Teachers and Healers

Angela Phillips, E-RYT 500 Deeply committed to the essence of yoga, Angela has been inspired since she first read Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda in 1976. Angela offers a multi-dimensional approach to her teaching based on years of study with some of the most influential yoga practitioners, including Donna Farhi, Eric Schiffman, Patricia Walden and Temple of Kriya Yoga. Her yoga teaching is enriched with certifications in Barratt Breath Work and Thai Yoga Therapy and she is a 500-hour Registered Yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance.

Ann Richardson http://www.astangiann.com

Bonny Griffin, RYT 500 Bonny has been teaching yoga since 1997 and is a graduate of the 500 hour Kripalu Teacher Training from the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lennox, MA. She is currently expanding her studies with Yoganand Michael Carroll and his Pranakriya Teacher Training. Bonny (being a Cancer) is family oriented and encourages taking yoga off the mat and into the home and family life. She loves teaching yoga to kids and teens, and her special interests are partner yoga, yoga nidra and meditation. She includes Angela Phillips, Christy Brock, Rodney Yee, Esther Myers, Angela Farmer, Sudhir Jonathan Foust, and Toa Porchon-Lynch as influential teachers in her life.

Debbie Harrell CYI, RYT-200 Debbie Harrell approaches her teaching with an emphasis on breath, alignment, and compassion. She began taking yoga classes in 1999. In 2002 she decided to study teacher training in the Astanga tradition with Beryl Bender Birch at Omega Institute of Holistic Studies in New York. She has had the good fortune to attend workshops in various yoga traditions with a number of nationally recognized teachers including John Friend, Suzie Hurly, Dave Oliver, Dharma Mittra, Judith Lasater, and Toa Porchon-Lynch. She is registered with Yoga Alliance as a 200-Hour Hatha Yoga instructor. A native of Hampton Roads Debbie is a graduate of Old Dominion University and resides in the Ocean View area of Norfolk.

Deosil Originally from Norfolk, Virginia, Deosil has studied music since he was eight years old. Now, more than twenty years later he has begun a different path - the path of sound healing. He has spent the last five years composing both acoustic and electronic music and has been interested in meditational practices and healing through music. Fusing acoustic elements with electronic ambience makes for a very special sound in his music. While still looking for distribution, Dylan promotes his music through word of mouth and also uses the internet as a springboard for his success. He currently lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia with his wife, Sarah, and has read and studied earth based religions, vedic writings, Tibetan mysticism and the teachings of His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama. He is currently working with several yoga instructors, massage therapists, and spiritual healers in the Hampton Roads area to promote his music and use it during their classes/sessions.

Deva Premin For 17 years, Premin has been a leading facilitator of mediation at the OSHO Mediation Resort in Pune, India where she resides. She visits Virginia Beach in the summer and provides experiential opportunities for others to have a direct encounter with their essence through meditative techniques and bodywork.

Dr. Harold Kornylak, D.O., ACTE Practicing since 1983, Dr. Kornylak specializes in manual medicine and a wide variety of body-oriented psychotherapeutic approaches. Over the last 10 years, he has studied and taught Tantra and sexual healing with some of the premier teachers in the U.S. and abroad, including Charles and Carolyn Muir, Margot Anand, and Deborah Anapol. He brings a unique awareness of energy and capacity to bring groups of people into high states of ecstatic bliss.

GuruGanesha Singh " Devotional music stalwart GuruGanesha handles the guitar with effortless grace, slipping easily between chordal rhythms and mellifluous leads..." - Alan di Perna, Yoga Journal, Rolling Stone, Guitar World "Music is the most meaningful outlet for my creative self and it is the most heartfelt expression of my essence as a human being." -GuruGanesha

Har Sharan Har Sharan has worked with men, women and children in her successful 16-year business. Her clients have come from all walks of life, including individuals undergoing cancer therapy. She is a volunteer for Lee's friends a local organization helping people live with cancer. Her qualifications include teaching yoga and meditation for the past 8 years, and certification as a teacher of the 3HO International Kundalini Yoga Teacher's Association. She is an ongoing student of Atma Kaur Khalsa in the golden chain from Yogi Bhajan since 1977.

Jonathan Tripodi If you love the freedom that yoga brings, check out Jonathan's Unwinding Seminars! He also leads group OSHO meditations, from time to time.

Linda Tingle LINDA TINGLE has studied and worked with subtle energy most of her adult life. In her early twenties she studied yoga and alternative health practices. She moved to Florida and lived in an ashram practicing satsong, service, and meditation. She was led to move back to Virginia In the eighties and opened a flotation tank service, intensely studying meditation and contemplation. In 1985 Linda became a certified massage therapist and body worker. She soon progressed to neuromuscular, myofascial, and craniosacral therapy with an emphasis on relieving pain. Linda has extensively trained in the St. John method of Neuromuscular and Upledger system of craniosacral therapy through the Advanced II level and is a presenter for the Upledger Institute. She has trained in Reiki through the master level. She has studied and worked with the Barratt Breathwork healing art since 1999. Linda has taught Neuromuscular, Myofascial, Introduction to Craniosacral, Hydrotherapy, and Introduction to Subtle Energy and Body Energy, The Business of Healing for Massage Therapist, Intermediate Massage, Yoga and Reiki for the Cayce-Reilly School of Massotherapy, the Advanced Fuller School of Massage, the Subtle Energy Institute, the Body Energy Institute and Universal Movement. She is a certified yoga instructor and maintains a private practice in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Melissa Smith, RYT Melissa started practicing yoga 13 years ago to help heal sports injuries, and to increase her focus and concentration. In 2002, she traveled to Hawaii for a vacation and ended up trying Bikram Hot Yoga for the first time. She fell in love with it. Returning to Virginia Beach, she realized that her true desire was to teach Bikram Yoga, but had no means of making that happen. As fate works out, Melissa won a sweepstakes from Coca Cola, which was being held at a local surf shop. The prize money was the exact amount of the cost of Bikram's Yoga College of India Teacher Training Program, and, yes, Melissa definitely believes in miracles. After two physically and mentally exhausting months in Los Angeles, she finished Bikram's 500 hour certification program. Melissa has completed her associates degree in Dietetics and Nutrition, and, with the help of her yoga practice, incorporates this knowledge to achieve a healthy lifestyle. In June of 2004, Melissa received her Level II Vinyasa Training certification from Jimmy Barkan. She has assisted Jimmy at Kripalu and has trained and done workshops with Bikram Choudry, Baron Baptiste, Paul Grilley, Shiva Rea, Christy Brock, Annie Pace and others. Melissa has also done workshops with Sean Corne, practicing medical intuition techniques and healing through energy centers (chakras). She finds liberation through studying all styles of yoga and incorporates this sense of freedom into her teaching.

Ngoc Xuan Nguyen (Master Adam) Ngoc Xuan Nguyen, known as Master Adam, is a descendent of Quang Trung Nguyen Hue, 18th century Vietnamese King and Yoga Master. For centuries, the Nguyen clan has practiced Raja, or Royal Yoga, passing it down from generation to generation.

Rosie Taylor, CMT, RYT 500 Rosie Taylor RYT500 has been a student of Iyengar Yoga since 1978. She completed an Iyengar Teacher Training course with Kofi Busia in Oxford, England, in 1982. While living in Oxford she taught courses at the John Radcliffe Hospital and also at the Oxford Ashram. After some busy years raising her children, she resumed yoga teaching in 1991 in Williamsburg, and, in 1996, introduced yoga to the curriculum of the Kinesiology Department at the College of William and Mary. She is a 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance, teaches at various locations in Williamsburg and Virginia Beach.

Tracy Carpenter Tracy was first introduced to yoga in the late 1980's and has been exploring Tantra with Dr. Kornylak since Aug, 2006. Tracy enjoys connecting intimately with others, and if there is a block, digging it up and relinquishing it to The Universe. When she grows up, she wants to teach yoga to kids and to share the joy of Tantra with all. Tracy enjoys reading about psychology and spirituality, building dynamic websites, and doing all sorts of things with her son, CJ and daughter Emma.