Transformational Teachers

Michelle Fleming

Michelle has spent thousands of happy hours teaching yoga classes and private sessions everywhere from hospitals to schools to Gillette Stadium. She has taught in conjunction with Johns Hopkins Medical School on Yoga for Brain Disorders. She was on staff at Spaulding Rehab Group working with orthopedic patients and has spoken at Grand Rounds hospitals on the "Applications of Yoga in Clinical Settings". For more than 10 years she ran summer camps to bring holistic healing to young women with anxiety and mood disorders. 

Michelle was the owner of Sanctuary Studio in Massachusetts, the founder of Transformational Yoga, Ritual Vinyasa and Orthopedic Therapy. She is a Board Certified Structural Integrator having studied with the acclaimed Tom Myers of "Anatomy Trains" fame, as well as a Thai Massage practitioner, a Neurovascular Bodyworker and the author of the upcoming book "Orthopedic Yoga". 

She has been teaching and studying the science behind yoga for almost 20 years. She now teaches internationally, bringing her unique style of yoga to students of all levels, ages, shapes and sizes. She has taught thousands of yoga students and believes it is a blessing to be able to bring people the gifts of a strong body, a quiet mind and a blissful spirit. 

Ray Crist

Ray Crist, of Jaguar Path,  has spent the last three decades immersed in shamanism, various styles of yoga,  Chinese medicine, martial arts, and Reiki. He has been offering workshops and trainings at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, NY Open Center, Yoga Journal, Blue Spirit, Boddhi Tree Yoga Resort and around the globe for over 15 years. Ray’s trainings focus on how to use shamanic tools and yoga as technologies that assist us to reach an optimal state of being in order to to live a balanced, empowered and extraordinary life. 

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Chip Hartranf

Chip Hartranf, PT (Yoga, Insight Meditation, Yoga-Sutra) bridges the traditions of yoga and Buddhism. He is the founding director of The Arlington Center, dedicated to the integration of yoga and dharma practice, and has taught a blend of yoga movement & insight meditation in the Boston area since 1978. 

An independent scholar of yoga and early Buddhism, Chip is the author of "The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali: a new translation with commentary" (Shambhala). His work has also been included in "The Wisdom of Yoga" by Stephen Cope, "Freeing The Body, Freeing The Mind" by Michael Stone, the Shambala Sun, and many other publications. 

Chip teaches the origins, evolution and practices of yoga and Buddhist traditions at Lesley University and at teacher trainings and retreats across the country. 

Alli Barnes, Ph.D.

Alli is a lifelong health advocate and athlete and she has consistently and openly shared her experiences and knowledge through multiple successful start-up businesses in the health sector that owned and operated. She has vast experience and expertise in health, wellness, exercise, and anti-aging sciences and has earned degrees in Exercise Physiology, Biology, Nutrition, and Alternative Medicine. She is also certified in nutrition, holistic health coaching, A&P functional movement, herbalism, and yoga. 

Cyndi Adams

Cyndi Adams is a mom of four, Advanced Reiki Healer, and owner and instructor of Twisted Spirit Yoga in Carver, MA. 

Twenty years ago she took her first yoga class whilst pregnant with her second baby. She had a 5-month old at home. She remembers being so nervous walking in and levitating out after that class. When that feeling lasted for days, she knew that she had found something she needed. 

Cyndi drifted in and out of her practice over the years and finally landed in 200hr teacher training. That time spent was so much more than learning how to teach others yoga. It was transformational and healing in every aspect of what makes Cyndi who she is.

Cyndi opened Twisted Spirit Yoga in 2015, and closed it in March 2020 (of course). She reopened the studio in October 2021 and opened her second studio in January 2022. She has been excited to see so many people actively seeking out new methods of self-care, and realizing the beauty of this practice. 

Jodi Thomas

Jodi's fitness journey began 15 years ago. It included intense weight training, cardio, and yoga. Yoga quickly became an integral part of her fitness and wellness journey as an important practice to balance weight training, improve mobility, and be mindful of the importance of mind and body health. 

She earned her 200YT in 2018 with her yoga mentor and world-renowned yoga Michelle Fleming, whose instruction focuses not only on the mind and body practice but also on safety in physical postures. Jodi is also certified in Thai Massage Level 1 and Reiki II.

You will find Jodi's classes to be engaging, challenging, and appropriate for all levels as her poses are easily modified to accommodate all fitness levels. She believes that anyone can practice yoga, regardless of age and fitness level, and feels that yoga is beneficial for everyone. She teaches in a no-judgment space, loves to crack jokes (especially at her own expense), and encourages students to find new levels of possibilities in their practice. 

Jennifer Myette

Jen is a yoga asana teacher with a passion for the rich philosophy and vision of reality that is found within the tradition of yoga. For Jen modern yoga has been a gateway to the study and contemplation of the fundamental nature of reality, our psychology and essence-nature. Her practice satiates her inner longing for a spiritual path and is the driving force for health and wellbeing within her life. 

Teaching a vinyasa style with clarity and compassion, Jen approaches each class with a sense of responsibility. Through guided movement, breath, introspection and stillness she aspires to create an opportunity for her students to cultivate a greater awareness of themselves, health and healing in their lives and a love of yoga.