Teachers

Hayley Cann

Grace Osora Erhart

Grace Osora Erhart (RYT 500) brings her deep love for yoga and decades of experience to the mat. For Grace, yoga is mediation in motion, and the physical aspects, thought important, are simply a vehicle for personal growth and present-moment awareness. Putting special emphasis on pranayam (breathing exercises), she guides her classes through an energy-learning physical practice so that her students can feel more balanced, stable, and alive. Grace's yoga training began at Kripalu thirty years ago, and she has since integrated her many talents into her teaching, including her roles as a Registered Nurse, Licensed Massage Therapist, Phoenix Rising Massage Therapist, and Level 3 Dream Teacher in the Robert Moss School of Active Dreaming. Grace also holds certifications to teach Vinyasa, Restorative Practice, Meditation Instruction,  Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy and is a Reiki level 2 Practitioner.

Joanie Fisler

Joanie’s style of teaching yoga is eclectic with emphasis on alignment and encouraging the mind, body, spirit integration. She aspires to keep the environment playful but also conducive to inner stillness.

She has been  practicing yoga for 20 years and began teaching in 2009. She studied with Lara Ward at Lotus Gardens in Connecticut. Yoga prepared Joanie for a meditation practice which she considers a compass to her life path.

Joanie lives at the flower farm in Lyme with her husband and her dog Chase. She has two grown daughters, a son-in-law and a three grandkids. Her hobbies include tap dancing & reading.

Sue Murphy

Enjoying the shoreline and living in Old Saybrook, Sue brings an approachable, lighthearted style to yoga that welcomes students of all levels. With more than 25 years of personal yoga practice and 20 years of teaching experience, Sue is a Yoga Alliance 200-hour certified teacher through Sacred Rivers in Glastonbury. As a self-proclaimed lifelong learner with a curious mindset she is pursuing her 300 hour certification.

She enjoys creating relaxed, supportive classes that offer plenty of options so everyone can move in a way that feels good for their body. Rather than focusing on intense or hot yoga, her teaching emphasizes mindful movement, ease, and creating a comfortable space to explore and reconnect.

For Sue, yoga is an ongoing personal journey, a lifelong practice that continues to offer countless benefits and a meaningful way to turn inward, reconnect, and let go of some of the stresses of modern living.

A creative spirit both on and off the mat, Sue also creates with fabric and has taught design & culinary arts to high school students for many years.

Deb Novack

Deb has been practicing Yoga for over 45 years. She became a Certified Yoga Teacher in 2015 having participated in Yoga Pagoda Teacher Training 200hr and 108hr Advanced Teacher Training, both taught by Shelley Adelle. Deb has augmented her Certifications with further training in Restorative Yoga, with Judith Curiel; Yin Yoga, with Sara Powers; as well as various other trainings at Sebastian Yoga and One Yoga Planet.

Deb has enjoyed a growing popularity in the Vero Beach area, as a teacher. Particularly those students who have been away from Yoga for many years and students new to Yoga.

Her motto is "yoga is for every body.

Anne Redfield

Anne has been practicing yoga most of her adult life, and teaching (CTY200) since 2010. Her style of teaching emphasizes alignment, breathing and feeling the movement of energy in each pose.  She encourages her students to listen to their bodies, but experiment with challenging themselves.  Anne believes that yoga is for anyone at any age or level of physical ability. She appreciates how yoga teaches us all to approach life with the “beginner’s mind.”

Anne grew up in Old Lyme, and returned here in 2021 after several years living and working in the Hudson Valley, where she raised her two children.  When she isn’t practicing or teaching yoga, Anne enjoys kayaking, dancing, and keeping her 2 new kittens out of mischief.