Yoga Teachers and Bios

Anjali Budreski, owner of Yoga Mountain Center in Montpelier, Vermont, has been in love with yoga since taking her first yoga class in 1994.

Anjali’s practice blossomed from doing yoga on a small Southern Vermont farm in a one room cabin to teaching at a Burlington yoga studio. Passionate about sharing her love of yoga with others, she enrolled in Kripalu’s 200 hour teacher training, where she met Todd Norian, who later introduced her to Anusara Yoga.

Since then, she has trained and practiced with a wide variety of Anusara teachers, and has completed a comprehensive 200 hr. Anusara Yoga Teacher Training with Deb Neubauer. She has studied Rajanaka Tantric Philosophy with Douglass Brooks and Paul Muller-Ortega. 

Anjali’s classes are powered by the beauty, potency, and alchemy of nature.  Her sessions are both grounding and soul-lifting, guiding students to safely deepen their practice and open their hearts.  Anjali lives in Montpelier, the best place to be!  When she’s not teaching a yoga class or working at the studio, she can be found working her way up a mountain, tending her community garden plot, creating delights in her kitchen, or taking a long cat nap with her black cat Gattaca. 

Lindsay Armstrong, a Kripalu Certified Yoga Teacher and Massage Therapist, has studied within many yoga traditions in America, India, Thailand and Napal. Her fluid and heart centered teaching style is inspired by Kripalu, Vinyasa Flow, Anusara, and her love of dance.

Cettina Costgliola has been practicing yoga since 1997, when a background in gymnastics and a desire to explore spirituality led her naturally down this path.  After giving birth at home to her two boys and briefly studying midwifery, she realized her passion for supporting other mothers.

She studied at Kripalu with Janice Clarfield and received a certification in pre-natal yoga teaching.  She is an active member of the community teaching pre-natal yoga, facilitating blessingways, and honoring mothers and their transitions into motherhood. 

Ellen Fein is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a registered yoga teacher and a certified yoga therapist.  Ellen is a certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher.  She has extensive training in yoga therapy including Yoga of the Heart, Integrative Yoga Therapy and Viniyoga.

Ellen combines  yoga therapeutics with western mind-body medicine so that yoga is accessible for everyone.  have an injury?  chronic health problem?  out of shape?  Ellen teaches adaptive yoga that will support any individual in practicing yoga.

Katie Harrington is a Kripalu certified yoga teacher, and a certified spiritual life coach as well as a licensed massage therapist. She guides her students to explore their own, natural well being through the art of yoga.

The focus of her classes includes how the yoga feels moment to moment as well as the richness that variety, awareness, and being truly relaxed brings to our overall well being.

Jasmine Lamb- bio coming soon.

Patrick McAndrew- bio coming soon.

Molly McNaughton has loved Yoga since she went to her first class with her mother at age seven. After brief affairs with Ashtanga and Bikram Yoga, Molly fell in love with Kripalu Yoga and recieved her certification in 2004. Since then, she has continued to study Kripalu Yoga as well as Anusara and Vinyasa.  Molly's classes are safe, yet challenging, balanced, and always taught with attention to breath. Her classes are level one, or intermediate, meaning that all are welcome and that modifications and variations of postures will be given so that each student's needs are met.
 
Molly is the mother of a two year old boy, Ezra. He does a mean downward facing dog and Molly wishes she could take credit for that, but really, he just figured it out on his own. Originally from Washington State, Molly has brought her fun-loving, laid back, super-hip west coast style to Vermont, which she now considers home. When Molly isn't practicing Yoga, you can find her at the playground, at trance dance or in the bathtub with a glass of good, red wine. And if you notice that she's glowing, it's because she's in love!  Molly hopes her students will leave her class and take thier yoga "off the mat" to spread love and peace into the world.

Lisa Masé stumbled into her first yoga class just after landing in Vermont in 1997. After two hours of asana, pranayama and kirtan with a radiant teacher, she has remained forever connected with this endless spiritual universe.

As Yoga Mountain Center's Development Coordinator, she implements the Center's vision by kindling the flames necessary for its growth. She produces the Center's Spiritual Concert Series, implements promotional strategies, manages merchandise, and serves as a business advisor.

She dives into ecstatic bliss while engaging in the high arts of singing, storytelling, and prasad creation. Lisa strives to align with her life's purpose by creating sacred space, engaging in satsang and kirtan, and moving through each season in connection with forest, flowers, and planetary cycles.

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Martin Pincus- bio coming soon.

Lydia Russell has been practicing yoga since 1996 when she was dragged reluctantly to a class by a fellow dancer, and became instantly entranced.  Now she brings her own fluid form of dance to the mat as a healing flow of gentle Vinyasa yoga, designed to uplift the spirit and strengthen the body. 

Geraldine Vatan is certified as a Phoenix Rising Yoga Instructor, which is a unique form of healing in motion, wonderfully effective for emotional stress and stress related ailments. She is originally from France and recently moved to Montpelier, where she feels a little more at home every day! She brings her love of dance and martial arts, her playfulness and compassion to her yoga teaching and hopes to bring joy and emotional balance in people's lives.

Matthew Walker BA, CKYT (Certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher).

Matthew is on a leave of absence for the summer semester.

I first discovered Yoga after a car accident in which both of my legs were severely broken by a drunk-driver. I was an All American Lacrosse Player yet after the accident I could neither run, nor play lacrosse. This was a difficult time, both physically and emotionally. After 17 operations and 3 years in the hospital, I not only felt lost, but also I didn’t know who I was, especially after all the changes. At first, I began doing Yoga as a form of physical therapy. Yet, soon I found it to be, both mentally and emotionally therapeutic. Since then, Yoga has become my medicine so to speak: A way to find physical relief, mental clarity and meaning in my life. As a Yoga student, I have found it challenging to find a class that would suite all of my body/mind needs. Yet, through my own exploration of Yoga independently and with various teachers, I have found ways that support people’s individual differences, within a group setting, whether people are new to Yoga or experienced. These ways are based on principles of self-awareness and self-acceptance, and are aided by the use of props and modifications of the poses.

I have a BA in Anthropology and a minor in Studio-Art from the University of Vermont, and I am currently finishing my MA thesis at Goddard College: How to make Yoga accessible, regardless of people’s differences, whether physical, mental, social or economic? For me, Yoga is a way of life: A way to live in balance and with purpose. Off the mat, I enjoy walks in the woods. I also love the Yoga of music: kirtan (devotional song). YOGA ARTS: 802-793-2656, email.

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