SALTARA INSTRUCTORS

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Eileen's yoga journey began after over 30 years as a fitness instructor. In 2006, after teaching a high-intensity boxing class, she decided to stay for the following yoga class. After a few more classes, she enhanced her understanding of the link between the breath and movement and how awareness of the breath cultivates a sense of peace and calm that was not only useful on the mat but serves as a tool in everyday life.

In 2013, Eileen completed her yoga teacher training with Powers Yoga and is registered through Yoga Alliance. She also trained with Nikki Myers and is certified in 12-Step Recovery Yoga and Stand-Up Paddle Board Yoga. Currently, she is studying for her 500-hour yoga certification. 

She has been a guest instructor several times in resorts throughout Jamaica and the Betty Ford Alpine Gardens in Vail, Colorado. 

Eileen strives to make each student feel welcome in her classes, grow in their practice, and feel a part of the yoga community. In her classes, you can expect a well-balanced sequence with a style that embraces yoga's physical, emotional, and spiritual components. She is eternally grateful for the teachers who have influenced her and the students she continually learns from. She often reminds students: "Each time we come to our mat, we can leave something behind that no longer serves us and take with us something that brings us more peace and serenity."

Besides teaching yoga, Eileen has a master's degree in counseling and was employed as a middle school counselor. Her other hobbies include biking, paddle boarding, and hiking with her husband, Andy, and her dog Bodhi.

Lisa has been practicing yoga since 2004. After departing from a 14-year career as a high school English Literature teacher, and soccer and track and field coach, she recently received her Yoga Alliance 200-hour certification. Lisa’s classes include Hatha, ashtanga, yin, gentle, power, prenatal, and restorative yoga. Her passion is overall wellness of the body and mind, focusing on body image and self-esteem, postpartum recovery, and physical restoration of body and mind for athletes. Lisa is also a certified spin instructor and a National Academy of Sports Medicine certified personal trainer.

Nav is a mother, student, teacher, and mentor who bridges the gap between traditional and modern-age spirituality. As a former healthcare professional and a disciple of His Holiness Shree Chamunda Swamiji for over two decades, she has devoted herself to echoing healing into the world by guiding others in personal development and exploring the consciousness through transformational practices of the mind, body, and soul. 

Born in India and raised in New York City, meditation was the center of Nav's life. After having experienced personal neurological healing, Nav is passionate about sharing the disciplines of contemplative natural modalities that have allowed her to develop a multidimensional approach with her clients to heal past trauma and transform their lives. 

Grounded in Vedic knowledge by Swamiji, Chopra Certified Primordial Sound Meditation Instructor, a Sound Therapist, and Restorative and Kundalini Yoga Instructor, Nav is poised to bring the best of Eastern meditative practices to our community. She continues to elevate through experiences and serves the community as a Mental Health Advocate.

Chris has always been connected to a physical fitness and wellness community in some shape or form for her entire life, but she only regularly started practicing yoga eight years ago. While Chris was going through the worst time of her life, she was kindly urged multiple times by a dear friend and yoga instructor that she may need some yoga. To Chris, yoga was just a word, but she respected her friend and figured she might get some physical rewards from the class. That was in 2014, and that first class was like a divine intervention that revealed the magic of yoga to Chris. Chris was happy to reap the physical benefits of a continued yoga practice; however, the connection between the mind, body & soul and being in a community of like-minded people kept her coming back. Chris quickly learned that yoga was not just a word but a whole new way of living. Chris practiced for a year, faithfully, and in 2015 took her Y12SR (Yoga of 12 Step Recovery) in Baltimore with innovator Niki Meyers. Since then, Chris has held a safe place for folks in many recovery & treatment centers, parks, and the Morris County Correctional Facility Women Unit. From there, in 2016, Chris took her Yoga Alliance RYS 200-hour teacher training and has been teaching yoga ever since. Chris credits her yogi friend and her yoga practice for saving her life. Whatever we are struggling with in this physical world, we all struggle. Yoga teaches us to “go with the flow and let it go.” If and when it comes back, we have the opportunity to return to our mat and begin again every day. Chris is forever grateful to her yogi friend for introducing her to yoga. Teaching allows Chris to have the honor to pay that forward and to give to others what was freely given to her in the GIFT of yoga. 

Kim is a holistic health practitioner, earning a Degree at Healing Hands Institute in 2006 as a New York State Licensed Massage Therapist. There, she studied and practiced Shiatsu, a Japanese style of acupressure, along with other massage techniques. After learning and adding to her expertise through gyms and chiropractic offices, she found her love for Yoga and completed a 200-hour instructor course to become a Yoga instructor. During this time, she found more self-love and created Everlasting Health & Wellness, which included massage, Yoga, personal training, spin, and body sculpting.

Combining her skills and education with her continued love for wellness is where she found her own style of Yoga, a gentle approach. Kim aims to create a safe place for all students to achieve wholeness through Yoga and movement, with the addition of sound and stillness. 

When not in the yoga studio or helping clients achieve their balance, you’ll find her spending time with her daughter and husband of 28 years on the dance floor or in the mountains hiking, biking, camping, and taking in the beauty of nature. Kim has a secondary passion for interior design that continues to inspire energies that motivate her to bring zen from the outdoors. She feels that cooking vegan for her family and creating natural skin creams, salt scrubs, and more is the perfect synergy for a healthy lifestyle. She looks forward to sharing her passions for well-being in her classes and creating an environment where Western and Eastern therapies combine into a perfect blend of mind, body, and soul.