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Hamid Elsevar Hamidzadeh Ω Founder & Director
Hamid had a profound experience in his first Yoga class in February 2008. As he continued his practice and continued to discover his inner teacher, he decided to put his computer consulting business on hold and focus his energy on applying Yoga to life. This led to the founding of Hosh Yoga as a way to share this amazing path of self-acceptance in an affordable and genuine way. A teacher must also be a student. Hamid continues his studies under the guidance of his guru Yogiraj Alan Finger and his mentor Mona Anand in the ISHTA lineage (Integrated Science of Hatha,Tantra and Ayurveda). A 500-hr ISHTA certified RYT, Hamid has also completed ISHTA’s Prenatal teacher training program, and has recently finished Judith Hanson Lasater’s in Relax & Renew teacher training in Restorative yoga. When teaching, Hamid strives to create a welcoming and openhearted space for the students—where positive change can begin to take place,whether it be small or monumental. He hopes that each student may receive his suggestions with a sense of lightheartedness,an understanding that each person is his own best teacher, and a step closer to an understanding of one’s true Self.
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Yuuki Hirano Ω Co-Founder
Yuuki’s parents put him on skis when he was three and ever since he has been on his feet trying to find balance—whether it be skateboarding down the street, snowboarding through powder, hanging upside down rock climbing or just playing around. However when Yuuki was introduced to yoga in 2003, things started to shift as over time his practice became an integral part of his life. He found such great benefit from it that he enrolled in the teacher-training program at Yoga to the People and became an RYT 200-hr certified instructor at the end of 2008. At first, it was yoga’s effect on the body—being stronger, healthier, leaner, and more flexible that drew him to yoga. Yet, as his practice continued, through breath, asana and attention he came to sense the subtler transformations, realizing that beyond the physical there is more, much more. This is what Yuuki wishes to share with his students, to be curious and continue exploring the greater reaches within the human body. In 2011, he studied Yin Yoga with Corina Benner and became a certified instructor. The training exposed Yuuki to The Yin approach which allowed him to explore the complexity of the human body structurally, emotionally and energetically from a different vantage. Yuuki will forever be a student exploring through his own practice and with a multitude of amazing and knowledgeable teachers wherever and whenever he can. With all of this incredible wisdom in the world, Yuuki does his best to bring his understanding of it into class to share with his students. Being grateful for every moment and every breath. |
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Becca Broughton Ω Co-Founder
Becca’s introduction to yoga was in 2005 in her hometown of Richmond, VA. After moving to New York, she completed a 200-hour vinyasa training in 2008, and has been teaching children and adults since. Becca continues her studies with mentor Danielle Tarantola and is enrolled in The Yoga Foundation’s teacher training program in the teaching tradition of Krishnamacharya. To learn more about the work of this tradition visit www.theyogafoundationcenter.com In group classes students primary focus will be to develop and sustain a link between body, breath, and mind through the use of breathing techniques and dynamic and static asanas. |
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Alexandra Moga Alexandra began practicing yoga at the age of 15 and hasn’t left the mat since. After following her gut instinct through two pivotal periods in her life, attending a Culinary Arts Academy and spending nearly 5 years in Paris, she returned to her birthplace, New York City, where she would begin a third. In 2009, as a student of David Hollander, she was introduced to the Ashtanga style and a welcoming Mysore tradition. Shortly thereafter, she completed her first teacher training at the Ananda Ashram and before ever having visited the grounds, knew that Ananda’s rich history was part of her path; that teaching yoga was one of the few worthwhile endeavors she could ever fully dedicate herself to with a crystal clear heart, mind, body and spirit. The ashram’s intensive, scholarly, study of Sanskrit and the Yoga Sutras furthered her deep respect and appreciation for spiritual teachings.Influenced by a variety of styles including Hatha, Bikram, Power Vinyasa and Ashtanga, Alexandra aims to guide students to a place of relaxed strength, effortless quietude.www.thetopofmymind.com |
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Robyn Polo Apprenticing most recently to Ashtangi and Acro Yogi Olivier David made things real clear: Do not teach. Relay. Do not invent. Repeat. Keep it clear and simple. “Daily practice, all is coming.” The information passed through to students knows no ownership, only continues through a channel tuned much before our time.Robyn spent 6 months in South East Asia exploring Yoga and Thai Massage, among various health and wellness modalities. She earned her Yoga Alliance teaching certificate in 2008 from Yoga to the People and continues a search as student and teacher with unlimited fervor and curiosity. Sam Chase, S.N. Goenka, and Olivier David were integral in her process and still serve as inspirations on a continuing path.Cleanse the body, control the breath, quiet the mind. Transcend. |
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Christina Rufin Christina Rufin has a 18-year practice she began at Sivananda Yoga in NYC where she immersed herself in the teachings of yoga as well as the asana practices and meditation. After receiving her 200-hr certification from Aura Yoga, RI, she pursued her goal of reaching communities to whom yoga is not easily accessible and became certified with YogaEd to teach yoga to children and educators. Thereafter, she certified through School for Compassionate Action where she was trained to teach yoga and meditation to In-Need Communities.She is currently teaching children and at-risk teenagers who inspire her through their playfulness with asanas and their embrace of meditation. She is also studying the first 108 hours towards a 300-hr certification with SCA.Christina strives to empower the student to be their own teacher by giving them the space to listen to their own bodies and minds.Christina is very grateful to all her teachers and especially Jill Satterfield for opening her up to the great Grace and is very happy to be practicing and teaching with her Greenpoint community. |
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Cory Kantin Cory is a dreamer–she believes that with hard work, dedication and time… anything can be achieved. How else do you take a impatient, stressed out, inflexible and uncoordinated runner and turn her into blissful yogi? Cory, who works in real estate started practicing Bikram Yoga in 2007 to relieve the stress of the market. She found that after taking the 6:45AM class; nothing in her day was that intimidating–work was put into perspective. After gaining strength and flexibility she became interested in the spiritual and philisophical aspects of Hatha Yoga. In 2008, in a last ditch effort to chill-out, she booked herself on a last minute yoga retreat at Kripalu. She was taken by the instructor, whose energy was incredibly warm and loving and thought two things: 1. How can I get that happy? 2. The influence that you give the world does not have to be the result of some huge creation; your direct influence is your everyday presence and the happier you are, the more you can give.It was then she decided to do teacher training— not because she thought she would ever be a teacher, but because it had such a profound effect on her demeanor that she could only wonder what would happen to her after 200 hours of yoga? She signed up for Teacher Training at Om Yoga Center in Union Square in March of 09’. It was a lot of hard work, dedication and time, but she watched her physical and spiritual body transform.After finishing her training, it was natural progression to want to teach—how can you not want to share something that you love so deeply? It is this joy that she tries to bring to her classes— with a great respect for discipline and proper alignment she blends everyday life with yogic philosophy and fun. |
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Ashley Corbin-Teich Ashley discovered yoga as a teenager growing up in a small southern Vermont town. She felt instantly at home on a yoga mat and her practice complemented her competitive horseback riding and other athletic and artistic endeavors. The awareness, openness, focus, and calm that resulted from her practice have kept her doing yoga ever since. She has studied various styles and was certified through Kripalu in 2007. Her personal practice is an integral part of her life and she attempts to stay present and breath through every experience on and off her yoga mat. Her classes focus on coordinating breath with movement and create a space in which her students can discover and experience their full potential and self-expression. |
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Linnea Vedder-Shults Linnea has been practicing yoga for over 10 years and is honored to be able to share its gifts of transformation with others. She received her yoga teacher certification at Kripalu Yoga Center after an amazing 30-day, heart-opening intensive. Linnea creates a fun and loving space for practitioners to explore and deepen their yoga practice. Her classes integrate a strong foundation of alignment with a balance of heat-building vinyasa to challenge the body and silence to still the mind. Such stillness allows us to hear the voice of our inner source of quiet and strength. In 2010 Linnea received a reiki level one attunement. This healing energy enhances her yoga instruction.As well as being involved with yoga and reiki, Linnea is a drummer, singer and painter. Her band Cliffie Swan has released three albums and toured across the US and UK. Linnea’s relationship to her body as a rhythmic and tonal instrument helps her create interesting and dynamic yoga flows.www.linneayoga.com |
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Lauren Nagy Lauren would not be the person she is today without yoga. After struggling with depression for years with nothing but the loving insight of Vietnamese monk, Thich Nhat Hanh, to pull her through the darkness, she found the light of yoga. At the ripe, impressionable age of 17, Lauren began her yoga practice at a small gym in her hometown of Toms River, NJ. Yoga taught her about the intimate connection of all things and the inherent qualities of strength, love, peace, and happiness that are always available to be harvested from within. Yoga brought life and meaning back into her world, made her comfortable in her own body, brought stillness and peace to her mind, nourishment to her soul and love to all her relationships.After realizing this intensely positive transformation in herself, Lauren realized that it is her life’s purpose to give the gift of yoga. Lauren has since completed her 200 hour teacher training at the Center for Health and Healing and has been actively teaching since 2009. Lauren’s classes offer up the warmth and compassion of a yoga sanctuary, a safe place to grow your practice from the inside out. Her classes include postures to help open, strengthen, tone, calm, and detoxify the body, breath control, guided meditation and inspirational messages applicable to everyday life to help expand the yoga practice beyond the mat. |
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Nisha Whitfield Nisha’s first experience with yoga was in 2004. She was randomly given a book called Hatha Yoga while riding the muni in San Francisco. Soon after she was building her own lessons and learning to become attuned to the subtle and energetic qualities of the poses; albeit at the time not fully understanding the philosophical significance. Nonetheless, that book would mark the beginning of a practice that would ultimately transform her. Nisha credits Yoga for helping her to develop space, balance, and stillness in the areas of life that need it most.The consistent inspiration she finds in the practice of Yoga motivates her to teach classes that are designed to enhance moment to moment awareness; in addition to weaving the calm of yogic philosophy onto the streets of New York. Nisha completed the teacher training program at ISHTA Yoga (Integrated Science of Hatha, Tantra, and Ayurveda).Outside of Yoga, Nisha hails from a rich multi-cultural background that has influenced a love of good music, good food, and belly laughs. Nisha is also the Artistic Director for ReniGraef Productions, an entertainment company that produces shows at various New York City venues.www.renigraefproductions.com || www.yogabynisha.com |
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LeAnn Renee New York is a swirl of noise and movement that can disorient even the most stable person. Yoga enabled LeAnn to find quiet ground in the midst of the swirl. However, it is the giggles during class keep her coming back. She is personally known to have real life moments in balancing poses. Her focus drifts and there is a thump as she loses her balance usually followed by a deep breath, a giggle, and then a second attempt at the pose. The memories of those moments bring a smile to her face and bring her back to class to learn, to focus and to share the joy.LeAnn approaches yoga as an experiment, exploring until she finds the sequences and practices that bring the most personal benefit to her students. In addition to the levity and joy of yoga, she finds great value in presenting the how and why of a practice along with the physical cues. LeAnn completed her 200 hour teacher training at ISHTA (Integrated Sciences of Hatha, Tantra and Ayurveda) where she was motivated and inspired by her teachers Jean Koerner, Wendy Newton, Melissa Brassier and Michael Bartelle. She is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) through Yoga Alliance. |
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Julia Montepagani “The body can shed its evolutionary skin, secrete antiquated habits of survival that lean closer to extinction than animation. Invigorate. Pretend. Participate as best you can.” —Cheryl Pallant, Contact ImprovisationJulia received her certification from Three Sisters Yoga in New York. She regularly practices Prana Flow at Sonic Yoga, a studio greatly influenced by the teachings of Shiva Rea. Julia is continuously inspired by the power of yoga, and by the power unveiled in those who practice. Energetic, spiritual, and physical alignment; focus, presence and acceptance; and imagination and spontaneity are keys to finding one’s flow, in practice and in life. A practitioner of other forms of meditation, movement and creativity, including contact improvisation and the visual arts, she is interested in exploring the myriad of ways we sense and move through the world. |
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David Silverberg “What is here is elsewhere. What is not here is nowhere.” -Vishvasara TantraAfter years spent as a member of full-time touring punk bands, an animal rights activist, and just generally rambling around the United States and Europe, David Silverberg discovered a consistent yoga practice at ISHTA (Integrated Science of Hatha, Tantra, and Ayurveda) Yoga in the winter of 2009. After completing the ISHTA 500-Hour teacher training program, he continues to study Tantra and Kriya yoga on his own and with countless teachers, including Yogiraj Alan Finger and ISHTA Senior Teacher Jean Koerner.His class is a strong alignment and breath based flow practice rooted in the philosophy of ISHTA. Integrating a no-nonsense approach to asana and meditation with a sense of humor and ease, he hopes to help students discover their own personal practice and the perfection that already exists within each of us. He is a full-time musician and teacher in New York City. He finds writing in the third person tacky. |
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Katie Cercone Katie Cercone has been practicing yoga for thirteen years. Originally from Santa Rosa, CA, she became a certified yoga instructor in 2011 at Namaste Yoga and Tranquility Center in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Cercone believes yoga is a powerful healing modality and potent source of consciousness raising worldwide. Her approach to teaching incorporates energetic principles and views asanas (poses) as tools for transformation and mind/body balance. She believes that yogic postures facilitate lines of energy or ‘vibratory currents’ for the circulation of Prana (breath/life force) causing the release of psychophysiological blocks toward the formation of a light body. In addition to teaching Hatha Vinyasa flows at Hosh, Cercone is an interdisciplinary fine artist working primarily in the mediums of performance and video sculpture, writer, curator, member of the all female arts collective The Push Pops and teaches a gender studies course at the School of Visual Art. She is available for yoga privates and Reiki healing sessions. |
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Will Klein WIlliam Klein first encountered yoga at the age of seventeen when a friend took him to a class at their local YMCA. He had mono and was wearing jeans, but began practicing regularly after that. In 2007, Will spent several months in India studying yoga while traveling, and was exposed to many of the philosophies and influences behind our modern conception of yoga. He moved to Brooklyn in 2008 to finish college, and received his teacher training from the Kripalu Center in July 2011. Will’s classes are flow-based and energizing with an emphasis on pranayama, alignment, and self-compassion. For Will, yoga is as much a practice for individual expression and healing as it is a tool for community building and social justice. . |
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Charlotte Charlotte began her love affair with yoga in 2006 after 15 years of studying and performing classical ballet, and completed her 200-hour teacher training in vinyasa yoga at OM Yoga Center in New York City. Her practice and teaching are informed and inspired by the grace, joy and discipline of dance, and the beautiful simplicity of Buddhist mindfulness principles. Her class combines a vigorous, juicy vinyasa flow with detailed alignment instruction and a lighthearted tone, allowing each student to make the most of each pose physically and emotionally. Charlotte’s wish is to offer everyone an inclusive and safe space to discover their own potential and the transformative power of yoga. She is honored to be able to serve the Hosh community. . |
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Danielle White Danielle grew up in the Dominican Republic and comes from a family of holistic healers and medical doctors. She has always been fascinated by the effects of emotions on behavior and health. In 1998 she moved to NYC where she completed her degree in Psychology.She was first introduced to yoga in 2007 during her ninth month of pregnancy.Through her practice with many well respected teachers of different styles (Power Vinyasa, Ashtanga, Iyengar & Jivamukti) Danielle experienced how conscious movement also had a strong effect on her emotions and internal well being. In 2010 she completed her 200 hour teacher training at Pure yoga under the tutelage of Kay Kay Clivio and David Hollander.Danielle offers an invigorating and detoxifying class incorporating the dynamics of Ashtanga yoga combined with Iyengar alignment. Her class allows students to practice being present with their body and breath in challenging situations. |
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Henry Cross I started dancing at the age 10. I started by learning Latin American folklore and ballroom dancing. During college, I discovered yoga as a stamina training activity for dance. I established a Bikram and Vinyasa practice. My love of yoga, dancing, and teaching made my transition into becoming a certified yoga teacher an easy move. Today, I teach ballroom, academics, and yoga as I continue to grow in all three fields. As a yoga teacher, I welcome and encourage yogis to explore their bodies, activate their inner teacher, and pave the path to their a self-actualization via the breath. My goal in class is to guide students through a mindful practice whereby the function of breathing is used to access the form of an asana. Namaste. |
