teachers
kari harendorf
Kari Harendorf is an Ayurvedic Practitioner, a C-IAYT Yoga Therapist, an E_RYT 500 Yoga Educator, and a Reiki Master.
A teacher of teachers with over 25 years of experience, Kari was on faculty for 200-hour and 850-hour teacher trainings at the Kripalu Schools of Yoga, Ayurveda, and Yoga Therapy. She spent over a decade as faculty in Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee’s 200-hour and 300-hour Yoga Shanti Teacher Training Programs. She was also a Master Trainer of Urban Zen’s Integrative Therapy Program, founded by Donna Karan.
As an anatomy trainer for yoga teachers, Kari is renowned for her commitment to helping students and teachers achieve precise alignment, mitigate injuries, and end chronic pain cycles. Her focus on injury prevention ensures the safety of her students and instills confidence in her teaching. A hallmark of her teaching is helping people awaken to the body’s innate intelligence.
Kari is the co-founder of Better Yoga, an online streaming platform where she teaches weekly two-way livestream classes to people around the world.
Additionally, Kari founded New York City’s East Yoga Center studio and was the former star of Animal Planet’s K9 Karma, where she famously merged her passion for yoga and dogs with a weekly “Doga” class. She has been featured in publications such as Yoga Journal, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Real Simple, and on television shows including The Martha Stewart Show, ABC News, and many more.
gail grossman
At her core, Gail Grossman is a guide—someone who helps others remember who they are through the lens of yoga, Taoist philosophy, and deep embodied presence. She doesn’t just teach yoga; she lives it and reflects it back with care, honesty, and soul.
Rooted in tradition but open to evolution, Gail integrates Restorative, Yin, Hatha, ISHTA, Katonah®, Chair, Vinyasa, Ropes and Children’s Yoga into practices that meet each student where they are. Her teaching blends the mystical and the practical, the poetic and the grounded.
She is the author of Restorative Yoga for Life, a beloved resource that’s helped thousands find relief and renewal. With over two decades of experience, Gail supports beginners, kids, and teachers alike with presence, wisdom, and a deep love for the path.
She doesn’t promise ease. She offers presence. And from there, everything unfolds.
Caroline Kinsolving
Caroline has taught yoga in Los Angeles, New York, Connecticut, the Berkshires, China, Tanzania, India, and Mexico, in studios, prep schools, Michelin spas, and colleges, and has been a guest teacher at Kripalu. As a graduate of Vassar College and a plethora of dance and drama schools with a focus on performance and movement, Caroline is an actor as well as a multi-certified yoga, meditation, yoga-dance, and pilates teacher.
Her classes are dynamic in their variety and acceptable for all levels. Flows vary from high energy to gentle strengthening and lengthening, depending on students’ requests: each practice is based on being truly present with the body. With precise alignment cues for improved form, deep poses, breathing cues to encourage calming the nervous system, and a friendly and warm environment with a killer playlist, the goal of the practice is to feel present, strong, centered, and peaceful.
Voted Connecticut Magazine’s Best of CT, Litchfield Magazine’s Reader’s Choice Best Kept Secret, and Best Teacher for the last six years, Natural Nutmeg’s 10BEST Award, and Rural Intelligence’s Best Yoga and Best Personal Trainer in the region. Ms. Kinsolving started Yoga for Good and Theatre for Good, and her classes and performances have raised over $163,000 for various charities.
Caroline coaches, teaches, and trains clients daily, working with teens, seniors, and adults at all levels. Caroline is also a professional actor. She loves practicing karma yoga and adopting rescue dogs. www.CarolineKinsolving.com
tamara hickey
Tamara Hickey is an E-RYT 500 yoga teacher based in Berkshire County, MA, with nearly 15 years of teaching experience. Rooted in the Ashtanga and Iyengar traditions, she offers clear and compassionate guidance to help students cultivate strength, resilience, and ease in body and mind.
She completed her 200-hour training with Natasha Rizopoulos and her 300-hour training with Jules Mitchell, focusing on biomechanics, pain science, and somatic movement. She has also assisted Natasha in both 200-hour and 300-hour teacher trainings in Boston. She is currently enrolled in a two-year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield.
Tamara's love of movement began with her training as a dancer and actor. She holds an MFA in theatre and works professionally in film, television, and theatre, experience that informs the presence and embodied attention she brings to her teaching.
LisE Gottwald
Rooted in her early life in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and in her relationship with First Nations people, Lise walks a path shaped by oneness, reflection, and reverence. She has embodied decades of yoga study, practice, and teaching. Her studies in shamanism, metaphysics, and quantum physics inform a practice that honors quantum science, ancient wisdom, and inner inquiry. As a professional interior designer, Lise regards all space as sacred. Her practice and work, both on and off the mat, invite a return inward where the sacred journey to Self begins.
Lea-Ann Durcan
Lea-Ann's yoga journey has been one of her favorite things in life. It has given her confidence, purpose, and helped her settle when she needed to be still. Her purpose as a yoga teacher is to share what she has learned and what has meant so much to her. She loves the community yoga creates. Lea-Ann teaches yin, restorative, gentle, yoga therapeutics, beginner, and chair yoga. In her classes, she helps students find their special way to pose through alignment and listening to their bodies.. Her goal is to help each student find their own unique practice in a calm, safe, happily imperfect, and nurturing environment.
Lea-Ann is a 500RYT and is a mentored Yoga Therapist. She completed her 200-hour YTT with Yogaworks, NYC, her 300-hour YTT with nOMad, always at OM, Beacon, NY, and her Yoga Therapy coursework at Kripalu, Stockbridge, MA. She is a certified yoga therapist and yoga teacher.
Senta Reis
Senta Rafaela Reis M.Ed., E-RYT500, YACEP, Sound Therapy facilitator, YogaDance instructor, YogaEd K-8, Reiki master practitioner, shamanic energy healer, and Expressive Arts Facilitator, MA-certified Special Education Teacher.
Senta Rafaela has been leading yoga, expressive art, and sound practices for over 20 years. Devoted to making every practice accessible to students with a wide range of abilities, Senta is a master at modifications and special needs. With a master's degree in Creative Arts in Learning from Lesley University, she loves melding the modalities of yoga, dance, visual arts, poetry, and vibrational sound together for retreats and individual sessions. Utilizing a wide array of instruments, she provides monthly Sound Baths on the first Friday of the month at the studio and Sound Journeys in both community and private settings.
Senta is a 500hr. Kripalu certified teacher, Jaguar Path Yoga and Shamanism Energy Healing, YogaEd K-8, Shake Your Soul Yoga Dance, and Soma Soul Yoga, as well as a wide breadth of Expressive Arts training spanning decades.