At Anjali, we offer you a unique and personalized yoga experience, blessed with exceptional teachers.
Instructors
Chris
Hatha yoga instructor Chris Coniaris is sought out locally and nationwide because of his inspirational and accessible teaching method. Chris has been doing meditation for 30 years and turned to yoga when doing triathalons in the 1980s. He started teaching yoga 12 years ago and has studied with many different teachers including most recently Dr. K. Jois in Mysore, India. “Yoga has given me more ability to direct my mind, focus my mind on anything be it meditation, a project or just a personal endeavor.”
Chris teaches Intermediate Yoga at 5:30pm on Tuesdays & Thursdays and Meditation at 7:30pm on Tuesdays.
Guru Ravi
A Certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor in the tradition of Yogi Bhajan, Guru Ravi Kaur Khalsa has been practicing Kundalini yoga for 36 years. A psychotherapist as well, Guru Ravi considers it her joy and privilege to assist others in their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual growth.
Guru Ravi teaches Kundalini Yoga at 6:30pm on Mondays.
Leah
In the nine years since her yoga practice was born, Leah has been blessed to study with teachers representing a range of styles, including Anusara, Bikram, Iyengar, Vinyasa, and generalized hatha. Leah’s Mixed-Level Hatha classes balance an attention to alignment with breath-centered flow, and encourage students of all levels towards practices appropriate for their bodies and lifestyles.
In addition to hatha, Leah is committed to the practices of jnana and karma yoga, and brings to her classes her explorations of yogic history and philosophy, as well as her experiences teaching yoga to teenagers, schoolteachers, Alzheimer’s patients, and others in the community. She is co-founder and Director of YogaReach, a nonprofit organization offering free classes in yoga and meditation to under-served youth (www.yogareach.org).
Leah teaches Mixed Level Yoga at 10:00am on Saturdays.
Lynette
Lynette is a certified Kundalini Yoga instructor and a Nurse Midwife, working in the area of women’s health for over 30 years. She is a powerful teacher and has advanced training in Kundalini Yoga.
Lynette teaches Kundalini Yoga for Women at 9:30am on Friday mornings.
Michelle
Michelle teaches from all that she has absorbed as a student embodying the natural flow of life. She is inspired by the eternal flow of movement, exploration of the sacred, the subtle body, poetry, and music.
Michelle's classes are creative and dynamic. They invite a turning within, an opportunity for contemplation and a waking up to all aspects of ourselves. She believes in the wisdom of the body, the guidance of the breath, and the experience of the heart, and that through yoga and meditation one can hear their own divine teachings.
Michelle has been teaching since 2001. She teaches yin and vinyasa classes, as well as prenatal yoga, and trance dance. She has done teacher trainings at Sivananda Yoga Vedanta ashram and at Wake Up Yoga in Philadelphia.
Michelle is blessed to be the mother of Ruka Sage and Bodhi Alexander. She is so thankful to all of the many teachers and universal teachings in her life that sustain and assist her along her path.
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Prema
Prema began practicing yoga when she was sixteen after she met her spiritual teacher, Gurumayi Chidvilasananda. At seventeen she moved to Ganespuri, India where she lived in an Ashram for about three years. This is when Prema fell in love with the practice of meditation, chanting and hatha yoga. Since then, she has had careers in design & massage and is now mother to five beautiful children (two sets of twins!).
Prema considers yoga an oasis to refresh and rejuvenate. She has been studying Anusara yoga for the past two years and always considers herself a student on the path of yoga.
“I'm honored to teach and share my experiences with this beautiful path with others. My favorite part of my yoga practice is the equanimity that comes during practice and then sitting and enjoying the inner stillness in meditation.”
Prema’s classes are simultaneously challenging and calming, ending the mixed-level asana class with a 15 minute meditation, where we cultivate the inner flame of yoga.
Prema teaches Mixed Level Yoga at 9:30am.
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Rose
Rose has been teaching yoga for four years and practicing since 1994. Certified in Hatha yoga at a local school, she has trained extensively with author and LifeForce Yoga creator Amy Weintraub and is a LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Level 2. Rose has also trained with Rama Jyoti Vernon. “Beneath everything in my life now there’s this floor of happiness and joy,” she says.
Rose teaches Basics at 5:30pm on Wednesdays.
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Sat Ardas
Playful and elegant, Sat Ardas has taught yoga for 15 years, including several years teaching children. She began her Kundalini yoga training seven years ago with Yogi Bhajan’s Kundalini Research Institute. On how yoga has changed her life, Sat Ardas says, “It’s an evolution. I didn’t wake up one day totally different. I can be calm within the storm now and life is less of a roller coaster.”
Sat Ardas teaches Kundalini Yoga at 6:30 on Wednesdays.
Teresa
Vinyasa flow instructor Teresa, is an enthusiastic teacher and student of yoga, sharing with her students all she has discovered so far on her unique journey. Having recently spent a few months at AYRI in Mysore, India she has much to share. Inspired by the flow and grace of Ashtanga, her classes are uniting and uplifting as she guides the students to use their breath to string the varied asanas (poses) together. She encourages an environment for each person to discover their lessons from within. Teresa offers a combination of pranayama, mantra, philosophy and asana in her classes, as well as the use of a harmonium.
"To one who plunges fully there is no shiver" Swami Nityananda
Teresa teaches Vinyasa at 10am on Thursdays and Community Kirtan on the 2nd Sunday of every month.