The Body Awakening® Teacher Training Graduates

2007-2008

  • Berfield, Julianna

    My personal style is Vinyasa -flow- yoga (inspired mainly by Ashtanga, Iyengar, Forrest and Yin styles) and focuses on alignment, breath, and power to build strength, flexibility, and balance. Classes are multi-leveled with inspiring sequences and music; providing a safe, accessible, challenging and fun space for participants to achieve a deeper aspect of their own practice. I believe in accepting and honoring the individual body and mind. My goal is to help you become stronger through your own practice, and to give you what you need and want from every session.

  • Kathryn Brown Brown, Kat

    As a dietitian and yoga instructor, Kat seeks to share knowledge of whole health and self care to all she teaches. With a strong background in anatomy and alignment, Kat strives to create a safe and invigorating practice environment. Kat encourages play, breath and keen awareness as tools to cultivate deeper sense of the body and ultimately the mind. Kat's nutrition teachings stem from an intuitive eating, non-diet approach. She uses the tenets of connectedness to the body from yoga as a basis for a healthy approach to food. Kat is available for private nutrition and yoga consultation. She can be reached at 617. 756.4793 or via email: kathrynlbrown_at_gmail.com.

  • Buslovich, Stephen

    My classes are designed to uplft, restore and strengthen you, increasing stability through balancing, floating and choreographed organic flow. I invite everyone to make movement and breath one unified meditation.

  • Egavian, Lauren

    Possessing an exuberant teaching style, classes are Vinyasa inspired, incorporating breath with movement, focusing on alignment, assists and well thought out sequences. I allow my students to learn, live and grow in an open, fun and non-judgmental space. Lauren completed her 200-hour teaching training with David Vendetti in June 2008. Lauren is currently teaching at Yoga Moves in Reading, Boston Sports Club in Davis Square and Cambridge Athletic Club in Cambridge.

  • Gabriel Feld Feld, Gabriel

    Gabriel offers a dynamic flow between postures, breath, and meditation infused with music, movement and insight. His classes are inviting yet challenging to beginning and seasoned practitioners alike. Inspired by the strength of Forrest, the fluidity of Vinyasa, the introspection of Yin and the healing of Restorative practices, Gabriel actively creates a safe space for growth and transformation.

  • Hathcock, Anne Marie

    Anne Marie draws from a foundation in Ashtangi and her own daily practice as inspiration for classes that are both challenging (you should sweat!) and fun (you should laugh!). A recent graduate of the David Vendetti's inagural Body Awakening training, she has completed workshops with Tim Miller, Ana Forrest, Gary Kraftkow, and others. In addition to the amazing David, she gives much gratitude to Boston Ashtanga teachers Scot Hendricks and Kate O'Donnell.

  • Kessler, Rochelle

    In her teaching, she emphasizes clarity and stillness even as bodies take on challenging shapes. Through regular practice she hopes her students can transfer this sense of calm to the day to day as their lives also take on challenging shapes. She is inspired by all of the yoga teachers she has encountered at Back Bay, especially her teachers Kate O'Donnell, Scot Hendricks and David Vendetti. Rochelle completed the Body Awakening 200 hour yoga teacher training certification in June 2008 and teaches Beginning Ashtanga at Back Bay Yoga.

  • Klatsky, Lauren

    Lauren has been fortunate to study with several of the leading vaidyas and teachers in the United States including Dr. Vasant Lad, Dr. John Douillard and Dr. Robert Svoboda. After years of learning from textbooks and respected educators, David Vendetti’s Body Awakening Yoga Teacher Training has encouraged Lauren to appreciate the teacher that resides within.

  • Leotta Pfennighaus, Michelle

    Coming from a dance background, I've always been drawn to how the human body moves and works (and how it sometimes doesn't!) I love experimenting in the kitchen with macrobiotics or raw vegan meals, and in 2009 I'll become certified as a Holistic Health Counselor. But it is yoga that helped me the most through anxiety, depression, and digestive disorders, and has given me strength to change my entire lifestyle.

  • Alex Mozdzanowska Mozdzanowska, Alex

    Alex believes that yoga can improve all aspects of life and wants to share that possibility with her students. Her classes will challenge you physically but focus on poses that are accessible to those of all levels. She strives to create a safe space where you can explore yoga without judgment of your body or your abilities. Alex started yoga with an Ashtanga practice, but has since explored vinyasa, restorative, and Forrest yoga. She has been trained in Ashtanga and vinyasa yoga and currently studies with David Vendetti. Alex is also assisting David's Body Awakening teacher training.

  • Pierce, Magi

    As a yogini with scoliosis, Magi strives to go beyond physical boundaries and explore undiscovered possibilities through her practice. She supports others in practicing yoga that is compatible with their bodies in the present and not what was or will be. Her classes create a safe, warm space where students are free to walk their own paths and she encourages them to spread this freedom throughout their lives. Through the power of love, release and freedom she empowers others to join her on the journey of self-discovery.

  • Sarah Schwartz-Sax Schwartz Sax, Sarah

    I am inspired by many forms of yoga, and especially the styles of Vinyasa, Anusara, Jivamukti, Iyengar, and Yin. I have completed David Vindetti's "Body Awakening Yoga Teacher Training", and am currently a student of massage therapy at the Muscular Therapy Institute (Cortiva) in Watertown, MA.

  • Sladky, Katrina

    Yoga has helped me to approach anxiety and depression in a healthy way, as well as given me a repertoire of yoga party tricks to wow my friends and family. I have found my grounding in a variety of yoga styles including vinyasa, Forrest and Ashtanga. With partner yoga and flying I have taken my practice to a whole new level of trust, stability and openness. I offer students a fun, accessible class filled with hands-on assists and lively music.

  • Alba, Nico
  • Alford, Lea
  • Allen, Deb
  • Busch, Dana
  • Caraballo, Nicole
  • Cygan, Lisa
  • Daly, Daly
  • Hopkins, Teresa
  • Hugus, Pia
  • Ianco, Carol
  • Johnson, Jeremy
  • Johnson, Jill
  • Jones, Alden
  • Gramer, Cynthia
  • Kinsey, Leslie
  • Kochanowski, Sara
  • Larsen, Kat
  • Lazaro, Jean-Bernard
  • Lynch, Maura
  • Mocarski, Jen
  • O'Reilly, Karen
  • Perry, Lily
  • Posner, Amanda
  • Purpura, Christina
  • Schieffer, Krista
  • Smirnova, Tamara
  • Sophocles, Alex
  • Stevens, Mary Kathryn
  • Taneja, Parul
  • Waylonis, Ellen