Alexandra is a certified Sivananda teacher and has been studying different types of Yoga and meditation for 15 years, and taught for 5 years.  Her interest is in finding quietness on a physical and emotional level during her vinyasa classes.  She currently works at McLean Hospital as a clinical research assistant to help find natural remedies for mental illness  and she is also a molecular biologist.  Focal Point Yoga Staff feel that she is an amazing, and very down to earth instructor, who is clear and direct, with a deep understanding.

Alice Heller has been dancing and performing West African dance for 15 years. She is currently dancing with Under the Sun Dance and Drum Troupe led by Fatou -Carol Sylla as well as her own troupe, Teriya. She has also performed with Aconcone dance group directed by Master Ibrahima Camara as well as others.

teachers: Fatou N'daiye, Aisha Sanga, Mohamed Kalifa Camara and Seydou Coulibaly. Besides African-based dance and drumming, Alice's studies include jazz, funk, improvisational dance as well as gymnastics. She has been teaching in the area for over six years sharing her passion for this art form and culture through classes, workshops and facilitating drum/dance circles making the experience accessible to all.
 

Beth Rigby is Creator and Founder of Global Dance ~ Where Yoga Meets Dance, The Movement & Manifestation Method, the Director of Sedona/Grand Canyon Healing Retreat Adventures, a top-rated Program Director at the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health and a certified Kripalu Yoga and DansKinetics Instructor. She is intuitively gifted and a master at moving all ages, shapes and sizes into a profound state of freedom and well-being through movement. Her classes warm the heart and calm the mind. Beth directs teacher trainings and retreats worldwide, has taught over 2,000 classes since 1995, and is based in Sedona, AZ. She has created a successful business following her heart and loving coaches others to do the same.

Bethann Rechner is a certified Kripalu yoga teacher, having completed certification in August 1999 at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. Since January 1996, Bethann has studied various styles of yoga, including, Kripalu, Iyengar, Svaroopa and Ashtanga with such teachers as Beryl Bender Birch and Thom Birch, Doug Swenson, David Life and Sharon Gannon, Stephen Cope, Anna Forrest, Rodney Yee, and Baron Baptiste. Bethann leads group classes­privately and at health clubs, corporate yoga classes, as well as workshops and private yoga sessions in and around Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sessions primarily focus on alignment, balance and opening the heart through relaxation and meditation. Bethann holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in English from Boston College and enjoys using language to be precise in her instruction, but also to find the words to help open up the spirit through poetry. Bethann has also completed graduate level coursework in education towards an M.Ed. at Boston College, and brings that knowledge into her teaching to make experiences accessible to many learning styles. Bethann is a member of the Kripalu Yoga Teacher Association as well as on the Board of Directors for the Massachusetts Yoga Network. She is CPR certified and insured for liability through the Sports & Fitness Insurance Corporation. 

Website: www.bethannyoga.com
 

Bhavani Lorraine Nelson, a Kripalu program director for 12 years and former resident, has practiced and led various forms of meditation for more than 30 years. She’s a master singer and songwriter who has recorded numerous albums of songs, chants and sounding experiences.

Daniel Orlansky M.A. teaches Yoga in Boston and Europe. He is certified in Meridian Yoga, Kali Ray TriYoga, and Kundalini Yoga, and is a graduate of the Boston Shiatsu School. His degree is in Dance Therapy, and he has been a visiting lecturer in movement studies at Tufts University. He has taught for twelve years in many locations including the Kripalu Center and is currently on the staff of several yoga teacher training programs in the Boston area.
 

Eileen Ladwig MS, OTR/L, RYT is an Occupational Therapist, Craniosacral Therapist and Yoga instructor. Eileen received her Raja Ashtanga yoga certification through Focal Point Yoga in Stow Massachusetts. Eileen has studied a variety of yoga styles including Kripalu, Kundalini, Kali Ray Tri Yoga, and Power Yoga and uses an eclectic approach to her teaching. Personally, Eileen found that a consistent yoga practice combined with occasional craniosacral therapy treatments was the answer to her history of chronic neck and back pain. This realization and the desire to help others with similar issues was the inspiration which led Eileen to pursue teaching yoga. Eileen brings a strong background in anatomy and physiology to her yoga teaching emphasizing safety as she guides her students to greater degrees of strength and flexibility.
 

Eileen Press M.D., C.A.P. is a retired physician who has studied and practiced Ayurveda for many years. She is a retired surgeon (M.D.).  She is certified in Avurveda from the American Institute of Vedic Studies and has lived and traveled in India. She is a student of Dr. David Frawley, the foremost expert on Avurveda in the west. She currently practices Ayurveda in Acton, MA. For more info, she can be contacted at knormington@msn.com
 

Gail D Walsh is a Kripalu certified Yoga instructor with over 17 years of yoga experience. Kripalu is the yoga of compassion, and deeper awareness. Gail combines her Kripalu training with her background in Ashtanga and Pilates to create a dynamic but nurturing yoga practice designed to create opening in the body and the mind. She has studied for the past three years with David Swenson, America's premier Ashtanga teacher, and is certified in primary and second series Ashtanga. In addition, she is available for private instruction and on-site corporate classes, and offers week-end workshops in ashtanga yoga and Thai massage for partners. Contact Gail at 508-259-2847 or e-mail her Gail@gdwyoga.com website: www.gdwyoga.com
 

John Calabria has practiced yoga for 7 years, drawn primarily to strengthening, vigorous styles in various traditions.  John lives his philosophy and encourages a compassionate lifestyle.
 

John Featherstone has been studying Yoga for 20 years with his respected teacher Dr. V.S. Rao of High Tech Yoga Institute of America. John has also studied with Swami Satchinanda, Brahmananda Sarasvati and Vyaas Houston. John Co-directs Frog Pond Yoga in Princeton, MA with his wife Diane.
 

Jonathan Glass, M.Ac., Lic.Ac., is a Master Acupuncturist, licensed massage therapist, and certified in Ayurveda, Polarity, and Hypnotherapy.  He is on the faculty of the New England School of Acupuncture and the New England Academy of Yoga.

Jonathan studied at Heartwood Institute in California, at the Worsley Institute of Classical Acupuncture in Florida, The College of Traditional Acupuncture in England and the Academy of Five Element Acupuncture in Florida. He has also trained extensively in Ayurveda, yoga, and meditation in India, Europe, and through the American Institute of Vedic Studies and The Academy Shudda of Ayurveda.

Julie D. Bonnici is a certified instructor in Hatha Yoga in the Anusara Style, Kripalu, and Chakra Yoga. Her intention is to share her love and excitement for the practice of yoga, bring healing through awareness, open the body and free the spirit. Julie continues to deepen her yogic knowledge with on-going training in Anusara Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, Sat Nam Rasayan (Vibrational Healing), and teaching at Yoga Teacher Trainings.
 

Kim Ahouse Creighton has had a long time interest in the body and how it works, fueled primarily by her various interests and pursuits. Over the years Kim has trained as a competitive athlete in a variety of sports, pursued dance as a hobby, worked as a certified fitness instructor (AFAA), bodyworker (Swedish Massage, Thai Yoga Massage, & Reflexology), and yoga teacher (Frog Pond Yoga Center, Princeton, MA). Now she uses her personal and academic understanding of anatomy to teach others about the human body. Her classes strive to provide individuals with knowledge of fundamental body structures and safe movement that honors those structures. She currently teaches the anatomy and physiology portion of two yoga teacher training programs as well as assisting Kripalu¹s 50 hour anatomy and 50 hour physiology courses for advanced yoga teachers and bodyworkers.
 

Loreli Voltmer (Siri Atma Kaur) is certified in Kundalini Yoga by the Kundalini Yoga Research Institute of New Mexico. She is particularly keen on bringing an awareness of the diversity of Kundalini Yoga to her students, and tailors class sessions to student interest and ability. Loreli enjoys teaching a moderate to challenging class. Contact Loreli at 508-480-8884 or e-mail her loreliv@hotmail.com
 

Maria Skinner is a Certified Nia Instructor (Blue Belt) who's been practicing in the Boston Area for 5 years. Nia: Neuromuscular Integrative Action incorporates several disciplines, including martial arts, yoga, and ethnic and modern dance to provide a movement practice that addresses the health of the entire body. Maria comes from a background of ethnic dance and contact improvisation. She is devoted to facilitating experiences where the joy, power and strength of the body, mind and soul are celebrated.
 

Rich Chapelle is a Kripalu Certified Yoga Teacher and has been teaching for four years. Rich has also studied many different styles of yoga, including; Anusara, Vinyasa, Iyengar and Power Yoga. His teaching philosophy is that anyone can do yoga, it is not about what you look like but about what you feel and experience.
 

Sean Casey Leclaire is an inspirational speaker, workshop leader,life coach and yoga teacher. His company Best Practices is dedicated to supporting people in transition individuals and organizations called to inner transformation, mindfulness, and healing. A Canadian, Sean lives in rural New England, close to his beloved son, Beau. His first book "Hug an Angry Man And You Will See He Is Crying" has been released in May 2003.
 

Sipho Bellinger, a professor of history at Suffolk Unversity, has been playing drums in the Greater Boston area for sixteen years. Sipho received his musical training from the Universal Vibrations School of Oral Tradition with Nurudafina P. Abena, where he studied West African and African Diaporan (Afro-Cuban, African American) music and instruments. He has also studied drumming in Senegal, West Africa. As a performer Sipho has been a member of Silimbo D'Adeane West African Dance Company (Boston, MA), Sankofa Kuumba Cultural Arts Consortium (Hartford, CT), Roots Uprising - a collection of dancers, musicians and wordsmiths (Boston, MA), and Trytone Creative Music Ensemble (Hartford, CT). He is currently a member of Soli Soma Djembe Orchestra, based in Hartford, CT.
 

Yoganand is one of the Directors of Yoga Teacher Training at Kripalu Center in Lennox, MA and is one of the primary influences in yoga today. Many yoga students and teachers find that Yoganand has such a tremendous understanding of yoga, and breadth of knowledge, that he can address many of our questions and concerns in a practical manner that displays his experience and knowledge with humility and grace.