Embodied Yoga Teachers

These teachers are graduates of Embodied Anatomy and Yoga and/or the Embodied Developmental Movement and Yoga programs through the School For Body Mind Centering ™

Marissa Nielson-Pincus loves the body and its power to express and hold who and what we are. Teaching since 2002, she received her first certification through the Yoga Center of Brooklyn and went on to graduate from both the Embodied Anatomy and the Developmental Movement and Yoga programs through the School for Body-Mind Centering™. Marissa has had the pleasure to study with many great teachers including: Jonathan FitzGordan, Genny Kapuler, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Amy Matthews, Roxlyn Moret, and Jonathan Monks while exploring different styles of yoga. Her own teaching is greatly influenced by Body-Mind Centering™ as well as her experience as a dancer. She performs regularly in NYC, working primarily as a collaborator with Third Rail Projects and also creating her own choreography

Sarah Johansson Locke is endlessly inspired by the body's ability to transform, heal, celebrate, empower, and inform our experience. A teacher of yoga and dance, a performer, choreographer, and artistic director, she is devoted to sharing the power and potential of movement. She is certified in Embodied Anatomy and Yoga by the School for Body-Mind Centering™, and has completed an Anusara teacher training at Vira Yoga. She also holds a certificate in Kinesthetic Anatomy from Irene Dowd, is a longtime student of Genny Kapuler, and has extensive modern and ethnic dance training. Sarah's love of teaching and commitment to her students is evident in her attentive, nourishing, and creative classes. Since 2001 she has taught yoga and dance throughout NYC as well as nationally and internationally.

Judith Feldman, a former dancer performer and choreographer, has been a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique for more than twenty years, and is certified in Embodied Developmental Movement and Yoga by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and The School for Body-Mind Centering™. She has been greatly influenced by her study and work with Thomas Lemens, Peter Grunwald's EyeBody, and Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. She brings to her practice a sense of wonder and a sense of humour, and also draws from her experience as a journalist & gardener. She continues to plant and weed and prune and play with movement, and has the greatest respect for each person's individual needs, rhythms and reasons.

Lenore Wolf is certified in Embodied Developmental Movement and Yoga by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and The School for Body-Mind Centering™. She is also a Certified Feel-Sense Yoga Teacher and has been teaching in NYC since 1990. Lenore's practice and teaching have been strongly influenced by her studies in The Feldenkrais Method and Authentic Movement, her work as an actor--and by Bonnie and the Embodied Developmental Movement and Yoga work. Lenore believes discovering and embodying where we are in the moment is the beginning of practice. All supported movement and thought roots in that place. Practice is a meeting of self-to-self, teacher and student, and self and community.

Irem Calikusu has been exploring the world of movement and awareness for the last 13 years. As a dancer and yogini, she is interested in deepening her understanding of how the mind is expressed through the body in movement. She is a student of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Zen Master Wu Kwang, Patty Townsend and Min Tanaka. She is certified in Embodied Anatomy and Yoga and in Embodied Developmental Movement and Yoga by the School for Body-Mind Centering™. Irem has been teaching yoga to adults, teenagers and the elderly since 2002.