Melia Marzollo, Certified Pilates Instructor
Melia instructs Pilates classes — both group mat classes and semi private apparatus. Teaching in the classic Pilates style, classes are alignment-oriented and challenging focusing on balance, strength and flow. Melia earned certifications in Pilates from Power Pilates, Half Moon Pilates, and The Center for Women’s Fitness. She is also certified in Yamuna Body Rolling and Prenatal Pilates.
Lara Demberg Voloto, Certified Yoga Instructor
Lara is a Yoga Instructor with nine years of teaching experience, formerly certified in Anusara Yoga. With a belief that yoga is about remembrance of one’s own goodness and a playful expression of that light, her classes are fun, challenging and thought-provoking. Lara specializes in therapeutics—all levels of practice and all injuries are welcome. She began yoga in 1996 because she thought it would be easy. By the time she figured out that yoga’s not for the feint of heart, she was already hooked. You can follow Lara’s blog and follow her on Facebook. Lara is also published in the online journal Elephant Journal.
Kathy Toris Rowe, Certified Hatha Yoga Instructor
Kathy is a Certified Hatha Yoga Instructor, a Registered Yoga Teacher and a member of the International Yoga Association. For more than eight years, Kathy has been teaching yoga in a variety of styles and techniques including Hatha, Iyengar, Vinyasa, Yin, Embodied Yoga and Chair Yoga.
Kathy’s spirited, challenging and inspirational classes encourage her students to integrate breath and movement, awareness and alignment, strength and fluidity. She guides students to experience the whole range of yin and yang energy cultivated in yoga – from the purification of flowing sequences to the stillness of inversions and meditations. Kathy’s group and private classes are designed for all levels of yoga experience and modifications are always offered.
Her enthusiasm for teaching resonates throughout all of her classes.
Kasia Bilinska, Certified Hatha Yoga Instructor
Kasia teaches Vinyasa flow, Yoga for Golfers (unique approach to golf conditioning), and she is passionate about Yoga Off the Mat (which involves the yoga community in a positive social change effort across the globe). Following many years in medical science, Kasia added yoga to her life.
She playfully weaves alignment, anatomy, music, mythic inspired stories, Vedic and Tantric philosophy that embrace the fullness of life. Kasia desires to help students tap into their deepest potentials and integrate yoga practice into the daily lives.
Be prepared to sweat, play, explore and have fun on the mat.
Milena Pisano, Certified Pilates Instructor
Milena Pisano is a Power Pilates instructor with certifications in Mat, Bootcamp, Special Cases, Physioball, and Reformer on the Mat from Beacon Pilates and Power Pilates in NYC. She has been studying classical Pilates at Beacon Pilates for the last 9 years and has been teaching for the last three in the Hudson Valley. She is also the Pilates instructor for the Contemplative Law Program at CUNY Law, where she is a rising third year law student. She believes in a classical, mindful approach to Pilates aimed at creating strength, agility, and overall wellness for all bodies.
Rob Farella, Certified Hatha Yoga Instructor
Rob was a computer geek before he discovered yoga. The years in front of a computer and the stress of a corporate job had him seeking a new path. A chance try at yoga became a new career and way of life. Philips began a program in the office called Yoga @ Work. It even had a geeky title. He resisted for 2 years but after hurting himself for the umpteenth time at the gym he thought there must be something better he could do to stay healthy. He decided to try yoga and after the first class he was hooked. Encouraged and mentored by certified Anusara instructor Lara Demberg Voloto, he decided to enter teacher training.
Rob has been practicing yoga since 2004 and is now on the path to becoming an inspired Anusara instructor and has successfully completed Anusara 200 hr Teacher Training with certified Anusara instructors Ross Rayburn and Bernadette Birney. He holds an RYT 200 registration with Yoga Alliance. He has also completed workshop intensives with John Friend and Sally Kempton.
Rob brings love of all aspects of yoga to his classes and encourages his students to develop a home practice. He says “Just do a little every day”.
Anne Vitiello, Boxing for Poets
In 1995, the first year that women entered amateur tournaments, Anne became the Golden Gloves Flyweight Novice Champion at Madison Square Garden and she still has the “big bling pendant” to prove it. From 1996 to 2004, Anne worked for HBO as an online round-by-round boxing commentator. All the while Anne continued to hit the gym, developing her unique workout, based on boxing but integrating other exercise techniques to hit every muscle group. Anne’s Press.
Today, in hour-long-plus workouts at Vikasa Studio, Anne’s students train interval-style, using the three-minute timing of boxing rounds. Sure, they learn classic fighters’ techniques, but something more happens, too. “I attract a lot of creative people. Boxing can help you transition into a more creative state of mind and some of my clients use it for that purpose. It’s very physical yet incredibly mental at the same time.”
