Marianne is the owner of Kneading Hands. She has been a licensed massage therapist for over seven years. She has extended education in cranial sacral therapy, Ayurvedic Hot Stone massage, Aromatherapy, Reiki, pre-natal massage, therapeutic-touch,quantum-touch, trigger point therapy, and ear coning. She also is a Ashiatsu practioner. She is also a certified equine and canine massage therapist.
Marianne has been teaching yoga for the past seven years. She completed her first yoga training in 2002 at the Woodbury Yoga Center. She has completed several other yoga teacher trainings. She went on to study with Rodney Yee, Sean Corne, and is currently studying with Baron Baptiste. She has completed Bootcamp Level 1 and Level 2 with Baptiste Power Yoga Institute. Her love is Hot Power Vinyasa Yoga.
Her areas of specialty include Swedish massage, deep tissue massage, sports massage and pre-natal massage. No matter which type of massage that you choose she strives to make it an enjoyable, and relaxing experience.
Virginia Morris
Virginia attended the Connecticut Center for Massage Therapy school in Newington. She has been a licensed massage therapist since 2001.
Lori is a certified yoga teacher and a 2005 graduate of Lotus Garden Teacher Training program 200hr level. She also trained as a prenatal yoga teacher with Janice Clarfield at OM in New York City. It was only natural for Lori to become a yoga teacher since she was a professional teacher and had a passion for yoga. Lori also recently became a Level 1 instructor after attending Baron Baptiste Level 1 Boot Camp in August 2009.
Lori also recently attended Baron Baptiste's Level 1 Boot Camp in August 2009. Lori believes she should " live your life and practice your yoga with joyful enthusiasm ". Flowing with grace, finding the balance between body, mind and spirit is what it's all about.
Sara is the office guru at Kneading Hands. She handles all the paperwork and behind the scenes support at the studio. Sara first found yoga in college and hated it, but became a convert after she began working at Kneading Hands in 2009. With Mariannes insistence she tried yoga again and was finally open minded enough to appreciate it and what it can do for her mind and body.
Sara is continually amazed at how relaxed and centered she is after class. She has become a regular in Loris Tuesday night Power Yoga Basics class. When shes not at Kneading Hands she lives on and runs her familys farm Daffodil Hill Growers at Woodside Farm in Southbury with her husband, Dan. Sara also runs the Southbury Farmers Market on Thursdays at Town Hall.
In her other life she in hi-tech sales as a director for a network security company and has two teenage boys. Emily has donated her time to teaching some of our Friday morning community classes.
Emily has been practicing yoga for about 10 years. and is a Baron Baptiste certified Level 1 instructor. Her passion is hot, power Baptiste style yoga.
Twink has been studying yoga and astrology since 1985. She has a passion for both and loves to weave the two ancient bodies of wisdom together in her class. Using planetary placements and moon phases to inform and guide the class, students connect mind, body and spirit in a class that is both centering, strengthening and renewing. Twink teaches a Hatha class with an eclectic and challenging feel.
Her formal training is based in Sampoorna-style yoga which works to create balance in the yoga practice toning and stimulating the entire body systematically while placing emphasis on the breath and quieting mind. We come to yoga at all levels of fitness and she adjusts the class so that it is energizing, inspirational and appropriate for a wide range of yogis.
Kara was first introduced to yoga while living in Southern California. Yoga quickly went from a nice addition to her traditional workouts to a practice she fell in love with, and wanted to share her passion through teaching. She is a registered Level 1 instructor through YogaFit and is a 200 hour registered yoga teacher through Yoga Works, New York.
She is a registered Level 1 instructor through YogaFit and is in the process of obtaining her 200 hour Yoga Alliance certification. Kara truly believes yoga is for everybody and every body
Lisa has been practicing Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga for 4+ years and
has completed Baptiste Power Level 1 Teacher Training with Baron
Baptiste. Lisa plans to attend Level 2 teacher training in order to
become a Baptiste Certified Instructor.
After Emily Anderson introduced Lisa to Baptiste yoga she was instantly hooked. "I find this practice
challenging yet calming and grounding, contributing to my goal of being
my authentic self ". Lisa is also a proud mother of two incredible
boys ages 12 and 11.
Janet wishes she had discovered yoga 30 years ago, as she took her first class in the summer of 2008. Always being athletic and a "tomboy" as a kid, Janet enjoys a variety of outdoor sports including skiing, sailing, running, biking, tennis and hiking. She had never before experienced an activity with such positive physical and mental effects, and feels strongly about the health benefits of yoga at any age or ability. Since that first class she has been trying to absorb as much as possible of the world of yoga with a focus on hot power yoga.
Janet completed Baron Baptiste's Level 1 teachers training boot camp in August 2009. Janet recently retired from her private practice of general dentistry after 16 years. Her future plans are to practice dentistry part time in community service and teaching, while teaching yoga, and raise her two teenage sons. She also would like to complete her level 2 teachers training, and to attend more workshops on teen, prenatal, and seniors yoga.
