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Meet the Teachers
MATT PHIPPEN
22 to 24 November — Redefining the Breath
With a variety of formal training in many disciplines, Matt’s teaching pulls from numerous styles in the Yoga system, as well as Postural Restoration, Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization and Functional Range Systems. Blending the old with the new, and combining tradition with science, Matt offers an intelligent and relevant style for students wanting to improve the way they move and breathe, and for teachers seeking insight and refinement in the way they teach.
Matt is based in Los Angeles, and teaches classes, workshops, and trainings online and all around the world.
KATE GILLESPIE
6 to 8 December — Methodical Sequencing
Kate's practice began over 20 years ago. There was an immediate shift in her hamstrings, but the far more profound shift in her whole being was what hooked her. After nearly a decade of practice, she pursued her first teacher training program in Costa Rica, with the intention of deepening her personal practice and having an extended vacation from a demanding finance career. The rest is history.
Kate loves the fluid nature of a Vinyasa practice, but also craves the details of alignment and science of functional movement. Her teaching continuously evolves as a combination of those 3 elements as she keeps learning and growing. She loves sharing this with others and helping people create their own embodied practice.
ALBERT BISSADA
24 to 26 January — The Mysticism of Yoga
A senior yoga teacher and source of inspiration for the Tradition in Quebec, Albert has taught pedagogy and philosophy in numerous trainings and workshops, often focused on guided visualisation, self development and inner healing.
His approach — inspired by his work as a hypnotherapist and by wisdom-seekers such as Carl Jung — aims to open the symbolic imagination of the seeker and activate the dormant forces in their unconscious mind. His teaching are also greatly influenced by Vipassana meditation, of which he had a dedicated practice for over 10 years.
KIMIKO TAO FUJIMOTO
7 to 9 February — YIN RESTORE: The Ritual of Metamorphosis
Kimiko Tao Fujimoto holds space for creative and soulful expression through the healing and yogic arts. For the past 18 years, she’s seeded numerous studios and trained hundreds of students in the methods of Hatha Vinyasa, Kundalini Yoga, Yin and Restorative Yoga.
Following her heart led her to establish a Mentorship practice as an energetic healer and flower essence herbalist. Her love of nature inspires her Ceremonies of Yoga, both intimate and large-scale experiences that integrate earth based spirituality with collective embodied transformation. She has a passion for creating nurturing and exploratory spaces for students to follow their unique pathway with skillful depth, knowledge, and genuine devotion.
KARL NOTARGIOVANNI
21 to 23 March — Traditional Chinese Medicine
Karl has thousands of hours of study in several styles of yoga and massage under his belt. He is also a graduate of Concordia’s BFA Contemporary Dance program, and is a practicing acupuncturist and student of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Through his lectures and classes, he encourages trainees to refine the intimate connection with their bodies, through ease of movement and breath, fluidity, and personalized alignment. He sees every moment as an opportunity to increase awareness and to create physical, mental, and energetic homeostasis.
SARAH L'HRAR
21 to 23 March — Astrology Cycles for a Cosmic Practice
Sarah L’Hrar is a certified astrologer and designer living in Montreal, Canada with her 4 sons and husband. When she met Debra Silverman in California over 20 years ago, Sarah fell deeply in love with astrology, and felt validated and empowered like never before.
By teaching and giving readings, she continues to spread her passion for the stars and shares the liberation that astrology can offer with people everywhere. She uses astrology as a road map pointing her clients to their most soulful expression, with compassion, support, and humor. Her readings are empowering, energizing, and leave you with a renewed sense of possibility and concrete directives towards your personal liberation and soul-led life.
ABBIE GALVIN
4 to 6 April — Katonah Yoga
Abbie Galvin is the owner of The Studio, a NYC based yoga studio, teaching Katonah Yoga. She has been honing this practice for the past 25 years and has a strong student-base from all around the world. Abbie's instruction is informed by her own creative process as a filmmaker and from her exploration of the therapeutic process as a psychoanalyst. She has learned over and over that truly participating in any formal process of self-exploration leads to transformation whether it be physical, psychological or intellectual.
Her goal is to engage students of yoga in the dialogue between their conscious and their unconscious selves because it is through that effort that we potentiate ourselves. It is her intention as a teacher to cajole each student in that most rigorous effort to be grounded, to grow upwards, and to participate in the creation of their best self.
OPALE ASHLEY
2 to 4 May — The Art of Resonance
Opale Ashley is a natural born artist and musician with over a decade of self-directed studies and certifications related to the creative human potential. She designs immersive wellness experiences, and stewards a co-sharing Temple for Flow State Therapy.
Ashley loves thinking outside the box about new ways of being, creating community, and travelling the road less travelled — like when she lived with Buddhist Monks in Thailand, and spent a decade restoring ecosystems through Permaculture. Her only compass: the whispers of her heart.
GABRIELLA PAOLETTI
2 to 4 May — Core + Pilates
Gabriela’s background in music and contemporary dance laid the foundation for her rich knowledge of movement and anatomy. She’s a dedicated learner, having countless trainings completed and years of full-time teaching experience, with pilates and massage therapy among her many skills.
After finding healing and empowerment through the practice of yoga, Gabriela now strives to show people that the power and confidence to create change comes from within. Her style is down-to-earth, anatomically focused, and creatively sequenced, and she helps bring people into a deeper state of self-awareness and discovery with expert assists and ambient, instrumental music.
KRISTA SCHILTER
23 to 25 May — Snake Charming: a Kundalini Experience
Krista (she/her) - a Gestaltist, horticultural therapist, writer, storyteller, and creator of GOLDEN CHAIN - is curious about body-based practices from the Kundalini + Katonah yoga lineages, Daoism, group process inspired by Gestalt psychotherapy, and creative process reflected in community. She’s motivated by our capacity to de-centre the human, to feel, to connect with the natural world, and to get quiet enough to listen so we may give voice to the voiceless, and open ourselves to mystery. She thinks a lot about making the mundane mystical and how the process of becoming is - in its simplest of ways - about noticing and paying attention.
Some of the things she likes include: laughing til her cheeks hurt, maintaining a free-write practice, the perfectly chilled apres-ski beer, talking to the trees, crying to the sky, swimming in cold waters, keeping habitually dirty feet.
SARA GALLAGHER BLOOM
Program director + studio co-founder
A teacher like no other, Sara’s engaging personality and poetic language will move you physically, mentally, and emotionally. After studying natural medicine as well as shamanic and energetic work, she fell in love with the variety of ways humans can connect to themselves — physical movement, ceremony, and the vibration of sound, to name a few.
Sara teaches with the purpose of expanding the ways we can find connection, and providing a comprehensive landscape of the doors to the self — hopefully instilling a curiosity to explore, and opening possibilities in people’s minds, hearts, and bodies. To her, it’s important that she supports her students’ rhythms by opening conversation around our shared human experience, including the global and personal currents of daily life, and sharing confidence and empowerment through physical movement.
