Gateway Yoga, Raleigh, North Carolina
-- Henry Thoreau
About Lila Pierce Brown
Lila Pierce Brown is a Certified Anusara Yoga Teacher and the founder and director of Gateway Yoga, an Anusara Yoga Studio in Raleigh, NC. She is dedicated to the life-affirming and transformational aspects of Anusara Yoga and feels blessed to share such an elegant practice with the community. Lila has studied extensively with her teacher John Friend since their meeting in 2002 and was certified by Friend in 2005. She enjoys offering Anusara Yoga Immersion programs and teacher trainings throughout the area and has taught Anusara Yoga at the American Dance Festival in Durham, NC since 2008. One of Lila's great joys is to guide students into a space of true transformation, encouraging them to continually discover, honor, and gracefully reveal the deep potential that lies within through the brilliant practice of Yoga.
About Lydia
Lydia Pangborn, RYT-200, has been teaching yoga since 1998 and became Hatha Yoga certified through the Asheville School of Yoga in 2002. Currently, she has obtained Anusara-Inspired status (Anusara.com) and expresses a commitment to the Anusara style of yoga created by John Friend. Lydia is thankful to all of the teachers she has studied with in the past and hopes to inspire others with her teaching as she continues to learn and grow. Please visit her website at: www.luminousyoga.com for more information.About Melinda
Melinda Thomas Hansen, RYT, is an Anusara Inspired yoga instructor. She has been practicing yoga for 10 years & has devoted her studies to the heart opening, life affirming teachings of Anusara Yoga since 2005. She is a graduate of the Triangle Anusara Institute and is working toward Anusara Certification. Melinda feels blessed to study with some of the most skillful & bright teachers in the world including Certified Anusara Instructors Sommer and Paul Sobin & Anusara's Founder, John Friend. She especially offers immense gratitude to her primary teacher, mentor, and friend, Certified Anusara Instructor & Founder of Gateway Yoga, Lila Brown. Through Anusara's rich philosophy & transformative Universal Principles of Alignment Melinda seeks to empower students to live brilliantly from the heart by viewing embodiment as a gift & loving the life we are each given.About Michelle
Michelle Corey has been teaching in the physical health and fitness community since 1987. She loves the transformational power of yoga and delights in sharing this with her students. She is a graduate of the NC School of Yoga and is a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance. Currently, Michelle is on her way to becoming an Anusara-inspired yoga teacher. She loves the attention to alignment as well as the message of acceptance and love in all things that the practice of Anusara Yoga offers. Her classes provide an environment for both an invigorating experience and a heartfelt journey.About Holly
Holly Sansone is a teacher and an enthusiastic student of local Anusara Certified teachers Lila, Patience, Sommer and Paul. She hopes to offer her students the chance to find empowerment and joy in their lives through their yoga practices, and encourage them to embrace themselves and all of life's beautiful diversity. Through Anusara's Universal Alignment Principals and its focus on Tantric philosophy, she seeks to help students gain the courage to step into the possibilities of where their bodies can go and their spirits can lead them.About Meghan
Meghan knows she is here to help people connect more deeply with their hearts, spirits, & bodies, to inspire others to shine in their own unique ways, and to help each person discover the “Amazing Grace” that is within. Using the hula hoop as a key to help people open to their own creative essence, inherent goodness, and inner child, she truly knows that creative play with one's heart leading the way can transform a person's entire life, as it has done with hers. When Meghan teaches hula hooping she teaches from her heart and integrates her studies of Anusara Yoga, Dahn Yoga, Qi Gong, Tantric Philosophy, Energetic Healing, & Meditation. She is a certified Reiki practitioner, weaving this modality of working into every facet of her life, most especially when she teaches. She is thankful for life itself and offers much gratitude to her son Marley, her yoga teacher Lila Brown, Reiki teacher Ann Ehringhaus, & Anusara's founder John Friend. Blessings, Balance, Bliss & Much Love!
