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INSTRUCTOR BIOGRAPHIES

BARBARA COLBER
Barbara is the founder of Santosha Center for Yoga and Health. After twenty-five years of social work, Barbara decided to follow her dream and passion for yoga by opening a healing center. Santosha, Sanskrit for "contentment," offers healing & personal transformation through yoga, massage, energy healing, proper nutrition, and healing arts. Santosha offers a full scope of body, mind, spirit practices including mediation instruction and kirtan/chanting.

Barbara holds a Masters in Social Work, is a certified 200 hour Sampoorna Yoga Teacher (the yoga of fullness), is ordained as a Priest/Swami in the Kriya Yoga Tradition, and is certified as a Reiki Master Teacher. She has studied Hatha Yoga with Yogi Hari in Florida, Ashtanga Vinyasa Flow with well known Shiva Rea, and Siddha Yoga Philosophy in India and New York with Swami Muktananda and Swami Chidvilasanada. She brings a wealth of knowledge and love to her yoga and mediation classes. She offers herself in service to the upliftment of humanity in peace through yoga.
 
AIMEE COLBER, RYT
Aimee is the Co-founder of Santosha Center. Aimee is also the Director of the Santosha Yoga Teacher Training School through Yoga Alliance where she certifies Yoga students as Yoga teachers. She has a Bachelors degree in Biology and studied in a 4 year postgraduate Naturopathic Physician program where she learned Clinical Nutrition, Pediatrics, Geriatrics, Clinical Diagnosis, Herbal medicine, Homeopathy, Natural Pharmaceuticals, Natural Childbirth, Applied kinesiology and much more. Aimee also attended a masters in Physical Therapy program where she learned Pain Management, & Muscle Testing. She has been practicing Meditation and Yoga for 32 years and received her yoga teacher training from John Friend's Anusara Yoga in Arizona and also became certified in Mat Pilates. Aimee studied Sampoorna Yoga in Florida and received her 500 hour certificate. She has studied with renown Shiva Rea in Vinyasa, and studied with renown Manu Jois in Ashtanga. She has taught for many years at various spas, resorts, gyms and studios in Arizona, Oregon and CT.

Aimee continues to further her studies in yoga and yoga philosophy. She loves teaching students of All Ages and All Levels. Aimee will continue her studies in Ayurvedic Medicine. Presently Aimee offers private Pilates/Yoga lessons either at Santosha or in your home. She offers a 200hr Yoga teacher training and a 500hr yoga teacher training at Santosha Center. Aimee helps people heal holistically by offering certain combinations of juices and other ingredients as a fast to cleanse and detoxify a specific organ of the body, in this way that particular organ can function better. She offers clinical nutrition consultations, and applied kinesiology diffusions. Aimee also offers energy healings and Bach Flower Essence consultations.
 
SandySANDY OPPENHEIMER
Sandy Openheimer is a graduate of the Santosha 200 Hour Certified Yoga Teacher Training. Sandy teachs both yoga and yoga dance at Santosha Center and in the local community. She has created her own sequence called, "My Yoga Dance" which combines yoga with a fluid-like dance flow to music.

Sandy especially enjoys the outdoors and can be found teaching yoga out in nature by the pond on nice days. Sandy is interested in sharing what she has learned to the community in hopes that they enjoy yoga and dance as much she does as it is so beneficial to your well being!
 

KristinKRISTIN ROBERTS
Kristin holds both a Bachelor's Degree and Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology. She has always had a strong desire to assist people in healing themselves physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Kristin was called to yoga five years ago as a way to stay healthy and in shape. However, the deep transformational quality of yoga soon revealed itself and she found herself devoted to the practice.
Kristin received her 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training from Santosha Center for Health. Her classes focus on assisting students in developing a deep relationship with themselves through their yoga practice. Kristin recognizes that each student comes to yoga for differing reasons and at different stages in life. As a result, Kristin meets each student "where they are at" by incorporating into each class the wisdom of the physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits of asana and pranayama and strives to assist students in incorporating into their life the insight gained on the mat.

 
DebbyDEBBY SCHERRER
 

TwinkTWINK MCKENNY
Twink McKenney has been studying yoga and astrology since 1985. Her passion for both is evident and she loves to weave the two ancient bodies of wisdom together in her class. Using planetary placements and moon phases to inform and guide the class, students connect mind, body and spirit in a Hatha yoga class that is both centering, strengthening and renewing for students of all levels.
 
JulieJULIE WOOD
For the past 18 years, I have been a nationally certified group exercise instructor and personal trainer in the Seattle area. My husband and I relocated to Connecticut, and have been enjoying exploring the Northeast. I have taught all formats, from Step and Spinning classes to Plilates and Yoga. I received my Pilates training and certification in San Francisco from Elizabeth Larkam, an internationally recognized Feldenkrais practitioner and Pilates
trainer. I have worked with men, women, and young people of all ages, from 10 to 75. Fitness is my passion and I love working out personally, and sharing my expertise to help others achieve their goals, whether it is weight loss and better physique, or just getting back into shape.
 
JENNIFER BELL FINEGAN
Jennifer is a CT licensed Massage Therapist. Bio coming soon!
 

 

Aimee & Barbara are certified in Sampoorna Yoga: Through the practices of Sampoorna Yoga the organs, muscles, ligaments, & nerves become energized, purified, toned, & strengthened. One develops an awareness of the inner intelligence-energy orchestrating the body into each pose & you start to realize that what we normally call intelligence is just a small part of a larger intelligence at work in the whole universe. And then you feel connected to the universe & completely taken care of.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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