A Yogini is a woman who has embraced yoga into her life to the point where it informs everything she does, every interaction with not only her students, but with the earth she stands upon and the world around her. Our "Featured American Yogini" honors these luminous teachers who teach us all not only in the class, but more profoundly, as walking, living examples of this beautiful practice of oneness.
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January 2007 - Laura Hartman Laura Hartman, founder of the Transform Yoga Studio in Westhampton Beach, is one of "the greatest yoga instructors you never heard of!" Teaching dozens of classes a week, many of them spilling out to the sidewalk of her charming studio. This busy yogini finds equal time for just being a Mom. |
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July 2007 - Shari Shari's studio, Karma Kids is absolutely one of the most precious kids-only yoga studios in the country. Here Shari shares sweet ways of sharing yoga with her own baby, Layla Moon. |
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November 2007 - Marisa DiMattia Marisa see's tattoos as "walking works of art" and see them as a dairy written on skin, thereby sharing her stories with the world. Read more about this American Yogini who lives abroad... |
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December 2007 - Twee Merrigan The featured American Yogini, on the December 2007 cover of Yoga Journal, is Twee Merrigan! We love Twee Merrigan! Twee has been teaching all over the world by the side of her teacher, Shiva Rea, and so many others. |
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