Yoga Montclair - 51 Upper Montclair Plaza - Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 - 973.233.9642 - Copyright © 2010. All Rights Reserved.
All of our Teachers have taken at least a 200-hr Teacher Training and are Registered Yoga Teachers certified by the Yoga Alliance. They were hand-picked for their ability to teach the Anusara alignment principles with grace and ease, while weaving a class inspired by the heart. Many of our Teachers are Anusara Inspired and working towards Anusara® Certification. Our instructors are all continuing their process of study - both in the physical practice of asana and the philosophy behind it.
Omni is the proud owner of Yoga Montclair, an Anusara® styled hatha yoga studio located in Upper Montclair, NJ. She is an Anusara-Inspired RYT-200 (with Yoga Alliance) trained by Vishali Varga at Yoga Mandali Montclair in 2004. Omni has been studying Anusara® Yoga for the past five years and is dedicated towards the process of certification! She is privileged to have studied with John Friend, Prof. Douglas Brooks, Vishali Varga, Desiree Rumbaugh and Hillary Cohen-Freeman. Omni is a Professional Dancer and received her BFA with honors in Dance from Montclair State University. She has been teaching for over 13 years throughout New Jersey schools, Montclair State University and private dance institutions. She has be been blessed by the birth of her first child this year and looks forward to all that is yet to come. Omni has a true love and fascination with the art of moving and her practice of Yoga only continues to deepen and enrich her life.
Pamela Goldsteen is a wife, mother, and blogger who began practicing yoga in 1995. What began as a form of exercise and stress relief gradually evolved to infuse all aspects of her life. She completed her first teacher training in 2006 with Vishali Varga. Pamela approaches her teaching, and her practice, as tools for self-knowledge. She hopes to impart some of the joy and ease that yoga has taught her, and help students become more comfortable in their bodies. Your body is your home, and to know it is to know yourself. You can check Pamela’s blog out by clicking here!
John Levis is a Certified Anusara® Yoga Instructor. John completed his initial teacher training with Todd Norian in 2003. He has also assisted Todd’s immersion and teacher training and continues to study with Anusara founder, John Friend as well as many senior Anusara instructors having completed over 1,000 hours of training. John also had the privilege of assisting senior teacher Desiree Rumbaugh at the International Yoga Festival in Rishikesh, India in 2007. John also completed the thai yoga certification from Shantaya Healing Arts with Jonas Westring in 2005.
John grew up playing ice-hockey beginning at the age of six and played throughout high school. He spent most of the nineties in the gym, heavily into weight-training. In 1999 he was introduced to yoga and left the gym for good the following year. He found that yoga offered a much better work without all that strain on the body and actually found himself one inch taller after the age of 30! Since finding Anusara® Yoga in 2002, he has remained dedicated to The Universal Principles of Alignment™ and has relieved acute back pain. Combining an amazing, therapeutic workout with a life enhancing, heart opening practice inspired by a tantric philosophy of intrinsic goodness, John is on his path. This practice helps him to open up to the full spectrum of life and finds that teaching inspires and helps others to align with their greatest potential, thus raising the vibration for all! His classes are fun, inspiring and informative.
John teaches yoga full time throughout northern NJ. He offers private one-on-one instruction, therapeutic yoga, thai yoga bodywork, corporate and public classes.
John grew up playing ice-hockey beginning at the age of six and played throughout high school. He spent most of the nineties in the gym, heavily into weight-training. In 1999 he was introduced to yoga and left the gym for good the following year. He found that yoga offered a much better work without all that strain on the body and actually found himself one inch taller after the age of 30! Since finding Anusara® Yoga in 2002, he has remained dedicated to The Universal Principles of Alignment™ and has relieved acute back pain. Combining an amazing, therapeutic workout with a life enhancing, heart opening practice inspired by a tantric philosophy of intrinsic goodness, John is on his path. This practice helps him to open up to the full spectrum of life and finds that teaching inspires and helps others to align with their greatest potential, thus raising the vibration for all! His classes are fun, inspiring and informative.
John teaches yoga full time throughout northern NJ. He offers private one-on-one instruction, therapeutic yoga, thai yoga bodywork, corporate and public classes.
Julie Margolis has been teaching yoga since 2004, when she graduated from the Starseed Teacher Training program. When she took her first Anusara® class later that year, she immediately felt she was on to something big. Anusara® provided her with a method to heal her body, open her heart, and stimulate her mind. Julie's love of yoga is contagious, and she strives to create a warm, compassionate environment in which to practice. Her classes are characterized by careful attention to flowing sequence, precise alignment instruction, always accompanied by music, and laughter. One of Julie's students recently wrote of her: "Her knowledge, kindness and inspiration are felt throughout the entire class and shared individually with each and every student. She shares openly and honestly with her personal practice in each and every class. She absolutely makes one fall in love with yoga and eager to get back to the next class." Julie's study of yoga has made her aware that she is always practicing, whether in the capacity of a student, teacher, or mother to her three young girls. She is grateful to all of her life teachers both on and off the mat. Julie lives in Montclair, NJ with her husband, daughters and a cat named Hanuman Lotus Yustein.
