Cheryl has been practicing Yoga for a few years and started her Yogic journey with Kundalini and Vinyasa. Eventually deciding to take her practice a step further she enrolled in Prana Mandir's rigorous 200 hour Vinyasa teacher training program.

In addition to a steady Vinyasa practice, she currently practices (First Series) Ashtanga Yoga with great love and enthusiasm. Cheryl has also studied Anusara yoga with Prana Mandir's wonderful teachers Sujata and Marcel Ringawa.

Her classes are playful and dynamic, yet always gentle and kind to the body. Cheryl is grateful to all of her teachers and friends at Prana Mandir.

Marianne is blessed to have completed her Vinyasa Teachers Training with Lea Kramer in 2009, and is joyful to be a part of the teaching staff at Prana Mandir Studio.

She first began her yoga journey approximately a decade ago and soon after became a devotee of the Siddha Yoga Lineage. Her dedication to the yogic practices of Asana, Chanting, Meditation and Contemplation have created the wellspring of joy and enthusiasm and she is grateful to have an opportunity to share this with the Prana Mandir community. Each week a contemplation and intention is given to encourage her students to explore their own consciousness and yogic philosophy while maintaining a balance of creativity and discipline.

Marianne has an extensive background in the healing and creative arts. She is a Certified Sound Healer, Reiki Master, Masseuse and has studied various other somatic modalities including a 3 year training in Geomancy and completed many projects throughout the US and Europe. Her extensive energetic training allows her to address her students needs in very specific and individualized ways.

 

Shari is honored and excited to be teaching again at Prana Mandir.

A student of the traditional lineage of Siddha Yoga, while on retreat in 1999 she was introduced to Hatha Yoga by John Friend the founder of Anusara Yoga. She then began studying and completing trainings with John and his senior teachers. She was affiliated in 2003 and currently teaches Anusara-inspired yoga.

At the end of 2005 Shari had the rare opportunity to study and teach yoga in India at Gurudev Siddha Peeth the mother ashram of Siddha Yoga.

She received her bachelors of science at SUNY Cortland with a concentration in health and nutrition. Working in the Garment Industry in Textile Sales, Shari explores her interest in health, fitness, Ayurveda, Reiki, art, and yoga philosophy. She also has received a certification in Kundalini Yoga.

Shari has gained valuable experience and understanding on how to live from the space of the peaceful and loving heart.

 

Lea Kraemer, founder and creative director of Prana Mandir Yoga Studio, is in love with the daily practice of yoga. As a teacher, she is passionate about offering alignment principles for the physical body as well as for the inner most self. Her classes are dynamic and flowing, encouraging each students' personal practice as a wise and joyful path to the self.

Lea has taught Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan, and Vinyasa Yoga for well over a decade, yet never ceases to be amazed at the beauty and depth of the yoga teachings. Each fall, she gives an Intensive in Kundalini Yoga, "Agni" for teachers and experienced practitioners who wish to deepen their personal practice. Lea is a Siddha Yoga devotee.

Through Prana Mandir Yoga Studio, she promotes self-expansion through community service and encourages teachers to reach out to their communities with yoga classes at wellness centers and hospitals. These services are part of an outreach program, in partnership with local hospitals, and often involve research in the application and effects of yoga. In private practice Lea works with clients with chronic and life threatening illness.

Mostly, she feels gratitude for being part of the growth of an amazing community of kind souls.

 

Nataly Levich has been blessed to begin her yoga journey 8 years ago with Lea Kraemer, founder of Prana Mandir yoga studio. She has been devoutly practicing Kundalini, Vinyasa, Ashtanga and Hatha yoga ever since.

In 2008, Nataly received her teachers training at Prana Mandir taught by Lea Kraemer. She is honored to be part of a community of such graceful beings.

In her classes, Nataly focuses on conjoining alingment of asana, attunment to breath, and awareness of one‘s own beauty.

Nataly is also a photographer working in new york. She takes pictures of children, families, conceptual imagery and yoga related art. To her, the true nature of photography is to reveal the unseen in the visible, and the nature of yoga is to unify the body and mind with the invisible.

Nicole Ohebshalom began her passion in health as an undergraduate nutrition major and soon changed majors to become a Registered Nurse from Northeastern University. She has worked extensively at Brigham and Woman's Hospital, Mclean Hospital and Roosevelt Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Center. Nicole was further trained as a Nutrition and Lifestyle Counselor from Columbia University and Integrative Institute of Nutrition. She is accredited by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners. Through her own company Radiant Living Wellness, Nicole counsels clients and partners with gyms and corporations to plan and promote nutrition and health programming. Expanding her life passion for understanding the mind/body connection, Nicole became a KRI Certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor.

Natasha is a KRI Certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher. She also holds a certification in Reiki Healing Level 1. Her classes focus on the pure teachings of Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan. Discovering kundalini Yoga, she soon realized that this practice is much more than physical exercise; it is exercise for the spirit.

She follows a yogic lifestyle and does daily yoga practice. Natasa loves sharing these benefits with others, because the tools of yoga help one to lead a healthier, happier, more productive, focused and peaceful life.