Marianne Chapin

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.

Virginia Morris

Virginia attended the Connecticut Center for Massage Therepy school in Newington.  She has been a licensed massage therepist since 2001. Her areas of speciality 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 expirence.

Lori McGovern

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 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. 

Maryanne Phillips

Maryanne is Aerobics and Fitness Association of America certified, and she has been teaching Pilates for over 5 years.Mary Ann has aslo been a teacher for various classes in the fitness industry for more than 25 years. She has 48 years of dance experience, including tap and jazz.

Emily Anderson

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. 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.

 Twink McKenney

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 Pompano

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 in the process of obtaining her 200 hour Yoga Alliance certification.  Kara truly believes yoga is for everybody and every body

Lisa Sperry

Lisa has been practicing Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga for 4+ years and has completed Baptiste Power Yoga Institute's Journey Into Power Level One Teacher Training with Baron Baptiste.  Lisa plans to attend Level 2 Teacher Training this summer in order to become a Baptiste Certified Yoga 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 Landry