Nancy Causey, RYT 500
Nancy Causey has taught yoga for over 12 years, and co-founded the Half Moon Yoga Barn 10 years ago. She began her practice of yoga 22 years ago with Marsha Albert in Woodstock, New York, as an escape from her high-pressure career in the clothing industry.
“You’re going to teach some day,” Marsha predicted.
Nancy counts Marsha among her greatest influences that include Cheri Clampett, Sam Dworkis, Tias Little and Patty Townsend.
Nancy has completed Therapeutic Yoga training with Cheri Clampett and Arturo Peal and received 200 and 500 hour certification in embodyoga™ with Patty Townsend of Yoga Center Amherst.
“The study of yoga changed my life,” says Nancy. “I can’t imagine being without it.”
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 Nicolas Dalton, RYT 500
Nicolas has completed the intensive 500-hour training in Svaroopa Yoga. His passion for this deeply transformational yoga grows with each passing day as he continues to deepen his own practice and understanding of it. Nicolas is also certified in Kripalu Yoga. |
 Kavitha Rao, RYT 200
Kavitha Rao was brought up by a mother that infused yoga and Vedic philosophy into growing up. Once out of college Kavitha pursued yoga for herself studying Kundalini, Hatha and Iyengar yoga in India. She has completed a two-year teacher training program with Jonji Provenzano of River Cloud School of Yoga. |
 Terry Regan, RYT 200
Terry began studying yoga over 20 years ago with Senior Iyengar teacher, Sam Dworkis. Terry worked with Sam privately and in small classes weekly for 7 years, developing an appreciation for the anatomy of the body and the alignment of poses.
When Sam began traveling to Florida in the winters and a new yoga teacher came to town – Nancy and Terry met. Since Nancy’s style was very different from Sam’s it took some time to build trust and an appreciation of the differences, but Terry being the true student she is, opened her mind and heart to the new teacher and eventually Half Moon Yoga Barn was born. Over the years, Terry has studied with many other teachers, earning her teaching certificate from the Center for Yoga in Amherst, Mass where she studied with Patty Townsend.
Today, Terry is co-owner and co-director of the Half Moon Yoga Barn and a dedicated student of the yoga way of life. |
 Laurie Sepe Marder
Laurie Sepe Marder is a legend in Millbrook. Laurie comes with a long list of credentials in dance and several styles of physical training, including Pilates. Her classes are lively, fun, challenging, and the place to be on Monday and Wednesday mornings. |
Christine Sergent RYT 200
Christine Sergent, MS, RD, CDN, CYT has been practicing yoga for the past 13 years. In addition to her certification to teach Kripalu yoga, she has experience in dance, physical fitness/movement and overall wellness studies. Christine also has 20 years experience as a chef and 15 years experience as a registered/certified nutritionist. Her classes include holistic wellness, stress management/relaxation and yoga practice guidance subtly incorporated into each sadhana (yoga session) |
 Kate Perna
Kate fell in love with the practice of yoga immediately after attending her first class in 2005. She received her 200 hr. Certification in July 2009 through the Advanced to Master Program with Sondra Loring and Raghunath and is particularly drawn to Vinyasa, where movements are initiated and connected by
the breath. She also holds a certification from the Niroga Institute for Teaching Yoga to At-Risk Youth and has studied with Nischala Joy Devi, which earned her a Yoga of the Heart certification. She wishes it were possible to express the depth of her gratitude for this path and for the grace of her teacher, who
continues to instruct her on asana and the art of living well.
She holds an M.S. in Secondary Education and is the Founder of Bent on Change, a non-profit organization that works to bring yoga and mindfulness practices to at-risk and underserved populations.
Read more about her work in the community at www.bentonchange.org or visit her at www.seducedbysimplicity.blogspot.com |
 Debra Coddington
Debra Coddington has been involved with movement most of her life. In her teens and early 20′s she studied dance in New York City. After college she discovered running, the martial arts, and trained for competition in USA GoJu - one of the ”softer” forms of Karate. In the mid 70′s she competed in many tournaments placing first at prestigious competitions. She performed her tournament winning Kata at the Felt Forum.
Although she’d dabbled with weightlifting since her 20′s Debra began serious lifting in her 40′s which lead to her becoming a (very selective) personal trainer as well as a competitive bodybuilder. The photo of her was taken at her last bodybuilding competition when she was 49. |
 Beth Gross
Beth is an enthusiastic and energetic Certified Zumba Instructor who has been teaching Zumba for several years. |
