Congratulations Holly, on
becoming a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher!
 Your Yoga Studio
All yoga classes are held in the studio, a large, light-filled space located on the 2nd floor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church on 3rd Avenue in Bethlehem. The studio is filled with all the props you will need to support you in your practice (blocks, blankets, straps, etc). However, to practice the yoga niyama (observance) of saucha (cleanliness, purity) please bring your own sticky mat (they are available for purchase at the studio). 
Your Yoga Classes
Because we are all so busy and lead lives that require a lot of our attention to be focused outward, all yoga classes begin with a seated centering. Here, we begin to go inward (pratyahara) and reconnect to ourselves. Classes then progress to yoga asanas (poses) which may include: sun salutations, standing poses, seated poses, backbends, forward bends, twists and inversions. During each class we learn how to balance the effort (abhyasa) of our practice with the letting go (vairagya) of tensions in the body. A period of deep relaxation (savasana) at the end of each class allows students to integrate their practice and discover their true nature, which is to be at peace.
Your Yoga Teachers
 Holly Walck has been a student of yoga since 1997 and teaching in the Lehigh Valley for since 2002. She is the director and principal teacher at Jai Yoga! in Bethlehem, which she founded in 2004 with the intention of sharing the practice of Iyengar Yoga with the community. Her classes are holistic, incorporating the physical, emotional and spiritual within the framework of classical Yoga. She is an Introductory Level Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher.
Holly studies regularly at weekly classes, workshops and teacher trainings with senior teachers in the Iyengar method. Her primary teacher is Joan White of Philadelphia, whom she assists at the BKS Iyengar Yoga School of Central Philadelphia. Holly's practice and teaching are also inspired by her regular studies with Patricia Walden of Cambridge, MA. She had the great good fortune to study with Geeta Iyengar at both the 2007 IYNAUS Teachers Convention and General Convention and in 2008 at the Yashodhara Ashram in British Columbia. She will be studying with the Iyengars at their Institute in Pune, India in August 2009. Those who know Holly are aware of her deep dedication to her own personal practice. Yoga is, for her, a path of transformation and freedom. To contact Holly directly, please email info@yogawithholly.com
 Annette LaBarre, R.Y.T., began studying Iyengar Yoga with her primary teacher, Holly Walck, in the fall of 2004. Since then she has studied regularly with senior Iyengar teachers Patricia Walden and Joan White. Annette took an Iyengar Yoga Teacher Training Preparation workshop with Joan White in the spring of 2008 at Jai Yoga! and will be applying to the Iyengar Yoga School of Central Philadelphia's Teacher Training Program for 2009. Yoga has shown her how to navigate the challenges that life brings, including the busy schedule that comes with working full-time and having a family. Being a mother herself, Annette has a special interest in teaching Prenatal Yoga.
 Julie Freudenberger, R.Y.T., has had a dedicated yoga practice since 1999. She began her practice in Ashtanga Yoga until being introduced to Iyengar Yoga during her teacher training at Jai Yoga! in Bethlehem in 2005 when she immediately recognized the benefits of the Iyengar Method. Since then, her primary teacher has been Holly Walck and she has also studied with Patricia Walden and Joan White. Julie took an Iyengar Yoga Teacher Training Preparation workshop with Joan White in the spring of 2008 at Jai Yoga! and will do so again in November, 2008.
 Sara Massa, R.Y.T., is honored to be teaching at Jai Yoga in Bethlehem. She completed her teacher training at Jai Yoga! in 2006. Sara has had the opportunity to attend workshops and classes taught by Joan White, Sharon Conroy and Leslie Freyburg and she has been studying with her primary teacher, Holly Walck, for three years. Yoga centers Sara and creates a calming respite from daily activities and she is thrilled to share that tranquility with her students.
 Ron Minnich, B.S. in Ed., took to yoga like a fish to water. He began a regular home practice immediately, simply because his teacher told him to go home and do the poses he remembered doing in class. He is dedicated to learning about himself through the path of ashta-anga (8-limbed) yoga. Ron's primary teacher is Holly Walck, whom he began studying with in 2005. He is a member of IYNAUS and has had the opportunity to advance his studies with Joan White and Patricia Walden. He participated in an Iyengar Yoga Teacher Training Preparation Workshop with Joan White in the Spring of 2008 at Jai Yoga! and will be applying to the Iyengar Yoga School of Central Philadelphia's Teacher Training Program of 2009. Yoga has revealed for Ron, the path by which one can manage ones physical and emotional pressures.
 Katrina Pelekanakis, R.Y.T., first began her studies of yoga with her primary teacher Holly Walck, at Jai Yoga in Bethlehem in the spring of 2006. During her first class with Holly it became clear to her that Iyengar Yoga was the path of yoga that she would follow. Since then, Katrina has studied with senior teacher Patricia Walden. Katrina also studies weekly with Senior Iyengar Yoga Teacher Joan White of Philadelphia, PA. Katrina became a Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance in 2007. In the spring of 2008, she participated in an Iyengar Yoga Teacher Training Preparation workshop with Joan White and will be applying to the Iyengar Yoga School of Central Philadelphia's Teacher Training Program of 2009. Katrina has benefited immensely from her study of yoga and loves to share what she has learned.
 Vicki Haller, RYT, feels that yoga has always been a part of her life; yoga has been finding her since middle school, and in 2004 she began a dedicated practice. Vicki is now dedicated to the Iyengar Method, and her primary teacher is Holly Walck with whom she has studied since Fall 2006. Vicki has had the honor to study with Patricia Walden and Joan White, including and an Iyengar Yoga Teacher Training Preparation workshop with Joan White in the spring of 2008 at Jai Yoga!. She will be applying to the Iyengar Yoga School of Central Philadelphia's Teacher Training Program for 2009. Vicki is challenged by the discipline of yoga and moved by the depth of yoga's capacity to transform a person, physically and spiritually.
 Rodnie Gore, R.Y.T., has been studying Yoga since 2003 and completed her teacher training at Jai Yoga in Bethlehem in 2006 where she earned her Registered Yoga Teacher status with the national Yoga Alliance. She practiced Ashtanga Yoga before committing to the Iyengar Method in 2005. She has taken workshops with Patricia Walden and Joan White and studies weekly with her primary teacher, Holly Walck. Rodnie took an Iyengar Yoga Teacher Training Preparation workshop with Joan White in the spring of 2008 at Jai Yoga! and will do so again in November, 2008. Through her dedication to her regular home practice, Rodnie has personally realized the many benefits of Yoga, including discipline, self-awareness, reflection and joy. She incorporates the lessons of Yoga into her daily life and shares what she has learned with her students.
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