Corinne, she/her, E RYT - 500, RPYT is the co-director of Shraddhā Yoga and lead teacher of the Immersion and Teacher Trainings. Her formal practice began in 1998 and in 2002, she took her first YTT at the Mount Madonna Center. She continued the journey with Embodyoga®, Meridian Yoga & Shiatsu, Mindful Grieving Yoga Therapy, Ayurveda, Vedic Chanting & Sanskrit, Prenatal & Postnatal Yoga, BMC Workshops, MYT for Trauma, Neelakantha Meditation, as a Birth Doula and on-going Yoga Philosophy courses. She is also certified as a Life Coach, offering sessions through Trust Therapeutics and is the published author of Birthing Mama.

Corinne’s classes draw from decades of committed practice & study, her relationship with her spiritual teacher GurujiMa, and her aspiration to live yoga through a life surrendered to Divine Consciousness. She loves being immersed in nature, hiking, creating in the kitchen, pilgrimages in India and loving & learning with her children and dog.

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Matthew Andrews is co-director of Shraddha Yoga where he manages the “behind the scenes” aspects of the business, teaches yoga philosophy, and offers kirtan and chanting. His deepest aspiration is to surrender entirely to the Divine Beloved, and live a life of sacred collaboration and co-creation with the Love that breathes the universe into being. His greatest support in this comes from his teacher GurujiMa, in whose illuminating grace countless miracles have blossomed in his heart.

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Onatah is an RYT-500 and certified Embodyoga® Teacher, Shiatsu practitioner, musician and healer. She has been teaching Yoga since 2012 with a sincere heart and longing to be of service to truth and love. The path of yoga has been central in her process of becoming more conscious and feeling the presence of the sacred. The classes she teaches come from her experiences with Embodyoga®, from her connection with her spiritual teacher, Guruji-Ma, and her love and devotion for our Earth.

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Ann, she/her, 200-RYT first began exploring practices as a young girl, naturally moving into what she later learned were yoga postures (āsāna). Seeking deeper connection with her South Indian ancestors, she continued her studies with yoga and meditation, completing her first yoga teacher training in 1994. She is currently completing an additional 300-hour with Shraddhā Yoga Teacher Training. Ann writes, "To me, it is vital that I teach what lives and grows in me and is integrated through my life. So, what I offer is my expression of these beautiful practices and I would love to share this with you!" Ann also enjoys hiking in the woods with her dogs, painting, singing, meditating, and working at a local community health clinic where she has been a psychotherapist for nearly 25 years.

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Yolanda is a 200-hour Embodyoga teacher, a certified Qigong Infused Yoga teacher and a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker that does individual and group therapy. She is also the founder of Healing from the Roots, LLC. She envisions a world filled with love, peace, joy, equity and good health where all people experience belonging. She sees yoga and qigong as one vehicle that can help us create this world. She is passionate about facilitating healing spaces, sharing yoga with BIPOC communities and believes in yoga for every shade and body.

Patty Townsend is the founder of Yoga Center Amherst and the developer of Embodyoga®. The Embodyoga® In-Depth Study, Training Programs and Therapeutic Program are the culmination of a lifetime of serious practice and inquiry into the depth of yoga.

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Eric has been teaching and studying yoga for more than 35 years. He seamlessly incorporates his ever deepening understanding of philosophy, pranayama, and meditation into his classes. Eric is a uniquely clear and systematic teacher, with a level of excitement about Yoga that gives buoyancy to the postures. He teaches a balanced class, incorporating posture flows in the vinyasa style, with an emphasis on the coordination of breath and movement. The effect is an enjoyable class that is thorough and deep without being too difficult.

Rajeev is an organization development consultant, facilitator and a certified coach trained with Ritambhara and TAO Leadership Academy - both renowned for their work in the leadership space anchored in Indic wisdom blending worldwide best practices.

Born into a family that deeply respects the Hindu tradition and the Sanatana Dharma way of life, Rajeev has had the fortune of growing up in an environment where vedic, shloka, stotra chanting, immersive pujas, family temple tours, and Carnatic music were a part of life! He also went to a school that had weekly homa’s, and teachings from vedic texts as part of the curriculum. This set the stage for an interest in these practices. One of his current quests is to explore how Vedic Chanting can help deepen connection with the sound and through that with the silence from which it emerges.

Rajaveni is the co-founder of Mohanam Village Heritage Centre in Auroville, Tamil Nadu, South India. Mohanam works to support and preserve traditional Tamil culture and arts. It is also the home of a long standing kindergarten. Rajaveni also runs Lively, a tailoring unit that showcases her passion for art, craft and the beauty of kolam (traditional meditative geometric designs made with rice flour). She is an amazing cook and makes the most delicious traditional South Indian meals.

GurujiMa is an emissary of light from the Realms of Light, here to assist with the transformation of the Earth into a holy planet. Her work is to embody this transition within her own consciousness and body, so that all can feel the way through limitation into the greater reality of the truth that lives within. In this, she is guided by the highest principles of light to bring forth these principles that all may live by them.

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Kelvin Young is a certified sound healer, recovery support specialist and co-founder of Soul Care Love, LLC. He is also a person in sustained recovery which means he hasn't used alcohol or any other drug to cope with his mental and emotional distress since March, 6th 2009. Kelvin received his recovery coaching training at CT Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) and his Recovery Support Specialist (RSS) certification at Recovery University in 2011. He is also trained in Intentional Peer Support (IPS) and Emotional CPR. (eCPR) The first time Kelvin was exposed to sound healing, he discovered the sounds of the crystal and Tibetan singing bowls and gongs calmed his mind, relaxed his body and nourished his soul. He went on to study sound healing with Master Sound Healers, Zacciah Blackburn of The Center of Light, Paul Hubbert of the Holographic Sound and Inner Balance and Satya Brat Jaiswal of the International Academy of Sound Healing.

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Sangeetha has spent over two decades engaging in many social experiments exploring what it means to be an effective change agent. Her personal search led her to Integral Yoga and Indic Knowledge, both of which she is a keen student of. She is a co-steward of pūrṇam, an emerging community that endeavors to create spaces of inquiry into the nature of the Self and of the human condition and is inspired by the praxis of pūrṇa yoga. She is also a writer and a classical musician. She currently lives with her family in Auroville.

Shaalini grew up in a family that embraced multi-faith, that supported a deeper understanding about different wisdom traditions. She has been a student of Hatha Yoga since the age of 12 and completed aTeacher Training Course from the 105-year-old Yoga Institute in Mumbai, India, established by Shri Yogendra Ji. She developed a deep interest in Ashtanga Yoga, Bhagavad Gita and Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras thanks to this institute.

With her mother’s family following the Sama Veda and her father’s family following the Yajur Veda, she has absorbed the sounds of chants since childhood and is very grateful to be a student of Sangeetha Sriram for the past four years and learn Vedic chanting in the lineage of Krishnamacharya.

Leeladhar is a certified Mantra teacher with the Sanatana Dharma Satsang Inc. in the tradition of the late Vedic Priest Thomas Ashley Farrand. Leeladhar is currently completing his studies to be a Vedic priest in this tradition. He is a Licensed Psychotherapist specializing in Transpersonal, Somatic, and Yoga therapy. He is an adept in Kundalini Maha Yoga for 35 years under the guidance Sri Anandi Ma, has completed advanced teachings including asana, mantra sadhana, pranayama, and meditation.

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