Bhakti in Motion
Yoga, Dance & Healing Arts


                          155 Brackett st Portland, ME
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Kara Seymour
Kara Seymour is the Creator and Director of Bhakti in Motion.  Kara has been teaching yoga throughout Portland and Western Maine since 2004 and she is Maine's first Certified AcroYoga Teacher.  Passionate about personal and global transformation through the practice of yoga, it is with deep honor, gratitude and devotion that Kara shares this ancient practice with her community. 

Contact:  kara@bhaktiinmotion.com  /  207.233.0966


Amelia Simhanandi
Amelia is a Yoga Teacher, Flow Artist and Fire Dancer.  She studied at Discovery Yoga Center in St. Augustine Florida with one of the best known teacher trainers in the Kripalu tradition.  She has trained and taught yoga at two hoop mentor retreats with Hoopalicious, "the mother of all hoopdance."  She enjoys finding meditation in motion, through yoga, dancing creating art and anything else that pops up.

Website:  www.flowdancer.com
Contact:   email: theameliobedelio@gmail.com  /   603.726.1397

Deb Panish
Mother of two and lover of movement and breath. Deb brings a wealth of knowledge to her classes. She has studied extensively with Rodney Yee in a 300 hour training. She has also completed advanced studies with Judith Hanson Lassiter in Restorative yoga.

Contact:  email deb@funkypretty.com   /  207.865.0464

Lillian Corbin
Lillian Corbin was introduced to Kundalini Yoga in 2008 and has been practicing it ever since. She received her level 1 Teacher Certification in 2010 at Espanola, New Mexico.

Contact:  siri.kirin.kaur@hotmail.com  /  207.209.8969
Melissa Fox
Melissa completed her 200 hour Yoga Alliance certification with Jessica Kaniuka and Kathleen Flanagan at Bhava Yoga School here in Portland.   She has learned how to harness this gift and turn her love for yoga into an all-encompassing vinyasa class that allows the Prana to flow through asana, pranayama, chanting and meditation - all of these together creating the space for the mind to quiet and the heart to open.

Contact:
  207.318.1940  /  melissafox77@gmail.com
Amy Page
Amy Page discovered yoga as an undergrad in 2004, finding that solace on the mat can lead to peace in the mind, even when the mind is cluttered with multivariate calculus; ever since, yoga has been her method for finding balance between effort and ease, logic and love.  She has spent the past eight years cultivating a strong personal practice and recently completed her 200 hour Teacher Training after several years of waiting for the right opportunity.  After spending years teaching dance, Amy is eager to share her love of movement in a new way, bringing her enthusiastic approach to yoga to the Portland yoga community by offering a powerful vinyasa practice that encourages inner strength and loving devotion, focused on quieting the mind and challenging the body.

Contact:  Amy Page  860.918.5979  /  amysayom@gmail.com
             

Jen Whitely
Jen is a Yoga Teacher, improvisor and a certified Laughter Yoga Leader.  She completed her 200 hour yoga teacher training at Bhava Yoga School in Portland, Maine.  Yoga has provided a sense of calm, clarity and balance to her life that has helped her remain centered, especially when she's on the stage.  

Elizabeth Kelly
Elizabeth is a certified Vinyasa yoga instructor, who brings together a beautiful flow in which one can connect with their breath, their body and their own inner light, balance, and strength. She is certified in levels 1 & 2 Reiki and incorporates her use of subtle energy into her work with the physical body.  As a practitioner of Bhakti Yoga, or the yoga of love & devotion, she believes in yoga as a whole-heart practice and weaves mantra, meditation, and pranayama into her classes.

Contact: inhale.om@gmail.com  /  603.762.2000
website: 
www.elizabethyoga.wordpress.com
Christy McKinnon
Christy is a recent graduate of Bhava Yoga School in Portland and has instinctively used movement as therapy her whole life. Seeking healing. she found yoga and though she considers her "recovery" to be a lifelong journey, she feels blessed to share her yoga with the students of Bhakti in Motion.


Contact:  mckinnonchristy@hotmail.com
Liz Leuthner
Liz's style is rooted in the philosophy that anything is possible when there is an honest willingness to let go of old ideas and try something new. She is passionate about the transformational practices of meditation and yoga and knows from her own experience that they are absolutely vital to recovery from addiction. Liz loves that yoga means practicing, learning and making adjustments ~ and letting go of fears of falling and failing.

Contact: notmeyoga@gmail.com / 207.370.YOGA / namayoga.org
Cindy MacKay
Cindy’s yoga journey began in 2001. Her yoga studies have been grounded in the Iyengar tradition since 2002 and for the last 8 years she has directed her focus toward the Anusara method; studying and then receiving her Hatha Yoga certification with Todd Norian and Ann Greene in 2011. Cindy takes great joy in teaching the principles of alignment she's learned in a creative and uplifting way; orienting her students toward the heart and encouraging them to shine in their own unique way.


Website: pointofgraceyoga.blogspot.com
Contact: cmackay@gwi.net  207.775.0356
Lauren Norster
Lauren Norster has been teaching in unconventional educational settings for 12 years, practicing yoga for 10 years, and teaching yoga for 3. She is currently in the process of receiving her 200 hour Registered Yoga Teacher Certification from Breathing Room Yoga Studio in South Portland. She is excited to share her passion for yoga with local students!


Website:  bloommaine.blogspot.com
Contact:  laurennorster@gmail.com
Megu Hirayma
Megu has been sharing the practice of yoga for the last six years.  Although certified as a Kripalu yoga instructor and having completed trainings through the Baptiste Power Vinyasa Institute, what she practices and shares is not limited to any particular style or school.  She believes that a practice is something unique to each individual, to be explored and discovered (and continue to be explored) by each practitioner.  She hopes that students will be able to find the space and openness  on this journey of discovery.

contact info:
kuu0shizuku@gmail.com
Traca Marshall
Traca is a Kripalu certified yoga instructor who pulls from many different styles depending on the needs of her students. She is endlessly inspired and amazed by yoga and all that it has to offer. Also a student and practitioner of peruvian shamanism, journey dance and art...Traca loves sharing her practices with students.

Website:  www.tracamarshall.com
Contact:  tracagress@gmail.com    /    207.252.4059