Teaching Team

My yoga journey began in 2002 at the gym of York College, my alma mater, and had a great pleasure of learning Hatha yoga with Jean Aronoff. I was on and off my mat for a few years but I still applied the teachings of yoga in my daily life. My practice has been consistent since 2011 mostly vinyasa and restorative styles of yoga. I enjoy and love the practice so much that I have decided to take on the 200 Hour teacher training so that I would be able to share this beautiful practice knowledgably and safely. I trained with Laurie Ahlemann of the Long Island Yoga School and learned teaching vinyasa. I also completed a 100 Hour mentorship with Rei Farid and Miles Borrero of Living Yoga and they helped me take my foundational training to the next level. I am so honored and grateful to be guided by the great Sondra Loring of Satya Yoga Center for my 500 hour teacher training. I am actively participating in workshops to broaden my knowledge and enhance my teaching skills. I received my Restorative Yoga certification from Laughing Lotus NYC and Yin Yoga certification from Integral Yoga Center NYC.
My goal as yoga teacher is to guide students discover the love, light, truth and peace within each of us through asana, pranayama, meditation and yogic philosophies. I also want to create a safe, comfortable and neutral environment for students to experience the benefits of a balanced yoga practice. 

My yoga journey started as a little girl’s dream. I was amazed when I saw a movie with a clip where a young woman practiced yoga in the beautiful Hawaii beach. Years later in 2003 for the first time I stepped onto my mat at a gym in North Carolina, I knew immediately that this is a journey for life. Through the years I have tried various gyms and styles and started teaching in a gym while I worked in China in 2011. I was trained with Laurie Ahlemann of the Long Island Yoga School in the 200 Hour teacher training on Prana Shakti Flow. I am now in my 500 hour training with Laurie. I am also actively participating in workshops to enhance my knowledge in specialized fields of restorative yoga, yin yoga and prenatal yoga.
In my teaching, I put an emphasis on Prana with the flow, and the balance of Yin and Yang. I want to provide to my students a safe way to practice and a deeper link to the light within through breath, physical practice and meditation.
My passion to yoga is to expand yoga beyond gyms and studios, into office, into everyday life, into the society, as a channel to better health, to inner peace, and to the love and truth. By living our life more consciously to ourselves, to the environment and the greater good, we can make our world a better place, one breath a time.   

I began my quest for mental and spiritual wellness during my graduate studies at St. John’s University, embarking on a major lifestyle overhaul which included going vegan and a steady yoga practice. I eventually enrolled in the Long Island Yoga School teacher training program under the tutelage of Laurie Ahlemann, and became certified to teach Prana Shakti Flow at the 500-hour level. After falling in love with Yin Yoga, I continued my studies, receiving two certifications in Yin Yoga from Corina Benner of Wake-Up Yoga, and a Restorative Yoga certification from Gail Grossman of Om Sweet Om. On this journey of self-healing, I was also initiated as a Reiki Master/Teacher under the guidance of Maria Yakkey. I have attended several yearly 7-day silent meditation retreats with spiritual teacher Adyashanti. I am a certified reader of the Akashic Records using the Soul Realignment method, and am studying to become a certified Astrologist and Tarot Card Reader.

My yoga classes could be described as both challenging and relaxing. I address the whole person: the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual, allowing you to take what you need. I strive to teach educational classes, while still leaving room for silence so that students may have their own unique experience. I help everyday people find more ease in meditation and a deeper connection to spirit through the yoga practice.

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I received my 200 Hour Teacher Certification from Long Island Yoga School with Laurie Ahlemann and Jennie Wilson in May 2014. I am currently working on completing my 500 Hour Certification with Long Island Yoga School. I earned a YogaKids Foundations Certification from Gail Grossman in October 2014. I received my Restorative Teacher Certification from Gail Grossman in January 2015. And in September 2015 I earned my Reiki Initiation Certification from Reiki Master Laurie Ahlemann.

Laurie Ahlemann, E-RYT500, Reiki Master, has been leading teacher trainings since 2007 and teaching yoga and meditation for close to two decades. She has studied anatomy, yoga philosophy, meditation and Bhakti Sastri extensively through various programs in NYC, Long Island as well as online and holds additional certifications in Yin Yoga and Trauma-Informed Yoga. In addition, she teaches a credit yoga course as an adjunct professor for the Department of Specialized Programs in Education at Hofstra University. 

She offers all of her students, yoga teachers as well as students of yoga, functional ways to find ease and fluidity in their yoga practice and all movements of life. Her teaching style creates a very safe and informative learning environment for all by working to change the habitual patterns of movement that cause pain and discomfort in the body. This allows students to rewrite habitual muscular movement patterns and create new muscle memory helping to avoid injury or work through existing ones.. Through workshops, trainings, group and private classes she meets you where you are and helps you to reach your highest potential. 

My Asana practice is an amalgam of old world India, where I first learned Yoga to the studio style teachings as practiced in the United States, my current home.
I’m a registered teacher with Yoga alliance and did my teacher training certification at the Long Island Yoga School under Laurie Ahlemann and Jennie Wilson. I then did a 6 month work study program at the Iyengar Yoga Institute, Brooklyn.
If you’d like to be in a class that focuses on breath awareness and posture, come join me. It would be my honor to lead you through my techniques.
I start my classes by diffusing aromatherapy oils and end them with a guided meditation in savasana. You will leave my class having worked your muscles, gained flexibility, and hopefully an awareness of the mind, body, breath connection.
Hari Ohm 

I began practicing yoga over 15 years ago. Although I began a practice for the physical benefits, I found an inner strength and peace that changed my life. As a result, I completed my 200 hour teacher training at Long Island Yoga School with Laurie Ahlemann. I am currently working on completing my 300 hour teacher training with Laurie at Long Island Yoga School. I also actively participate in workshops to continue to expand my knowledge and enhance my practice.
I teach an energetic vinyasa flow for all levels combining alignment and core strength. I walk you through each posture with clear cues and encouragement to create a comfortable environment where every student is challenged and experiences a feeling of accomplishment. 

At a very early age, Christin was exposed to Gook SunDo, a type of Korean mountain Taoism that practices meditation, postures, breathing, and energy healing. As her practice deepened Christin branched out to learning various schools of yoga such as Vinyasa, Ashtanga, and Katonah yoga.
Christin completed her 200-hour Yoga Alliance teacher certification with Mary Grace and James Onnikian at Yoga Oasis in Woodbury, New York. Although a teacher, she considers herself a lifelong student, continually reading and studying techniques and strategies to better herself as well as others.
She currently teaches Yoga 101 at Yoga Journey on Tuesday mornings at 9AM. Christin teaches with notes of humor allowing students to laugh and explore their space with a feeling of lightness, alignment and balance
Her personal mantra: Life is a continuum of learning. 

Born and bred in NYC, Ian uses his theater & acting background to teach a high energy,fun, and very much in- the- moment class. Through asana practices, Ian will take you on a transformative journey; cleansing your mind, healing your body, and purifying your soul. "There's Power in the practice", Ian says... "You just have to commit & I'll take you there"!

Along with his Power Yoga certification (RYT-200) Ian is an avid runner who trains new runners yearly for the marathon. He is caring, and his smile is inviting, but most of all it is his love for yoga that has led Ian on this quest to share the practice that gave him a second chance at life!
Ian is a firm believer of paying it forward; "you can't keep it unless you give it away!"
Namaste..... 

Maria was introduced to yoga in 2002, and has been practicing consistently ever since. She immediately felt the physical benefits, but more importantly she quickly understood on a very deep level the healing power of yoga, both emotionally and spiritually. It was Maria’s dream to obtain her certification to teach yoga, and this dream was finally realized in June 2019. She completed her 200 hour teacher training at Long Island Yoga School with Laurie Ahlemann and is a registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance. She is currently working on becoming certified in Restorative Yoga, and feels that yoga is a practice that is accessible to everyone, regardless of age, ability, or life circumstance. Maria is a music teacher, leading family classes where music making is a joyful, non-competitive group experience. She also teaches private guitar lessons to students of all ages, and regularly enjoys playing music with family and friends. In the same way that Maria loves teaching and sharing her passion for music, she has found teaching yoga to be just as rewarding. She often ends her yoga class with this quote: “Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.” — B.K.S. Iyengar 

Wendy fell in love with yoga for the inner peace yoga brought to her life, Pratyahara (turning attention inward) and Dhyana (meditation). As a long-time runner, she was also fascinated by the range of movement and strength yoga creates for the human body. Inspired by her own chronic pain, she became more and more interested in anatomy and helping her class stay in tune with their own bodies. Her classes carefully blended alignment into flow, supportive yet challenging.

Wendy finished her 200-hour teacher training in May 2019 at Om Sweet Om Yoga, she also completed her Yoga Tune Up® Certification Training in the same year. She is extremely grateful for all her teachers who generously shared their knowledge, guidance, and open hearts. Living in yoga (Samadhi), on and off mat, is her lifelong practice.

Lilith Wise completed 200 hr Prana Shakti Flow Yoga Teacher Training Program in 2015 with Laurie Ahlemann of Long Island Yoga School, RYA. She is committed to self development, excited about life, funny, positive, encouraging, see(k)ing the best in others, health conscious, healthy, team player, leader, compassionate, joyful, loving, prosperous and energetic.

In her teachings Lilith addresses the importance and connectedness of our physical (full body workout vinyasa style, connective tissue yin/restorative practice), energy (chakras, bandhas, pranayama), and mental (meditation, mind stillness, gratitude) bodies.

lilithwise7117@gmail.com | 516 450 7599 

I was a long distance runner for years, always going to the gym, working out there and then going for a run. I took a series of pole dancing classes that were difficult and challenging. One class we were working on dips in heels and after I dipped, I struggled to stand up again, and pulled something that was painful. ( I forgot to stretch before class). I had sciatica and was limping in pain for weeks and weeks. I read that NFL players did hot yoga for injuries. I tried a class at a nearby studio, close to where I live and I was hooked after the first class. My injury healed itself. 

Everything changed when I started practicing. Yoga is free therapy. Once one surrenders, and simply let’s go, the self discovery never stops. It is enlightening and incredibly healing.

After a couple of years, I decided I wanted to teach and share this magic with others. I took my 200 DYRT and my 500 DYRT training with Sri Dharma Mittra (along with many of his KRIPALU retreats)and my life will never be the same.

I taught privately and also joined Yoga Journey as their Studio Coordinator where I teach, Flow and Restore, as well as Restorative.

I look forward to seeing you in my classes.