Alice originally went to a yoga class to help with her personal stress management as a mother and school teacher - and found a deep and total sense of well-being unlike anything she had ever experienced.

Since that awakening, she has deepened her practice and is a certified Kripalu Yoga instructor. She holds her 200 hour certification, and is in the process of obtaining her 500 hour certification.

lice has taught at local gyms, in yoga studios and the Upper Room Spiritual Center in Neptune, NJ. She is passionate about yoga, and sees yoga as a means of achieving optimum physical health, as well as a means to spiritual growth with a Christian perspective.

Stephanie has been practicing yoga since 1992. She has done a great deal of practice on her own as well as with many wonderful yoga teachers, both local and nationwide. She blends a combination of many different styles from classical to power yoga, knowing that all of them blend together and strengthen one another.

Stephanie has been teaching since 2001 in various facilities both in New Jersey and in New York. She spent 2 years in New York City studying with great and lesser known masters from a wide range of yoga and meditation backgrounds. She has returned to New Jersey to share what she has learned and to continue to grow with the Toms River community. She has her 200 hour certification in Hatha Yoga. She traveled to India in 2009.

Stephanie's classes are a combination of sun salutations, balancing postures, difficult binds, inversions such as headstand, handstand, and fore-arm stand, backbends, and deep stretches, as well as relaxation, meditation, and yogic breathing techniques. Be prepared to focus and be challenged.

Jill, as a Registered Yoga Teacher (200 hour certification) and a professional massage therapist, she has undergone extensive training and has a deep understanding of the inner workings of the body and its musculature. Jill is an individual who is dedicated to the healing and health of others. She deeply enjoys teaching Chair, Gentle, Moderate and Intermediate yoga classes. She is currently in Nursing school also.

Jill has been touched by the gift of yoga. Her compassion for the people and the world around her is evident by her world travels and her 3 year devotion to the peace core. Living overseas and staying with a family in Africa. She practices gratitude daily.

She has completely opened her mind and body to the inner growth that yoga provides. She has seen the positive changes that have occurred in her own life as a result of her yoga practice and wishes to facilitate others in their own growth and discovery of true self. Her classes are powered by the beauty, and alchemy of nature. Her classes are both grounding and soul lifting, guiding students safely to deepen their practice and open their hearts.

Jennifer is a certified Sivananda and Children's Yoga instructor. She has a 200 & a 500 hour certification. She has practiced with many Yogis around the World in order for her to broaden her yoga skills and techniques.

Jennifer’s adult and children's classes begin with a relaxing warm up, followed by breathing exercises, then move into more heat-building asanas. Class ends with visualization exercises and relaxation poses. Breath awareness and pranayama are major components of her classes.

She utilizes her experience in various yoga styles to create a welcoming class for everyone. Jennifer believes that teaching is a gift that allows an exchange of energy between people.

If you want strength, courage, balance, joy and if you need to reduce stress, she believes yoga is for you. Jennifer is a living example of what she teaches.

Jody received her 200 hour yoga certification and she is also a Massage Therapist. This combination of these two healing arts has given her a deeper understanding and compassion of people and their different body types.

Coming from a family who always emphasized health and wellness, it seemed like a natural progression to become involved in the healing of yoga. Her teaching style is Hatha Flow. She teaches Vinyasa Flow, Gentle, and Moderate classes. Jody would like her students to receive a positive, caring experience, leaving class with a feeling of accomplishment, self-satisfaction, and relaxation.

Jody creates a safe place and empowers her students to release, let go, and discover themselves. With incredible clarity, and honed communication skills, she has the unique ability to reach everyone. Her classes are insightful and inspiring and some challenging, that focus on integrating breath with movement. She emphasizes that yoga is about your inner experience and the inner effects - the positive long term influence on your life's energy and overall health. Her unique ability to draw out the light from within every student is her gift.

The practice of Yoga has personally helped to heal her body and mind. She brings her enthusiasm, empathy, and the love for Yoga into every one of her classes.

As a Yoga instructor she can offer students a physically and emotionally safe environment. Using gentle encouragement she can guide students to grow in their practice and inner journey. She has many years of experience working with people. Using this lifetime experience she is open to listen to the needs and interests of each student.

Being a runner she has become adept in the use of Yoga props and incorporates belts, blocks, bolsters, and blankets to facilate ease and comfort even in the most challenging of postures. Her classes provide a setting were students can ground, strengthen and calm the mind finding self awareness, acceptance and self love.

She feels she has received many gifts from my Yoga practice. And teaching gives her a chance to give back to others and share her love of Yoga. She offers frequent reminders that Yoga is meant to link mind and body together, not merely to be a good workout. During each pose, Karen's words of encouragement, options, and detailed, easy to follow instructions never distract from the moment. If you are are to Yoga or are an experienced Yogi, you are sure to enjoy her compassionate style. You will feel it in her classes as she helps connect students with their bodies, in a graceful, accepting manner.

Lauren feels so blessed to have the opportunity to share her passion for life through her yoga practice! A certified yoga instructor (Yoga Alliance 200 hour certification) in Hatha Flow, she is also a writer and artist whose expressions are inspired by the beauty of life, and her work emphasizes the importance of love and compassion as a means to transform oneself and the world. Her aim in life is to teach the importance of yoga, of oneness with ourselves, with each other and with nature.

Compelled by the suffering of so many in this world, Lauren became empowered by the inner strength and peace she found in the practice of yoga, and now strives to emit only positive energy into the universe, gently encouraging her students to do the same. Her instruction is based upon her adamant belief that in order to bring peace to our world, we must first find it within ourselves.

Lauren's classes offer up the warmth and compassion of a sanctuary, a safe place to grow your own practice of yoga from the inside out. Her classes include dynamic postures to strengthen, detoxify, relax, stretch, and energize the body, yogic breathing techniques, guided meditation and inspirational messages applicable to everyday life to help expand the yoga practice beyond the mat. Lauren believes that we are all both teachers and students with our own unique gift to offer and she is eager to learn yours!

Pat discovered yoga 10 years ago. Yoga made her feel calmer, and more balanced. She needed to learn to de-stress and relax. Through her first contact with Yoga she realized that this was the path for her... It felt right, like coming home.

In addition to learning how to relax and pay attention to her body, she was pleasantly surprised to find her physical strength growing, her flexibility improving, and her mind expanding shifting. And, as her practice and love of Yoga deepened she decided to enroll in the 200 hour teacher training program. Originally, she took the program to expand her knowledge and practice. However, by the time she graduated she knew she wanted to teach yoga to others.

She is also a floral designer, and patient care technician. She continues to live her Yoga - thru her kindness to all that she encounters.

Patti has practiced yoga since 2000 and completed the 200 hour teacher training program through the Center for Health and Healing. She began her practice as an exercise program unaware that yoga would become such an integral part of her life. Beginning a yoga practice is the beginning of a life-changing journey, she now realizes. The practitioner connects to the body through the postures, opening the mind and the heart to one’s inner strength and intrinsic worth. This discovery works its way into all aspects of one’s life leading the student to self-awareness, self-trust, better health, and a much calmer state of mind.

Patti is interested in the philosophy of yoga as well, including breathing and meditation techniques especially the meditative quality one can experience in a yoga practice. She hopes to share this journey of yoga with her students through her teaching

Carolyn has studied Yoga for over a decade and is a registered Yoga teacher. She is certified with the Yoga Alliance (200 hour and 500 hour) and has been teaching throughout Ocean and Monmouth counties.

She was trained in the Sivananda style of Hatha yoga and is particularly interested in Buddhist studies and philosophy. She is our Sutra and Meditation teacher in our teacher training program.

Carolyn holds a Medical Anthropology degree and has a thorough understanding of the human body, its systems and anatomy. She incorporates this knowledge into her instruction, gearing classes to students' individual needs.

Carolyn is also a practicing visual artist who exhibits her work throughout the state and the country. She views Yoga as both an art and a science and employs her creativity to make each one of her Yoga classes fun and different.

Kelly has had a strong Yoga practice for the last five years. She has her 200 hour certification in Hatha Yoga and is registered with the Yoga Alliance.

Kelly first approached Yoga as a means of exercise and improving her physical well-being. After the first class, she became devoted student to yoga practice and philosophy ever since. Once learning the basics of Yoga, Kelly started attending workshops and classes to expand her knowledge and devotion of Yoga. She feels honored to teach the transformative practice of Yoga to others. She is dedicated to promoting a healthy mind, body, and spirit through Yoga.

Kelly holds a BS degree in a Speech Pathology and is currently working towards her Masters. Currently she works as a speech therapist in a school for children with Autism. She believes the peace and strength that Yoga brings to one's body and mind allows for her to approach each teaching experience with a renewed energy, creativity, as well as a calm mind and spirit. Kelly continues her study of Yoga on a consistent basis to bring her students fresh, superb selections of flowing sequences.

Her classes build strength, flexibility and a deeper awareness of how Yoga can affect the mind, body, and spirit. She is a firm believer in the power of Yoga to awaken the body's own healing process and empower individuals in all areas of their lives.

Jason has had a long love of teaching, and has recently completed his 200 hour training in Hatha style yoga. He has over 5 years of yoga teaching experience, and is registered with Yoga Alliance.

Jason’s personal style focuses heavily on breath and longer holds in poses. He teaches through compassion and a lighter sense of humor, incorporating a mix of yoga styles in his classes.

Jason holds a B.S. in biological science, and has an extensive knowledge of human anatomy and physiology, which he uses in his classes to help teach proper alignment and safety in the variety of yoga poses. He believes yoga is something organic and changes from day to day, and should be practiced with a sense of ease and acceptance.

Jeff Seymour is a student of Sri Dharma Mittra. He completed both the 200 and 500 hour certification programs at the Dharma Mittra Yoga Center in New York. Jeff has the distinct honor of mentoring teacher trainees in Dharma's Life of a Yogi Teacher Training program and has assisted Dharma in workshops away from the New York Center. Jeff teaches classes at Dharma's New York Center and at various locations along the Jersey Shore. His classes accommodate first timers and advanced students alike.

Cathy completed her 200 hour national teacher training. She is also registered with Yoga Alliance. She feels honored to be able to teach yoga and give back the gift that she feels that she has been givien, and work at the front desk at the Center for Health and Healing. She loves to share her passion of yoga with everyone. She is outgoing and super friendly.

She teaches Chair yoga- for people with limited mobilty, neck/back issues, and or recovering from surgery. Mom and Me yoga- working with moms/ dads, grandmas, and children in a fun, active nature allowing for bonding time together. Beginner yoga- classes to get you started in a clear positive and mindful way. She also donates her time to teach troubled women yoga. She has such a open kind heart.

She is a Certifified paraprofessional at Toms River Schools working in Special Services Dept. She likes to help people reconnect with their bodies. She has such a graditute for all yoga has given her and she believes that a regular Yoga practice will help you find peace in your life, become more centered, de-stressed, more present.

Sarah has a B.S in Business and Fashion Merchandising, Sarah came to Yoga to quiet her mind and search her heart for something more meaningful and fulfilling. She always knew she wanted to teach, inspire, or help people, but wasn't sure at what capacity until her very first yoga class. She was inspired by amazing teachers to give back the gift that they have given to her.

She has since completed her 200 hour training in Hatha Style yoga and is very passionate about teaching as well as continuing to be a dedicated student. Sarah teaches a slow gentle, compassionate chair yoga and a challenging vinyassa class. Her lighthearted style reminds her students not to take themselves too seriously, and to be patient and kind to themselves.

She is dedicated to help her students achieve their goals whether they are to improve flexibility, strength,coordination, concentration, body awareness or a general sense of well-being.Sarah is interested in sharing her passion for yoga by making it fun, accessible, and challenging for people of all levels, ages, and abilities.

Susan a parent of four grown children. It was one of her grown son's who encouraged her to finally do what she had wanted to do for years....take a yoga class. By the time she was in shivasana she knew where she belonged. She immediately started devoting time and energy in the development of her yoga practice.

It was a natural process to extend her practice into teaching yoga, since Susan has always worked in fields that have enabled her to help others. Her work history includes working as a paraprofessional in an alternative school for emotionally disturbed children and in a mental health clinic as an office manager/counselor in a dual-diagnosis program for adults. Both of these positions required having a non-judgmental character and good listening skills. She brings both of these traits to her yoga teaching and encourages her student's to be patient with their yoga practice and listen to their bodies.

She completed her teacher training program at the Center for Health and Healing. Her compassionate style encourages and honors the discovery of each persons uniqueness as she guides them into experiences of self awareness, acceptance, and ultimate healing.

Avita began practicing yoga in 2003. She instantly connected with yoga and felt the need to share this gift with others. In 2007, she earned her 200 hour yoga certification at the Center of Health and Healing.

Yoga was one instrument in transforming Avita’s life. Through practicing, she found healing, self acceptance, and a deeper connection with a Higher Power and others. Through teaching, she hopes to return what was given to her by inspiring teachers. In Avita’s Vinyasa style classes, students are encouraged to practice compassion and gratitude while building strength and increasing flexibility.

Avita is also a middle school educator in Asbury Park, NJ where she also teaches yoga classes after school. She feels blessed to bring yoga to her adolescent students at such a transformative time in their lives.

Avita is eager to learn and continually expands her personal yoga practice. She is honored to share what she learns with others so they can also experience yoga bliss.

Jen M. is known for her innovative and mindful approach to movement and yoga. Acknowledging the body as the teacher. She is still enjoying her yoga, she is still falling in love with the practice. She obtained her Hatha flow 200 hour RYT certification from The Center For Health and Healing. She has had  the opportunity to experienced many influential mentors, leaving her with a solid foundation and a healthy understanding. Your own personal practice is your journey.

Yoga is for everyone, as you relieve stress, it helps create peace and balance and increasing awareness of where you are in this moment. It helps not only strengthen and tone muscles and vital organs, it increases and sharpens focus and lung capacity. Using the breath, opening your heart, trusting yourself, you find balance as you are constantly evolving. With the practice you learn, everyday to listen to your own truths, and accept changes that may affect your life. The practice is yours to enjoy, with no competition, as we learn to be present on our mat, and take that into our daily lives.

She feels yoga is a practice of acceptance, patience, and compassion (for yourself and others). Her yoga classes facilitate the unfolding of the body, mind, and heart of her students into the beauty of wholeness.

Laurie is a talented artist, mother, and yogi. After many years of a steady dedicated Ashtanga yoga practice. She became a RYT and joined the ranks of a 200 hour certified yoga instructor. Her 8 years plus of feeling yoga rather than doing yoga. She initially learned the importance of the mind/ body/spirit link from her first expression of yoga the Ashtanga Primary series. Her yoga has continued to served her well in helping to center and focus and prompting her to achieve personal goals. Through the practice of yoga, she has found a calm and still center in the midst of many changes in her life and realized her connection to a higher source. She feels very excited and grateful to be teaching at the Center for Health and Healing to join this wonderful community of yogis and share the knowledge she has gained. Striving to be present and mindful while uniting the breath with asana is a practice that offers us the freedom to discover our innermost source of love, joy, and peace.

Once an avid conventional exerciser, Laurie has since converted her methods of physical well being exclusively to yoga. Incorporating what she believes is a full body and mind workout. She has seen first hand the power of yoga lead to an inner and outer transformation. Whether practicing yoga individually or connecting with others in a class setting, she believes yoga develops within the practitioner a spirituality that vibrates with life. She also believes yoga is a beautiful graceful dance similar to well orchestrated ballet of movement and breath. A yoga class and a yoga practice are like life itself. There are moments of joy and connectedness, challenges when we meet our limits, and eventually a letting go and acceptance of what is. This process often brings serenity.

Nicole is Registered with the Yoga Alliance at the 200 hour level in the YogaWorks Method, Nicole is inspired by the quest of finding presence, acceptance, and balance in each moment. Ayurveda, pranayama, and asana with emphasis on alignment and chakra mindfulness are integrated into all her classes. She encourages her students to individualize their practice in a group class. Modifications are offered to the asana portion to truly make her classes accessible to all levels of strength and flexibility. Nicole was first introduced to yoga in elementary school while practicing gymnastics. She began a regular yoga practice while in college in the early 90’s. Synthesizing a lifelong interest in wellness and self-awareness with her love of movement, yoga naturally became a tool to unify her life and to find peace of mind.

Darren is a nationally certified massage therapist, Reiki master/teacher and a Medical Qigong therapist/teacher specializing in Oncology, chronic pain, life-altering illness and palliatative care for the terminally ill. He is currently enrolled in a 3 year over 2000 hour graduate course in which he will become a Dr. of Medical Qigong in 2012.

Darren brings a unique ability to weave difficult concepts together, relate and teach in a manner that is down to earth, practical and empowering. His enthusiasm, quickness to smile, genuine intention to serve and ease with which he gets along with diverse personalities makes him a joy to be around. He is devoted in assisting his students in attaining higher levels of consciousness, harmony, balance, acceptance and an inner calm so that they can accelerate the natural healing processes of the mind, body and spirit.

Darren believes we all have an inner doctor, teacher, master, and healer inside of us and he seeks through his teaching of Qigong to help you find it so you can fulfill your destiny and manifest your inner potentiality.

Christopheray is one of New Jerseys most highly respected Yoga instructors, with over 20 years of study, practice and teaching to beginners as well as Yoga instructors.

He is trained in the Iyengar tradition. Christopheray is highly regarded by his students and peers. For him, the Asanas [postures] are where Yoga begins, not ends.

In his classes you will learn new postures each week, and review poses previously taught. You will explore the role of the yamas, niyamas, bandhas, and pranayama (and learn what these are!).

Christopheray's insight and experience, as well as his compassion, his love of Yoga, and the irrepressible humor he brings to his teachings have made him a popular and widely sought after instructor. You can expect his classes to be fueled with heart, humor and clarity.