Sharon Trull, MS, CTRS, RYT, is a Certified ChildLight Yoga Instructorand is also certified in the Color Me Yoga for Children Program, Pilates,Resist-a-Ball and Aquatics exercise. In addition, Sharon holds a 200 hr.yoga teacher certification through the Yoga of Energy Flow programdeveloped by Carrie Tyler and Daniel Orlansky. Sharon has over 23 years experience working with children and adults with multiple disabilities. She has been part of the CLY Instructor Team since 2006 serving as Asst. Summer Camp Director and Instructor for numerous CLY kids Yoga classes and ChildLight Yoga's Yoga 4 Classrooms program. Sharon resides in South Berwick, ME with her husband and two children.
Heather Warr, CCC/SLP, RYT, completed 200 hours of yoga teacher training with Hannelore Mobius of Durham, NH in May of 2004. She studied the Integrative Yoga Therapy approach which focuses on the healing benefits of yoga. Heather holds the ChildLight Yoga certification created by Lisa Flynn. She has been a pediatric speech language pathologist for the past twenty years and lives in Exeter with her husband and two boys. Heather enjoys working with children and adults of all ages and has a particular interest in working with people with special needs.
Susan Neilsonexperienced the joy of teaching preschool for seven years and raising 2 children, before returning to a career as a paralegal. It was during her personal yoga journey she realized she could share her enjoyment of yoga’s playful postures, breath and relaxation with children, while also encouraging children and their parents to take time to play together. Susan received her first children’s yoga instructor certification in 2007 through the Radiant Child Yoga program created by Shakta Kaur Khalsa. In 2008, she became a certifified ChildLight Yoga Instructor. Susan resides in Portsmouth with her husband and yoga partner. “Our 4 grown children continue to provide inspiration for us to take time to play and laugh together”.
Lisa Burk-McCoy, RYT is thrilled to be a part of the ChildLight Yoga team, where she focuses on teaching yoga to pre-teens and teens. "Yoga teaches us to connect wholly with ourselves, body mind and spirit. As adults, we can struggle to maintain our ease in being whole, yet it's something children do quite naturally. Children have an innate capacity to live joyfully in the moment. With yoga, they learn to take that capacity, and their integrated sense of self, into their adult lives." Lisa holds a 200 hour teaching certificate in Classical Yoga from the YogaLife Institute, a prenatal yoga certification, and children's yoga certifications from ChildLight Yoga and Itsy Bitsy Yoga. When not practicing yoga, she dabbles as a musician, playing flute in a local contradance band and teaching classical flute lessons to children and adults. She is blessed with a wonderful family–a husband, son and daughter, and a menagerie of pets. They make their home in Exeter, NH.
Lauren Winterholer, RYT, started teaching yoga to teen girls while in Swaziland (Africa) during her time with the US Peace Corps. In 2007, she earned her 200-hr certification in Rahini Yoga, and then in 2008 a second 200-hr certification in The Yoga of Energy Flow. As a certified ChildLight Yoga Instructor, Lauren hopes to unite her strong background in working with adolescents with the joy she finds in practicing not just yogic postures and breath, but also the beauty of practicing kindness and calm-heart. She believes that playful compassion inspires the best in every person-- oldish or youngish. When not working towards enlightenment, Lauren can be found writing, painting, or playing in the great outdoors with her husband, son, and dogs in Madbury, NH.
Jodi Castallo, MS, previously taught Ashtanga style yoga to adults in the Portland, ME area. She trained with Richard Freeman and O2 Yoga among others before becoming certified as a ChildLight Yoga Instructor. Jodi has a Masters degree in Environmental Education and has taught middle school children. The birth of her daughter two years ago inspired her interest in sharing yoga with children. She is excited to be a part of the ChildLight Yoga team, as it provides a wonderful opportunity to combine her interest in young children and education with her love of yoga. She currently shares yoga with young children with and without special needs at preschools in southern Maine. Jodi makes her home in Kennebunk, ME with her husband and young daughter.
Lauren Hajjar, RYT is a Certified Kripalu and Childlight Yoga
Instructor and has been practicing yoga and meditation for over 10 years.As well, she is a Licensed Massage Therapist,
specializing in therapeutic and deep tissue massage, reflexology, and polarity
therapy.Lauren is also a Ph.D.
candidate at Brandeis University and focuses her research efforts on
community-based programming and outcomes evaluation.Lauren believes that balancing the mind,
body, and spirit provides for optimal achievement and creativity.It is her personal mission to educate and
assist both children and adults to achieve balance in mind, body, and spirit
through tension reduction, self-awareness, movement, and breath.Lauren resides in Lowell, MA with her husband
and baby daughter.
Heather Parker Jones first
was introduced to ChildLight Yoga in 2006 when her eldest son was just a few months old.As they continued their yoga
journey together Heather noticed transformative changes in her toddler. Heather was inspired to become ChildLight Yoga certified in 2010 and is now also completing RYT certification at
The Yogalife Institute in New Hampshire, and certification as an Itsy Bitsy Yoga Facilitator for babies and toddlers.She is a Licensed Massage Therapist with a practice location at Dover Yoga Studio. Heather is thrilled to join the ChildLight Yoga team in its mission to bring the gifts of yoga to children everywhere. Heather resides in Dover, NH with her husband and two busy young sons.
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Darcy Sauers has been practicing yoga for seven years and recently completed her 200hr
Rasamaya (R) teacher training with Carrie Tyler. Darcy is also a certified
Still Point Prenatal yoga teacher and a Postpartum Doula trained by DONA
International. Darcy enjoys integrating the fluid movements of Rasamaya (R) Yoga
into her Prenatal classes and exploring the way pregnancy affects the 9 Rasas or
emotions. She believes that the breath and movement of Yoga is the best way to
ease the discomforts of the pregnant body and help a woman during labor and
beyond. Darcy is founder of Dover Doula and is thrilled to offer prenatal yoga classes at ChildLight Yoga Studio in Dover, NH, where she lives with her husband and three children.
Ann Biese, RYT, has a BS in Communication from U of Wisconsin, 200hr. RYT certification and an Advanced certification from ChildLight Yoga. It was Ann's career in professional theater at First Stage Children's Theater which led her to become a drama teacher for youth, playwright, and director for 10 years in NYC. Having personally practiced yoga for 12 years, Ann began to use yoga as a calming tool with youth prior to stage performances. "It was truly magical to see the transformation take place after we did yoga. All the stress, anxiety and nerves of live performance went right out the window with their breath." Ann realized that if yoga could work with classic stage fright, it could work with anything. In her spare time, Ann volunteers to teach yoga to underpriviledged youth, serves as a Spin instructor, and enjoys biking with her husband and two children. She and her family live in Newbury, MA.
Other Certified ChildLight Yoga Instructors
Hundreds have attended the ChildLight Yoga Teacher Training weekends. However, only the following have successfully completed the teacher training as well as the post-training certification requirements. Congratulations!
Instructors are listed by training date.
Instructors with an (A)have completed the Advanced Training, which includes Yoga 4 Classrooms.
You can contact an instructor directly by clicking on his or her name.
