Larissa Hall Carlson, RYT 500, is a Kripalu Yoga teacher, Ayurvedic Yoga Teacher, Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant, and Yee Yoga teacher. A program leader and Ayurvedic Yoga Teacher for Kripalu’s Institute for Extraordinary Living, Larissa has taught yoga, meditation, pranayama, and yogic philosophy for the Tanglewood Music Center, Berkshire Opera Company, Juilliard School, and Boston Conservatory. She is also Assistant to the Dean for Kripalu’s School of Ayurveda. Creator of the CDs Meditative Yoga Flow: A Kripalu Sadhana and Ayurvedic Pranayama and Meditation for the Doshas, she teaches workshops, directs yoga trainings, and provides Ayurvedic consultations.

Devarshi Steven Hartman, RYT, Dean of the Kripalu School of Yoga, has been a yoga student and teacher for 30 years and is a former longtime Kripalu resident. Devarshi is the creator of the best-selling audio series The Essence of the Bhagavad-Gita. He leads workshops and retreats throughout the country and, in addition to teaching yoga, is a healing arts practitioner, a bodyworker, and a teacher of A Course in Miracles.
www.stevenhartman.com

Director and Founder of Hari NYC – Kundalini Meditation and Jazz – directs and teaches Kundalini Classes and Teacher Trainings, Level 1 and Level 2, in the US and abroad. Hari is co-author of “A Woman’s Book of Yoga: Embracing Our Natural Life Cycles” (Penguin 2002) and author of “A Woman’s Book of Meditation: Discovering the Power of a Peaceful Mind” (Penguin 2006). Prior to that Hari taught classes and training programs to all ages and levels. She shared Kundalini Yoga in high schools, taught specialized classes in area Boston hospitals, founded the Illumined Woman courses that highlight the Kundalini yoga practices and teachings for women at all stages of life including pregnancy, taught classes focused on creativity and the arts at Berklee College of Music, and more.

For ten years Hari served with Yogi Bhajan, directing his Level One Teacher Trainings in New Mexico and India. Over the years, Hari has directed over 50 level one Teacher Training courses, is a certified Level Two Trainer and has presented to groups of all sizes, including groups of several hundred students. Hari has received service awards from International Association of Kundalini Yoga Teachers, and was a founding board member of Yoga Alliance, serving on the board for 6 years, and committees for several years after that. Hari is a caring, inspiring, and down to earth teacher, making the powerful and healing teachings of Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan accessible to students of all levels. Inspired by years of study with Yogi Bhajan, Hari continues to serve all who come with smiles, and spirit.

Married to jazz musician Dave Frank, Hari and Dave make their home in New York City bringing music and kundalini to uplift the spirit.
http://www.harinyc.com/

Taylor Wells, M.A., M.Ed., RYT
Founder of Prana Power Yoga™ & Author

Taylor is an Author; founder and owner – with her husband – of Prana Power Yoga™ (5 studios in Massachusetts and New York); United Nations Yoga Peace Ambassador; Boston Herald Columnist; Clinical Psychologist; Boston Herald Blogger; Master Yoga & Spiritual Teacher; Creator and sole writer of Super-mom.com; and Healthy Lifestyle Activist. A graduate of of Brown University (A.B.) and Columbia University (M.A., M.Ed.), Taylor trains over 75 yoga teachers a year in her renowned Prana Power Yoga Teacher Training Program in both Massachusetts and New York. She is a happy Super-mom of five, including twin two-year-old boys, and resides outside of Boston. Taylor’s first book—Create The Best Life Ever: Real Life Stories to Get Inspired, Inspiration Card Deck, and DVDs are available at TaylorWells.me, pranapoweryoga.com, Amazon.com and selected stores.

Legendary yoga teacher Sri Dharma Mittra first encountered yoga as a teenager before meeting his Guru in 1964 and beginning his training in earnest. Sri Dharma Mittra founded one of the early independent schools of yoga in New York City in 1975 and has taught hundreds of thousands the world over for nearly a half century. He is the model and creator of the “Master Yoga Chart of 908 Postures”,  the author of ASANAS: 608 Yoga Poses, has released two DVD’s to date – Maha Sadhana: The Great Practice, Levels I and II, and the Yoga Journal book, Yoga, was based on his famous Master Chart. Sri Dharma continues to disseminate the complete traditional science of yoga through daily classes, workshops, and his “Life of a Yogi” Teacher Certification programs at the Dharma Yoga New York Center and around the world. For more information on all things Dharma, please visit: www.dharmayogacenter.com.

Lama Yeshe Palmo founded Dharma Nantucket the winter of 2011/12 to make available the teachings of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism to island residents and visitors. She was ordained a nun in 1996, entered the traditional Three Year Retreat at Kagyu Thubten Choling Monastery in Wappingers Falls, NY where she completed two Three Year Retreats back-to-back, then was asked to continue as the main caretaker for the women’s seminary program for the next successive two retreats, a total of 15 years. She has taught throughout the eastern US & holds the title of “Tripon” or “Teaching Lama.”

In addition to teaching PranaVayu classes and workshop worldwide, David serves as a faculty member at the Kripalu center for health in Lennox MA and is one of a small handful of teachers authorized to teach Mangalam Yantra Yoga under the guidance of Harvard University Buddhist Chaplain Lama Migmar Tseten. David has been featured regularly in the press with mentions in the Wall Street Journal, Self Magazine, Women’s Health, Travel + Leisure, Boston Magazine, Shape, and many other publications. He is also a regular contributor to Huffington Post’s Healthy Living section.
http://pranavayu.com/

Sita Devi is a yogini, Kirtan artist and ecstatic dance facilitator in service to the divine. She teaches Bhakti Vinyasa Flow Yoga, a combination of hatha vinyasa yoga and Kirtan, the art of ecstatic chanting. Sita holds a BFA in dance from the University of California Santa Barbara, and has been teaching yoga for 8 years most exclusively at Bhakti Yoga Shala in Santa Monica, CA and Festivals around the world.

As a Kirtan Walli, Sita sings and plays harmonium, guitar, kartals and mrdanga and has performed with Jai Uttal, David Starfire and Freq Nasty in Dub Kirtan Allstars, C.C. White, Jaya Lakshimi, Arjun Baba, Dave Stringer, Govindas and Radha, Prema Hara, Joey Lugassey, Saul David Raye, Steve Ross and Craig Kohland of Shamans Dream. Sita has performed and taught at – Lightning in a Bottle, Wanderlust, Symbiosis, Gaia, Pranafest, Bhaktifest, Shaktifest, Earthdance, Yoga Rocks the Park, Hawaii Spirit Festival and Mystic Island Festival.

She has accompanied yoga classes with live Kirtan for Shiva Rea, Baron Baptiste, Elena Brower, Annie Carpenter, Janet Stone, Micheline Berry, William Duprey and Govindas. Sita’s devotional service is intended to include all beings in experiencing divine love and light.

Marine Biologist, Scientific Diver, Yoga Teacher (500 hrs), Reiki Master, Pranic Healer, Yoga Slacker, AcroYogi, Adventurer, Triathlete, Traveler, Ironwoman and more…Raquel can be described by many labels; however, if you were to ask her which one describes her best she would simply say ‘all and none’.

After finishing her Masters Degree, she traveled to India to get her first certification in Yoga. Two years later, she decided to drop her PhD studies to pursue several yoga certifications, to dedicate all her efforts to the practice and to other adventures that made her heart smile. Raquel’s former life as a scientist keeps her mind busy while her athletic nature keeps her body active. Her passion is finding new challenges that need to be solved and explained with simplicity.
http://yogaslackers.com/