From my first vinyasa class fourteen years ago, I knew yoga was for me for the rest of my life. Did I practice and teach yoga in another life? I especially enjoy introducing yoga to those who think they are too stiff, or sore, or injured or old. Not true! Come try a class with me! I am grateful to share my enthusiasm and expertise in each class that I am fortunate to teach. I especially love the moment when class finishes and everyone experiences the deep peace, satisfaction and enjoyment of the yoga experience. What can I offer and share? Only the best of what has been given to me.
ERYT-500 Prana Flow
RYT-200 Hatha Anusara Style
Barkan Hot Yoga Certified
Other trainings include Asthanga, Iyengar, and Partner Yoga
Over 4,000 teaching hours registered with Yoga Alliance

“I am always amazed at the strength and capabilities of these awesome bodies we are blessed to walk in every day. One of my favorite quotes is: “I’m in competition with only myself; I simply want to be a better me today than I was yesterday”. Yoga certainly supports this journey bringing balance and strength; both on and off your mat, to body and mind through a practice connecting breath and movement. I hope you’ll join me as we move through creative, challenging and energetic asanas; building strength and balance together. Namaste”
Kelly is an RYT-200 certified Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance

“I began by teaching classes for hockey players at the University of Vermont, Rice High School and youth hockey. I have taught classes for school students as well as classes for the “unflexible” and I have created classes for runners and athletes. My style moves slower to allow the body to warm up stretching tight muscles safely. I take time to adequately stretch the hips, hamstrings, quadriceps and glutes- areas that tend to be tight on athletes (and myself!). I also work with low back injuries and focus on strengthening the core to help support the back and the rest of the body. I believe deeply in the healing value of yoga. My ideal is for you to leave the class feeling like a sponge that was just wrung out- relaxed, content and happy!”

We all have ideas and thoughts about who we think we are or who we want to be as a person, but how do we get there? Right? For me yoga was a vehicle I never considered until one day someone suggested I give it a try. That was eleven years ago this March. I began practicing for the physical health benefits only to come full circle and realize it has brought balance and harmony into my life. What I practiced on the mat carried over into all aspects of my life off the mat. Yoga not only benefitted my health but also changed how I thought about myself and what I could do. It helped my see that I had the power to change my life in the simplest of ways that later lead to bigger and more positive changes. Yoga is the awareness that brings balance into life.
After receiving my 200RYT certification from Radiant Core Yoga School in Hendersonville Tennessee, I began my 300 RYT certification with Ashville Yoga Center in North Carolina. I will be finishing in June 2018. I have taught yoga for four and a half years at My Hot Yoga Place in Hendersonville Tennessee along with instruction for soccer players with United Soccer of Hendersonville. Within those years, I have taught at Foxland Yoga for two years. I was certified and taught with Connected Warriors a program that was for those who were active or retired military service men and women. I had the privilege of instructing for project 21 a program that provides activities and services to the mentally challenged.
I have moved back to Vermont after thirty-five years and now will be teaching right here at Hot Yoga Burlington Vermont on Mondays at nine am. My instructional style is anatomy based that teaches alignment according to the individual’s need and body. I emphasize breathing which goes along with vinyasa flow. However, the breath is a telephone wire that links the body and the mind. Once that connection/awareness is made yoga becomes a place that is like home where one can ease into a pose without the stress that we sometimes experience while in practice. Eventually we take this experience into all areas of our life finding balance and peace.
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Naomi has been using yoga, meditation, tarot, crystals and oils as tools for healing since she was a young child. She provides a safe practice space where participants are invited to examine themselves from new and different perspectives and to explore the freedom to shift in authentic ways. She is a self-healing helper in the Usui Reiki and Wise Woman Traditions and a guide on the path of Classically-Informed Contemporary Yoga. When not teaching, Naomi enjoys wandering the organic dairy farm and the surrounding hedges and woods where she lives off-grid in a yurt with her little family and their rescue dog, Ziggy.  Follow their adventures on IG! @theominnaomi

500 -hour Certified Yoga Teacher
Certified Restorative Yoga Teacher
Certified Therapeutic Yoga Teacher
Level Two Attuned Reiki Practitioner
Currently enrolled in:
Hathavidya 300 hr Classsical Yoga Teacher Training
Gaia School of Healing Plant Spirit Medicine Apprenticeship
Mudita Spirit School Shamanic Reiki Training

Born in the year of the metal horse, Jess’s personality does not fall short of expectations–fiery, friendly, bold and full of life. She will challenge you to push yourself physically when you can, embrace the emotions that come with asana, and shake your booty in downdog. Challenge her with questions about your own body as she loves the unique differences each body presents. She hopes to expand her knowledge of the body as she is in her 2nd year of the Doctorate of Physical Therapy program at UVM. Her educational goals are to improve her capacity to understand others and their abilities while cultivating self-love. Take away a giftl from her class–maybe it is the undercurrent of self love or the new song you’ll sing to yourself in the car on the way home. Come feel the warmth and take away some sunshine with you!