Yoga Teachers and Bios

Anjali Budreski, owner of Yoga Mountain Center in Montpelier, Vermont, has been in love with yoga since taking her first yoga class in 1994.

Anjali’s practice blossomed from doing yoga on a small Southern Vermont farm in a one room cabin to teaching at a Burlington yoga studio. Passionate about sharing her love of yoga with others, she enrolled in Kripalu’s 200 hour teacher training, where she met Todd Norian, who later introduced her to Anusara Yoga.

Since then, she has trained and practiced with a wide variety of Anusara teachers, and has completed a comprehensive 200 hr. Anusara Yoga Teacher Training with Deb Neubauer. She has studied Rajanaka Tantric Philosophy with Douglass Brooks and Paul Muller-Ortega. 

Anjali’s classes are powered by the beauty, potency, and alchemy of nature.  Her sessions are both grounding and soul-lifting, guiding students to safely deepen their practice and open their hearts.  Anjali lives in Montpelier, the best place to be!  When she’s not teaching a yoga class or working at the studio, she can be found working her way up a mountain, tending her community garden plot, creating delights in her kitchen, or taking a long cat nap with her black cat Gattaca. 

Lindsay Armstrong, a Kripalu Certified Yoga Teacher and Massage Therapist, has studied within many yoga traditions in America, India, Thailand and Napal. Her fluid and heart centered teaching style is inspired by Kripalu, Vinyasa Flow, Anusara, and her love of dance.

** Lindsay is on Maternity Leave for the Fall 2010 Schedule.  Congratulations on your two beautiful new twins Lindsay!

Katie Harrington is a Kripalu certified yoga teacher, and a certified spiritual life coach as well as a licensed massage therapist. She guides her students to explore their own, natural well being through the art of yoga.

The focus of her classes includes how the yoga feels moment to moment as well as the richness that variety, awareness, and being truly relaxed brings to our overall well being.

Lisa Masé stumbled into her first yoga class just after landing in Vermont in 1997. After two hours of asana, pranayama and kirtan with a radiant teacher, she has remained forever connected with this endless spiritual universe.

As Yoga Mountain Center's Development Coordinator, she implements the Center's vision by kindling the flames necessary for its growth. She produces the Center's Spiritual Concert Series, implements promotional strategies, manages merchandise, and serves as a business advisor.

She dives into ecstatic bliss while engaging in the high arts of singing, storytelling, and prasad creation. Lisa strives to align with her life's purpose by creating sacred space, engaging in satsang and kirtan, and moving through each season in connection with forest, flowers, and planetary cycles.

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Lydia Russell has been practicing yoga since 1996 when she was dragged reluctantly to a class by a fellow dancer, and, to her surprise, became instantly entranced. Now she brings her own fluid form of dance to the mat as a healing flow of Anusara-inspired yoga, designed to uplift the spirit and strengthen the body. A poet and story-teller, Lydia uses her love of words, nature, and myth to illuminate her students' asana practice as she weaves a web of rich metaphor and imagery to support and guide each student's unique journey. Deeply influenced both by Anusara yoga and Tantric philosophy, Lydia's classes are heart-opening, community-oriented, and rooted in the cycles and rhythms of the Earth. On first Tuesdays, Lydia co-facilitates Kirtan (devotional Sanskrit chanting) at Yoga Mountain. She also offers private yoga lessons and herbal and nutrition counseling through her practice, Delicious Life Holistic Health.

Nina Shoenthal (photo to come)  I am a lover of life, an artist and a free spirit dedicated to the healing path. I received my first professional training as a deep tissue massage therapist on the luscious island of Kauai in 2001. This was only the beginning of an ever evolving personal and professional life full of practicing, studying and sharing various forms of body-mind healing and movement arts. I have recently expanded my professional practice to include Somatic Expressive Therapy and Yoga Dance. I am completing my clinical hours to be certified as a movement therapist.
I carry a message that the body is our vehicle for transforming pain into peace and stress into freedom, for deepening connection with ourselves and our world. My deepest inspiration comes from the power of the heart and the magic of movement. My wish is for people to feel happy, free, whole and in loving connection with themselves.
Please come join me in shaking our souls and expressing our authentic selves through movement and play! Aloha!

Elizebeth Murphy (photo to come)  Elizabeth Murphy,RN, BSN. is a certified prenatal and postnatal yoga instructor. She weaves her wisdom as a labor and delivery nurse, passionate yogini and mama of two into her classes. She is honored and profoundly grateful to share the practice of yoga and support women on this sacred journey.

Jason Pugliese   Jason Pugliese is a certified life & business coach, freelance writer, and yoga teacher. His work in the world centers around helping people uncover – and live - their own unique purpose and passion. Jason has been a dedicated yogi since 2002. While his primary practice has been Anusara Yoga, he has also explored other practices such as Bikram, Iyengar, and Kripalu yoga. Jason has maintained a daily meditation practice since 2000, and has studied extensively in the Zen and Tibetan Buddhist traditions. In 2007 he began his Anusara Yoga Teacher Training as a student of Todd Norian, which he will complete in 2011. Jason now teaches yoga as a means to share the benefits of practice that he himself has realized over the years.

Jasmine Lamb  Jasmine Lamb works with people individually (usually by phone), and through classes, groups, and retreats. People connect with her to explore a wide variety of needs, often related to personal growth, spiritual unfolding, relationships, health and well-being, and life challenges.
She also writes a quiet blog about listening deeply, living on the earth, and loving your life. You can learn more about her work and read her blog at www.allislistening.com

Abbi Jaffe 

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