Ashley Giandomenico  

Ashley discovered yoga 6 years ago while attending college in Newport, RI. After her first class, she immediately fell in love with the practice. The physical and emotional benefits she acquired from yoga, led her to enroll in teacher training to be able to further her practice and share its benefits with others. Ashley completed her 200-hr certification through Finding Inner Peace Yoga School.

Nicole Journalist  (E-RYT)

Endeavors to share with her students the joy of a deep-rooted, classical vinyasa practice. A devotional aspirant, she encourages an investigative and active practice primed for self-knowledge. Yoga at its most visceral level is a tonic for the nervous system and at its most ethereal a pathway to the divine; Nicole's hope is to support and sustain a place for either of these phenomena to occur.

With over tens years of practice and a multitude of talented and loving teachers, Nicole has cultivated an ecclectic and ecstatic method of instructing. Utilizing dry humor and adopting her teacher's philosophy - "if I can do it you can do it", she strives to reach all levels of students. Remaining teachable is her highest goal.  All is within.

Sharon Koh, RYT

A native of Massachusetts, Sharon didn’t find Baptiste Yoga until four years ago after huge shifts in her life led her to a yoga mat surrounded by sweating yogis and a new found appreciation for her body and spirit.

A musician by trade, Sharon attended Boston University for her undergraduate degree in music performance and received a masters degree in performance from Rice University in Houston, Texas. She currently is a private clarinet instructor in the area. The draw to yoga was like the draw to music for her: healing. With each breath for both, a new path could be forged and cultivated to express sadness, joy, pain, fear, love and anger, - all of which she had held inside before she found both music and yoga.

Baptiste Yoga also drew Sharon into an appreciation of her body that was masked by childhood obesity, tempered by diet and running, but cultivated with appreciating each movement and each breath as an amazing conduit to feeling fully alive. Starting as a volunteer at the Cambridge studio, Sharon soon found herself on the path to teaching via the assistant training program where she has been assisting in the Cambridge Studio for a year and a half. She also attended both Level 1 and Level 2 teacher trainings with Baron Baptiste and recently completed an in-house teacher training with Gregor Singleton and Claire Este-McDonald, and a Level 3 training with Philip Urso.

Gunjan Laborde

Gunjan Laborde began studying yoga in 1964 with B.K.S. Lyengar from
whom she learned about alignment in the poses; then she studied with T.K.V. Desikachar who emphasized breathing and moving from the breath as well as modifying the postures to fit the particular needs of the practitioner.

She has since studied with many different teachers and has been teaching herself since 1969.  Gunjan emphasizes breathing and moving with energy flows while being present to the messages your body is giving you.

She endeavors to make each class relevant to the students, modifying her teaching to fit the needs of the class. Therefore her classes are appropriate for all levels.

Kate McHugh  

Kate offers a unique blend in styles of Hatha Yoga & Eastern philosophy, acquired from several teachers and studies from various parts of India and the world. Hatha yoga is the physical aspect of yoga combining movement, flexibility, relaxation and meditation, to unite body, mind, and spirit.

The intention of her classes is to bring participants into alignment with the magnificent rhythms of the universe. Therefore, Kate’s class combines fluid movement, poses (asanas), breathing exercises (pranayama), and sun salutations, to include variations for all levels of study and practice. In sacred space with other participants, students become aligned and balanced, moving towards optimum health and well being.