Your Yoga Teachers

Our teachers have gone through extensive training. Each teacher has exceeded the national standards for yoga teachers as set by the Yoga Alliance and continue to take further training each year to be the best and most knowledgeable teachers for their students. For more information on Yoga Alliance visit them on-line @ www.yogaalliance.org

Melonie Nielsen LMP CAP, the owner and main teacher at the Center, is a Certified & Registered Yoga Instructor. Trained by the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center Ashrams she has received advanced training in yoga postures, philosophy, and sanskrit and was awarded the title Yoga Acharya (Master of Yoga, M.Y.). She also has extensive training in the Anusara-style of Hatha Yoga specializing in the alignment and bio-mechanics of the body, and has been a student of the yogic sciences for over 16 years. Melonie is a Licensed Massage Practitioner and Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner graduating from the American Institute of Vedic Studies and AYU Ayurvedic Academy. She has studied Yoga & Ayurvedic Medicine in America as well as India.

Megan Dugan, is a certified and resgistered yoga instructor with over 500 hours of training from the year long teachers training program here at the center. Megan is our family yoga instructor and she is known for adding a playfull spirit to her classes.

Ron Osborne, is a certified Yoga Instructor, trained at the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta World Headquarters in Val Morin, Quebec, Canada, and has been a student of Yoga for over 20 years. He has also been a professional stand-up comedian and actor for over 20 years. He enjoys laughter, philosophy, playing the harmonium, singing Kirtan and doing Savasana.