She has a degree in Educational Psychology and has been a Yoga Alliance Certified Yoga Teacher since 2005. She is the Owner of Harmony Yoga School and has taught group classes, workshops and yoga teacher trainings in the USA, Costa Rica and at retreat centers worldwide.

Heather is a mom who is passionate about healthy, natural living and loves teaching students from across the globe. 

Stephen Kirsch is an RYT-200 hour graduate of the Boston Yoga School, where he trained and later taught at some of Boston’s largest and best-known yoga studios. After moving to Portland, Maine in 2016 he established himself as a prominent figure in the southern Maine yoga scene. He is passionate about guiding his students through a practice that encourages them to listen and be present, and challenges them physically while offering them ease and release.

His classes are thoughtfully sequenced for all levels of practitioners and offer clear alignment and postural cueing. Stephen loves to read, spend time in the outdoors and hang out with his dogs.

Stephen is a passionate world traveler and has led numerous international yoga retreats, including to locations in Europe and Africa. Stephen crafts his retreats to feature a balance of yoga, cultural experiences and free time to explore and relax. Yoga classes are geared towards an all-levels crowd and are built around the other planned activities and excursions.

On retreat with Stephen everything is optional, and he welcomes you to create the experience you want to have!

Anne studied classical ballet and modern dance for 14 years in Berkeley, California. She earned a Ph.D. in biology at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts before taking up Yoga in 1996 to heal from an upper back injury. 

In 2003 Anne did her Iyengar-based teacher training studies in Palo Alto, California with Larry Hatlett. She then completed the Yoga Alliance 200 hour certification with Val Spies of The Lotus Pond, a Kripalu-based studio in Tampa, Florida. She founded Yoga Within in 2010.

In 2014, she completed the 500-hour certification with Val Spies. Since certification, Anne has taught more than 3,000 hours of classes and private lessons and continues her Yoga studies with Karin Stephan and other advanced Iyengar and Vinyasa yoga teachers.

Anne has taught numerous workshops in the Boston area and teaches regular workshops at The Lotus Pond in Tampa, FL.  Anne has been on the teacher training staff at The Lotus Pond since 2014 and has been a part of teacher training retreats in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina.

Anne is devoted to teaching each student with thoughtful attention and creativity. Her goal is for each person to find their way toward deeper understanding and appreciation of their own body and how to work with the Yoga poses to bring about a finely tuned mindful balance. Anne is loved by one and all for her kindness, her wonderful sense of humor, and her highly empathic nature.

David Magone:  With over 20 years teaching experience, David has received a number of accolades in the press with features in Travel + Leisure’s “25 Top Yoga Studios Around the World”, Vogue Magazine UK, the Wall Street Journal, NPR and many other publications.

In addition to teaching PranaVayu classes, workshops and trainings worldwide, David also serves as a Dharma teacher at the Harvard University Buddhist Chaplaincy. 

David regularly contributes to the Huffington Post Healthy Living section, and is a featured teacher on Gaia TV and the Comcast Cable TV Network.

Jessalynn, or Jess, is an avid yoga practitioner, teacher, and student who’s incredibly passionate about being active, living a healthy lifestyle, and giving back to her community. She began her yoga practice in 2007 upon leaving college and entering the corporate world to begin her career. She found yoga to be doubly beneficial in that it was a great way to stay fit and also counter the stresses that came along with a busy work schedule. Over the years, her love of leading a healthy lifestyle grew into more of a burning passion, so Jess finally decided to quit her corporate job and teach yoga & wellness to help others realize and enjoy its many benefits.

Jess received her yoga teacher certification from Bali Yoga School while studying under two teachers from Rishikesh, India – the birthplace of yoga – and one of their students who was also trained under the Himalayan Yoga Association. Their combined knowledge and the tranquil setting of the Southeast Pacific allowed her to truly immerse herself in experiencing this authentic, Eastern approach to the practice. Jessalynn is well equipped to lead everybody from beginner to advanced, through a series of Hatha, Vinyasa, and Ashtanga flows that are fun, challenging, and adaptable to suit all levels. She is committed to providing an enriching mind-body experience while focusing on breath, alignment, and posture. Jess is also well-versed in and enjoys leading guided meditations, as breath and mindfulness are the necessary foundations to yoga and all of its asanas.

Jess’s goal is to bring yoga to our communities and help spread the camaraderie it fosters by practicing mindfulness and compassion for ourselves and our neighbors. She loves the energy, focus, and invigoration it leaves her with, but loves even more how it leaves her students feeling those same things.

In addition to her yoga outreach work, Jess is very dedicated to giving back to her local community. She partners with other like-minded businesses, professionals, individuals, and non-profit organizations to coordinate and host wellness-related events. Jessalynn has worked with Boston Mayor Marty Walsh’s office and the Boston Public Health Commission to identify and partner with a few local, non-profit organizations to benefit from her yoga and wellness events – The Engagement Center, The Woods-Mullen Womens’ Shelter, and the Gavin Foundation. By donating a portion of ticket proceeds from her on-going wellness events, she hopes to aid in the ongoing battle against Boston’s opioid addiction and homelessness crisis, an issue that is very close to her heart.

Nicole Grant

I am a ‘householder’ yoga practitioner, whose dharma is, first and foremost, to be a mother and guide to my two children (or rather, my children have served as my guides). Inspired by Beryl Bender Birch’s first book, Power Yoga (1995), I pursued the study of Astanga Yoga with Beryl, and later with Nancy Gilgoff. I reneged on my intention to pursue medicine when I became pregnant with my first child. So, I started out primarily as an impassioned self-taught yogi, then studied for over a decade under the tutelage of Zoe Stewart (Ma.), herself a devoted student of B.K.S. Iyengar.  I co-founded a small, community yoga studio in 2001 after the birth of my second child, with the intention of being a more accountable parent. Navigating changing times in general, and shifting tides in the world and industry that yoga has become, I have learned many lessons in determination, perseverance, patience, humility and resilience travelling this remarkable path of yoga. 

Through my teaching of yoga I extend to you my own dynamic expression of therapeutic vinyasa krama yoga (a methodology based in wise postural sequencing) with the intention of cultivating awareness of, opening to, and shifting within us our patterns of physical, emotional and karmic resistances with gentleness and compassion. From my personal practice, I continue to cultivate this art of self-mastery and gain insights into the incredible intelligence that is yoga; my students have demonstrated what dedication to a practice is and can be, and for that I am both infinitely grateful and continuously inspired; and from their example, I have become fearless in my teaching; from life, I have learned to count my many blessings and to not take a single person or experience for granted.

My mission now is to extend these teachings as action in all our relationships, in the workplace and in life.