Laurie Sweeney, 500 CYT
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Laurie obtained her 500 Hr. training with Abbe Cuilla of Troy City Yoga and Inside Flow Silver certification with Rebecca Rasmussen of Inside Flow USA. She is also certified in Teen & Children’s Yoga through Cardio Kids Yoga. She has been the Early Childhood Director and a Dance and Acrobatics educator at Spotlight Dance Studio in Taunton, MA since 1993, a member of the Dance Teacher’s Club of Boston since 2003, and also holds certifications in Yoga Nidra with Sagel Urlacher, Sound Certification with The Soul Purpose, Acrobatic Arts, Reiki, Child Development, Group Exercise YMCA, and VBarre.
She is a Vinyasa-based instructor who, coupled with over 40 years experience as a movement educator, creates the perfect combination of stylized movement and strength throughout her beautifully crafted sequences and transitions set to music. |
Andrea Evans, 500 E-RYT
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Andrea began her teaching journey in 2014 with an unforgettable 200 hours of training at the Sacred Seeds Yoga School with Jacqui Bonwell. She completed her subsequent 300 hour Yoga Teacher Training with David Vendetti. A life-long learner, Andrea has also studied Yin Yoga and Meditation with Sagel Urlacher and Josh Summers, Yoga Nidra with Sagel, Reiki I and II with Pat Iyer and Denise Cucalon, functional movement with Johnny Gillespie, Five Element Yoga® with Jennifer Reis, and Yoga for Trauma, Emotional Health and Healing with Kate Graham. She also completed trauma-informed Mind Body Wellbeing yoga teacher training with the African Yoga Project, is a Level 1 Mindful Outdoor Experience Guide with the Kripalu School of Mindful Outdoor Leadership and is a member of the Yoga Alliance.
When creating outdoor forest immersion retreats, Andrea draws inspiration from Shinrin-yoku (Forest Bathing), the Kripalu School of Mindful Outdoor Leadership, and decades of personal practice and exploration in the more-than-human world. |
Dave Curry
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Dave Curry is the creator of Drums For One & All, the umbrella under which he offers the following drumming-related services: event facilitation, workshop instruction, private lessons, live performances, and drum repairs. Since 2001, Dave has lead the popular FreeDrum event every month, as well as the SpiritDrum event since 2006. Dave is the co-creator and organizer for the Eastern Mass Rhythm Festival which is entering its 20th season. For 14 years, Dave taught hand drumming through the Assabet School in Marlborough, MA and currently teaches through the Groton Hill Music Center in Groton, MA. He is the author of two books on hand drumming and percussion. Dave is the creative director of the Drum Nomads performance ensemble. Over the past 25 years, Dave has led nearly 2000 drumming events at schools, churches, colleges, libraries, retreat centers and other institutions across New England.
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Barbara Barlow, 200 CYT
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Barbara is a 200 hr. CYT certified in Vibrational Sound Therapy, Sound Meditation and USUI/Holy Fire III Reiki. Following her passion for sound healing, she recently obtained an advanced Gong Master certification with Don Conreaux and Yaelle Shaphir.
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Kara Whittaker, PT, 200 CYT
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As a physical therapist and yoga teacher, Kara brings a thoughtful and grounded approach to movement that blends strength, mobility, alignment, and mindfulness. Her classes are designed to help students feel more confident, connected, and at ease in their bodies while creating space for growth at every level of practice.
Kara is especially passionate about making yoga approachable and accessible for beginners, while also supporting experienced students who want to deepen their strength, stability, and self-awareness through intentional movement. Her teaching reflects a deep belief that movement can be a powerful tool for healing, resilience, balance, and self-trust — both on and off the mat. In addition to adult classes, Kara enjoys working with children and young athletes, helping them develop strength, mobility, flexibility, coordination, and body awareness while cultivating mindfulness, confidence, and emotional resilience. She believes that developing a sense of grounding, self-awareness, and connection within oneself is an essential foundation for young children and athletes — both in movement and in life. From that place of individual balance and confidence, they are better able to contribute positively to the collective energy, support, connection, and success of a team. We’re grateful to have Kara sharing her warmth, knowledge, and presence within the Moksha community 💛 |
Bonnie O'Neill, RN, 200 CYT
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Bonnie is a practicing, registered nurse with more than 40 years of experience. Her commitment to health and wellness remains steadfast. She was inspired by her father (an atomic physicist) at a young age to study the energetic body and energy healing soon became her passion. She completed healing studies in the Eden Method under the direction of Peggy Koelliker at The Healing Connection, including Energy Testing Substances, and Shin Jyutsu Class/Balance the Emotion of Panic as well as obtaining a certification in Advanced Reiki Training. As a Reiki Master, she completed the four required courses in the Usui Shiki Ryoho method of Reiki.
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Mary Ellen Cavella, 200 CYT
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Mary Ellen has explored various styles of yoga throughout her adult life. After a hiatus due to spinal cord damage and not knowing if she would be able to return to the physical practice of yoga, she took a chance and walked into Moksha Yoga and onto her mat again. It was then that her true healing began, not just physically but mentally, emotionally and spiritually. This new and richer relationship to yoga inspired Mary Ellen to pursue her 200-hour yoga certification under the guidance of Open Doors Weymouth; in order to guide, encourage and celebrate others on their unique yoga journeys.
Her first priority in teaching is to create a safe, supportive and a celebratory environment for all. She embraces Slow Flow vinyasa yoga for building strength and balance, yin yoga for facilitating deep fascial release, and restorative yoga and Nidra meditation for nurturing rest and renewal of the nervous system. Mary Ellen is a forever student and currently pursuing education in functional movement, somatic movement and therapeutic yoga. |
Sheri Bettencourt
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The ocean energizes me, nature restores me, and dogs bring me endless joy. My journey has been filled with both challenges and growth—corporate burnout, divorce, and seasons of self-doubt—but also deep healing, rediscovery, and transformation. What I discovered through that journey is that struggle can be a doorway to transformation. And you don’t have to walk through it alone. As a certified wellness coach, meditation teacher, and guide who integrates gentle somatic practices, I understand the weight of stress and the longing for something more meaningful. My approach blends practical coaching with mindfulness, body-based awareness, and compassionate support. Together, we’ll uncover your strengths, quiet the inner critic, and design a path that supports who you truly are—inside and out.
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Marie DeGirolamo, OT, 200 CYT
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As a registered and licensed occupational therapist and yoga teacher, Marie is proficient in anatomy, physiology, kinesiology and psychology. She is passionate and committed to teaching foundational skills to all ages from children to adults in order to build strength and deepen practice both physically and mentally. She completed 200 hour yoga teacher training with Universal Power Yoga, Children's Yoga Certification with Cardio Kids, and The 26 & 2 method (formerly Bikram) with the Yoga College of India. Her children's classes include poses & simple sequences, yoga inspired games, stories, and crafts.
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Lynn Gillis, 500 CYT
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Lynn’s classes are an opportunity to step away from the pressures of everyday life and focus on self-discovery, growth, and acceptance. Yoga is a life-long study, which is why she continues to build new movement patterns and elements into her classes. Throughout our practice, we move through our own personal journey on the mat and leave with something that we can apply off the mat. Classes with Lynn are challenging and encourage you to dig deep and find your edge.
Lynn designs corporate benefit and wellbeing programs full time and after practicing yoga for over 15 years, she completed her 200-hour CYT Vinyasa Yoga instructor certification and her 500 CYT Vinyasa Solar Flow certification through Troy City Yoga. Lynn continues to learn new movement patterns; She is also a certified Level 1 Animal Flow Instructor and an Inside Flow Gold Instructor. Lynn has practiced under Abbe Ciulla, Shireena El Gallal, Jenna Fitzhugh, Michael Aubin, Roshan Chopra, and Rebecca Rasmussen. |
Linda Shweiri, 200 CYT
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Linda is a 200-hour CYT who trained with some of the most passionate (Jacqui Bonwell, David Vendetti, Johnny Gilespie). Her passion and never-ending curiosity with yoga has taken her to various studios, wellness centers, and places of worship in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Arizona, Nicaragua, and Lebanon.
She considers herself blessed to have practiced and learned different yoga practices from many incredibly gifted teachers. She discovered the ancient practice of sound healing and earned her certificate of achievement in the study of sound healing with Jessica Kozak Shaw, spiritual medium, teacher, and owner of The Soul Purpose. Linda's vibrational healing of sound waves include Koshi chimes and quartz crystal sound bowls. Linda is passionate about santosha, being content where she is in life at any given moment and interested in all healing practices that bring us back to our true, authentic selves. She is currently an interfaith mystic minister. |
Kara Lyn Torman
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Kara’s sound healing journey began at an early age through a love of music and dance. Her current sound practice includes crystal singing bowls, Buffalo drum, wind chime, rain stick and Tibetan singing bowl. As a single mother of two boys, she leaned into the power of breathwork, energy work, and sound vibrations to heal emotional and physical pain. This became a passion which led her to further study sound with Eileen Decelle, Boujee Hippie, and Maria Gauthier, Haven Sound, as well as Reiki with Master Amanda Hart, Eclipse Moon Reiki. Her spiritual journey also led her to tarot through which she passes along guidance from the Universe and our ancestors. In combination with Reiki and Tarot, Kara curates a unique experience to help you release stagnant energy, align chakras and connect with your higher self. When Kara is not busy immersing herself in sound and healing, she is a Project Manager for an event technology company.....still creating calm from chaos.
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Leo Simpson, 500 RYT
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A number of years ago whilst struggling on a rock face during a climbing trip on the Via Ferrata in the Italian dolomites, a friend of Leo’s suggested he try yoga to lose some weight and build strength. The rest is now history. Today Leo lives, eats and sleeps yoga and Reiki. Leo completed his 200hr YTT with Rolf Gates in 2011. Concurrent with his yoga path, Leo developed a deep interest in Reiki and under the guidance of Pat Iyer, is also a Master Reiki practitioner.
His mission is to inspire other human beings, particularly those struggling with life, to become healed and to change and grow by sharing every bit of knowledge and wisdom he has gained throughout his lifetime. In order to do this, his immediate mission is to prepare himself fully by adding missing arrows to his quiver and developing all the skills necessary to successfully achieve his mission. To this end, in 2018, Leo completed his 300hr YTT with Jacqui Bonwell and together with a sensational group of human beings is now a 500hr RYT. Since 2016, Leo has done extensive training in the Chakras with Anodea Judith. Leo lives his life by two mantras: "Life is short, so eat dessert first” and more importantly “Live, laugh love, breathe, be kind and leave a legacy”. |
Shubalananda Saraswati
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Shubalananda Saraswati is an American sadhu devoutly traveling since 1995 while sharing this powerful blues-rooted kirtan, an ancient call & response spiritual practice from India offered as a loving gift to his Guru, his highest self, & the community around him. Join us to sing your true heart’s song with Shubalanda & his band. This Dakshina based Bhakti yoga practice is offered freely so all are welcome & no one is ever turned away. Please leave a donation if you can in addition to your love, appreciation & meaningful participation.
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Lisa Bouchard, 500 CYT
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Lisa's yoga journey has been a blend of strength, stillness, and soulful movement. She fell in love with the dynamic flow of Vinyasa, the meditative stillness of yin, and the breath-centered grace of Inside Flow - each offering a unique way to connect mind, body, and spirit. What she cherishes most about yoga is its ability to help us step away from the daily grind and simply be present. Her teaching philosophy is all about making yoga accessible - honoring your unique body and guiding you toward a practice that feels both empowering and sustainable.
Training: 200-hour YTT with Yoga Faith 300-hour YTT with Chromatic Yoga & Matt Giordano 100-hour Inside Flow Yoga Certification in "The Roll Model" Myofascial Release/ Jill Miller |
