QUALITY Instructors providing Creative Classes
All of the teachers at Yoga U have extensive training with world-renowned Master teachers. Our many years of teaching and exploring gives us the opportunity to TREAT you with interesting, creative, fun, informative classes.....each and every class....classes that will make a difference in your day and your life. Don't expect the same thing over and over ....we move from the body, mind, soul and love of yoga.
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Weese (Marie) Wagner owns and operates Yoga U. She has been interested in yoga for most of her life. Her varied background in the study of yoga formed her vision for Yoga U (Yoga Universe). To provide a warm, welcoming, place where people could come to experience the many types, benefits and joys of yoga. Because of this, the teachers at Yoga U have a wonderful variety of training and skills and are each encouraged to teach according to their own unique style and talents.
Weese has worked in the fitness industry for 30+ years teaching a variety of fitness classes. An avid runner in her teens, she came across a book in the library that showed various yoga postures and she thought it would be a great way to help keep her muscles flexible. From that point on she did her best to continue to learn about yoga from books and attend any type of yoga class she could find. In the early 90's she found a small studio that specialized in ashtanga yoga and enjoyed the physical level of the class. This led to traveling to attend workshops with various ashtanga masters including Doug and David Swenson and Manju Jois. Additional active styles of yoga (including Baptiste Power Vinyasa yoga) were then extensively studied. This led to attending many workshops and teacher trainings with Baron Baptiste.
Over a few years she attended teacher trainings with several World Master Teachers. She has completed teacher trainings with Baron Baptiste, Beryl Bender Birch, Rodney Yee and Shiva Rae. Additional trainings include studying at the Himalayan Institute in Honesdale, PA and attending trainings from large fitness industry trainers.
Her original vision has taken form at the studio in her ability to offer classes that are creative and interesting. Her classes are never the same. Each and every class incorporates elements of various styles in order to offer a strong vinyasa class that is fun, interesting and has you leaving feeling great.
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Kathleen Corcoran is a graduate of the University of Delaware where she studied exercise science. She has been involved in teaching wellness and fitness for almost 25 years and has focused exclusively on yoga and Pilates for the past 8 years. She has studied at the Alternative Health and Fitness in Philadelphia as well as Kripalu in Massachusetts. Having studied under teachers such as Donna Farhi, David Swenson, Angela Farmer, and many others, Kathleen has developed a diverse teaching style. A firm believer in the transformative power in yoga, Kathleen encourages students to find their own paths by listening to their hearts.
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Colleen DeVirgilliis: Bio coming soon.
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Erin Harrington: Erin has been teaching yoga since 2000. Her classes are breath inspired journeys that explore waves of sequences from the challenging and empowering to the meditative and rejuvenating. Our lives are often formed around strong structures which have the potential to leave or bodies and our minds rigid. Erin’s classes explore the dance between structure and fluidity bringing balance and freedom to both inner and outer being.
Erin grew up in a household filled with yoga. Her mother had a regular meditative practice and her father complimented his marathon running with a more physical practice. It wasn’t until bilateral Achilles tendon rupture that Erin came to yoga on her own. The injury and recovery proved to be a challenging time, both mentally and physically. Through this hardship the bright light of yoga was lit and continues to burn bright. Erin studies with Beryl Bender Birch, Cyndi Lee and Shiva Rea whenever possible. She and her husband David keep busy with 3 wonderful and growing children.
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Kelly Warder-Love: Kelly has been in the fitness industry for over a decade. Her passion for fitness evolved into a passion for helping others achieve their fitness goals. After many years of teaching high energy classes like kick-boxing and spinning, she stumbled into a yoga class at Yoga U and found her home away from home...a place to achieve fitness goals in a non-competitive environment - a place where she could "just be" without judgment. Kelly has completed many yoga trainings and workshops with world reknowned yoga masters such as Baron Baptiste, Sean Corn, Bryan Kest, Beryl Bender Birch, Judith Lassiter, David Life and Shiva Rea. She has her 200 hour yoga certification in Power Yoga as well as certifications in Mat Pilates, Standing Pilates an Pilates Appartus training through the Physical Mind Institute. Kelly's journey has evolved into a continual exploration of body awareness and the mind-body connection. Every day is a journey...a journey to be shared by those who share the same passion for overall well-being.
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Gail Pineault started her yoga journey when she took a session at age 18. She bought a book and continued at various times practicing from the book whenever she could. She started a continual, committed practice about 10 years ago when she moved to DE.
She originally received a basic certification and began teaching. She followed her original certification with a 200 Hour Teacher Training Certification from Cyndi Lee’s OM Yoga Center. She then found Yoga U and loved the vision of a studio offering a variety of yoga style classes and enjoyed adding some “heat” to her practice.
She has participated in many workshops with world-renowned master teachers Julie Gudmestad, Judith Lasater , Rodney Yee and Barbara Benagh during Yoga Journal Conferences. She has continued to expand her knowledge through workshops with Doug Keller of Anusara Yoga, and recently Lilias Folan, balancing workshop with Frank Mauro from OM Yoga, and others. But her biggest teachers have been the students in all the many classes she has taught over the last seven years.
When she is on the mat, Gail says her mind is practicing to clear, her body to move, and her whole life in general feels easier to handle. She hopes to impart and share that freedom and joy with you.
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Dr. Scott Rosenthal teaches the first Sunday of the month and coordinates the drumming circle held at Yoga U on the second Friday of the month: Dr. Scott E. Rosenthal is a second-generation Doctor of Chiropractic, past president of the Delaware Chiropractic Society and the vice president of the Greater Wilmington Yoga Assiciation. His undergraduate degree is in nutrition and he is a Registered Yoga Teacher. In 1991 he learned Transcendental Meditation and in 1997 he was sent with his wife to the Sivinanda Yoga Retreat in the Bahamas as a GREAT gift for their fifth anniversary from his father (also a yoga teacher and chiropractor). Dr. Scott was changed forever and he knew that yoga would be regular part of his life. He was later trained by Sandra Anderson and Rolf Sovik of the Himalayan Institute as a yoga instructor in 1999 and retains certification through the Yoga Alliance. Dr. Rosenthal quickly discovered the incredible value of the combination of regular chiropractic care and yoga. One greatly enhances the other! He also writes a monthly column for Living.Well Magazine called "Balanced" that touches on the science and philosophy of chiropractic, nutrition and yoga. He also speaks throughout the community on a variety of life-enhancing wellness topics. Dr. Rosenthal practices state-of-the-art care with the most modern forms of chiropractic and is the first to offer the Koren Specific Technique in Delaware. Also offered are chiropractic pediatric and prenatal techniques (including Webster Technique certification). After taking over the family practice founded in 1965 by his father, he has been serving adults, newborns and children of all ages since 1993.
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Meditation:
Tuesday evening: Gentle Kundalini movement with meditation / 8:15pm with Keren Portia. Keren has facilitated meditation groups for over thirteen years. The ability to quiet and focus the mind is one of our greatest assets, and Keren believes that everyone can benefit from the practice of meditation. Keren’s meditation style offers a unique blend of her diverse experiences and includes the powerful teachings on the law of attraction: what you focus on expands. Keren believes that establishing a daily practice of meditation can be a powerful foundation for creating what we truly desire in our lives.
Keren’s introduction to meditation came from the Buddhist book A Path With Heart by Jack Kornfield, which she discovered when her children were young and she was looking for a way to relieve stress. Her experiences in spirituality up until that point had been mostly prayer-based, and she became completely fascinated by the idea of quieting the mind and “receiving.” From that time on, meditation became an integral part of Keren’s life.
Keren’s background in meditation, as well as philosophy and religion, is widely diverse. The Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York has been Keren’s second home for the past seven years. She has meditated with many Buddhist teachers including Nawang Khechog and Gen Nordon. She has participated in kirtan, the devotional chanting of mantras, with Krishna Das, Jai Uttal, Robert Gass, and Wah! Keren has also practiced meditation with inspirational authors John Perkins, Ted Andrews, Elizabeth Harper, and Shulamit Elson.
Known as an inspirational writer, Keren’s popular column Are You Feeling It? appears monthly in Living Well Magazine and on www.myspace.com/kerenportia or you can contact Keren at 302.530.5143. In addition to writing and meditation, Keren lectures on the law of attraction and offers private healing/counseling sessions. Keren is also passionate about yoga, nature, Montessori education, and single parenting her two teenage sons.
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Relaxing Guided Meditation with Nicole Passon:
Thurday evenings 7:30 - 8:30pm
Nicole Passon, BSA Certified Wellness Consultant / Meditation Instructor: Nicole has been teaching private meditation for years. Her background consists of working with Master teachers and Healers from India, Israel and the Phillipines. Her guided meditations stem from her own conscious connection. It is this conscious connection to Self that Nicole hopes to share with others through this work. This class is great for experienced OR anyone new to meditation looking to learn to connect with one's breath and relax into self. Come relax - enjoy and find stillness within.
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