Louise has always been a “student of movement”, whether practicing Yoga or Taiji, dancing, walking, or swimming. She enjoys connecting with yoga communities wherever she travels in the US and abroad. Over the last 20 years she has explored different traditions and styles of yoga including Embodyoga™, Iyengar, Kripalu, Viniyoga, The Franklin Method, and Yoga Tune Up™. In addition to completing her 200-hour Embodyoga™ Teacher Training at YogaCenterAmherst (now Shraddha Yoga), she’s a certified Yoga Tune Up™teacher. Louise is also a Roll Model® Method certified practitioner and has completed Level I Positional Therapy with Lee Albert at the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health.
Louise has been a member of the Gentle Yogis Community since March 2020 regularly attending daily Gentle Breath Practice and Chair Yoga classes. She plans to complete her Dynamic Gentle Yoga™ Teacher training in 2023.
For the Gentle Yogis online studio, Louise occasionally teaches any of our yoga classes and offers Immersion workshop in Embodied Anatomy and Movement.
Louise teaches in-person weekly yoga classes at Community Yoga and Wellness Center in Greenfield, MA and offers workshops throughout the year in the Roll Model® Method, soft-tissue conditioning, and Embodied Anatomy & Movement. Louise will welcome you where you are, at whatever level of experience or ability, and looks forward to guiding you toward your underlying wholeness.
During her 29-year career with The Walt Disney Company and while raising her two sons, Tammy began practicing yoga as a means of mitigating the stresses of corporate pressure and daily life. After practicing on and off for nearly 15 years, and with a nudge from her husband Russell, she decided to pursue yoga teacher training as a way to deepen her experience of yoga. In 2018, she completed her 200-hour yoga teacher certification.
After returning to the US from a year-long travel sabbatical in 2019, Tammy felt called to teach yoga virtually to family and friends near and far as a means of providing support during the COVID lockdown. What started out as a way to connect with loved ones in a meaningful way has evolved into a thriving yoga teaching practice. Tammy completed Dynamic Gentle Yoga Teacher Training in 2021, and earlier this year, she also completed Trauma Sensitive Yoga Teacher Training.
Tammy guides regular in-person classes at Renew Yoga in Daytona Beach, FL and also offers private, group and online classes. She enjoys sharing the slow and profound practice of Dynamic Gentle Yoga and humbly learning from her students every time she teaches. For the Gentle Yogis online studio, she co-teaches and co-creates the very popular Gentle Strength classes with Terry Tresco and created the Ultra Gentle Strength series.
In 2020, Tammy also started her company Tammy Kaleel Consulting, an environmental sustainability consulting firm focused on helping organizations reduce their environmental impact.
Terry (Therese) Tresco received her 200-hour training from Todd Norian, founder of Ashaya Yoga, in June of 2015. Following her certification, she frequently assisted Todd during workshops and teacher trainings. Concurrently, she began to study with Rudy Peirce and received her certificate as a Dynamic Gentle Yoga instructor. This dual training experience gave her the opportunity to see many different bodies practicing yoga. Terry came to believe that there is yoga that is appropriate for everyone, no matter your age, strength, or flexibility. She believes that if you have a heart, you can do yoga. Terry additionally completed a certification in Yoga for Osteoporosis with Ellen Saltonstall and Lynn Crimando in 2023.
Terry’s students currently range in age from 3 to 93. With that in mind, Terry leads her classes from her heart, creating a safe space for students to explore what they need in each moment, offering options and an invitation to make the practice their own Offering students an opportunity to strengthen, restore and find ease in their hard working bodies is Terry’s priority. The power of breath and body awareness combined, creates a strong and powerful practice. Following Dynamic Gentle practices allows a novice to find a safe place to begin and the seasoned practitioner a place in which to grow. Yoga has offered Terry the support she needed to recover from several injuries over the past 15 years. Sharing these techniques is one of her greatest joys.
On the Gentle Yogis platform, Terry is the creator of the very popular Gentle Strength classes and she also teaches Immersion workshops occasionally.
Rachel Allen, B.A. Political Science/Sociology, is a Certified Music Practitioner, Sound Healer, Reiki Master, Emerging Writer and Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with a trauma informed/social justice framework. She has 20 years experience of working with hospice patients and their families, patients in a variety of health conditions in clinical settings, survivors of sexual abuse and domestic violence, adults and youth with mental illness and people who are incarcerated Rachel is also passionate about supporting and working with caregivers to reduce burnout and compassion fatigue.
Regionally, nationally, internationally and virtually, Rachel teaches and presents at conferences and retreats, weaving live music, yoga, and creative movement into themes of compassion, self acceptance, and transformation. She is committed to engaging people from all walks of life in the healing arts to create healthy, diverse, and joyful communities. Rachel is a graduate of Rudy’s Dynamic Gentle Yoga Teacher Training and offered a Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Teacher Training for Gentle Yoga teachers in early 2022. She is the founder of YogaSong, Trauma Informed Wellness Services.
On the Gentle Yogis platform, Rachel teaches the immersion workshops a few times a year.
Bhavani credits as the beginning of her pull toward a career in teaching the moment as a six-year-old when she taught the Brownie scout next to her how to make a carnation from a Kleenex tissue. Her path was further clarified when her eighth grade English teacher asked her to teach sentence diagramming—a lost art—to the class. Since that time whenever Bhavani learned something she enjoyed, she ended up sharing it with others.
That sharing included classic voice and vocal pedagogy, guitar and macrame in her traveling years, junior high mathematics for the city of Baltimore, and third grade math on television for the state of MD. Always, she was known for taking subjects that seemed complicated to others and explaining them in clear, understandable language.
Along the way, Bhavani was also called upon to use other skills as she did work in theater and opera companies, became a classical deejay on a prominent NYC radio station, did voice-over work, and led choirs. There again, she took that experience and shared it in programs teaching public speaking, voice projection, and freeing the voice for speaking or singing.
Behind all that she learned and all that she shared in her teaching, Bhavani maintained a study and experience of the spiritual. In the beginning it was through her singing for many Christian denominations, then moving into Eastern contemplative practices, and finally ending up at Kripalu in 1988. There, she immersed herself in yoga, including deep practice in meditation, pranayama, and Sanskrit chanting.
As she’d always done, Bhavani didn’t keep the practices to herself, but once again shared her knowledge in user-friendly ways, leading workshops and programs particularly on various types of meditation, but also yogic tools to relieve stress, and the joys of sounding—particularly chanting.
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Learn about Bhavani’s additional offerings and her music & meditation instruction recordings