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 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!
Ally Klein Belmont began studying yoga more than ten years ago when she was a student at James Madison University. She received her first 200 hour yoga teacher certification in 2002 from Tejal Murray of the Ahimsa Yoga Center in Baltimore. After completing this training, Ally traveled to yoga centers in the United States and abroad to take part in seva (selfless service) programs and other various workshops. In 2005, Ally completed her second 200 hour teacher training in Integrative Yoga Therapy with Dianne Finlayson at the Yama Studio. In this training, Ally learned how to work with special populations, and since that time, has been offering classes to the elderly, within corporate settings, and to more advanced students. Along her path, Ally has also studied qigong, chakra energy balancing, shiatsu, kundalini meditation and integrative breathwork. All of these energies come into play when taking a class with Ally. She can be both gentle and strong, quick and deliberate. Her teaching style fits the need of the moment and is constantly evolving. Ally also encourages her students to tailor their personal practices to listening and responding to what is arising on the mat with each breath.
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.
Luke Miller, RYT 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.
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.
Jennifer O'Connor, RYT had her first yoga experience at the age of 14. She never forgot the lightness and joy she felt after leaving the class. A few years later, she decided to rekindle her yoga practice at local studios in her area. Then she decided to deepen her practice and signed up for the teacher training program at The Yoga Center of Columbia. Jennifer graduated from the yoga center in October 2008 with a 200 hour certification. Her approach to yoga is to help others feel the same lightness she felt after her very first class. She also enjoys focusing on the therapeutic benefits of the asanas on the body. Jennifer leads a fun, light-hearted yoga class where she strives to meet the needs of each one of her students incorporating the yogic mind, body and soul.
Kelly Jones, RYT graduated Frostburg State University with a B.S. in Exercise and Sport Science with a minor in Dance in 2008. Kelley was looking to apply her education to help others lead a healthier lifestyle. Her 200hr yoga teacher certification was achieved through an intensive four week program with Sunstone Yoga. She also completed her internship with the Verizon Wireless Health and Wellness Center in Hanover, MD. As an intern in corporate fitness Kelley has gained much experience, especially in personal training, customer service, teaching various group fitness classes, giving wellness seminars, creating incentive programs, and organizing community events. She completed field experience at the YMCA. Kelly is looking forward to working with the diverse students at Santosha.
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.
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 peoples 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.
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
Shawn Essed
Jeni Anderman
Ally Belmont
Luke Miller
Alternate Instructors
Courtney Miller
Jennifer O'Connor
Kelley Jones
Karin Holt
Tim Hurley
D'Alan Baugh
Christa Joyce
Boni Jacobson
Kristen Pavlik
Stacy Mulhern
Founder
Jennifer Eisberg
