Lesa Kingsbury, ERYT, Director
Lesa is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance, and a Certified Yoga Therapist. She opened the first Amba Yoga Center in January 2001.
Strongly rooted in the Iyengar tradition, with over 14 years of experience in this style, she brings to her yoga practice a deep appreciation of form and function, together with a special attention to detail from her past career as an architect in California and Manhattan.
Lesa's teaching philosophy is simple: address each student at their own level, so that they can learn each pose in a manner and at a pace which offers them maximum benefit.
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Lisa Iacono, RYT
Lisa began her yoga journey 12 years ago. In an effort to enhance her martial arts practice (she has a black belt in Tai Kwon Do and Jujitsu), she began studying yoga, initially with Certified Iyengar Instructor Rose Dwyer. Achieving her RYT status through both Yoga Fit and Kripalu she went on to her first teacher training with Shiva Rea. From here she developed her Shakti Yoga teaching style and love of Vinyasa. Some of her favorite teaches are Shiva Rea, Duncan Wong, Baron Baptiste and John Friend. Her teaching style blends science, philosophy and art into one, creating the path of the Peaceful Warrior to transform and energize body, mind and spirit. You can find out more about Lisa at www.flowintoyoga.com.
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| Meg Messina, RYT
has combined a lifetime of personal fitness with the joy of teaching others. She draws from her multi-discipline certifications in Fitness and Nutrition to create an informed blend of anatomy, movement and fitness. She is dedicated to personalizing her classes to help each student reach their full potential and carry those skills over into everyday activities. Her caring, encouraging teaching style, and attention to detail enhances each student’s potential for reaching their personal goals.
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| Regina M McGowan, RYT
Regina began her journey into yoga through a love for Asana practice and a desire to bring balance to her life. She passionately leads her class to build confidence in each individual student while inspiring a balance of their mind and body that can be brought off the mat and into their life. Having found her roots in the Vinyasa style of yoga, Regina is currently a 200-hr certified yoga instructor with Yoga Alliance and will receive her 500-hr certificate by years end. She is a key Yoga Teacher Trainer for the Always-at-Aum Yoga 200-hr certification program, specializing in anatomy. In addition, Regina is an Attorney licensed to practice in New York and California, a Reiki Practitioner, a Horse Trainer and an Equine Acupressure Practitioner.
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| Angelique Katsoulas, RYT
Angelique, is a 1998 graduate of both Long Island Yoga Teacher Training Institute Certification and an Ashtanga Yoga Certification under close tutelage of Beryl Bender Birch.
Angelique has also studied extensively with renowned yoga teachers Sri Dharma Mittra, Marianne Mitsinikos and Moksha Priya. Not only was she the owner and sole proprietor of the Enlightened Path Yoga Studio in Setauket, she was also a certified personal trainer with the National Federation of Personal Trainers from 1992-99.
Angelique is a multi-talented teacher of Pilates-fusion, Flow Yoga and the Ashtanga primary seres. From her experience as a group instructor and private consultant, Angelique works with each student in a way that helps them to grasp the fundamentals of yoga on their own terms. She creates an environment that is both supportive and upbeat, which works to motivate all her students on to greater health and personal empowerment.
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Carol Eugenia Burns, PhD
Carol has studied and practiced yoga for over 30 years. Her primary teaching at Amba is Pranayama, or controlled breath work. She is a certified intermediate instructor in the Iyengar Tradition, and has taught since 1980. She has studied with, among others, the senior advanced Iyengar teachers Radames Silvestri in Italy and with the great B.K.S. Iyengar in the US and in India.
Carol also holds a PhD. in Art History, having specialized in Venetian Renaissance Architecture. In addition to the able bodied, she has worked extensively with the ill and the injured.
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Nancy Popp, RYT, LMT
Nancy has been teaching in the fitness industry for over 16 years. Starting in aerobics as a teacher, national competitor and aerobic champion she has also been featured in a wide variety of fitness videos. Her enthusiasm for health and healing now takes the form of teaching yoga and massage. Her classes are both challenging and light hearted. Nancy is dedicated to a practice linked to her roots in the Iyengar tradition and a flow of grace from her past dance training as well.
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Donna Dragani, RYT is a certified yoga instructor registered with Yoga Alliance. Donna is dedicated to bringing the gift of yoga to people from all walks of life within the Suffolk community, including teaching at a correctional facility for female juvenile offenders. In her graceful vinyasa class she incorporates pranyama and meditative techniques as well as philosophies from the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Donna supports the traditional precepts of yoga by respecting every individual in their uniqueness, and by teaching yoga as a holistic system that empowers students -- enhancing their physical, mental and emotional well being.
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| Talia Scalise, RYT
She started her journey into yoga from gymnastics. With four dedicated years of practicing yoga and 8 years of teaching a variety of spin, sculpt and water aerobics courses in the fitness industry, Talia took the leap and followed her passion becoming certified in 2010 with Jewel in the Lotus. Talia’s interest in Yoga goes beyond the physical plane. In 2011 she completed her Masters in Psychology from Stony Brook University, and is currently employed by SUNY Stonybrook’s Psychiatry Department to research psychosocial predictors of hypertension. She looks to incorporate the practice of mindful meditation and yoga as a component of treatment for stress and disease. She also teaches a variety of yoga classes for students on Campus.
Talia’s asana training is strongly rooted in Ashtanga, and draws inspiriation from Sri Dharma Mittra. Not only are her classes geared to guide the student through the physical asanas, but she weaves her knowledge of Yoga Philosophy that provides for a deeper understanding of the human condition. You will find her classes fun and light-hearted with her own eclectic style of Vinyasa Flow.
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