Krista Freymann
Owner, Director
Krista has completed 200+ hours of training, including a collection
of comprehensive teacher certification courses that meet the national
certification requirements of The Yoga Alliance.
Her extensive training includes f classical Hatha, Vinyasa and Kundalini
yoga styles, as well as bhakti (devotional) practices and pranayama
(breath work) techniques. Her primary teaching style is Vinyasa Flow
in which she has studied with several teachers. Krista has earned
certifications through Dhyana Yoga and Shiva Rea, as well as receiving
certification in Prenatal Yoga with Carrie Parker Gastelu of Yogazone
in New York. She has also studied with David Newman, founder of Yoga
on Main in Manayunk, Simon Park, and Gary Kraftsow. Additionally,
she has studied Ayurvedic Thai Yoga and is a certified message therapist.
Her inspiration to study and practice yoga arose after seeking ways
to heal herself from an accident causing severe injuries to both her
brain and body. Yoga led her to a new path of healing and personal
transformation. Krista specializes in working privately with those
suffering from chronic pain and illness, and anxiety and depression.
She also teaches yoga for pregnancy and birth. Her style of teaching
is a combination of her many years of formal training with her own
personal experiences and inner exploration.
Barbara Morrissey
Barbara began yoga practices in 1979 and practiced on and off through
the 80's while she raised her son Seth. As she got older she found
more time to practice. She started to practice with the SKY foundation
in 1993 and continued those studies through 2001, in which she found
David Newman and Inner Fire Yoga. She received her certification through
Yoga on Main in 2002.
Barbara’s other studies include an Ayurvedic certification through
Ed Zadlo, as well as meditation studies. She has also studied with
Betheyla in the Essence of Yoga courses, Judith Lasater's restorative
yoga, and is currently studying with Kirin Mishra at the Saraswati
River Yoga school. Her inspiration to teach is influenced by all of
her studies and her own personal practice.
Bobbie Kingsford
Bobbie Kingsford walks through this world on a Bhakti path. She is guided by a deep devotion to the Divine Mother Earth. Bobbie spent much of her childhood hiking and camping with her family where she found a great appreciation for the magic of the forest. Later, in college, she found herself drawn to the wisdom of the ancients. While at Drexel, she took classes on women's spirituality, spirit medicine and wild edibles.
Eventually her studies led her to Ayurveda. She completed the 100 Hour Ayurvedic Certification Course under the instruction of Ed Zadlo. Bobbie began practicing yoga in college to fulfill an athletic requirement. Having been a runner and cyclist, she really enjoyed the peaceful place of stillness that yoga offered. Not to mention the number it did on her hamstrings! Yoga became for Bobbie a sanctuary from the always moving, always on the go lifestyle that so many of us are used to. Called to help others share in this peace, she completed the Yoga Teacher Training Program at Yoga On Main in January.
Bobbie's studies also include Auyervedic Thai Massage with Michael Buck, the Radiant Yoga Child Programs with Shakta Kaur Khalsa and AyurYoga Training with Bethalya. Bobbie's hope is to eventually continue her path as a healer and complete the Ayurvedic Practitioner course at The Ayurvedic Institute.
Christine McHugh
Christine considers herself to be both a student and teacher of yoga and has been practicing yoga for six years. Her experience is that yoga and its philosophy have had a great impact on her life and that the path of yoga has been the journey of a lifetime. The yoga community and its members have been a tremendous support system to her and her spiritual development. Because of this she feels it is important to support her students by being present for her class and creating a safe space for them to evolve and explore Self.
Christine is a certified Yoga Alliance Teacher and has obtained her yoga teaching certification at Yoga on Main. She is a devotional chanter, honoring the Divine Mother and the bhakti path. She has deepened her practice while studying at Sky Foundation and hopes to study the dynamics of energy and integration with Kali Ray in the near future. Her background has included Hatha, Restorative and Inner Fire Yoga.
Elizabeth Moulder
Elizabeth began practicing what she thought was yoga at the ripe age of eleven after being introduced to it by her mother, who had recently suffered from severe back injuries. With the help of Elizabeth's sister, the three occasionally rehearsed a sort of stretchy, gymnastics-type of exercising that they neither understood nor committed themselves to. Half way through high school, Elizabeth began to study something much more akin to yoga than the gymnastics of her past in that it concerned life and reality as much as it did entertainment. She began studying yoga in its physical dimension with a discipline she rarely lent to her other studies. Through college, she studied the actual practice of yoga, which included it's philosophical, psychological and spiritual dimensions. She combined her philosophy major with her yoga studies at Temple, which helped lead her to apply for teacher certification in Vinyasa style hatha yoga at Wake Up Yoga in Fairmount, Philadelphia. Her teachers (of which there are many) included Corina Benner and Jill Manning, the head instructors at Corina's studio. The training included a study of anatomy with David Kiel, Sanskrit with Manorama, meditation with Michael Carroll and sutra chanting with Paul JJ Alex. Elizabeth firmly believes that the greatest teachers are the ones who do their best to point students in what they feel is the most truthful, intelligent direction, and works hard to follow in the respectful footsteps of the teachers before her while maintaining her own unique style and personally. She does her best to learn and to teach yoga while remembering, no matter what she's learning or teaching, that "everything's about loving and not loving." Rumi
Denise Quinn
Denise became a student of yoga in 1995. In 2000, she completed her 200 hour teacher training at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Western Massachusetts. Denise has also been practicing massage therapy since 1998, and in 2005 completed her studies as a holistic health counselor.
Denise has a talent for creating a non-threatening atmosphere. Her
students feel at ease, and those students with illness or injuries
feel cared for. Her desire is to make yoga accessible to everyone,
regardless of age or physical condition.
Jill
Bio and Photo Coming Soon
Ester
Esther has been a student of yoga for the past 15 years and has been an instructor for almost 3 years. She began taking traditional hatha yoga and kundalini classes in college and slowly became enamored by these courses. Over the years, she has practiced many forms of yoga including iyengar, vinyasa and yin yoga.
Esther received her training at Yoga on Main where she completed a 200 hour certification. She has taken workshops with Shiva Rea and Sarah Powers, and is fortunate to have studied under many other master teachers in both the Boston and Philadelphia areas.
Esther has attended silent retreats and has a daily meditation practice that is integral to her asana practice. She believes in the transformative qualities of the practice of yoga asana. Mostly, she strives to lead her students through a safe, and yet inspiring experience, grounded in yoga philosophy, proper alignment and breathe work.
On her free time she teaches first grade and practices with her many
seven year old students!
Melisa Putz
Melisa Putz is a dancer, choreographer and educator based in Philadelphia,
PA. She is co-founder and artistic director of PIMA Group, a music
and dance performance company founded in 2001, and has performed both
nationally and internationally. Melisa teaches dance and yoga classes
throughout the Philadelphia area and is a certified yoga instructor
through the Yoga Alliance 200-hour accreditation program.
Melisa has been awarded a Leeway Foundation Grant Award (2002), a
Rocky Dance Award (2002), a Professional Development Grant Award from
Dance Advance (2004 and 2007), and selection for the Susan Hess Choreographer’s
Project (2004-2005). She has been Dance Artist-In-Residence at the
Community Education Center in Philadelphia during the 2006-2007 performance
season. She is currently Artist-In-Residence through the Philadelphia
Society for Preservation of Landmarks at the Historic Powel House
in Philadelphia.
Dawn Greenly
Dawn Greenly specializes in teaching Pre/Post Natal Yoga, as well as Mommie/Daddy and me yoga classes for children 0 to 18 months. She is the creator of Namaste Mommie, Namaste Baby, and Namaste Child yoga series. She is registered as a 200 RYT with The Yoga Alliance. She has studied with David Swenson (Ashtanga Yoga), Sue Elkind, (Anusara Pre-Natal Yoga Training), and Shakta Kaur (Radiant Childä Yoga Teacher’s program).
Dawn enjoys teaching a variety of yoga classes. As a proud wife and Mother of two beautiful boys, she honors the special bond between parent and child.
Dawn brings a very playful yet educational attitude to all of her classes, always looking to lighten the heart and heal the soul.