Annie Hoffman
Annie has been teaching yoga since 1988 after a Kripalu teacher training. Her studies have continued in Boston with Patricia Walden over the past 20 years. She went to India in 1994 and was certified that same year. Other than Iyengar yoga her influences are experiential anatomy, yoga philosophy and poetry. These days her classes combine awareness development through movement, surrender and relationship building. Her interest have been teaching children, elders, women and everyone in between. She has midwifed this building through it's first reincarnation as a pottery studio to it's current rebirth as a yoga/performance space. Demolition is her favorite part of renovation.
Annie Hoffman is owner and co–manager of Art and Soul, teaches Iyengar yoga in the Boston area and can be reached at anniehoffmanyoga.com.
Billie Jo Joy
Billie Jo Joy, Ed.M., R.Y.T., is a founder, and co–manager of Art & Soul. Billie Jo has been devoted to Iyengar Yoga for 14 years, studying primarily with Zoe Stewart. She is also Kripalu certified and brings over 25 years of experience in dance and movement research to her teaching. Using poetic language, kinesthetic imagery, deep compassion and friendliness she offers a safe place for practice that balances strength, flexibility, reflection, and spiritual upliftment. Billie Jo is also an accomplished dancer, choreographer, actor, writer and director who works regularly in stage and film. She has been performing and directing in the Boston area since 1989. Credits include Dust to Dust (2006); Venus De Mini Van, Mothers in the Breakdown Lane (2002) which became the off–broadway play Eve–olution (2004); the highly acclaimed productions of The Vagina Monologues at Harvard University (2000) and Boston V–Day (2004); Spiderman 2 (July 2004); Homeward Bound (2002); Small White Woman Impersonating Martin Luther King, Jr. (1999). She toured internationally, as a dancer, with Paula Josa–Jones Performance Works from 1990–1994. She is a certified teacher of Action Theater improvisation, and has studied extensively with the Roy Hart Voice Theater in France. She is a member of the Screen Actor's Guild. Currently, she performs with the East Coast Action Theater Ensemble. She has a master's degree in education from Harvard University where she also studied trance dance and healing practices through ethnographic film making and then worked there in the fields of international education and mind–body medicine. This work involved her in research projects with the Dalai Lama in India and Qi masters in China. The research confirmed her initial belief in the potential of the contemplative and expressive arts to improve health, raise consciousness, solve problems, and deepen joy. In 2001 she received a V–Day artists grant. Billie Jo has served on the faculty at Salem State College and Emerson College. Students have called her an "exceptional and knowledgeable teacher."
Carol Faulkner
Carol Faulkner studies Iyengar yoga and has completed the Teacher Training Program with Patricia Walden. Carol teaches private as well as group classes for children and adults. She leads Yoga Retreats each summer on a private island in NH and in January '06 a Yoga Vacation to Kerala, India. For more information about her classes, vacations, or the Retreats, you can contact her at 617–492–5246 or carolfaulkner@comcast.net.
www.carolfaulkneryoga.com
Deb Goldman
Deb Goldman, MA, is an Expressive Arts Therapist with a specialization in dance/movement therapy, a practitioner of Authentic Movement, a Children's and Family Yoga Teacher, a Certified Celebrant, and a mother, with 18 years experience creating and facilitating groups, rituals, and rites of passage ceremonies.
John Lapham
John Lapham is a working artist, performer and sculptor. His goal as a teacher is to provide a spirit of safety, focus and an invitation to support fearless creative expression for people of all ages. His studio, The Big Hand, is located two doors away from Art & Soul at xx Hampshire Street.
Lorraine Grosslight
Lorraine Grosslight, M.Ed., improviser, actor and director, has been teaching since 1989. She is a certified Action Theater teacher and performs with the International Action Theater Ensemble directed by Ruth Zaporah. Lorraine also conducts communication and leadership development workshops for executives and teams through The Ariel Group. She directs the local improv troupe New Tricks and is a member of the Playback troupe True Story Theater. She developed original shows with school children and youth with disabilities through VSA. Former faculty of the Boston Conservatory, Emerson College, New Theater Conservatory; affiliated with the Shantigar Foundation. A believer in the healing power of theater, Lorraine provides supportive coaching to develop skill and authentic creative expression in performance.
Please reach her at 617–623–2842.
Nancy Turnquist
Nancy Turnquist is a certified teacher of Iyengar Yoga. She completed a two year Iyengar teacher training program with Patricia Walden with whom she continues to study and work with closely. Nancy has traveled twice to Pune, India to study with the Iyengar family and spent a year teaching yoga in Spanish and studying with Jordi Marti at the Center for Iyengar Yoga in Barcelona, Spain. Nancy has a masters degree in literary translation and welcomes Spanish speakers to her classes. Her teaching is inspired by the joy and skill that arise from the practice of yoga.
For questions or more information you can contact her at 617 354–9439 or nancyturnquist@gmail.com. www.yogaoffering.com