Our Teachers
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Sylvia Channing
Sylvia has been a student of yoga for over 20 years, and is versed in Ashtanga vinyasa, Iyengar and Yoga Shanti styles. Sylvia has been teaching creative, alignment-based flow classes for 10 years in the Hamptons, NYC and South America. Her classes are fun, challenging, full of metaphor and suitable for both beginners and advanced practitioners.
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Iris Cohen
Iris Cohen discovered yoga over 25 years ago as an antidote to raising three boys and deadline magazine journalism. Her passion for the transformative power of yoga led her to teach classes, open her own studio and create curated yoga retreats featuring nourishing food, sound baths, nature and culture. Iris teaches an alignment-based practice peppered with play. Her classes are blended from her extensive training in Iyengar, Vinyasa, Katonah, and Hatha yoga. She aims to create an experience for the student rather than rigid instruction. Her love of language and music are vehicles for the yoga teaching.
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Vivian Rosenthal
Vivian is the co-founder of Frequency Breathwork and Diamond Rose Sanctuary. Her practice weaves together Kundalini, Breathwork & Energy medicine to create shifts in consciousness. She is committed to empowering individuals to become their own healers.
Vivian Rosenthal is a certified Breathwork facilitator and a Kundalini Yoga teacher. Over the last decade, Vivian’s dedication to alleviating mental health has led to her guiding over 10,000 people through therapeutic breathwork sessions.
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Jamie Lugo
Jamie is a seasoned yoga teacher and certified life coach with a rich background in her field. She has been teaching yoga since 2009 and leading retreats since 2014. Jamie is a senior teacher at Yoga Shanti Sag Harbor and she brings her expertise to the local community year-round. Her classes blend dharma, alignment, and flow, offering a thoughtfully sequenced vinyasa flow designed to challenge both body and mind. Teaching is her passion because she loves being a student and transmuting her learnings in new and fun ways.
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Lauren DiGiulio
Lauren DiGiulio completed her RYT 500 training with Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman at Yoga Shanti in Sag Harbor, NY. Originally from Upstate New York, she brings a lifelong love of dance and movement practice to her teaching. She took her first yoga class at the Chautauqua Institution as an adolescent and fell in love with all things yoga. She has studied at the Iyengar Institute in New York City, the Kripalu Center, and with Bridget Woods Kramer in London.
A writer and art historian, Lauren holds a PhD in Visual and Cultural Studies. Her classes integrate alignment and embodied awareness rooted in deep research with a focus on joint integrity and building strength. Her teaching is informed by her background in both somatic movement and the arts.
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Taylor Diepold
Taylor Diepold is a neurometabolic health coach, retreat facilitator, movement educator, and founder of DIEP Fitness & Exploration and GetFitSmarter. She graduated at the top of her class with collegiate studies rooted in pre-medical sciences, biology, psychology, and anthropology, later expanding her education through years of field study, travel, embodiment practices, and immersive learning around the world.
Taylor is a Certified Personal Trainer, Registered Yoga Teacher, Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Nutritionist, and experienced retreat leader who has guided workshops, immersions, and international retreats throughout Thailand, India, Morocco, Ecuador, and Nepal. Her work blends neuroscience, metabolic health, nervous system regulation, strength training, breathwork, circadian biology, and freeform movement to help people cultivate resilience, vitality, emotional regulation, and a deeper connection to themselves and their environment.
DIEP Fitness & Exploration is an outdoor movement experience that combines fitness, nervous system regulation, and nature connection. Through a blend of structured exercise and freeform movement, you’ll build strength, mobility, coordination, and confidence while learning to better understand your body’s natural intelligence.
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Bon Crotzer
Bon, founder of THE FLOSS™️ will help you transform your fascia, effectively reversing pain, sculpting tissues, stabilizing the nervous system, optimizing organ function, enhancing lymph flow, and resolving long-standing structural issues. Her proprietary technique Fascia Flossing™ is a dynamic way to remodel your connective tissue. Pandiculation, a function that is inherent to all mammals is utilized to generate a gentle internal exfoliation of our connective tissue - this way of moving is the native language of our fascia and nervous system.