Tracy Bartella
Tracy's yoga journey started in 2003 when she wanted a means to exercise that in no way involved running. Yoga was that for her and so much more. In addition to the physical, it provided the mental benefits of focus and relaxation, a way to access stored emotion, and a connection to spirit.
Moved by a desire to share yoga with others, Tracy completed her 200 hour yoga teacher training in 2013 at Karuna Center for Yoga & Healing Arts in Northampton MA. In teaching, she believes yoga is for everyone, and that we get all of the benefits regardless of what particular motivation brings us to class. The most important thing is just showing up!
When not on the mat, you can find Tracy spending time with her husband, baby, and feline friend, enjoying the outdoors, or learning something new.
Robin Bigaj
Robin was raised in the meadows of Nelson, NH. Her fascination with the human body and the connection between movement, expression, and wellness began when she started taking dance classes at the age of four. This fascination deepened when she was introduced to the world of yoga during her adolescence. She has continued to be challenged and delighted by the transformative power of yoga practice since.
She completed her 200hr YTT with incredible teachers and fellow students in May 2022 through Soham Yoga School. In teaching, she aims to facilitate environments for students to tap into their innate vitality and strength and increase their ability to move through life with joy.
When not at Mudita, you can find Robin encouraging glorious food to grow on an organic farm in Walpole, NH, playing in the New England wilderness, or giggling and dancing with friends of all species.
Cara Campbell
Cara took her first yoga class as a freshman in college, hoping for an easy A. She got the A, and, over 15 years later, she’s still learning “how to do yoga”. Having explored many different yogic traditions, from Ashtanga to Bikram to Hatha to Vinyasa to Yin, Cara approaches yoga as an embodied form of mindful awareness, with an emphasis on curiosity, play, and balanced, functional strength and flexibility. She enjoys infusing her classes with creative transitions, intentional movement, and slow, steady breath to balance and calm the body, mind and nervous system.
Cara received her 200-hour Certification from the Keene Yoga Center and spent 9 months living and working at The Sanctuary at Two Rivers retreat in Costa Rica, studying yoga and Ayurveda. When she’s not teaching or practicing yoga, she enjoys exploring the great outdoors, cooking and reading.
Jordan Del Bianco
Jordan first recalls practicing yoga as a little girl in her parents bedroom to a “Yogakids”VCR. However it wasn’t until her sophomore year of high school that she fully dove into her personal practice. She took advantage of a $10 for 10 day special with a few of her soccer teammates. She figured it would help her recover from the physical demands of playing multiple sports, not realizing it would also send her on a path of self discovery and healing. Needless to say, it was a good investment.
After over a decade of practicing, she was eager to share her passion for yoga and movement with others and completed her 200 hour YTT at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Stockbridge, MA. She aims to combine her background in athletic training with the tradition of yoga to empower her students to better connect and care for their body, mind, and spirit.
Off the mat you will find Jordan running, hiking, paddle-boarding, weight training, cooking, or adventuring through a National park. She also cherishes spending quality time with friends and family. Jordan looks forward to seeing you in class!
Merrilee Frable
Merrilee stepped on a yoga mat for the first time in 2011. She was immediately smitten and has enjoyed a decade of integrating the practices of yoga into all areas of her life. She appreciates not just the asana (physical posture) offerings of the yogic path, but also the practical emphasis on breath work, meditation, and ethical conduct. She believes that any strategy of connecting to our body is honoring the yogic path - whether that’s a candlelit restorative class or a workout-oriented class. The dharma is everywhere and every style of yoga offers its own unique opportunity to embrace the practice. She encourages her students to meet their bodies wherever they are, and offers many variations of poses so you can decide what works best for you - whether that’s meeting a knee injury with gentle compassion or striving for increased strength with grit and perseverance. She enjoys working with folks representing all bodies, abilities, and levels of experience. She also appreciates hearing from students before or after class about their goals and intentions for their yoga practice. The more she knows you the better she can support you in your class.
On any given day you can find me throwing or hand building pottery in my home studio in Alstead, facilitating a mindfulness activity at Morning Sun Mindfulness Center, in an art class at KSC, jogging along the rail trail, or snuggling up in front of a good show with my partner and our cat Nicholas Cage.
Sara Henry
Sara includes over a decade of yoga and mindfulness meditation in her practice. She trained at Kripalu School for Yoga & Health. Her style is described as "Moment-to-Moment Yoga" where she focuses on watering seeds of inclusivity, awareness, playfulness, and approachability. She regularly weaves elements of Thai Massage, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Vipassana Meditation, Plum Village, and Laughter Yoga into her classes.
Sara lived in a Buddhist monastery founded by Thich Nhat Hanh for about three years, and now resides in MorningSun Community. She's non-binary and feels good with she/they pronouns. She cares deeply about health care, earth healing, and social and racial equity. She feels that yoga and meditation are two clear paths to support healthy structural change.
Sara dedicates much of her personal time to bringing modalities from her ancestral lineages into her daily life. She aspires that her classes can be a co-manifestation of community for us to benefit from the healing energies of sangha and asana, together as one.
Leanne Horvath
Leanne relocated to New Hampshire from California in 2019 and has been practicing yoga for the past 17 years. While her love for yoga began with an asana-based practice, yoga would continually expand and weave into the rest of life.
Leanne completed her 200 hr YTT in Tantra Yoga with Vira Bhava Yoga in Chattanooga, TN. Leanne traveled and studied in Rishikesh, India enriching her practice with the study of Ayurveda and came away with a deeper understanding of yoga.
Leanne strives to offer an opportunity for others to develop confidence in their practice by providing progressive sequencing of foundational asana, allowing space for personal intuitive movement with feedback that is supportive and liberating.
Jordana Korsen
Jordana is a glassblower, an educator, a gym junkie and a music freak. She tries to blend what she does with who she is to connect interests and strengths. She has found that mediums or disciplines that brings people together are the creators of community.
Jordana is an instigator of people, creativity and movement. Combining movement and music are what she celebrates most as a group fitness instructor. As a glassblower, an arts educator and fitness instructor she finds a neat and clear thread that ties up what she does and who she is. Jordana thrives on creating a space where people can find a feeling of challenge, achievement, success, strength, creativity and comfort. It’s awesome to give people the chance to see what they can do. Jordana is inspired and energized by her work and community. She teaches yoga, spinning, group muscle, balance and stability classes locally
Marisa Lazarus Miner
Marisa went to her first yoga class in 2010 and has been hooked ever since. She has become more drawn to a spiritual way of living and mind-body connection. Over the last decade, she has fallen in love with yoga and movement; exploring many different styles that have captured her heart. She realized that yoga made her feel physically good, doing things she wouldn’t have imagined she could do during practice, but also helped her mentally and spiritually, on and off the mat.
Marisa’s yoga teacher training deepened her personal practice while also educating her about how to share yoga with others. She is dedicated to sharing this practice with both kids and adults. Marisa finds great joy in guiding people to understand the power of breath-movement connection and in revealing the capabilities of their bodies.
Marisa is passionate about teaching and sharing the gift of yoga. She aspires to be more trauma-informed in her teaching and personal practice.
Emma Tshibambi
Emma is a local baker who aims, first and foremost, to make the world around her more delicious. She was raised between Keene, New Hampshire and New York City where she grew up among Aikido dojos, Tai Chi studios, and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu schools. Early on, this instilled the importance of physical practice, personal growth, mindfulness, and self discipline which are so fundamental to meditative martial arts and yoga practices. It would be these same principals and philosophies that eventually lead her to study yoga through Vira Bhava Yoga.
Emma went to her first yoga class in her early teens and attended begrudgingly, to say the least - she strode in to battle armed only with a free guest pass, a water bottle, and an attitude problem. A few years later, Emma encountered yoga through a high school program, led by Meenakshi Moses. It came as quite a surprise that the class was invigorating, challenging, and shared much DNA with the martial arts she’d come to love.
Since then, Emma has enjoyed continually broadening her view of yoga, exploring various styles, and working to integrate the different practices that have influenced her.
James Wood
James has been teaching yoga for 5 years now with his 200-hour yoga certification. He began practicing yoga 20 years ago after moving back to the Boston area from southern Vermont. It wasn’t until 2005 when he met Robert Moses that he began to understand the depths of yoga and how to integrate it into his everyday life. Through Robert's teaching and Ashtanga yoga, James began to understand the discipline of yoga and the interconnectedness of mind, body, and spirit.
What started as a physical practice quickly became a breathing practice and then a spiritual practice. James takes inspiration from his daughter Kat as a constant source of knowledge and discovery in her passion of movement and understanding of the human body.
Kat Wood
Kat was introduced to yoga in 2007 when her dad took her to an Ashtanga class. She did not take to it immediately but practiced on and off for the next few years before establishing a regular practice. Like many people, she first showed up for the asana then realized the impacts of breathing practices, presence, and awareness.
Kat completed her 200-hour teacher training in 2015 and hit the ground running. Since then, Kat’s teaching style has evolved into an amalgamation of training, skills, and techniques from both the anatomy and physiology of the massage world and traditional yoga practices.
Kat strives to constantly keep her learning fresh and informed so she can give her students an understanding of the subtle foundations of postures and movements while providing a framework for personal exploration.