her 200 hour Kripalu yoga teaching certification at Kripalu School of Yoga and Health. In choosing to take this detour to slow down, it helped her to fully come into her true self. Ali came back home to herself - her body being in alignment with her mind and soul. During this chapter, Ali's teachers became Larissa Hall Carlson, Kari Harendorf, Marilyn Whalen, Sally Millice, and Maggie Fiorella Winter. Since this chapter in her life felt so good, she wrote the chapters after to have the same character lead her life in this same feel-good way. Ali has dedicated her life to learning about all things yoga. When Ali is not teaching, she is taking science courses to learn more about anatomy and physiology to help in her teaching and personal practice. Ali's style is slow and steady. Some describe her practice as being very water-based, involving experimental free-flowing movements and breath. Her soft voice and gentle presence help to create a peaceful practice for students to genuinely turn inwards. Ali's goal is to share the wisdom and power of yoga with all people. Through this, she aims to support students in their healing journeys to discover their true, soulFUL, and loveable selves.

Tara Rachel’s journey into yoga and mindfulness began in 1991, while studying to become a Montessori Educator. Maria Montessori stated that the “inner life” of the teacher was the key ingredient to human-education. While writing her thesis on Peace and Education, Tara Rachel encountered the profound benefits of mind-body practices. As an Educator, Children’s Yoga Teacher Trainer, Parent Coach, Zen Shiatsu Practitioner and Adult Yoga Teacher, her path and style of instruction, weaves the wisdom of ancient teachings, with present day mindful awareness. She has completed multiple yoga teacher training courses since 1996. Tara Rachel’s teaching is known in the Boston area, as she was both a student, and teacher, under Boston’s Master Teachers, Baron Baptiste, Barbara Benagh and Arthur Kilmurray. Her passion and interest in embodied anatomy and yoga led her to study infant developmental movement and somatic anatomy/yoga with the founder of The School for Body Mind Centering, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, who’s work remains a central axis in her approach with students of all ages. She has studied extensively (since 2000) with Prajna Yoga, founded by Tias and Surya Little, and continues ongoing trainings with them. Tara Rachel’s classes are unique and flowing, yet, formed and detailed in postural alignment with breath. Rooted with inspiration of her studies, Tara Rachel guides a practice rich in subtle depth, and tailored to meet the student’s needs individually, and collectively, as a class.

Sahaj offers Kundalini yoga workshops and workshops centered around creativity, as well as energy healing sessions, private yoga instruction, and Akashic Record Readings. With over 20 years of experience, she is certified in JivAtma Energy Healing, Meridian Yoga, Sat Nam Rasayan, Ayurvedic Healing Yoga, and is a Reiki Master Teacher. Sahaj has studied Hatha Yoga with Tias Little and Bob Cooley and incorporates both Hatha and Kundalini Yoga into her practice and teachings.

In her private work with clients, Sahaj incorporates controlled articular rotations to support in-depth practices for joint health and overall well-being. As a Kundalini Yoga Teacher Trainer, she has thousands of hours of teaching experience, including leading teacher trainings in New England and New York. She also provides Akashic Record Readings, helping clients release blocks and align with their highest potential.

With a fine arts background from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, she blends creativity, depth, and insight into all her offerings.

Aaron’s classes are rooted in classical Hatha yoga (Ha—sun, Tha—moon), emphasizing breath, meditation, subtle energy awareness, and deeply restorative relaxation. Teaching since 1987, his training includes the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center in New York, ACE Personal Training, and Thai Yoga Bodywork from The Vedic Conservatory.

Devoted to his students’ well-being, Aaron designs each class to honor individual needs while creating a cohesive, supportive practice that stills the mind and frees the body. A visual artist, musician, and poet, he brings a thoughtful, poetic sensitivity to his teaching, with a humble intention to cultivate peace, presence, and well-being for all.

The practice of yoga is not about the picture perfect poses on the mat, but more about how we interact with the world (and ourselves) off the mat and how we allow our practice to change and deepen with age, allowing us more access to what’s inside. Alignment within each asana is crucial to keeping aging bodies safe and this allows a sense of freedom, in both body and mind. Jennifer's classes are different each week but usually include some sitting, standing and balancing poses, with some core thrown in here and there. Jen holds a Masters in Education from Lesley University, both 200 & 300 hour Certifications from Down Under Yoga, trained by Natasha Rizopoulos, Jen’s mentor. In her spare time, Jen enjoys walking her dogs at Fresh Pond and volunteering for the Hydrocephalus Association and the Cambridge Tennis Club.

Lyv Norris, MPH is a public health practitioner whose work is rooted in the belief that wellness is a fundamental human right. With a background in reproductive justice, health equity, and community care, Lyv brings a trauma-informed, invitational approach to their classes, creating spaces where people can reconnect with their bodies on their own terms.

Lyv first came to yoga as a grounding practice during the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic and has since cultivated a relationship with yoga as a way of returning to themselves-- again and again, in all ways. For Lyv, yoga is not about perfection or performance, but about presence, curiosity, and care. Their teaching is shaped by the values of bodily autonomy, compassionate inquiry, and community connection. They believe yoga can be a tool for collective healing and liberation, and aim to offer practices that nourish, empower, and honor the wholeness of every person who shows up on the mat.

Joanna Elder is a Certified Classical Mat Pilates instructor and nonprofit founder from Cambridge, MA. Her work is rooted in creating spaces where people feel supported and connected to themselves. She became certified after beginning her own health and wellness journey and wanted to empower others through fitness.

Through her teaching, Joanna brings a warm and intentional approach to movement. She focuses on strength, mindfulness, and accessibility. Passionate about women’s empowerment, health and wellness, and financial literacy, Joanna believes movement and education are keys to longevity and stress management. 

Linda is a writer, editor, speaker, and mentor in holistic healing, with a special emphasis on women’s health. She is the former editor-in-chief of Yoga International magazine and past managing editor of Yoga Journal, as such she has been instrumental in bringing the authentic voice of yoga to thousands of practitioners and teachers. Linda is also on the advisory board of the Yoga and Body Image Coalition. Linda co-leads the Courageous Women, Fearless Living retreats for women touched by cancer. She also gives talks and provides workshops for women who are facing any number of challenges, including body issues, pregnancy, anxiety, depression, menopause and more.escription goes here

Sarah has recently moved to Cambridge from Rockport, Maine where she lived for twenty five years. She has a deep connection with the natural world and weaves this into her yoga practice and teaching. She completed her 200 hour certification in 2001 with Patricia Brown, founder of Rolling Meadows Retreat. Over the years, she has danced back and forth between teaching in a Waldorf School, instructing yoga classes and care-giving for her elderly parents. Their passing was a profound experience and sparked her interest in grief yoga. Sarah was drawn to exploring new ways of processing her grief. In the spring of 2022, Sarah completed a grief yoga teacher training with Paul Denniston, founder of Grief Yoga in CA. Sarah’s classes are gentle, meditative and calming for the nervous system.

Merline Sylvain-Williams, a free spirit, she takes most pride in being a nurturing mama of 3 amazing children. She’s also a “Glamma” A.KA grandma to her two sweet grandchildren whom she’s head over heels for. Mrs. Williams being in love with babies her whole life, and leading with her passion to support children and families, have led her on this path to wholeheartedly support all families for over 25 years in the Cambridge and Boston area. She’s a creative Entrepreneur with a background in Early Childhood Development and Human Services. Not only it is her passion supporting families, she says “ it’s her calling.” 

Mrs. Williams also loves and enjoys being a Birth-Postpartum Doula: supporting women, people and families during pregnancy, labor, birth, delivery and postpartum. Attending to their needs during their most precious and vulnerable moments. A Certified Infant Massage Instructor, fierce Black Maternal Health Advocate, with a strong commitment in improving Black Maternal Health and infant outcomes.

Most recently, Merline became a Certified Yoga Instructor—a natural extension of her nurturing spirit and dedication to holistic wellness. She empowers women, mamas, papas, and individuals to prioritize self-care through mindful movement, breath, and presence. Her yoga classes reflect her belief that healing happens in community and that wellness should be joyful, inclusive, and accessible to all. Whether on the mat or in everyday life, Merline holds space with love, wisdom, and deep intention.

Abril Rodriguez Diaz is a devoted student of yoga whose journey is rooted in curiosity and wonder. Originally from Southern California, she found yoga during a time of disconnection from her body, and the practice transformed the way she relates to herself and the world around her. Through yoga, she discovered gratitude for her body and its health, along with a path toward discipline, presence, and deeper connection.

Abril is especially committed to sharing yoga with people who may not yet realize it is for them. She is passionate about cultivating a future in which yoga is more accessible to people of diverse backgrounds and experiences. She is particularly drawn to supporting individuals living with chronic and metabolic conditions, and brings a strong interest in physiology, alignment, and breath into her teaching.

Her classes are welcoming, low-pressure, and exploratory, inviting students to listen closely to what is happening within. For Abril, yoga is a practice of attention, self-study, and connection. Her teaching is primarily flow-based, and she hopes to offer a grounded and thoughtful space for students to explore the practice for themselves.

Katrina is a certified wellness coach, massage therapist, and qigong instructor who is passionate about helping people feel more at ease, connected, and empowered in their bodies. While she loves supporting others through hands-on healing, she is even more inspired by teaching people practices they can use to care for themselves long after class ends.

With more than 20 years of experience as a massage therapist, Katrina has developed a deep respect for the body’s innate wisdom, resilience, and ability to heal. Through her work as a wellness coach and qigong teacher — as well as her own personal journey — she has become a wholehearted believer in the transformative power of self-care practices, especially mindful movement that reconnects us to the breath and our life-force energy, or qi.

Katrina’s classes invite students to slow down, breathe deeply, and cultivate a sense of grounded calm while gently restoring vitality in body, mind, and spirit.Description goes here