Yoga Instructor Biographies

Lucy Beebe, RYT is the director and owner of Santosha School of Yoga. She 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 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 with Beebe Communications, Inc. She has a BFA in Visual Communications from Maryland Institute College of Art, 1990. and also graduated from Catonsville Community College with an emphasis in Architecture/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 12 years, Helen has also studied Zen meditation, Buddhism, and has worked with shamans from the rain forest and Andean mountains of Ecuador. 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.

Karin Holt, RYT began taking yoga classes when her landlord told her yoga was the toughest exercise he had ever loved. She came out of her first class floating six inches above the ground, and has not left her practice since. Karin completed her 200-hour level yoga teacher training with Kim Manfredi at Charm City Yoga in Baltimore. While not on the mat, Karin is an oncology nurse and attends a graduate program in acupuncture.

Boni Jacobson RYT is a Certified Yoga Instructor, Certified Stott Pilates Instructor, Personal Trainer and Lifestyle Weight Management Consultant through the American Council of Exercise. She has been professionally helping people meet their wellness and fitness goals for the past 12 years.

Boni believes that optimum health is achieved through the integration of mind, body and spirit. Her passion to teach and her dedication of working with people's abilities, as well as their disabilities makes her a forerunner in the fitness industry. She strives to be a leader in her profession through her passion of holistic wellness.

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.

Alternate Instructors

Tim Hurley, RYT500 teaches a gentle, nurturing style of Yoga that emphasizes personal empowerment, healing, and deep relaxation. He also teaches yoga in local nursing and rehabilitation facilities, as well as in retirement community settings. He also co-facilitates / instructs the Yama Studio Yoga 200 hr. Certification program at Carroll Community College and upcoming this summer at Yogaville, VA.

D'Alan Baugh, RYT - He has been practicing for almost 10 years and teaching for two. Received his 200-hour certification from Columbia Yoga Center. Instructs in the Hatha style with flow segments and emphasis on breathing, centering, feeling the poses and includes meditation. You will be rejuvenated and truly enjoy his one of a kind yoga instruction.

Christa Mastrangelo-Joyce is a certified Charm City Yoga (Baltimore) teacher. Christa wishes to share the gifts that she has received from her yoga practice with others and to encourage practitioners as they find their own path to inner strength and joy through yoga. Always a rewarding and enriching experience, if you have the opportunity to experience her classes.

Kristen Pavlik R.Y.T. completed her yoga teacher training at the Yoga Center in Columbia. She came to yoga from a history in martial arts. After receiving her black belt in Tae Kwon Do, she needed to become more connected not only to her body, but also her inner beauty and spirit. She has been practicing Hatha and Anusara since 1999. As her yoga practice deepened, Kristen started recognizing improvements in her body and overall wellbeing. When she’s not looking for bugs and testing the quality of streams and watersheds as a biologist; Kristen shares a playful, energetic style that allows students to find peace in a hectic world while strengthening their bodies and enriching their hearts.

Stacy Mulhern, R.Y.T., began practicing different styles of yoga (Iyengar, Anusara, Kripalu, Sivananda) in 1998. After experiencing improved strength, flexibility, concentration, and eating habits, Stacy decided to share yoga with others by becoming certified to teach. She completed her Sivananda Yoga training in Quèbec, July 2004. Stacy also brings her experience as a classroom teacher and her enthusiasm for learning to her yoga classes. She currently teaches elementary school in Carroll County Public Schools. Stacy looks forward to helping people bring more delight into their lives.

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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Lucy Beebe
Helen Resop
Karin Holt
Boni Jacobson
Shawn Essed
Tim Hurley
D'Alan Baugh
Christa Joyce
Kristen Pavlik
Stacy Mulhern
Jennifer Eisberg