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    • Prison Yoga Teacher Training
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    • Online Classes
    • Our Teachers >
      • Our Teachers
      • Teacher Blogs
  • Retreats
    • Indigenous Healing Weekend
    • Awakening Into The Sacred
    • Regain Your Inner Compass
  • Breitenbush Fundraising
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​Our Teachers
Experienced, Caring, Committed

Founding Teacher

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Sarahjoy Marsh
MA, E-RYT-500, C-IAYT

Sarahjoy Marsh, MA, E-RYT-500 yoga teacher and author, is the Founding Teacher for the DAYA Foundation. A yoga advocate for over 29 years, she teaches authentic yoga inclusive of all of yoga's limbs, influenced by her roots in Buddhism and Transpersonal Counseling, and specializes in trauma-informed yoga. Sarahjoy has trained more than 700 yoga teachers.  She is a vibrant, compassionate …  Read more…

Community of Teachers

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Peggy Profant
E-RYT 500

Peggy Profant, E-RYT 500, is a playful, passionate and adventurous spirit who is on a lifelong path of Yoga. Her first initiation into yoga was through Kripalu, and it gratefully changed the course of her life in her formative teen years.  Yoga provided balance, self discovery, and restoration throughout her academic years in college as she completed studies in Environmental Education and Dance.  With a yearning to go to the roots of yoga she traveled  to India in the 1990's. Read more...

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Tracy Lease
E-RTY 500
Tracy Lease is the director of Full Life Yoga Studio, teaches what would best be described as mindful, joyful movement. Tracy carries her personal meditation practice into each class with the desire to help others live in their own inner landscapes with ease and awareness.  She completed her 500 hour  yoga teacher training with Sarahjoy Marsh, Read More...

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Alice Diffely
E-RYT 500

Alice Diffely, E-RYT 500, Certified Chi Running® & Chi Walking® Master Instructor, RRCA Certified Running Coach, Certified TRE® Provider, Original Strength® Certified Coach is a longtime yoga practitioner whose teaching is enriched by her natural curiosity and enthusiastic study of related movement and mindfulness practices, such as the science of the breath; trauma-informed, brain sensitive yoga (TIBS), Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE), and ChiWalking/ChiRunning. She thoughtfully... Read More...

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Kira Rafuse
E-RYT 500, YACEP, CAP

Kira is a 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher (500 RYT), a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP), and a Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner (CAP). She has been practicing and teaching for 17 years. Kira’s yoga classes incorporate Prāṇāyāma, Meditation, Chanting, and an Āsana flow that embraces the breath as a guide. She teaches Yoga as a way of life that can be practiced moment to moment, Read More...

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Crystal Connelly
RYT 500

Crystal realigned with the practice of yoga after career burnout as a chef and caterer. She sought out yoga to help regain clarity in life and restore her health. Through yoga she found deep healing and transformation which ignited her desire to deepen her practice, she completed her first teacher training in 2018. As a result, Read More...

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Michael Levine
RYT 500

After many knee surgeries and a back surgery in the early 90's, I discovered and later taught yoga in Portland, Oregon at Holiday’s Health & Fitness Yoga.  I’ve studied with many teachers over the last 30 years and enjoy giving back to the yoga community.  My classes emphasize breathing and alignment with enough time to appreciate each pose yet without excessive holds.  I may occasionally add an atypical flow to keep things fresh. I am retiring from my patent law career to give more attention to yoga and to give back to the community.

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​Carol Gonzalez
RYT 500, NIA

Carol is a lifelong mover, dancer, and teacher.  She began practicing yoga in college while living abroad and studying dance.  Choosing to work in the world of transformative educational programs, dance and yoga became an avocation.  After golden years of creating and nurturing a family and a children’s school, Carol returned to the movement arts and began teaching yoga in 2003.  In 2005, Carol took Sarahjoy’s Read More

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Amelia Wack
RYT 500

Amelia is a 500-hr certified yoga instructor, a certified Prenatal Yoga instructor and currently enrolled in Sarahjoy’s 800-hr yoga therapy training. She has been practicing yoga for over 15 years and teaching for the last 10. Her yoga classes focus on a gentle homecoming back to your body and mind, with the use of pranayama, asana, and yogic philosophy. She encourages her students to reconnect with their Read More

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Sadie Barr
RYT 500

Sadie is a 500-hour certified yoga teacher, meditation teacher, Ayurvedic practitioner, and recovery coach with a B.S. in psychology. Her classes are a melding pot of yoga philosophy, recovery principles, and life on life's terms. She teaches slow flows and restorative yoga to balance the nervous system. ​  Read More

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