Living Yoga Studio - About Our Teachers

We are a community of teachers dedicated to inspiring life long change through yoga classes, workshops and individual sessions. We compassionately meet our students where they are while supporting them to open to their full potential of body, mind and heart. Our teachers’ in-depth training in anatomy and movement allows students to be artfully guided into safe and thorough understanding of the postures. Our teachers continue to deepen their own practice through study and thus provide fresh inspiration, clarity and depth to each class. We welcome you to the Living Yoga Studio where you can be yourself as you study, learn and grow.

Martha Whitney
Martha creates a mindful and inspiring environment in which people find comfort in their body, a combination of alignment and kindness toward themselves. Her rich language and individualized guidance help students deepen their practice and self-awareness.

Martha has been studying yoga and body-mind centered therapy since 1985. She is a certified Kripalu Yoga Instructor, Somatic Experiencing Therapist and Yoga Therapist. In addition to group and private yoga classes, Martha offers integrated bodywork and Hakomi, a body-centered psychotherapy.

Annelies Smith
Annelies combines patience with inspiration and a depth of knowledge that allows students to learn more deeply about themselves and find ease and satisfaction in a fully balanced practice. She weaves together Eastern and Western wisdoms as she draws from her thorough training of somatic movement principles, ballet and modern dance Tibetan Buddhism and Hatha Yoga.

Annelies holds a Bachelors in Movement Studies from Naropa University, is a registered Somatic Movement Therapist and a certified Embodyoga™ teacher under the guidance of Patty Townsend. Her students find lasting relief from inhibiting patterns as they become increasingly aware of how to move with delight and awareness.

Arica Harmony Bronz
Arica Harmony Bronz has studied yoga and other movement and spiritual techniques from a young age, and everyday contemplates how these teachings relate to and enhance her life. For her, yoga is a way to connect to the innermost spark that makes each of us come alive. Through this joyful practice she holds the intention to fully open her heart to her life and recognize the grace of each unfolding moment.

Her classes are steeped in her ongoing study of Anusara Yoga (with John Friend and other wonderful teachers) and the Tantric vision upon which the yoga is based. This vision seeks to uphold the beauty of life and recognize the divine current that runs through every aspect of our experience. Through the practice of aligning our bodies, we also align our hearts with some of our highest intentions...to understand and remember that our true essence is joyful, loving, creative, and free.

Theora Bailey Ward
Theora Bailley Ward is a registered nurse and a certified Kripalu yoga instructor. Theora brings to her practice and her teaching a sense of fun, patience, peace and an awe of the benefits of yoga. In her teaching of Kripalu yoga, a mindful practice supporting self acceptance and body awareness, she meets her students where ever they are.

Theora enjoys teaching students of all sizes, shapes, and levels of flexibility and encourages them to move into their relationship with yoga in an individual, personal manner. She also directs and teaches a program for those touched by cancer through Fletcher Allen Health Care.

Lisa Limoge
Lisa Limoge began practicing yoga intuitively as a teenager in Burlington, Vermont. She leads a passionate, dynamic and inspirational class in the methods of Kripalu and Kali Ray Tri Yoga. The blending of these styles offers concise application of alignment, fluid spinal wave-like motion with attention to the inner journey of meditation for connection to spirit and perfect health.

Lisa is certified as a massage therapist and yoga teacher with 15 years experience. She has studied with many yoga masters in the USA and India.

Carrie Steele
Carrie began her study of yoga sixteen years ago with Martha Whitney. Six years later while meditating on Cumberland Island, Georgia she was struck with a strong desire to be a yoga teacher. Over the next ten years she completed the Resonant Kinesiology Training, became certified in Kripalu Massage and advance certified in Thai Yoga Bodywork, all the while finding new dimensions of herself through the practice of yoga. At last, she travelled to Thailand in 2006 for Jonas Westring and Sara Avant Stover's Hatha Yoga Teacher's Foundation Course.

"It is a joy to teach at Living Yoga, the very place where I spent countless hours under the wise and loving instruction of Martha Whitney. I will always be amazed and delighted by the process of beginning an hour or two of yoga feeling depressed and lost and then emerging as happy, peaceful and grateful. It seems like it must be magic and yet it's real. It's the genius of yoga. My intention is to offer my students a place to develop strength, grace and acceptance of themselves......as they are, now. Why wait?"

Annette Margot Browne
Annette has been practicing Yoga since 1999. As Annette practiced more she realized that Yoga was much more than the “Asana” or physical practice. It is this coming together of the body, mind and spirit that inspires her. “What we find on the mat supports and transform our everyday lives.” Annette's hope for her students is that they will leave each class with the awareness that Yoga opens them to a much larger and fuller life, and a deeper clarity of who they are.

Annette obtained her Yoga teacher training at Kripalu and has studied with Stephen Cope, Jonas Wrestling, Judith Hanson Lasater, Donna Farhi, Rod Stryker and Arlene Griffin. Annette is an Asian Bodywork Therapist and a Neonatal Intensive Care Nurse at Fletcher Allen Hospital where she breathes her way through each shift!