Prana Yoga
Meet Our Instructors
| Kelly Corazzi |
Kelly has been practicing yoga for ten years and
teaching for six. She simply could not imagine her life without yoga in it.
After trying many different types of yoga, vinyasa continues to be her favorite
style. Her background includes over twenty years of dance training, which is
what she attributes to her love of vinyasa flow yoga, it is much like a dance.
She was naturally drawn to the rhythm, power, strength, confidence, and the
inner and outer grace it brings. After many years of living in addiction, Kelly
was fortunate enough to be shown the path of recovery, which yoga plays a huge
part in. She believes it is her dharma to teach yoga and spread the gift of
yoga to others. This desire inspired her to open Prana Yoga in November of
2008. Kelly is 200 hour RYT certified with Power Yoga Works, in the Baptiste
Vinyasa style. She has also trained with Sean Corn, Sadie Nardini, and Bryan
Kest. Amongst many workshops throughout the state. Kelly's philosophy on
teaching is to give a powerful class, while still maintaining a level of
spirituality. Her classes flow much like the cycle of life.
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| Ellen Dougherty |
I took
my first yoga class in 2008 in Ocean Beach, San Diego, CA and being a dancer
fell in love with the physical aspect of the practice. But it wasn't until a
few years later when I moved to LA and was introduced to Bryan Kest's power
yoga (Thank You Johnny!!!) in Santa Monica, CA that I immediately felt
it's powerful transformative effect... and began practicing regularly.
Yoga began and continues to teach me to love myself, to nurture myself from the
inside first, and to connect and stay connected to the divine essence within
me. A few months later I met my teacher Govindas (Ira Rosen) and
began a teacher training at his studio, Bhakti Yoga Shala, in Santa Monica.
I recently heard an interview by Ram Dass in which he says "when the
student is ready the teacher will appear." So it was for me. Since then my
life has changed in the most powerful, wonderful and beautiful ways
imaginable... With the guidance of my teachers, I have opened myself to
sharing the healing powers of yoga and to a lifelong journey of being of
service. I am forever a servant of the divine... |
| Terri Fulton |
I am a
Speech-Language Pathologist who found yoga 2 years ago while searching for a
fitness routine I enjoyed. A good friend directed me to Prana Yoga and
loving vinyasa yoga, I completed teacher training after a year of
practice. I thoroughly enjoy the ability to share the love of yoga
with new students and foster the awareness of a mind-body-spirit connection
found through the practice. I have had the opportunity to take workshops and
classes with Kelly Corazzi, Kelly OBrien, Sadie Nardini, Seane Corn, Mimi Rose,
Robin Appel and Teresa Millar. ‘Yoga is not just another self-improvement
exercise craze.....It is a practice of self-acceptance, which is a very
different thing. You don't need to be fixed; you simply need to....remember who
you truly are.’ ~ Gurmukh Khalsa. |
| Melissa Martini |
Melissa
is a mother of two, a wife, and a special education teacher. She began her yoga
practice over 14 years ago as a teenager, taking hatha yoga classes as part of
her fitness regime. Two years ago she began practicing regularly at Prana Yoga
under the teachings of Kelly Corazzi and Kelly O'Brien. She realized at once
that power vinyasa yoga was a necessity to her busy life in order to calm
anxiety, stay focused, regain a sense of spirituality and to create a healthier
lifestyle. In the summer of 2010 she became a 200 hour RYT through the Always
at Aum School under the guidance of Robin Appel, Theresa Millar, and Kelly
O'Brien. "Teaching
yoga is so important to me as it provides me with a channel through which I
spread feelings of empowerment and self-acceptance to others in a way I never
imagined possible." |
| Cat Keating |
Ashtanga yoga is the vehicle Cat uses in her strive to find strength, flexibilty, peace, and balance mentally, physically, and spiritually; and it is this same practice that she shares with her students in order to help facilitate the same development in them. Almost nine years of practice and almost eight of teaching have only increased her enthusiasm to share this gift. Cat has experienced firsthand all that a yoga practice can be in one's life and it is this sentiment she wishes to share with others. Cat has been certified through AAAI ISMA, as well as having had the opportunity to learn from some wonderful teachers and fellow students, but it is Nicole Scavo-Powell that has been her true teacher of this practice. |
| Nicole Scavo-Powell |
Nicole
has been practicing Ashtanga yoga for 14 years and teaching for 4 years.
She was certified through Lehigh Valley Yoga for her RYT YA, under Erica
McHugh. She has studied with Kino MacGregor, David Swenson, Todd Norian, and
David Williams. While caring for her terminally ill father, Nicole found
respite, encouragement, and inspiration through her yoga practice. She brings
this powerful, resilient energy to her students; along with her open-mind and
open-heart. Ashtanga yoga has brought true joy and happiness to Nicole; and
there is nothing she finds more fulfillment in than giving this gift to her
students. |
| Heather Solimini |
Heather has been practicing
vinyasa yoga for the last year and a half, and teaching since November. A
prodigal native of NEPA with a background in Pilates, weight-lifting,
nutritional wellness, ballet, and equestrian training, she happened to reach
for yoga while most in need of its many rewards -- empowerment in liberating
preconceived notions of one's capabilities and limitations, fortified
self-confidence through building one's strength, balance, and focus, and the
comfort of learning to make peace with the moment, to remain calm no matter how
uncomfortable the circumstances, to just be and breathe; she was consequently,
utterly hooked. After less than eight months, desiring to expand yoga's
role in her life, she enrolled in the Always-At-Aum teacher training school at
Prana Yoga. Six months and 200 hours of study later, Heather was certified as a
RYT-200 in vinyasa yoga. Her enthusiasm for yoga is conveyed through creatively
sequenced flows and an emphasis on breath awareness and linkage to
movement. Instructing with confidence and poise, she hopes above all to
inspire students to burn for their practice and to move with openness of body,
mind, breathe, spirit, and energy |
| Meg Trelease |
Meg has had a lifelong love affair with the
power of movement, both as a professional dancer and choreographer and as a
yogi. She did her teacher training at Laughing Lotus in New York City
under the guidance of Dana Flynn, Jasmine Tarkeshi, and Betsy Davis, and it was
there that she realized that teaching yoga was truly a calling of love.
Meg’s classes are creative, devotional, playful and (she hopes) a celebration
of life! She believes that her students are her greatest teachers, and
she thanks Kelly Corazzi for being an inspiration. “There are hundreds of ways
to kneel and kiss the ground…” -Rumi
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