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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Leo Turpan
RYT-200 Yogendra Ashram
Leo’s deep spiritual yearning and continual study of yoga, meditation, and somatics has led him all over the world. Through his travels he has explored various disciplines that he incorporates into his asana classes including dynamic and intuitive movement, visualization meditation, and energy practices.
As a dedicated surfer, avid outdoorsman, and newfound dance enthusiast Leo understands that daily expressive movement is a key pillar to a healthy, embodied, and grounded living experience. His classes will offer you new avenues of exploring yoga, movement, and breath to help you tap you into your intuition.
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Lois Nesbitt
Lois Nesbitt has shared yoga with students and teachers in New York City and the Hamptons for more than 30 years. She attracts students of all levels with her engaging and informative style. Her upbeat fusion of energizing flow and state-of-the-art alignment enables everybody to practice safely and joyfully. Her ability to adapt yoga to each student’s needs and abilities has helped private yoga clients benefit from a practice not possible in group settings.
In addition to public classes and private lessons, Lois leads teacher trainings, retreats and workshops internationally. Her popular Injury Clinics and private lessons have helped many out of the pain caused by injuries, accidents, surgeries, and life’s daily wear and tear. A teacher’s teacher, Lois has trained hundreds of teachers worldwide.
Before dedicating herself to yoga, Lois was a widely published writer, editor, and artist. Check out her books HIP OP: BEYOND RECOVERY and HOW WE LIVE OUR YOGA. She received her B.A. from Harvard University and her Ph.D. from Princeton University, where she learned the art of conveying complex ideas simply and playfully.
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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.