Meet the GPY Teaching Team

Kate began her yoga journey in 2005 to nurture her flexibility and complement her active lifestyle. Through her practice, Kate learned to be more compassionate and adaptable in her daily life. Kate is certified in Vinyasa, Prenatal, Yoga Tune Up®, and Restorative yoga, with a teaching style that emphasizes functional movement and is prop-intensive to support body awareness and ease.

For the past 30 years, Barry has been sharing the joy of dance and movement with thousands of students through her teaching. Before she became a teacher, Barry was a professional dancer in New York City. She then received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Dance Education and has taught a wide array of ages in settings ranging from professional productions to public schools. She is a recipient of numerous National Foundation for the Arts’ grants for her work in public schools throughout the country.

Barry’s yoga path has been a unique one. It began at the urging of her eldest daughter while recovering from a serious and debilitating back injury. A very reluctant student at first, Barry was slowly won over by yoga’s healing, strengthening, and detoxifying benefits. Possessing an innate gift for teaching, Barry's journey into yoga soon led to her obtaining her Yoga Alliance teaching certification. Her classes are dance-based and alignment-focused, taught in a hot studio environment with upbeat music to create an energetic, engaging, and transformative experience.

In addition to studio teaching, Barry makes time to be involved in various local outreach programs to help spread the benefits of yoga. Students are captivated by Barry’s loving, kind, and energetic nature. Her dancer's background adds a unique touch to her yoga classes, but it is her compassion and her contagious enthusiasm that most inspires her students.

Hello!
As a long time member of the GPY community, you have probably seen my face in classes and working at the desk. I am honored and excited to step into a new role as a teacher at Greener Postures. Being part of this community has been one of the greatest privileges of my life.
I started practicing in 2012, spent years falling in love with movement and the awareness I had found in my body, and completed my 200 hour certification in 2019 with Lauren Znachko. I continue to enjoy my daily yoga practice and enjoy sharing what I learn on the mat in my classes.
I hope to provide you with a space to deeply connect with your body and remember the essence that is you.
Until I see you on the mat, be gentle with yourself.
Remember...
"We are all just walking each other home" - Ram Dass

Julie is a passionate yoga teacher who is excited to deepen her connection with the Greener Postures community. When she moved to Maine in 2022, she quickly found that Greener Postures became her home away from home—a place where she felt supported, nurtured, and connected. Her deep appreciation for both the practice of yoga and the empowering community at Greener Postures inspired her to complete her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) in British Columbia in August 2024.

Julie is excited to share her love for yoga with others, guiding students toward mindfulness, strength, and balance. She believes in the transformative power of self-awareness and is committed to creating an inclusive space where students can embark on their own journeys of self-discovery. Through mindful movement and breath, Julie encourages each student to cultivate a deeper connection to both body and mind. She’s excited to offer the same warmth and support she found at Greener Postures, helping others develop a fulfilling and authentic yoga practice. 

Kelsey is a long-time student of yoga and member of the Greener Postures community. Her classes are vigorous and accessible to all levels, taught in a hot studio environment with upbeat music to energize and inspire your practice. All levels, abilities, and bodies are welcome.

I began my yoga practice as a weekend warrior!

I explored Ashtanga, Bikram, and Hatha styles, and when I discovered heated Vinyasa Yoga in 2009, I was ready to commit to regular yoga practice. Initially drawn to the physical benefits and the cleansing heat, I was soon grateful for how the Vinyasa flow helped calm my mind. My spirit yearned to learn more of the yoga teachings, and with the support of masterful teachers like Richard Lanza, Stephanie Brown-Ford, and Jacqui Bonwell, I came to appreciate the true healing powers of yoga. My classes are alignment-focused and accessible to all levels, taught at a moderate pace in a warm studio environment with instrumental music to create a supportive and balanced experience.

A 2010 graduate of the Open Doors Power Yoga Teaching Training (200 hours) and a 2011 graduate of The Sacred Seed Yoga School (200 hours), both programs recognized by Yoga Alliance, I’m now what Jacqui calls a “foot soldier” of yoga, here to share what I’m learning as best I can. Appreciating that we are all just beginners of this magical practice, I teach an approachable class with a focus on light-heartedness and a spirited playlist!

For Stephen, yoga has become more than a physical activity — it's a way of being in the world. He is passionate about offering his students a practice that encourages them to listen and be present, that challenges them physically but offers them softness and release. His classes are accessible to all levels of practitioners and based on linking breath with movement, and combining thoughtful sequencing with intentional alignment. He teaches in a warm room to instrumental music with a soft beat, intending to compliment but not distract from the practice.

As a former dancer, Jess has always appreciated the art of movement. Deepening her yoga practice over the years provided Jess with many gifts that she wished to share with others, so she enrolled in a 200-hour YTT intensive at Kripalu last summer (2023). For Jess, yoga is an opportunity to harmonize the mind and body through meditative movement. Her classes are gentle yet engaging, taught at a moderate pace in a warm studio environment, with instrumental music to create a supportive and accessible practice for all levels.

Her goal is for students to leave her class with a smile—feeling more connected to their breath, body, and soul.

Lucy has a background in biomedical sciences, and received her doctorate in cell and molecular biology of health and disease. She has experience studying the physical and spiritual way of the Japanese traditional martial arts, and combines this understanding with practice as a yogi since 2014. Lucy studies yoga as a sustainable, rigorous, and balancing path towards self-awareness. She is a lifelong learner, and seeks to discover and guide the integration of physical, mental, and emotional strengths within herself and her students.

Bethany became a student of the yoga practice in 2004. Her most notable formal training includes 200-hour Teacher Training with Jacqui Bonwell in 2011 and 500-hour Teacher Training with Ame Wren and Kevin Courtney through Boston Yoga School in 2015. She completed Francesca Cervero’s ‘The Science of the Private Lesson’ training in 2012 and works as an experienced private yoga lesson mentor. Bethany now works alongside Ame Wren as Co-Director of Boston Yoga School 200-hour Teacher Training and leads annual international yoga retreats.

She continues to study yoga with many gifted mentors along the Northeast Coast and draws inspiration from the Iyengar, Ashtanga, Vinyasa, and Power Yoga systems to design an intelligent eclectic flow practice that blends regular strength training and functional mobility. She is known to deliver a strong, consistent, balanced, and accessible approach to the yoga practice enriched with supportive and practical alignment.

Bethany is most interested in expanding consciousness and encouraging students toward developing a devoted practice that enables perspective, insight, joy, and well-being. She happily welcomes all levels of studentship. Her classes blend instrumental and beat-driven music in a hot studio environment, offering a moderate, strength-based flow with a focus on alignment and breath to support all levels of practice.

Nate started a committed yoga practice to help heal a back injury from a car accident in 2016. The journey that followed has led to deeper physical and emotional healing than he could have imagined. With the goal of helping others find their own healing through yoga, Nate completed his 200-hour teacher training with Laughing River Yoga in Burlington, VT. He moved to Maine in 2022 and is thrilled to be part of the Greener Postures team! His classes are beginner-friendly and alignment-focused, set in a warm studio space with ambient instrumental music. His goal is to create a welcoming and affirming space for all bodies. 

Terri’s first yoga experience was a prenatal class that she took when pregnant with her oldest son in 2001. From that very first class, she knew there was something special about yoga that spoke to her like nothing else had. With a history of multiple knee injuries and surgeries, she found in yoga a place of solace where she could be physically challenged while mentally and emotionally letting go. Yoga offered the space to connect mind and body and to soften the sharper edges of everyday life.

She is passionate about helping others discover yoga for themselves. Her goal is to teach classes that are transformative, challenging, nurturing, and fun. Her classes are strength-based and alignment-focused, taught in a warm studio environment with upbeat music to create an engaging and empowering experience for all levels. In 2013 she received her 200-hour yoga certification under the direction of Jacqui Bonwell—a very powerful inspiration. In addition to Jacqui, she is also tremendously grateful to all of life’s teachers, both off and on the mat. Without the love, acceptance, and patience of her family, she would have never landed on her mat in the first place.

A Yoga Alliance E-RYT 500, Robin’s training began with Jacqui Bonwell and expanded through advanced studies with Pranakriya Yoga School, The Lotus Pond in Tampa, Marlysa Sullivan, Grace Jull, and others.

Robin leads 200-hour Yoga Teacher Trainings, Yoga Nidra & Restorative Yoga trainings, and other workshops. Her classes are trauma-sensitive, include offerings for all levels, and encourage self-awareness and body agency. Her classes are alignment-focused and taught at a moderate, slow pace in a warm studio environment, accompanied by instrumental music to create a calming and accessible experience for all levels. Along with yoga, Robin writes about astrology, nature, meditation, and other topics for Llewellyn Publications and Robin’s Zodiac Zone, her weekly blog. She and her husband, Jared, are both yoga teachers who enjoy living close to the ocean with their two beloved dogs.

“I find yoga to be endlessly creative in both teaching and practice. Since our bodies and minds shift frequently and thrive on both familiarity and newness, I teach or practice according to the day’s energy, looking to the Moon, Sun, planets, seasons, and cycles for intuitive guidance.”

Alanna has a background in vinyasa and hatha yoga. She began practicing yoga over a decade ago while attending college in Boston and fell in love with the meditative flow. Originally from Cape Cod, she has spent the last several years traveling the country and studying yoga. She completed a 200 hour hatha yoga certification in San Diego, CA in 2014, which helped her to foster a deeper understanding of her own practice. More recently, she completed a 200 hour vinyasa training in Vero Beach, Florida with Level Yoga in 2022. She also holds a 100 hour Anusara yoga certification. Her mission is to help her students find balance on the mat so they can live a more balanced and inspired life off the mat. Her classes offer a deep connection to breath and awareness while guiding students through a creative, heartfelt physical practice.

Alanna’s classes are alignment-based with a moderate pace, set to upbeat music in a heated studio environment. 

After years of dealing with chronic pain from a yet-to-be-diagnosed case of Ankylosing Spondylitis, a chronic inflammatory disease, Ben found his way to yoga. He has since used it as a tool to better his body and his mind and teaches from that same frame of reference. He believes healing comes in many different forms and encourages a shape and form that is best for you.

Ben completed his 500-hour yoga teacher training at Modo Yoga International and has continued his education with them in New York. His relaxed vibe and light sense of humor help people approach their practice (and themselves) with more pleasure and less judgment. Ben’s classes are taught in a hot studio environment with an alignment-focused, strength-based approach, paired with instrumental music and moderate intensity to support growth and balance.

He teaches dynamic flows, with sequencing and poses that can be accessed and enjoyed by a novice or long-time yogi. He also brings his experience as a personal trainer, adding focus and awareness to the body, its functional movement, and the mind that moves it.

Janet is a Registered, Licensed Dietitian Nutritionist, Yoga Teacher, and consultant at CV Wellbeing. She counsels individuals struggling with body image and eating disorders and hopes to create a safe space where you can realign with your inner wisdom, tune out external noise, and live more comfortably in your body.

Janet has her Master of Science degree in Human Nutrition, her 200YTT certification from Sacred Seeds Yoga School, is a certified Intuitive Eating and Balanced Athlete coach, and is trained in ball rolling and Action and Commitment Therapy. After taking her first yoga class in 2010 (just after having her 5th of 6 children) and longing for a sense of community AND self, she was hooked! One of her favorite concepts is that, “…you don’t use your body to get into the poses, but rather the poses to get into your body.”

Her classes are taught in a hot studio environment with a vigorous, alignment-focused approach, complemented by instrumental music to support a strong and mindful practice. Powerful and aligned, Janet hopes to create a fun and uplifting environment where you feel comfortable learning.