Sandra Kopell, E-RYT Yoga Alliance, MALS, Studio Director, began the Yoga in Middletown program in 1991. She is a graduate of the B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga Center of Greater Boston Teacher Training Program where she studied with Patricia Walden and Peentz Dubble. She is certified to teach by the White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara, CA. Her teaching is informed by three decades immersion in movement and mind/body studies that include the practice and teaching of yoga, modern dance, choreography, dance improvisation, anatomy and kinesiology, and massage therapy. She holds a post-graduate degree in Dance and Movement Studies from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. She also teaches yoga to children at area public schools and Yoga for Seniors at the Green Street Arts Center. She has trained
new Yoga Instructors according the Yoga Alliance Standards, and continues to study the Iyengar method.

Sheila Bunnell, Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor (visit iynaus.org for more info)
has been a student of Yoga since 1998 and has been studying with Joan White in Philadelphia since 2002. She has been on the Yoga in Middletown faculty since
2003, and was the staff yoga instructor for teenagers at the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven for four years.
Julie Carrion, RYT Yoga Alliance, Anusara Certification Track, has been practicing yoga since 1995 and teaching since 2002. She served on the Yoga Teacher Training Program at Yoga Yoga Studios in Austin, TX. She is a student of Anusara
founder John Friend and of Anusara teacher Christina Sell.She received her certification in Postnatal Yoga from Iyengar Instructor Leslie Lytle in June of 2006.
She is the mother of two very young children.
Karen MacPhadyen, MD, RYT Yoga Alliance, was a family physician in Canada.
She has been practicing yoga since 2005, and completed the Teacher Training program at Yoga in Middletown in 2008. She is certified by Judith Lasater to teach
Relax and Renew®, a restorative yoga style.