Laine Harris is one of the founding members of "Your Community Yoga Center LLC" and is a certified YOGAspirit® Yoga teacher, registered with the Yoga Alliance. He draws on a deep well of life experiences that include general contractor, professional fire fighter, avid sailor, and commercial freight pilot. Laine met his wife Jennifer while dancing professionally with the Aman Folk Ensemble performing music and dance from all over the world. Laine works in the field of transformation, coaching senior executives and entrepreneurs, transforming businesses and the way business is done. He still enjoys and teaches international folk dances and has played with the Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band for 20 years. Laine believes in making the benefits of yoga accessible to everyone and anyone. Life is grand and continues to unfold in new and mysterious ways!

Leslie Fiore began her study of yoga in 2003, and knew after her first class that yoga would be a part of her life forever. She has studied with Alan Finger, Judith Lasater, Rolf Gates, Karina Ayn and Manorama, and has completed her teacher training with Kim Valeri’s YOGAspirit to become a registered yoga teacher. Leslie is recently inspired by Anusara yoga and has studied with Amy Ippoliti, Todd Norian and Ann Greene. Aspiring to share her knowledge with both novice and seasoned students alike, her classes are gentle, fun, challenging, and thoughtful. They are designed to create a peaceful mind while conditioning the body and encouraging spiritual awareness.

Leslie Robinson has worked as a midwife in a variety of settings for more than 24 years. She has studied Anusara yoga with Paul Spector, Kundalini yoga with Christina Sillari, Pregnancy Yoga with Janice Clarfield, Integrative Yoga Therapy with Joseph LaPage, and Khalsa Way Pregnancy Yoga and Meditation with Gurmukh and Davi Kaur Kalsa at Omega. Leslie loves teaching prenatal yoga to help support women to bring a practice of breath and inner awareness to their pregnancies and to help them remember all the wisdom and knowing that they have inside of themselves.

Melissa Hall RYT, is a graduate of YOGAspirit© Studios Teacher Training Program and is currently enrolled in the YOGAspirit© 500-Hour Yoga Therapy Program. Her classes are taught in the YOGAspirit Flow vinyasa style, which include hands-on-assists that promote mind-body biomechancial awareness and let you experience your poses in a safe and deep way.   Melissa's teaches to a mixed level class where her knowledge of the poses and abilities as a teacher to cultivate a healing environment create supportive teaching style that will strengthen your body, focus your mind, and open your heart.   Be prepared to sweat, relax and have fun. Melissa believes that a daily yoga practice will build your physical power, develop your emotional strength and reveal your true spirit.

Nelle Manuel has been teaching yoga since 1996. She is certifed with Integrative Yoga Therapy and Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy. Nelle also has two levels of pilates mat certifications and has finished her training on the pilates apparatus through the Physicalmind Institute in New York City. In addition to group classes, she offers private sessions in both yoga and pilates. Nelle believes that the disciplines of yoga and pilates complement each other with yoga providing the more emotional aspects of healing while pilates offers the more physical aspects for healing.

Patricia (Pat) Heavren is a certified Kripalu yoga teacher, and a lover of bhakti yoga, the yoga of devotional chant. Pat is owner of Energy Medicine Wellness Center in Woodbridge, CT and is a clinical practitioner trained in the medicine ways of the indigenous peoples of the Andes and Amazon regions of Peru. She holds workshops locally and is senior teaching faculty with her mentor, Alberto Villoldo, Phd. Pat has taught at the Kripalu Yoga Center, the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies and in Peru. She combines the wisdom of the yogic path with her knowledge and practice of the shamanic medicine ways to assist her students in their journey of healing and connecting more deeply with spirit.

Rashel Keeling began studying yoga over 20 years ago while in college in Oregon. She found that yoga and massage therapy contributed greatly to her recovery from neck, back and tailbone injuries. A graduate of Kripalu Yoga Center and Connecticut Center for Massage Therapy, Rashel combines her experience as a Certified Fitness Trainer, Yoga Instructor and Massage therapist to incorporate a rehabilitative approach to her yoga classes, providing techniques to assist with pain and stress management. Her classes include yoga philosophy, meditation, pranayama and building core strength, and she draws on her background in dance, gymnastics, choreography and poetry. She has dedicated her life to helping others find truth and live a purpose filled life.

Sue Neufeld has been a dedicated student of yoga since 1986. As she approached her 50th birthday in 2001, she decided she wanted to share her passion for yoga by teaching others. She received her 200-hour certification from Kripalu in Lenox, Mass. in January 2003. She took Todd Norian’s Chakra Yoga Teacher Training, an in-depth study of psychic energy centers in the body. She completed Yoga of the Heart TM Cardiac and Cancer Teacher training with Nischala Joy Devi in March 2004, enabling her to effectively teach restorative yoga to all populations. Sue is currently studying Para Yoga with Rod Stryker for her 500-hour certification. Para Yoga is a Tantric approach aimed at helping all students to live life to the fullest and awaken to their potential. She custom designs her classes to meet the needs of her students. Classes help the body to stretch, strengthen and tone while cultivating energy awareness. She encourages self-acceptance and love and uses meditation techniques allowing the student access to inner stillness and well-being. "Yoga enables me to find center in the midst of turbulence; to build my capacity for love, joy, creativity and light in my life," Sue says. "My daily meditation practice is a source of inspiration and beauty. I want to share that and more with my students." Sue also is enriched by Manorama, director of Sanskrit studies in New York City. She attends Manorama's "cosmic chat sessions" monthly, a combination of Sanskrit, yoga philosophy and chanting. Sue has participated in several of Manorama’s workshops, and draws on her inspirational teachings.

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