GAIL GROSSMAN BIO
When Gail Grossman was 10 years old, her father took her to learn how to meditate. Who knew that this glimpse of peace and self-knowledge would echo so powerfully later in her life! Discovering yoga as an adult was a life altering love affair.
Gail had found her calling. When Gail is touched by something she wants to share it with others, so she decided to become a yoga teacher. Children seemed the natural choice , as she felt she could make the most difference in their lives. Gail has taught yoga to children of Port Washington since 2000. She is a graduate of the YogaKids® certification program with Marsha Wenig, Yoga for the Special Child with Sonia Sumar and The Radiant Child Yoga Certification with Shakta Kaur Kalsa. Working with teenagers lead gail to contiue her education . She received her adult yoga certification from BeYoga with Alan Finger.
Not even realizing that she wanted to teach adults, she was asked by a parent of one of her students to start an adult class, and it blossomed from there! Soon she wasteaching four classes a week out of her studio. Gail is continually studying with many wonderful teachers including Erich Schiffman, Shiva Rea, Judith Lasater, Gabriel Halpern, Brian Kest, Amy Ippoliti, and many more. She has also completed training with Shiva Rea for Yoga Trance Dance, which is a wonderful combination of yoga and dance, as well as become a certified Relax and Renew Restorative Yoga instructor certified by Judith Lasater. Gail is especially grateful to the"non-famous" teachers in her life, Janice Ventresca, Lorie Kiviat, Drew & Joanne Kane. Perhaps most importantly,Gail has also learned to find her inner-teacher, the truest voice she will ever know.
Outside of teaching in the studio Gail has taught YogaKids® classes at the Manorhaven Elementary School and works with various local organizations such as CASA (Coalition Against Substance Abuse) in Manhasset, during their Wellness Week, and many more community programs such as St. Peter's after school program and ATLAST, the Port Washington Summer Camp program. Having grown up with a special needs sister, Gail also works with the Association for the Help of Retarded Children. She works in their recreation program and teaches YogaKids® to young adolescents. Gail has also taught teachers and young children in the Bronx at the Rainbow School for Child Development. Gail is fortunate enough to be holding trainings for YogaKids® as well. She has mentored many wonderful facilitators through the training program. Gail is also a YogaKids® Trainer, and holds Foundations, 1 day Taste of YogaKids® workshops as well as working with Schools in a wonderful new program called Tools for Schools® in which The YogaKids® program is integrated into school curriculum. Gail is so thrilled to finally be able to have a large enough studio to have Birthday parties, family workshops, and other yoga workshops. Om Sweet Om Yoga is a dream come true for Gail. She has wanted to create a home for the yoga community for many years. It is her hope to spread the benefits of yoga to as many people as she possibly can.
LISA BONDY BIO
Lisa Bondy has been practicing yoga and meditation for more than 15 years.
She says " Yoga is central in my life. It gives me strength, flexibility, energy and peace: all qualities that I cannot be without as a mother, as a wife, as a friend,as a person. Becoming a yoga teacher was less of a decision than an evolution. Lisa decided to do the Yoga Zone/Be yoga teacher training with Alan Finger as a way of deepening her practice. It soon became clear to her that the transformational experience was too good to keep to herself. It was also clear that becoming a teacher was a way of fulfilling something very profound to Lisa. Something that the Buddhists call Dharma. or life's purpose.
Lisa wholeheartedly believes in the mind/body/spirit connection and the vitality and wisdom that come from that state of being. Bringing Yoga to the community of Port Washington is way of sharing that enlightenment in the hopes of empowering others to see their own light, beauty and inherent power and worth.Since her certification Lisa has studied yoga with several wonderful and well known teachers including Rodney Yee, Judith Lasater, Gabriel Halpern, John Friend, and Baron Baptiste. She has also studied extensively over the last 17 years with some lesser known but equally brilliant teachers including Rachel Gluckstien, Gretchen Carmel, Janice Ventreska, and Joanne and Drew Kane.
Lisa has taught Yoga to men and women in the Port Washington community and outlying area through the Port Washington Holistic Massage Center, the Parent Resource Center, the Methodist Church, The Yoga Zone in Brookville, Two Worlds Gym, and to children through Temple Beth Israel Nursery School, and the Port Washington School District ATLAST Program for the past two years. Lisa is looking forward to bringing her energy, love, and vision of transformation to the Port Washington community through her new home at Om Sweet Om.
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