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Jennifer Harvey
As studio owner and director, I welcome everyone to
Laughing Dog. I hope the environment is such that people of
all ages can benefit and experience the freedom and power
of yoga and other healing arts. I am also committed to
encouraging the creative growth of the Laughing Dog
teachers so they can be the best at what they do.
I teach what I love. I love the integrity and grace of Anusara
Yoga, the freedom and inspiration of Nia and the focus of
pilates. I also draw on my many years as a licensed psychotherapist.
I gratefully thank all my mentors along the way and all the
students and teachers at Laughing Dog for helping to create
such a life affirming and supportive community.
Amy Skye Robinson
Amy Skye’s ballet and body conditioning work scans
over four decades, incorporating time honored
principles of classical ballet technique to create
beautifully toned, lithe, graceful, intelligently strong,
muscular bodies. She has studied ballet from
childhood both in Boston and her hometown, New
York. She is well acquainted with both cecchetti and
vaganova syllabi, and her teaching is a classic
american mixture of both. She performed in
chamber companies in Boston and NYC but ended that part of her professional life after
the birth of her children. She has taught ballet and floor barre conditioning to all ages, from
pre-school to pre-professional. She additionally holds a graduate degree in special
education with a specialty in dance therapy, which she practiced for four years in MA
public schools. Alongside her love affair with dance, she is rather politically inclined and
has done extensive lobbying and advocacy for both animal rights and disability issues.
She says, “one of my major eureka moments was the discovery that tip top fitness can be
achieved simply by doing housework on the full demi–pointe”.
Cynthia Gramer
Cynthia has been teaching yoga in and around Boston
since 2002. Her first training was in Bikram yoga and after
a few years of teaching solely Bikram she trained in Power
Yoga with Baron Baptiste and Ashtanga with Michael
Hamilton. In 2007 she completed a teacher training in
Anusara yoga with Deb Neubauer and lived through Ana
Forrest's Advanced Teacher Training. Cynthia has studied
Yin yoga with Paul Grilley and Josh Summers and is
heavily indebted to Jennifer Harvey, Aaron and Chandra
Cantor, Arthur Kilmurray and David Vendetti for their
wonderful influence on her practice and her teaching.
Cynthia considers it a privilege to teach. She strives to create a space where students feel
free to be where they are, yet challenged and inspired to find their deepest peace, highest
truth and greatest joy.
Diana Cullum-Dugan RD LD RYT
Diana moved toward yoga to complement a strong physical
activity practice resulting from years of teaching group exercise
and strength training. Unexpected were the transformations that
occurred at every level of her being. She explored all styles of
yoga then was intensely drawn to John Friend’s Anusara style of
teaching yoga from the inside out. She received her Hatha yoga
teacher training in the Anusara style with Deb Neubauer, one of
the first certified Anusara teachers, and is registered as an
Anusara-inspired teacher. Diana offers a caring, dynamic, and
passionate approach as a safe foundation for students to open
their hearts to the present moment and live from that place, to
explore a deeper experience in their practice, and join with their highest aspirations.
Students will experience yoga as a celebration of the heart as they find optimal alignment
through balanced energy.
Fez Aswat
Fez's earliest investigation into the nature of reality dates
back to Pakistan at the age of three in a heated discussion
with his grandfather about "Row Row Row Your Boat" and as
to whether or not "Life is (in fact) but a dream." He has been
teaching yoga and meditation in the Boston area since 2001
and his study continues today with his teachers Tom Alden,
Patricia Walden, Barbara Benagh, Arthur Killmurray, and Jin
Sung of Oakland Yoga Studio. Whether it be recovering from
grief, working through illness, or just repairing his body from
playing too much music, Fez has continually found the yoga
practice to be an invaluable source for healing and learning
to “Livestrong.” With joy and a sense of humor, his class
style integrates the mindfulness, stillness and insight of a hatha yoga and meditation
practice into the vinyasa format.
Jené Rossi
Jené has been teaching power yoga classes
and workshops for several years in the
Boston area. Her teaching has been inspired
and influenced by her studies with many
world renowned master teachers. Yoga
opened the doors for her to continue the
study of spirit through Shamanisn and
Mediumship as well as being an
attuned Reiki Master. Her style of teaching
is playful and challenging and her class
setting is safe and sacred. She encourages you to go to the edge and beyond, to take the
journey within. Her own personal journey on the path of yoga led her to heal herself
physically, emotionally and spiritually and her wish is to share this with everyone.
Julia Novina
Julia began practicing yoga as a complement to her dance and
legal careers, and was transformed when she discovered
Anusara Yoga. After completing Todd Norian's Anusara Yoga
Teacher Training, she became a Yoga Alliance Registered
Yoga Teacher and began teaching full-time. Her teaching is
playful, thoughtful and supportive, as she encourages students
to connect with their bodies and spirits to bring both into
optimal alignment with joy.
Kathy Mongeau
Yoga led Kathy on a transformational journey from the
moment she began practicing. The impact of that
experience, more than a decade ago, gave her a new
outlook on life and furthered self-realization. After having
studied with numerous teachers, she found that the
Anusara Yoga methodology resonated in her heart and was
compatible with her knowledge of anatomy. She believes
that by receiving tools that are physically healing and
spiritually uplifting her students benefit in ways that can
enhance their wellbeing and overall quality of life.
Kathy Ryan
Kathy began studying yoga while working for
Disney Studios as a dancer and choreographer.
She found that yoga made her stronger, more
focused and less prone to injury. She has
studied with internationally acclaimed teachers
like Rod Stryker, Shiva Rea, Anna Forrest and
Steve Ross.
Her warm energetic style of teaching creates a
perfect balance of challenge and fun. Her
popular classes are a blend of a skillfully
sequenced Power Yoga flow and lots of great music. She hopes that through movement
students will find a deep sense of stillness where therein lies their power. Along the way be
prepared to laugh, have fun and enjoy.
Manjit Kaur Khalsa Ed.D.
As a Licensed Psychologist and long time Yoga
teacher, Manjit brings a unique, entertaining and professional
touch to her classes and workshops. She studied with Yogi
Bhajan for many years and she is a co-author of a yoga
manual called Radiance and Victory, A Woman's Way to
Prosperity. She also wrote a chapter in The Psychospiritual
Clinician's Handbook. She is currently writing a book and
program focused on health, happiness and thinness
called Whole Life Weight Loss.
Marissa Farrell
Marissa holds a BFA in dance. She trained
professionally in New York and graduated from the
Ohio State University’s dance program. While studying
dance, she was introduced to yoga to assist in flexibility
and strength building. She found the effects to be both
positive for the body and uplifting for the mind. For two
years after this initial introduction to Yoga, Marissa
studied and practiced Iyengar and Sivananda Yoga and
began to delve deeper into meditation and Yoga
philosophy.
Since that time, Marissa has become certified to teach
Ashtanga Yoga (primary series) by David Swenson.
She has also studied Kripalu Yoga, Power Yoga,
Anusara Yoga and various other forms of Hatha Yoga.
She has been influenced by such teachers as: Shiva Rea, Patricia Walden, Baron
Baptiste, Stephen Cope, Angela Farmer, Jennifer Harvey and Rodney Yee.
Marissa teaches Vinyasa style yoga combining many of the forms of yoga she has been
introduced to over the years as well as dance, Tai Chi and Aikido. Her class is always
original from week to week as she constantly takes new approaches to the postures as
well as to the spiritual and philosophical essence of Yoga.
She also teaches children’s yoga and pre/post natal yoga. While pregnant with her son,
Marissa began creating a practice for pregnant women who were looking to either
maintain their present yoga practice with special modifications, or for women looking to
yoga to assist in their physical, mental and spiritual well being during and after their
pregnancy. She has since designed a complete program and has helped many women
during this sacred time.
Mary Kaye Chryssicas
Mary Kaye teaches children and teen yoga and is the
author of Breathe: Yoga for Teens and I Love Yoga, a
book for children. She graduated from Vanderbilt
University with a degree in human development. After
leaving a career in Boston as an advertising director,
Mary Kaye discovered the transforming effects of
yoga and was quickly inspired. She decided to focus
on a more family friendly career of writing books and
teaching children yoga. She has studied ashtanga,
kundalini, hatha, iyengar and anusara yoga and
completed several levels of teacher training through
the Radiant Child Yoga Program. Drawn to the
creative, peaceful and heart opening aspects of yoga,
Mary Kaye hopes that her passion for yoga is shared
by the kids that she teaches. Her classes are playful,
soothing, challenging, outrageous, energetic and
soulful all at the same time. She has spent over 15
years teaching and coaching children in various sport and yoga programs. Mary Kaye is a
registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance. A kid at heart, her entertaining sense of humor
and innate understanding of yoga and children make her popular classes fill up quickly.
To enroll in her classes, check out her website at www.buddhafulkids.com.
Renate Kerr
Renate has been studying Hatha yoga for several
years, and is certified by the National Yoga Alliance.
Renate believes that bringing strength, stability and
flexibility into the body contributes to a larger sense
of well-being and self-empowerment. She maintains
that inactivity, rather than age that is the main cause
for physical decay, and that it is never too late to
begin making healthy lifestyle changes. To Renate,
yoga is an abundant gift she would like to share with
others, so they can enrich their own lives. Along with
husband John, and children Janine and Patrick, Renate has lived in Dover, MA since
1983. Other interests include reading, gardening, and knitting.
Robin Maltz
Robyn has been a Nia teacher for 13 years. She began doing
Nia as a way of befriending her body after years of over
exercising and generally over doing everything! She has
completed all of her belts, white, blue, brown and black as well
as a 400 hour vinyasa yoga teacher training. She is also a
Licensed Clinical Social Worker and has been in private
practice for 28 years. She uses her Nia and yoga training in
her work both individually and through offering workshops
designed to help individuals heal themselves. She is very
interested in how Nia affects body image and self-esteem.
“Nia has been the door for much transformation in my life. I am
calmer and emotionally richer as a result of my practice. I also
have so many wonderful friendships through this work and this
may be the most valuable aspect of my Nia practice – being a member of the NIa
community.”
She is married to Ira and has a wonderful dog whose name is Mae.
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