Instructors

Shannah has been practicing and teaching yoga for 19 years. From the start of her journey with Iyengar Yoga and the esteemed teacher, Patricia Walden, she knew she had found her life’s path and calling. She went on to get certifications from Kripalu Center and at Eyes of the World Yoga Center in Providence.

A perpetual student, throughout the years, she continues to do yoga trainings, workshops and classes. She is honored to have studied with many wonderful teachers including Rodney Yee, Shiva Rae, Judith Lasater, Natasha Rizopoulos, Seane Corn, Erich Schiffman, Richard Freeman, David Swenson, Kathryn Budig, Barbara Benaugh, Rolf Gates, Schyler Grant, Paul Grilley, Annie Carpenter & Theresa Murphy. Her eclectic style draws from many styles and traditions and is ever evolving. Her classes are known for being challenging, contemplative, mindful, precise, passionate & empowering.

“The practice of yoga has been a personal lifeline, a means of navigating everything in my life. Embracing the moment to moment experience, I am continually brought back to mindful attention and conscious choice. Yoga and teaching keeps me grounded and grateful. “ In addition to owning, directing and teaching at the Yoga Room, she teaches at Providence Power Yoga and All That Matters in Providence RI as well as guest teaches at different studios in the northeast.

Ieva saturates her classes with mindful awareness of the physical body. Variations of postures, adjustments of form, and body awareness are utilized to bring students to full presence within their bodies. Through this strengthening physical presence, students are invited to journey deeper into the internal landscapes of the mind, senses, emotions, and their connection to everything. Her teaching style is steady, precise, playful, and approachable to all levels of practitioners. With a talent for inspiring deep relaxation and healing her classes leave students feeling rejuvenated and refreshed.

Ieva received her initial teacher training at a Sivananda ashram in Tamil Nadu, India. Additionally, she is trained in Restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Aerial Yoga, SUP Yoga and as a Gyrotonic® Apprentice. Yoga has led her down a road of good health and gratitude. She has taught at surf and yoga retreats in India and throughout Central America. Ieva is a student of life, an avid traveler, surfer, and ocean lover. She is also a certified sommelier and has a passion for farm-raised food and epicurean delights. When Ieva is not teaching yoga you can find her pouring wine at Straight Wharf restaurant or traveling the world.

Yoga became Jessica’s greatest form of creative expression about 12 years ago when she reluctantly attended her first yoga class at The Nantucket Health Club. After many spiritual epiphanies and several hundred child poses later, the brewing passion to share the benefits of yoga with others became reality. Jessica acquired her 200hr certification in 2009 at The Nosara Yoga Institute in Costa Rica under the guidance of Don and Amba Stapleton and Kevin Courtney.

Today it is her intention to guide students through classes that create movement and freedom in the body under the structure of proper alignment. Acknowledging the connection between mind and body for optimum health and well-being has profoundly shaped her classes to be a balance of strength and stillness. Jessica believes that with a regular asana practice, yoga will begin to spill over into other areas in your life and it is then that you’ll have the honor of becoming your own teacher in this beautiful, crazy world.

Visit Jess at her website: www.nantucketyoga.com

Evie is a yoga instructor and holistic mental health counselor.  She creates space for students to attune to their inner landscape so they can access movement as a form of medicine.  Through a thoughtful combination of strength and surrender, her classes invite students to explore the layers of their being; physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and energetic.

Evie studied Vinyasa and Restorative Yoga under Alison Eaton during her 200 YTT at Yandara Yoga Institute in Baja, Mexico.  She is deeply grateful for her opportunities for continued study in Contemplative Psychotherapy & Buddhist Psychology at Naropa University, Yin Yoga with Biff Mithoefer, Trauma- Informed Yoga at Kripalu Yoga Institute, Yoga for Mental Health with Bo Forbes.  Publicly, she primarily teaches Vinyasa and Restorative yoga classes, while also offering trauma-informed and prenatal yoga in private settings.

Beyond all, Patricia looks to connect students to their own joyful potential. She teaches a supportive and challenging asana practice; unifying stillness, movement, and breath, with a graceful state of being. She encourages her students to courageously lead forth with an open heart and spacious mind.

Patricia was certified with Swami Satchidananda’s, Integral Yoga, over 15 years ago. She has enjoyed teaching in NYC, outside of Boston, and 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 electronic 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.

Remember Goldilocks? First it was Bikram’s Yoga – too hot and too stifling. Then ashtanga with its impossible jump throughs. Vinyasa was just right. I’ve traveled 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.

Sarah Fay began teaching yoga in 2012. Teaching and practicing have served as a way to combine strength, endurance, balance, and calm in everyday life. Power yoga, specifically, provides a platform to quiet the mind through consistent movement and mindful breath for her, and she enjoys helping others to find similar peace of mind.

Sarah is a nature and animal lover and guides a gentle yet challenging practice. She grew up on the South Shore, MA, and spent time in the cities of Chicago and Boston before recently moving on island.

Jamie recently moved back to the states from Australia where she studied ZenKi Yoga, a Japanese style of yoga, which utilizes your yoga practice to tap into the natural energy pathways that flow through our bodies. ZenKi Yoga also coincides with the five element theory aligning with the five seasons of the year (including late summer).  She has also recently completed her Ashtanga and Hatha training in Dharamsala, India.

She continues to practice and teach because she believes through yoga we connect to our breath, our bodies and our minds. With conscious movement, we develop a stronger conscious mind. Yoga is the connection to ourself, to understanding ourselves and to the world around us on a high level. She looks forward to connecting you with all.

It was through a devotion to mind-body wellness, that Chelsea found yoga. Initially, she craved the physical benefits of the practice; shortly into her journey, the benefits off the mat proved limitless. Yoga allows her to use her body as an instrument, intuitively and deliberately. Chelsea’s intention as a teacher is to create calm, lightness, and empower students in the body, mind, and spirit. She wants to help students find the harmony that brings yoga beyond the mat. Her teaching offers that feeling of walking away and thinking, “I needed that.”

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.

Agustina was inspired to start practicing yoga by her friend and yoga teacher Meagan Rohrer. There, she began her practice at Shambala, Kula, and Modo Yoga. Agui completed her 200hr yoga teacher certification at Yandara Yoga Institute in Baja, Mexico. Feeling very inspired by her teachers Nicolina Daya Nam Kaur and Marcy Ananda she started to study the technology of Kundalini yoga and meditation, sharing her passion for this practice with the community.

Vanessa grew up on Nantucket but has lived in four different states and three countries over the last decade experiencing the world as an educator, gardener, & writer. Her yoga and meditation practices were there for her through the many transitions and deepened as she was presented with greater life challenges.

Finally (after hearing visiting teacher Kelly Kamm play the harmonium at a yoga class at Preservation Hall), she could not wait to teach any longer and studied with Laughing Lotus Church of Yoga in New Orleans in January of 2018 after graduating with a master of public health from Northeastern University. Vanessa now works for Gosnold on Nantucket and the Yoga Room, bringing together her loves of yoga, health & wellness. She is trained in Mental Health First Aid, Yoga of 12 Step Recovery with Nikki Myers, and Non-Violent Crisis Intervention, and aims to make yoga accessible to all.

Lera’s first 100 hrs were a basic aerial yoga teachers training done in Yaroslavl, Russia. After that, she taught aerial and prenatal aerial for 6 months but felt like she needed a classic yoga training. She then did a yoga alliance 200 hr with the Russian Yoga Federation in Moscow, Russia. Lera spends her days at the farm among chickens and plants with her daughter and her nights baking and reading.

Joan Alison Stockman’s passion for sharing Kundalini Yoga and Meditation stems from the deep healing, transformation, and joy it has brought to her life. Joan was introduced to Kundalini Yoga at UMass Amherst in 1979. From those first experiences, where the instructor played etheric flute music during the relaxations, she went on to receive her Level One Certification in 1994 and has completed additional coursework including a certification for Trauma-Sensitive Yoga. Joan had the great good fortune to have studied directly with Yogi Bhajan, as well as with many of his legacy teachers.

Like many in the wellness industry, Lynne Begier didn’t seek out yoga, it sought her. After a stay in John Hopkins hospital, her doctors encouraged Lynne to look for alternatives to prescription medications. Lynne graduated from Georgetown with a degree in Languages & Linguistics. It only made sense that her interest in foreign cultures, philosophy, and theology organically flowed so beautifully into her discovery of and passion for yoga.

Lynne first studied at Kripalu starting in 1998 and then under Ana Forrest, a world-renowned yoga teacher specializing in yoga for healing and trauma. Forrest’s method brought a fire and passion to the asanas (movements in yoga) in order to facilitate healing.

Throughout her career, she’s studied extensively in many styles of yoga including Kripalu, Ashtanga, Forrest, Vinyasa, Restorative, Iyengar, Yin, Anusara, and Prajna. Her self-study of Ayurveda has brought much wisdom to both her yoga practice and life.

It was her Ayurvedic studies that initially sparked Lynne’s curiosity around marrying wellness with the specialty coffee world. She saw the gap in the market for a more mindful coffee and tea experience that enhanced wellbeing rather than overloading the body.

After working in the financial industry, Lynne’s career took a major shift when she opened Boston’s first yoga studio, Back Bay Yoga in 2002. Lynne’s studios were built around yoga as an authentic practice, which meant she offered a variety of yoga practices to her students ranging from restorative to the very popular hip hop yoga.

During her time owning and operating Back Bay Yoga, Lynne suffered from a concussion, an accident that led her to study with Tias Little. Tias introduced Lynne to meditation and a slower form of healing. This accident cemented Lynne’s passions for holistic healing. Tias’ teaching deeply resonated with Lynne’s desire for a lifestyle that brought meditation, food, and movement into harmony.

After over a decade of success in Boston, Lynne sold her yoga studios in 2015 and moved to her current home on Nantucket Island in 2016. During her time on island, Lynne’s early desires to integrate the specialty coffee industry with wellness world bubbled back up. Nantucket’s knack for serendipity led Lynne to her current creation, Roastd General Store.

At the helm of her latest endeavor, Roastd General Store, Lynne’s mission is to provide accessible, fun and delicious forms of healing and nourishment through specialty coffee, tea, CBD products as well as a market place of curated wellness products. Roastd is a culmination of Lynne’s passions and wisdom around yoga, Ayurveda, healing and a life well lived. Beyond well-crafted Stumptown coffee and Rishi tea creations, Roastd is also a place of learning, wellness, and gathering that meets its customers where they’re at. Moving forward, Lynne plans to continue offering education and products in the plant-powered wellness space, especially around CBD.