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Yoga Teachers
Aimee has been on her mat for over a decade. In this time her practice has become a guide for her life. Through yoga she has found many different teachers, all to whom she gives thanks. Aimee completed a 500 hour teachers training certification, along with trainings from Richard Freeman, Peter Rizzo, and Rodney Yee. Aimee's classes combine a focus on breath and alignment with a dynamic and rigorous flow to create a Vinyasa style yoga that challenges and heals. It is with great joy and gratitude that Aimee shares the light of yoga with others.
Al came to practice yoga in 1999. Over five years of practice, what started as a way to deal with physical ailments became a way of life. "The more I practiced the more I received." In April of 2004, wanting to immerse himself in an uninterrupted practice, Al spent a month in the Sivananda Ashram at Paradise Island and earned his teaching certificate. His experience teaching during that month made him realize how energizing teaching yoga is. Al sees yoga as a pathway to a strong flexible body, a content peaceful mind, and a life in balance. He would especially like to introduce yoga to men as an outlet for stress. In his class he would like to emphasize deep relaxation in the postures and a calm uncluttered focus (Simple Yoga).
With a compassionate understanding of the potential detrimental impact of exposure to stress, illness, and trauma, Anna is deeply committed to teaching others how to harness their own energies for improving the emotional and physical well-being. As a long-term practitioner of yoga and qigong, she understands the value of mind-body practices for improving well-being and fostering resilience toward illness. Her formal training includes a doctorate degree from University of Miami in Health Clinical Psychology with a specialty in Behavioral Medicine.Anna Winkler, Director Shakti Yoga & living arts
Anna has been practicing Ashtanga Yoga since 1997 and teaching since 2002. She is currently studying Iyengar Yoga with Theresa Rowland at Studio Yoga, and is participating in thier teacher training program. Anna has been practicing Thai Yoga Bodywork since 2001, and she finished an 18 month training program in Ayurveda at Kripalu in June of 2006. She has been teaching in the Millburn/Maplewood area for the past 7 years and is the founder and director of the former Yoga Room, and currently Shakti Yoga & living arts. Anna's teaching style is both challenging and nurturing, with a focus on relaxed precision and Anna's Guru's: Swami Sivananda & Swami Vishnudevananda.....
As a former professional dancer and theatre technician, Carrie has maintained a deep interest in body awareness and movement. In addition to a continued yoga and dance practice for over twenty years, she is currently pursuing certification in Hanna Somatic Education at the Somatics Systems Institute in Northampton, MA. Carrie hopes to help people realize their own potential as intelligent, aware human beings, and encourage excitement and personal responsibility for their own health and lives. For more information, check out www.daysomatics.com. Carol Collins has been practicing various styles of yoga since 1996. She recently became a certified instructor in June, 2006 through the Open Center in New York City. She is certified in Prana Yoga, which was developed by Dr. Jeff Migdow. Prana Yoga incorporates sound and various breathing techniques into each pose and integrates these with the healing energy of the chakras. Carol has also been a Registered Nurse since 1985 and is very interested in working with the healing aspects of yoga. While yoga is her first passion she also enjoys cooking, knitting, gardening and spending time with her family.
David is our Kung Fu teacher (sifu). He began his training in the Ving Tsun system of Chinese Kung Fu in 1973 under sifu Lee Moy Shan, and started teaching in 1977. He is the founder the Boston University Kung Fu club, and the Lee Moy Shan Ving Tsun Athletic Association. David is also a substitute yoga teacher. He spent six years teaching a Sivananda style beginners class for the Caldwell Adult School. He has been practicing yoga since 1993, and was a full time resident of the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center in NYC in 1995.
Gayle Lemke, Director Shakti Ma
Gayle is a mother to two children, and came to yoga in 1997 while pregnant with her daughter. After giving birth to her son in 2002, she completed her basic teacher training at Integral Yoga Institute in NYC, and shortly afterward received prenatal yoga certifications with Carrie Parker-Gastelu at BeYoga in NYC, and Kelli DeFlora at StarSeed Yoga in Montclair NJ. In 2007, she completed a 60- hour Kundalini Pregnancy Yoga certification with Gurmukh at Golden Bridge NYC. Gayle combines a nurturing, energetic style that inspires students towards openness, flexibility and breath awareness. As a foundation of her classes, she encourages mothers' spiritual connection to her baby, both inside of the womb and out. Since 1999, Gayle has attended births as a professional Labor Support Doula. She assists mothers, partners and babies in experiencing a safe and harmonious transition to familyhood. For more information about Pre/Postnatal and Baby&Me Yoga Classes or Doula Services or Kids Yoga, please contact Gayle at (973) 763-0699 or gayle@shaktinj.com. Gena began practicing Yoga in 1998 after a professional career as a modern dancer, most notably as a member of the Trisha Brown Company where she performed and taught internationally. Gena has studied Alexander Technique and corrective approaches to dance throughout her career. She brings this knowledge of alignment and body mechanics to her classes. She is a certified Yoga Synthesis instructor and Thai Yoga Bodywork Practioner. Gena continues to pursue her curiosity and passion for movement invention, taking risks and exploring physical boundaries through Yoga, dance improvisation and contact improvisation. She studies with Raji Thron (Yoga Synthesis) and Jonas Westring (Thai Yoga Bodywork), and has participated in workshops with Dharma Mittra, Ana Forrest and Shiva Rea.
Jane is certifed to teach Kundalini Yoga, an energizing and active practice that uses postures breath, mantra and meditation for a full and complete Yoga Experience. She is also certified in the Radiant Child Yoga teaching programs levels 1 and 2. She shares her love of yoga with children using patience, and the lessons she has learned from her own six year-old son and fourteen year-old daughter.
Julie has been practicing hatha yoga in a variety of styles for over eight years. She has also studied and taught meditation. Inspired by the work of Erich Schiffman, Julie aims to infuse an attentiveness to spirit into her practice and teaching. Her class is a blend of classical hatha yoga in a flowing sequence, with a short guided meditation at the beginning and end of class.
Kathleen Ames received her yoga teacher certification at the prestigious White Lotus Foundationin Santa Barbara California in the Vinyasa style. Kathleen has been practicing yoga since 1992 and teaching since 2000. She has had training in a variety of yoga styles including; Vinyasa, Iyengar, Ashtanga, Power Yoga and Yin Yoga and Viniyoga. Through intensives and workshops she has personally worked with Paul Grilly, Doug Swenson, John Friend, Shiva Rea, Baron Baptiste, David Life, Sharon Gannon, and Dharma Mittra. Kathleen has also been a practitioner and instructor of Pilates, Martial Arts (Nevada state champion in 1988 & 1990) and Belly Dance. Kathleen teaches with a warm heart and a since of humor.
Kathleen has been practicing yoga in a variety of styles for 9 years. Her hobby soon became a passion and she found herself more and more enticed by Vinyasa flow. Kathleen received her Yoga Alliance Certification in Vinyasa yoga from Sonic Yoga in NYC in Jan. 2006. The philosophy taught is live life today with no worries of tomorrow. Kathleen is also a certified kids yoga instructor from Karma Kids NYC. She currently teaches at the Maplewood after school program.
Laura has been practicing yoga since 1997 and is certified in Hatha, Vinyasa, Prenatal and Postpartum yoga. Laura’s first certification, in 2004, was from The Energy Center in Brooklyn, NY where she trained with Frank Jude Boccio (author of “Mindfulness Yoga”) and others, in a Hatha practice that focuses on alignment, graceful flow and meditation. Laura later received certification in Prenatal and Postpartum yoga from Integral Yoga Institute in New York and certification from OM Yoga, also in New York, with Cyndi Lee (author of “Yoga Body, Buddha Mind), in OM’s Vinyasa style. Laura moved to Maplewood in 2006, shortly before giving birth to her second son.
Martha is the tri-state area’s first Certified Hanna Somatic Educator, having finished a three year training at the Somatic Systems Institute in Northampton, MA. She gives private sessions and holds group Somatic exercise classes in her office at Shakti Yoga and Living Arts. She helps her clients learn to eliminate patterns of chronic pain and muscular dysfunction, such as scoliosis, TMJ, back, neck and shoulder pain, sciatica and fibromyalgia. Hanna Somatics is appropriate and safe for people of all ages, including pregnant women and those recovering from traumas, surgeries, and injuries. As a former professional dancer and dance educator, Martha's knowledge of the body, posture and body mechanics enhances her work as a teacher of Hanna Somatics. Martha works to facilitate this by teaching her clients to develop a more accurate sense of their own bodies and by helping them to recondition their muscle control. She believes that healthy body mechanics and awareness of one's movement is key to maintaining flexibility and freedom from pain. Martha can be reached at (973) 951-7845 or martha@shaktinj.com. You can visit her website at www.essentialsomatics.com.
Tom started his yoga practice after suffering a back injury skiing in 2002. Within months, he began to receive not only the physical benefits of yoga practice, but the mental and spiritual benefits as well. An avid cyclist, skier and physical training enthusiast, Tom is particularly drawn to yoga because of how different it is from ordinary athletics and physical culture. As his interest in yoga and his practice deepened, Tom found himself seeking to share yoga with friends and family in informal “classes” given in living rooms from Vermont to the Bahamas. In January 2006, Tom attended the Sivananda Teacher Training Course in Garopaba, Brazil and obtained his teaching certificate. Through teaching yoga in the Sivananda style to beginners, emphasizing proper breathing and relaxation along with physical exercise, Tom hopes to share with others the benefits that he has enjoyed.
Trish is a teacher of Kundalini Yoga, the yoga of awareness. Trish’s husband David first found Kundalini and introduced it to an unwilling Trish, but after that first class she was hooked on the freedom and inner peace it gave her. Trish trained as a teacher in New York at Kundalini Yoga East and considers the training to be one of the most profound experiences of her life. It was a journey of self discovery and self mastery. As an RN, Trish is greatly interested in health and wellness and the effects of Kundalini Yoga on the physical body, the mind and the soul body/spirit. In Kundalini Yoga the most important thing is experience.
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Dr. Anna R. Neff, Ph.D., a holistic health educator, is committed to sharing her knowledge about the wisdom of our bodies. With advanced training in both Eastern and Western approaches to mind-body healing, her teaching is focused on simple techniques to empower our inner healing abilities to prevent and overcome emotional and physical problems. 
Anna (or Amba) has been practicing and teaching yoga for more than 19 years. She is certified in both basic and advanced yoga teaching through the International 
Ires Wilbanks is certified to teach hatha yoga, prenatal and yoga for labor and delivery. She received her certifications from 
Susan is a certified yoga instructor, with more than 15 years of teaching experience in yoga, dance and exercise. As a scholarship graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts she studied dance extensively, and has performed professionally on Broadway. Her desire to deepen her connection to the body-mind-spirit relationship led her to the 
