Teachers

Shannah has studied and practiced yoga for the last 15 years and is a registered teacher certified at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health and through Tom Gillette at Eyes of the World Yoga in Providence, RI. Her teaching synthesizes the various styles of yoga she has intensively studied, including Kripalu, Iyengar, Ashtanga, Power Vinyasa and Anusara. She is honored to have studied with many wonderful teachers including Tom Gillette, Seane Corn, Paul Grilley, Richard Freeman, Erich Schiffman, Shiva Rea, Rodney Yee, Patricia Walden & Barbara Benaugh. In addition to owning, directing and teaching at The Yoga Room, she currently studies with, and teaches for Tom Gillette at Eyes of the World Yoga Center in Providence, RI. and guest teaches at On the Mat Yoga in Concord, MA, and at Exhale Spa in Boston.

Bettina started practicing yoga in 1978 and has been teaching since 1995. She was certified as a teacher at Kripalu, and has also studied Iyengar, Ashtanga, Hatha and Anusara yoga under many wonderful teachers.

Remember Goldilocks?  First it was Bikram’s Yoga – too hot and too stifling.  Then ashtanga with it’s impossible jump throughs.  Vinyasa was just right. I’ve travelled and conferenced and workshopped to practice with a number of excellent teachers.  You would recognize most of them.  My teaching style is influenced by the founding members of Sacred Movement and I am deeply indebted to Erich Shiffman – he doesn’t know me.  Also to Paul Grilley – he knows me, maybe too well.  Yin Yoga has been life changing and my debt of gratitude to Paul and Suzee is unending as well as to Shannah Green, founder of The Yoga Room on Nantucket, who was brave enough to allow me to teach.

Susan Browne has been practicing yoga for almost 20 years and teaching since 1997. She holds professional-level teaching certification in both Kundalini Yoga and Vinyasa Yoga, and is a certified Ayurveda/Yoga Therapist. Having received her training at the Guru Ram Das Ashram, Millis, MA; Eyes of the World Yoga, Providence, RI; and through the Rocky Mountain School of Ayurveda, Susan has also studied asana and energy anatomy with Joseph LePage and Jonas Westring. She recently completed the foundations program at the Kripalu School of Ayurveda where she studied with Dr. John Douillard, Scott Blossom, and Dr. Claudia Welch, among others. Susan continues her studies in Ayurvedic healing, Yoga philosophy, and Sanskrit with Dr. David Frawley of the American Vedic Institute. Through her classes Susan offers a modern rendering of ancient yoga practices, drawing on her knowledge and ongoing reading of traditional texts and classic teachings, for an integrated (and fun!) approach to asana, pranayama, mantra, and meditation.

As a practitioner of Yoga for over 10 years, Nan holds Kripalu Yoga Teacher Certification, and has completed Yoga Teacher Training with Erich Schiffmann. Her yoga teaching focus and philosophy express the synthesis of 30 years of meditation study and practice, as well as, her extensive background in nursing education, rehabilitation and mental health.

Nan’s meditative teaching style incorporates principals of Iyengar and Anusara yoga, and her method includes physical assists using Thai-Shiatsu and Therapeutic Touch.

I have been practicing yoga since 1999, and completed my first 200 hr training at New York City’s Laughing Lotus Yoga Center in May of 2006. I have explored many traditions of yoga, but when I first discovered Vinyasa, something shifted deep in my heart. I am constantly humbled by the fearlessly honest dance between the body, the breath, and the thoughts that surface as the poses present themselves to each other.

I have been blessed to study with many amazing yogis along the way, who have shed so much light on an often daunting path, including all the teachers at Laughing Lotus, Sri Dharma Mittra, Geshe Michael Roach and Lama Christie McNally and Seane Corn. I am beyond grateful to Shannah for her very special teaching and the beautiful space she has created for us all here on Nantucket.

Clay first started practicing yoga in 2004 at The Yoga Room, in Nantucket, Ma. After studying with many wonderful teachers there, to whom he is most grateful, his path led him to study with Deva Parnell at Discovery Yoga, and receive a 200-RYT certification in the Kripalu lineage in 2008. Clay believes in the transformative power of yoga when practiced with mindfulness, authenticity, and compassion. Drawing inspiration from his own practice and various styles of yoga, including Kripalu, Ashtanga, and vinyasa, Clay sets his classes to an eclectic soundtrack of acoustic and electonic rhythms as well as traditional chant. Clay encourages students to move at a pace suitable for their own practice, and fully embrace their experience, breath by breath, to build a sense of community and connection to each other, and all living beings.

Caitlin is a teacher, mother, dancer, and healer. She is a nationally certified massage therapist and holds an undergraduate degree in Dance & Choreography from Bard College. She has been studying yoga for 12 years, and completed her yoga teacher training in 2009 with Ganga White at The White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara, CA. Caitlin has had the privilege of studying with many wonderful teachers in Nantucket, Boston, Chicago, NYC and LA including Shannah Green, Annie Carpenter, Kathryn Budig, Vinnie Marino, Erich Shiffmann, Alan Finger, and Coral Brown. She has completed several advanced continuing education workshops with Andrei Ram and her primary source of inspiration; Shiva Rea. Caitlin draws on her skills as a therapeutic bodyworker whenever making hands-on adjustments in her yoga classes and often works a little therapeutic yoga into her massage treatments. She teaches regularly scheduled vinyasa flow classes at The Yoga Room, where she in known for incorporating her passion for music with her background in anatomy and alignment, and the organic self-exploration of modern dance. Caitlin lives on Nantucket Island year-round with her two children; Isabella & Griffin. She is an advocate of natural childbirth, midwifery and prenatal yoga. Caitlin is also a big fan of rock n’ roll, elegant tattoos, and vegetarianism.

Sally Charpie is a certified Kripalu yoga instructor. Having started her journey as a beginner at the Yoga Room less than ten years ago, Sally understands the challenges that a beginner faces in developing and maintaining a yoga practice. A graduate of Wellesley College, with BA in Economics, Sally is a year-round resident of Nantucket. Her yoga practice complements her interests in cats, books, golf and wine.