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.
jodi hurwitz
Jodi Hurwitz is a yoga teacher devoted to the traditions of yoga and to the everyday joy the practice makes possible. Her classes braid movement, breath, and mindfulness with creativity and laughter, inviting students to step bravely into the unknown.
After recovering from a debilitating back injury and breast cancer in 2018, Jodi became a compelling voice for the healing power of meditation and breathwork.
Named Best of Westchester (Vinyasa Flow), Jodi brings more than fifteen years of experience leading classes and events that build strength through intention, music, and moment-to-moment self-care. She was certified and mentored by Kay Kay Clivio and Charu Chandra (Yogi Charu) at Pure Yoga in New York City.
Jodi served as Department Head for Life Time Athletic/LifePower Yoga, a wellness community of more than 8,000 members, where she led a large teaching team, ran studio operations, and developed curriculum. As Teacher Training Faculty, she facilitated five 200-hour programs, graduating more than fifty new teachers. From 2020 to 2025, Jodi was co-owner of Greenhouse Yoga in Great Barrington, where she helped create a thriving heated power studio and community.
Jodi is married to her college sweetheart (go Badgers!) and is the proud mother of two daughters in their late twenties. She encourages a yogic lifestyle —“Own Your Om!” she laughs—and considers herself a guardian of an ancient science, dedicated to bringing beauty and joy to everyone she meets.
kat whitney
Kat Whitney is an educator, coach, and creative force in the field of human potential for over 30 years. She blends yoga, neuroscience, life coaching, strength and conditioning, and a wide range of ethical and spiritual traditions to create dynamic, transformative learning experiences.
Her approach combines academic rigor with decades of personal practice, helping students cultivate strength, clarity, and resilience—on and off the mat. With a Master’s in Education from Harvard University, research in developmental neurobiology, and top-level certifications in yoga, coaching, fitness, and mindfulness, Kat’s mission is to guide people toward their most embodied, authentic selves.
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
sherry londe
Sherry is a former dancer/ choreographer/ mime.
She also holds a 500-hour YTT certification from Kripalu.
Certified in mat and reformer Pilates from “The Pilates Space” here in Great Barrington.
Currently teaching private sessions and classes at the Pilates Space.
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.