Yoga Instructor Biographies

Donna Bair, RYT is the director/owner of Santosha School of Yoga, since July 2010. Donna Bair has a Masters degree in Health & Wellness and over twenty years of experience in the health and fitness field. She holds various certifications; including yoga, personal training, pilates, group and water fitness. Having explored all aspects of managing and owning her own fitness facility, as well as managing a hospital based wellness program, Donna seeks to educate and guide others to listen to their body. She feels that living in a culture that often values the destination more than the journey and where we constantly compare ourselves to others, yoga practice is a way of getting to know yourself and your body - the ways it is functional and the ways that it is limited. It is her heartfelt intention to encourage self-acceptance and to increase body and mind awareness. Donna realizes and emphasizes the importance of correct alignment and practicing within your abilities to stay in touch with your own best self. Donna invites students to explore and experiment with their strong and weak links, their minds and bodies, with an attempt to find some balance and contentment within themselves and their world, through the context of yoga.

Lucy Clark (Beebe), RYT is the past director/owner (Aug 2007-June 2010) of Santosha School of Yoga. She continues to sub for various classes. Lucy has been practicing yoga since 2002 because she wanted to reduce excess weight, ease stress and relieve back pain. Yoga proved to show results steadily with joy through the practice. She is happy to bring that same energy and joy into her classes where students flow and learn to make yoga their own. Students are challenged to find their limits and learn new sequences of Asana, which aid students in setting progressive goals geared for thier bodies. Lucy offers private yoga sessions by appointment only. As a yoga student, she gained a solid yoga foundation in Vinyasa at The Santosha School with Jennifer Eisberg beginning in 2003. She continued to be challenged with new postures and finding an ever present desire for deeper understanding in yoga. She completed her 200-hour teacher training in 2006 with Kim Manfredi at Charm City Yoga in Baltimore, MD. She is looking to impart her enthusiasm for yoga as a means to physical health, self realization, peace and serenity. She is also a graphic designer and owner of Beebe Communications, Inc. She has a BFA in Visual Communications from Maryland Institute College of Art, 1990 with emphasis in printing and web development. She also graduated from Catonsville Community College with an emphasis in Architecture and Engineering.


Helen Resop, RYT, PYT, became certified in Sivananda Yoga on Paradise Island, the Bahamas in April 2004. She worked in Baltimore City Public Schools as a teacher and principal at the elementary school level and was a facilitator in the area of professional development. In addition to her study of yoga for the past 17 years, since 1996. Helen has also studied Zen meditation, Buddhism, and has worked with shamans from the rain forest and Andean mountains of Ecuador, and Peru, and a Native American elder from Canada, among other notables. Helen considers herself a student of yoga as well as a teacher, and looks forward to sharing with students the joy and peace that yoga can bring.

Helen shares a bit of what she has learned from her diverse contact. She teaches about looking at things differently... about beginning to access the inner-voice... and about the potential of changing the landscape of your life.  

Shawn Essed, RYT received her yoga 200 hour yoga teacher certification March 2008 from the Yama Studio program at Carroll Community College. As a student Shawn loves the introspection, and peace her yoga practice brings to her, as well as the sense of renewed vitality. As a teacher, her classes gently build strength and flexibility, and give students the opportunity to delve into their own experiences on the mat.

Jeni Anderman tried yoga for the first time while living in Texas in January 2007. She found out about a great yoga website featuring daily one hour classes and attempted her first class in her apartment. By the third day she was hooked and has continued to grow in her own practice no matter where the class is held: online, at home, at a studio... anywhere. Through a series of hectic circumstances, Jeni received the opportunity to learn to teach yoga earlier than she ever expected. Upon her return to Maryland, she immediately enrolled in the 200 hr teacher training program at Carroll Community College through Yama Therapeutics (The Yama Studio). She earned her 200 hr certificate in March 2009. Jeni's objective in class is to remind everyone that yoga is playful and rejuvenates the soul, so have fun with it!

Alecia Flynn, RYT
Alecia found yoga in 2001 seeking relief from chronic back pain; she was pleasantly surprised to have found so much more. With regular practice, the back pain dissipated and the mental, physical and spiritual benefits of yoga improved her well-being. In 2007, the desire to share yoga’s transformational power inspired Alecia to make the shift from teaching elementary school to teaching yoga. To better serve her students, Alecia completed the 200 hour Registered Yoga Teacher program at The Yoga Center of Columbia in 2009. Through her teaching, Alecia encourages students to experience the joy of yoga, the freedom of movement, and the empowerment of building strength and stamina. She emphasizes form by comprehensively teaching principles of alignment and encourages deeper exploration of poses by guiding students to link breath and movement.

Jeri Eaton, Guild authorized Awareness Through Movement teacher. Jeri began taking Feldenkrais Method ® lessons in the early 1990s soon after she finished chemotherapy for breast cancer. Though she loved yoga, having discovered it in the 70s and studied with a number of teachers over the years, post-chemo exhaustion made anything but savasana impossible. She went with a friend to an Awareness Through Movement ® class (the name for group classes in the Feldenkrais Method) and fell in love with the simple, gentle movements that somehow managed to create profound changes in her body. She loved the way every class began with the instructions “please lie on the floor”, proceeded through a series of easy movements that seemed unrelated but which, by the end, came together and restored her ability to do easily what had once been difficult or nearly impossible. After a few lessons she found that not only did her body feel different at the end of a class but her mind did as well.

In 2006, the day her son went away to college she started the 4 year 800-hour Feldenkrais training lead by David Zemach-Bersin in Baltimore. Having completed 3 years and 600+ hours of training she is now accredited to teach Awareness Through Movement classes. In August 2010 she will finish the training and be a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner®, accredited to give individual hands-on sessions as well as ATM classes. Jeri looks forward to bringing the deep understanding of movement that the Feldenkrais Method imparts so yoga students may discover more grace and ease in their asanas.

Luke Miller, RYT is a substitute instructor for Santosha and teaches partner yoga workshops. Luke has been practicing yoga since 2006, receiving his 200 hr certification from Yama Studio in the Spring of 2008. He strives to create an authentic experience that is accessible for new students, yet challenging for students with more experience. Classes focus on the concept of vinyasa, a flowing style of yoga that focuses on linking asana with the breath, to access an experience that is both physically and emotionally satisfying. Luke has also studied Thai Yoga Bodywork with the Vedic Conservatory. Thai Bodywork is an assisted form of yoga combined with acupressure and other stretching techniques done on a shiatsu mat on the floor.

Santosha's Founder

Jennifer Eisberg, R.Y.T., CIBYF, is the founder and former director of The Santosha School of Yoga. She completed her Sivananda Yoga training in New York, September 2001. She is also a certified prenatal yoga instructor and has furthered her study of yoga with Shiva Rea, Beryl Bender Birch, Mark Whitwell, Paul Grilley, Baron Baptiste, and Seane Corn. Jennifer brings her teaching experience in the academic classroom to the yoga classroom in order to give students an educational approach to yoga. Recently trained in Tykes Itsy Bitsy Yoga®, she is excited to combine her love of teaching children with yoga.

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Donna Bair
Lucy Beebe
Helen Resop
Shawn Essed
Jeni Anderman
Jeri Eaton
Luke Miller
Founder
Jennifer Eisberg