Melia Marzollo
Certified Pilates Instructor
Certified Yoga Instructor
Melia instructs Pilates classes; both group mat classes, private and semi-private apparatus. Teaching in the classic Pilates style, classes are alignment-oriented and challenging focusing on balance, strength and flow. Melia has earned certifications in Pilates from Power Pilates, Half Moon Pilates, and The Center for Women’s Fitness. She is also certified in Yamuna Body Rolling and Prenatal Pilates and Power Yoga. Melia continues studies in Anatomy and Kinesiology at The Bridgeport Hospital’s new Anatomy Wing with Dr. Joseph Muscolino and is a graduate of The Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Melia is the Director of SkyBaby Yoga and Cold Spring Pilates.
Lisa Bennett Matkin
Certified Yoga Instructor
LISA BENNETT MATKIN has been teaching yoga for 20 years. She was trained through personal mentorship from Alan Finger, and her teachers include Angela Farmer, Glen Black, and Kevin Gardiner. Lisa’s Yoga Zone: Power Yoga video was rated number one by Natural Health Magazine, and her classes have been rated as the “best high energy in the country” by Allure magazine. She co-directed the Teacher Training at the Mind Body Therapy Department at Haelth, a complementary Health Care Center in NYC founded by Dr. William Fair. She has been on the faculty of Kripalu, Omega, and The Open Center. Lisa is the star of Anchor Bay’s “Healing Yoga” line of videos, which are currently available, and she has participated in writing, developing, and producing over 23 retail videos and DVD releases. She is currently a contributing Editor at Fit Yoga Magazine, and has also contributed to numerous other publications. Lisa’s teaching style finds inspiration from her own life challenges and experiences, which she shares generously from her heart and spirit to guide others to reconnect with their own uniqueness.
Kasia Bilinska
Certified Hatha Yoga Instructor
Kasia teaches Vinyasa flow, Yoga for Golfers (unique approach to golf conditioning), and she is passionate about Yoga Off the Mat (which involves the yoga community in a positive social change effort across the globe). Following many years in medical science, Kasia added yoga to her life.
She playfully weaves alignment, anatomy, music, mythic inspired stories, Vedic and Tantric philosophy that embrace the fullness of life. Kasia desires to help students tap into their deepest potentials and integrate yoga practice into the daily lives.
Be prepared to sweat, play, explore and have fun on the mat.
Lara Demberg Voloto
Certified Yoga Instructor
Lara Demberg Voloto, RYT, is a Certified Yoga Instructor, with 11 years teaching experience. Lara specializes in therapeutics and leads fun, challenging classes. She has studied with many gifted teachers, who have deepened her teachings, which are fun, challenging to the body and spirit, and always invoke a deeper purpose for stepping on the mat. Her open level classes blend many different abilities and challenges; everyone walks away challenged no matter what they bring to the mat.
Kathy Toris Rowe
Certified Hatha Yoga Instructor
Kathy is a Certified Hatha Yoga Instructor, a Registered Yoga Teacher and a member of the International Yoga Association. For more than eight years, Kathy has been teaching yoga in a variety of styles and techniques including Hatha, Iyengar, Vinyasa, Yin, Embodied Yoga and Chair Yoga.
Kathy’s spirited, challenging and inspirational classes encourage her students to integrate breath and movement, awareness and alignment, strength and fluidity. She guides students to experience the whole range of yin and yang energy cultivated in yoga – from the purification of flowing sequences to the stillness of inversions and meditations. Kathy’s group and private classes are designed for all levels of yoga experience and modifications are always offered.
Her enthusiasm for teaching resonates throughout all of her classes.
PAULA CARNABUCI
Founder of FORMethod
I have been in the movement industry for most of my life. As a young girl, I studied ballet and, as a teen, modern and jazz dance. During my teen years the "fitness craze" was at its inception, and I became increasingly interested in this type of movement. Intrigued by the way the classes worked my cardiovascular system and created a sense of euphoria, I came to believe that this was my calling, but also felt that the structure of most of these classes needed a good deal of refining.By combining the most beneficial, and easy to follow, elements of dance technique and fitness, I developed a workout that had a natural flow. I decided that a graduate degree in applied physiology and kinesiology was the next step for me to become a credible source in this highly competitive industry. During my years at Columbia University, I explored the cellular components that make up our physiological system, studied the biomechanics of human movement, scanned countless texts and journals, wrote numerous papers and worked hands-on in an exercise lab testing live subjects. The work was both grueling and exhilarating, and, ultimately, enabled me to substantiate the science behind movement.My classes are the result of a life-long exploration of body work. It is my calling, and I am happy to share it with the world.
MaryRose Donaghy
Certified Yoga Instructor
MaryRose’s interest in practicing yoga was initially sparked 6 years ago, looking to stretch and strengthen her spine after years of back pain. MaryRose’s inner Aries developed a love for hot yoga embracing both the physical and spiritual aspects of the practice, yoga has transformed her life. Breaking boundaries she decided to do what she never believed was possible. She venture into teacher training with Jimmy Barkan in 2011 found her great passion in teaching this amazing practice. MaryRose has received her 200 hour (RYT) Barkan style hot yoga certification. MaryRose is consistently attending immersions and trainings to better her practice and broaden her knowledge of yoga. She has also recently completed her level one training with Baron Baptiste in The Catskills and Attended the Art of Assisting as well as various other training and immersions through the Baptiste Power Yoga Institute. MaryRose incorporates Baron Baptiste’s concepts of self empowerment, love and connection into all of her Power Vinyasa classes. Most of MaryRose’s classes are practiced in a heated room and are focused on stretching and strengthening various areas of the body and soul. MaryRose considers herself a lifelong student of yoga and is eager to share the love and power that this practices holds.
Siri Chand Kaur
Certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor
Siri Chand Kaur is a Kundalini Research Institute certified Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan teacher, certified Khalsa Way Pre-Natal teacher, certified Excel and Celebrate Sacred Circles of Women facilitator, certified Art & Kundalini Yoga teacher and is a member of the 3HO International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association. Having started her journey with the sacred science of Kundalini Yoga in 2006 she has studied under such teachers as the renowned Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, Hari Kaur Khalsa, Hari Kirin Kaur Khalsa, Pritpal Kaur and GuruMeher Singh Khalsa. Siri Chand's classes are open to those with all levels of experience and infuse linking breath with movement, focusing on the eight major chakras and using a combination of postures, pranayama, mantra, mudra, body locks, eye focus, music, meditation and deep relaxation to the sacred sound current of the gong played live, to extend our consciousness and deepen the relationship with ourselves. Using heart-centered projection and a love of serving others, Siri Chand encourages her students to experience their creative potential, the universe and their true self by inviting the body, mind and soul to experience the energetic wave of the yoga of awareness - Kundalini Yoga!
Julia Zern
Certified Yoga Instructor
Julia's first encounter with yoga came as a young child in Sweden, practicing with her mother. The love of movement continued with dance and then full circle back to yoga in 2000. She has studied many types of yoga such as Iyengar, Hatha ,Vinyasa and Kundalini.
Every class begins with a short Dharma talk. Pranayama, breath work, is present and attention to breath is encouraged throughout the practice.
She strives for her classes to bring strength, flexibility and clarity to the students practice. All with a strong alignment focus
Julia's Dharma doesn't end on the mat, she encourages everyone to practice their yoga both on and off their mat.
She is a registered Yoga teacher through the Yoga Alliance and completed her 200 hr teacher training through Living Yoga.
Bettina Utz
Certified Pilates Instructor
Bettina Utz became a certified Pilates instructor in 2006 through Brooke Siler's teacher training program, a 700 hour certification in classical Pilates, and has been changing bodies ever since. In addition to her work as a senior instructor at re:AB Pilates in NYC, she trained numerous private clients in Manhattan and had the honor to be the Pilates instructor for the staff at Rodale Publishing for three years.
Outside the world of Pilates, Bettina uses her powerhouse as a graphic designer, organic gardener, and avid beekeeper.
Heather Bastian
Certified Yoga Instructor
Julian Paik
Certified Yoga Instructor
Julian has been a RYT since 1999, and has taught in the Hudson Valley since 2004. His certifications include 3 comprehensive 200hr teacher trainings from YogaWorks (Los Angeles), Piedmont Yoga (Oakland), and Satsang Yoga (NY). He has also recently returned from a 2 year stint in India, where he has apprenticed and practiced under the tutelage of several
internationally revered teachers, including Bharath Shetty, Sri K Venkatesh and Sharath Jois. He teaches a playful, uplifting and heat-building class with much attention to alignment and
isolating moments of dharana (concentration).
Joelle VanSickle
Certified Yoga Instructor
Certified Yoga Therapist
Joelle Van Sickle is a 500 Hour Certified Yoga instructor and Certified Yoga Therapist living here in Cold Spring. She received her 200 hour Yoga certification from the Kripalu Institute in 2000 and her 500 hour/Yoga Therapy certification from Yoga Mountain in 2011. In addition, Joelle has studied Iyengar Yoga in depth. This training has given her knowledge of precise body alignment and how to use props to adapt and enhance postures for students of all levels of ability. Joelle's classes help you to learn dynamic body alignment and to harness the healing power of your breath while opening up the flow of energy throughout your body. With a compassionate and friendly teaching style, Joelle strives to help her students utilize the ancient Yogic teachings as an agent of change and transformation in their lives.
Michelle Arcigal
Certified Yoga Instructor
Michelle Arcigal, M.S., is a Yoga Alliance
certified, Kripalu Yoga 200-hour teacher and a member of the Kirpalu Yoga Teacher's Association. She is also a Yoga Alliance certified children's yoga teacher and completed her Children's Yoga teacher training and mentorship with Little Flower Yoga.
Michelle's Kripalu Kids classes combines stories, songs, Arts & Crafts, Hindu mythology, fun asana (yoga poses), and Sanskrit words and phrases, with kid-friendly breathing techniques, and meditation exercises to develop children's confidence, focus and self-awareness. Michelle has also attained Third Degree Reiki attunement in the Usui System of Reiki. Before recently moving to Putnam County, Michelle was a life-long resident of Westchester County, where she attended the College of New Rochelle and earned a bachelor's degree in Psychology and a master's degree in School Psychology. A lover of all things yoga, meditation and health, Michelle can be found spending her pre-dawn hours on her yoga mat or running on the local trails and streets in town, her days elbow deep in toddlers as a work-at-home mom, and her evenings up to her eyebrows in books on meditation and yoga. Michelle currently lives in Nelsonville with her husband and two children.
