YOGA COLLABORATIVE - Key Persons
Amy began teaching in 2008, wanting to share how a strong physical practice helped calm her busy mind. She's attended yoga trainings and retreats around the world, fueling both her love of yoga and travel. From each place and teacher, she's taken something unique shaping her own style today. She's completed two 200-hour Yoga Alliance teacher trainings in power, vinyasa and hatha yoga and attended multiple workshops on the chakras. In her classes, she encourages students to tap into their own strength and be in the present moment.
Elaine is a physical therapist, yoga and meditation teacher whose classes and workshops have been described as fun and nurturing. She specializes in working with clients with balance deficits and physical limitations. Elaine encourages her students to listen to their bodies, be
Erica is a yoga teacher and licensed independent clinical social worker. She is passionate about the practice of yoga, mindfulness, and meditation as tools to allow for us to exist in our bodies with a little bit more ease.
In her classes, she strives to create a safe space for others to explore being in their bodies to access, move, and release stuck energy or compartmentalized emotions rooted in trauma.
Erica completed her 200hr yoga teacher training with Michele Fleming at Sanctuary studios in Plymouth and has taken courses on the practice of yoga as treatment for anxiety, depression, eating disorders and PTSD.
Originally drawn to yoga as a complement for her strength workouts, Ginny quickly discovered the joy of asana and found it was the spiritual effects that continued to call her back to her mat.
Ginny's style is gentle and intuitive; guiding students to feel the shapes and listen to what serves them best in that specific moment. Asking students to be present in their bodies and honor what they feel, her goal is to create a safe space for all students to explore and develop.
Ginny is RYT 500 certified having completed her 300 hour Professional Advanced Teacher Training at Down Under School of Yoga and her 200 hour training at HYP Studio. She has also studied Yin Yoga with Josh Summers and is currently participating in Nikki Myers' The Yoga of 12-Step Recovery (Y12SR) program. She has worked extensively with Nicole Clark in the Power of Touch training - assisting her both in the US and in Ireland. Ginny is a certified Reiki Level 2 practitioner.
Jane Silva Depp began practicing yoga in her early forties to give her legs a much needed stretch after many years of running. While yoga provided the increased flexibility she sought, she was equally drawn to the practice's quieter side which offered a sense of peaceful grounding through embodied presence. Jane also loved practicing in community and meeting new friends.
Jane is a graduate of the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program (MMTCP), a two year program with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, and is certified by both the Awareness Training Institute and the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley. Jane completed her 200-hour training at Darling Yoga in Kansas City and completed an additional 300-hour training with the Summers School of Yin Yoga.
In her classes, Jane strives to create a warm and welcoming environment for ALL students. She and her husband have the good fortune to be the parents of three adult children.
Originally drawn to yoga 20 years ago while working as a psychotherapist, Jenifer began her journey learning classical yoga by following the 8 limbs of yoga through Ashtanga practice. Although first experiencing yoga in its classical form - quite by serendipity while looking for a good workout - it has shaped her professional development both clinically and in her yoga instruction. Jenifer teaches her yoga classes as a moving meditation synchronizing breath with movement, and holding attention with intention. Her Yoga Nidra style is deeply nourishing and effortless.
After 10 years of personal practice, Jenifer completed her 200 hour certification with the Yoga Company in California and spent two years developing a specialized yoga program for medically challenged clients with Jeremiah Dees, exercise physiologist. After moving to Cape Cod she later immersed herself in Kripalu's School for Integrative Yoga Therapy for advanced study. She is certified by Yoga Alliance as an Advanced Teacher of Therapeutic Yoga (ERYT) and is Certified by the International Association of Yoga Therapists (C-IAYT). As a retired psychotherapist Jenifer continues a counseling practice at Independence House on Cape Cod.
After two decades practicing and teaching yoga, Jenifer continues to mature her own practice and feels fortunate in supporting others in their unique journeys.
Kayla is passionate to serve her community. She has worked for 8 years as an oncology nurse, but has always seen something lacking from the healthcare world; spirituality. She sees healing as multifactorial and believes a regular yoga practice is a key factor in not only healing, but being connected to our truest version of ourselves.
She fell in love with meditation first and after realizing how yoga is a form of meditation through movement, quickly fell in love with asana too. She completed her 200 HR YTT in Costa Rica and is excited to continue her education in the field of yoga. Aside from yoga, Kayla is frequently found hiking, fishing, running, or studying nutrition. She recently became a certified functional nutrition practitioner and see's nutrition as another critical limb to overall wellness and health. She is so delighted to be part TYC team and serve the community through asana and meditation!
Margie Mitchell began her Qigong journey with the DVD "7 Minutes of Magic" taught by Qigong Master, Lee Holden, while teaching Physical Education for the Mashpee School system.
In 2017, Margie finally got to meet Qigong Masters Lee Holden and John Platt while taking a week-long workshop at Kripula in Lenox, MA.
Upon retiring from the Mashpee School system, Margie completed a 200-hour Holden Qigong Teacher Training Course. She also enjoys learning from Nick Loffree and Mimi Kuo-Deemer.
She has successfully taught her classes on Zoom with students from California to Cape Cod! She has traveled to Park City, Utah and the island of San Miguel in the AZORES to share her knowledge and experience in Qigong in a manner that helped her students to activate and feel their qi, release stagnant qi, learn various breathing techniques and meditations.
Locally, Margie taught at Highfield Hall this summer and is presently teaching at the West Falmouth Library, the Mashpee Recreation Department and the Falmouth and Mashpee Senior Center's.
Margie lives in East Falmouth with her husband Scott (the chef at Falmouth Senior Center), her son, Jared, and the family Golden Retriever, Hunter.
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- Owner / Founder of TYC
Melissa wants to be able to address the needs of each of her students individually. Rather than having us parrot her actions, she gives verbal instructions on how to accomplish a stretch, watches how we react and then gives individual suggestions on how to optimize the stretch. She makes it clear that each body is different and that what works for one person make not work for everyone. In class she was able to more directly adjust our postures to be more effective. However, even on Zoom, she carefully watches each participant and makes suggestions individually.
Raydene (Ray) is an acroyoga teacher and RYT 200 vinyasa teacher, certified at Om Factory in New York City. She studied acroyoga through AcroYoga International and SeattleAcro. Before moving to Cape Cod, she taught classes and workshops throughout NYC.
Her yoga practice began as a way to challenge her body and maintain strength and flexibility, and, over the course of almost two decades, has evolved into a mindful, creative practice filled with enthusiasm and respect for what the body and breath can do together.
Susan Maddigan has practiced yoga for almost 30 years. In yoga, she finds strength, joy, and flexibility as well as a wonderful community and deep friendships . With her professional background as a nurse and nurse educator, it seemed a natural progression to share her love of yoga with others. She completed her 200 hour teacher training at the Sanctuary Studio in Plymouth in 2018, she has completed additional studies in chair yoga and yin yoga. Susan consistently practiced yoga on her sailboat when she lived aboard for several years. That led to an opportunity to experience different approaches to practice in a wide variety of settings from New England to the Caribbean and Central America. Yoga practice helps us to be open to even unexpected chances to learn. She is honored to share the wellbeing that yoga gives to all. She is ever grateful to her extraordinary teachers.