Kristin leigh co-owns the Shala, which has branches in Manhattan and Brooklyn. She began practicing Iyengar yoga in San Francisco in the mid-1980s. in 1992 she moved to New York and began practicing at Jivamukti, where she was certified in 1998. since 1997 she has been studying Ashtanga Yoga with Eddie Stern and has made periodic visits to india to study with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and Sharath Rangaswamy. Kristin co-teaches the Shala's teacher-training program and the Shala's Mysore Ashtanga program. She is also the proud mama of 2-year-old Jules.

Barbara Verrochi has been studying Yoga since 1990. She practices Ashtanga Yoga with Eddie Stern and studies singing and harmonium with Gulum Mohamed Kahn. In 1997 she made the first of many trips to Mysore, India to study with Sri K Pattabhi jois and his family, Grandson R. Sharath jois and daughter R. Saraswati. Barbara received Guruji's blessing to teach Ashtanga Yoga in 2002. she is also a board member of Bent on learning, a nonprofit organization that offersYoga and meditation instruction to students in public schools throughout New York City. Barbara co-directs the Shala with Kristin Leigh.

Kelly Morris is one of only 5 senior Jivamukti instructors in the world and is the founder of Conquering Lion Yoga. She incorporates the precious Tibetan Buddhist insights of the Gelukpa lineage of His Holiness The Dalai Lama into her classes, workshops and training programs.
Kelly is the only yoga teacher to ever grace the cover of New York Magazine as NYC's "most popular teacher" and has been featured numerous times in The New York Times and Yoga Journal. Known worldwide for her honesty, warmth and singular ability to make advanced understanding of both asana and yoga philosophy easy for her students, Kelly teaches celebrities including Willem Defoe, Sting, Russell Simmons, Chris Botti, Kim Raver, Christian Slater, Donna Karan, Madonna and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Kelly has been teaching in NYC and the Hamptons, as well as on sold-out Retreats worldwide, for over 15 years and has taught tens of thousands of students.

Megan Grennan began practicing yoga in 1977. She is trained and certified as a yoga instructor and is grateful to her many wonderful teachers, who have led her to the source of all learning teaching and healing: her self. She continues to receive the most significant guidance and enlightenment from the very personal experiences of teaching, living and practicing yoga. Since 1986 she has invited students into the heart of the yogic process with clear instruction and inspiring insight. Her classes utilize a varied and balanced sequence of postures in which practitioners of all levels learn to play, explore, and more fully inhabit their bodies and lives in a state of conscious presence.

Anusara-Inspired® yoga instructor Jane Norton has several hundred hours of teacher training and five years of teaching experience. Jane completed a year-long teacher training program in 2004 with Anusara yoga teacher Deb Neubauer, and has traveled extensively to train directly with Anusara founder John Friend. Yoga classes with Jane are fun, challenging, and inspiring - and no two are exactly alike. Jane's love of the Tantric philosophy of Anusara yoga is evident in every class, drawing from years of study with renowned teachers like Dr. Douglas Brooks, Dr. Paul Muller-Ortega, and Sally Kempton. She specializes in the therapeutic aspect of Anusara yoga alignment, working with injured clients and those suffering from chronic pain, depression, anxiety, and addiction

Bonnie Menton has been practicing and teaching yoga for over 25 years. Bonnie is a Certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher also trained to provide Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy and Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan. Bonnie's ongoing studies include teachers Erich Schiffmann, John Friend and Todd Norian, gaining her greatest inspiration from Shiva Rea and Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa. She continues her practice and study with Shiva Rea's Prana Vinyasa Flow, Fluid Power Teacher Training Programs.

Bonnie's dynamic Vinyasa style of teaching allows each student to come to the practice exactly where they are. With right intention and open heart Bonnie believes that each student can recognize their highest potential both on and off the mat.

Robert Sidoti is a certified yoga instructor, a certified personal trainer, and an accomplished athlete. He has created broga with a simple goal: To bring the benefits of yoga to more men.

Broga represents the culmination of Robert’s vast expertise as a health and fitness professional and the attainment of his goal to create an optimal, and balanced, fitness program.

With his signature charisma, commitment to promoting men’s health and his deep love of yoga, Robert’s broga class is energetic, fun, challenging, and mildly addictive. He is a passionate, innovative and skilled teacher.

Robert resides on the island of Martha’s Vineyard with his wife and renowned yoga instuctor, Sherry Sidoti, and their son, Miles.

“Sherry Sidoti weaves the spirit into yoga classes that are already so complete with groovy music, contagious energy and calculated movement. Sherry insists that our own experience in each moment be about much more than just moving. She encourages her flock to consider that our minds and bodies, which we already know to be inextricably linked, can both blossom by carefully crafting a healthy and free spirit. She offers this simple reminder in each class she teaches with fresh, innovative and inspiring guidance. Along the way your body strengthens and your mind learns to let go.” – LH

Originally from NYC, and transported from Los Angeles, CA, Sherry has lived on Martha’s Vineyard, MA since 2002. She feels fortunate to offer private and group yoga and mindful fitness classes to many wonderful people from around the world.

Sherry teaches a soulful, fluid and dynamic practice. We link our breath to our movement, stack poses from basic to more complex, move towards balance between our active and receptive selves, and seek compassion, truth, and acceptance in body mind and spirit. Sherry weaves in the spirit, magic and integrity of the yoga teachings and the practice of self awareness into every class without taking it all too seriously. Each class is a celebration of life itself.