Connie Adamcio

Connie Adamcio began practicing yoga eight years ago at Shamatha Yoga Studio in Stamford, Conn. She began her formal training at Kripalu in 2003. Since then she has been studying and practicing various forms of yoga including - but not limited to - Anusara, Jivamukti and Vinyasa. 

Connie's classes are challenging because she believes it is through and in challenge we find peace, empowerment and wisdom. Her major goal is that students walk away from her classes feeling and knowing the beauty and love that they already posses.             

You can also practice with Connie at Shamatha Yoga, Darien YMCA and Equinox Darien

Tracy Bloom

Tracy Bloom LMT, BS is an Authentic Pilates instructor, nationally ranked weightlifter, licensed massage therapist, and ACE certified personal trainer. Majoring in theater and writing at Columbia University and a published writer, she has also rowed competitively and competed in long distance triathlons.

She is a married mom of two college-aged sons and a teenage daughter and lives with her family in Fairfield. In massage school her favorite muscle was the gluteus maximus, and one of her favorite and most challenging Pilates exercises is Open Leg Rocker.

A favorite saying is, “Healing occurs in the presence of movement.” She loves teaching Pilates, especially to beginners!

You can also take Pilates with Tracy at Pilates Studio of Fairfield and at Art of Control at SUNY, Purchase, NY, Also, please contact Tracy directly for Personal training and licensed therapeutic massage services available privately. tracybloom@optonline.net www.westonmf.com

Jeff Gallin

Jeff Gallin, long time practioner of Vinyasa and Meditation, a blend of many styles joins Dew Yoga. He believes each of us can use the healing powers of yoga to improve the quality of our lives. He teaches in alignment with the idea that the individual does not have to adjust to yoga but that yoga has to adjust to the individual, meaning that we must find the postures that are appropriate for each person. 

He prefers a vinyasa class that includes meditation and breath work. He has previously taught various class sizes as well as one on one private practices.

Jeff received his certification from Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health.

Regina Hodel

Regina had a curiosity for yoga most of her life and took her first class in 1994 in New York. She has practiced and studied yoga continuously since that time.

In 1996 Regina moved to Stamford and soon discovered Yoga Source in Darien. There she practiced and completed her teacher training in the Sivananda style with Roberta Fortune Dale in 2000. While at Yoga Source Regina taught regular and pre-natal yoga classes and completed several training workshops. She has also completed a YogaFit Level I training.

During her 16 years of practice Regina has experienced several traditions of yoga including Kripalu, Anusara, Iyengar, Jivamukti and Kundalini. Regina has a prenatal yoga certification from Yoga Fit. She has participated in workshops with instructors like Rita Trieger, Ross Rayburn, Mitchel Bleier, and Lisa Matkin.

Regina’s classes are based on the Sivananda tradition with an easy paced vinyasa flow incorporated. Prepare for a well rounded class with lots of imagery and breathwork.

You can also practice with Regina at the Darien YMCA (one Sunday per month,) or (check schedule,) or privately. She can be reached by email at reginamary@yahoo.com.

Jen Irwin

Jen received her teaching certification from Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health.

She embraces the Kripalu tradition of flowing gently with the rhythms of life while facing challenges or challenging personal limits from a strong core - physically, mentally and emotionally. 

She has been practicing Yoga for over ten years which came as a natural transition in adulthood from the competitive gymnastics of her youth. She found Yoga supported her need for movement, flexibility and inner peace and helped her grow through a series of traumatic events. Feeling grateful to her practice and her teachers the next natural transition was to share her practice with others and she set off on the path to teacher training. 

Today she is influenced by the many lineages she has practiced over the years from Ashtanga to Anusara and Kripalu to Jivamukti. She brings her students a blend of breath, movement and meditation supporting others as they gently flow through their own waves of life. She feels a strong core as well as a strong Yoga community to practice with allows people the comfort and security to open and blossom in their own lives touching those around them. 

Expect her class to be gently challenging, joyous, loving and a relaxing piece of inner peace in your day.

Rebekah Jacobs

Rebekah Jacobs is currently the Manager of the Yoga Loft in Bedford, NY. and is honored to join Dew Yoga.

She took her first Yoga class while performing on the road with a Broadway show and has been hooked ever since.

The grounding and expanding gifts of yoga have led her to complete Anusara Teacher Training Levels 1 and 2 with Ross Rayburn and Zhenja LaRosa. Additional trainings include "Om Shree Om" Kids Teacher Training, "Yoga for Two: The Barnes Method" Prenatal Training and a Pilates Mat Certificate from Physical Mind, NYC.

Rebekah continues to welcome the gifts of every style of yoga and welcomes you into her class. Her goal is to create a warm, fun, positive environment where you can feel free to play and grow!

You can find upcoming classes with Rebekah at Bedford Post Inn, Pryority Fitness and PirouettePilatesandmore.

Melinda Loo

Melinda Loo has been teaching yoga for seven years. Her class blends various yoga styles based on hatha, vinyasa, kundalini, and restorative.

She aims to live a truly holistic lifestyle incorporating meditation, bodywork, cleansing, nutrition, herbs, and spiritual studies.

All of these practices combined have given her a powerful and consistent yoga experience, which she loves to share with others."

You can also practice with Melinda at Pryority Fitness. To contact her for private sessions, please visit her website. (http://www.melindaloobodywork.com)

Francine Morina

Fran has been a Property /Casualty Insurance professional for over 25 years working in the corporate environment as well as a consultant.

She graduated from SUNY @ Oswego with a degree in Business Administration and followed with her Finance MBA from Pace University in New York.

Fran has been passionate about physical fitness and nutrition for most of her life and eight years ago, after her third child was born, decided to pursue her passion by obtaining her Yoga Fit yoga certification.

Her style of teaching has been greatly influenced by the Anusara Yoga Method.

Five years ago Fran was introduced to Pilates and became devoted to the principles that Joseph Pilates developed. She became a regular practitioner and devotee to the Authentic method which then lead her to the Art of Control (SUNY Purchase) Pilates apprentice program in the fall of 2008 teaching both apparatus and mat.

Fran also teaches private and semi-private at the following pilates studios; Movement Design, New Canaan; Ward Pilates, Darien; Fairfield Pilates and The Art of Control Pilates Studio, Purchase College. She also teaches privately.

Robert Ortner

Robert's approach to the art and science of yoga begins with the phrase “We are our own best teachers.”

One does not just do yoga, one becomes yoga; it is a lifelong journey that anyone can make.

Offering classes and programs that work with the whole person, from gentle conditioning and beginner classes to more traditional vinyasa and high-energy yoga for strength and endurance.

He balances the need for both strength and flexibility, stress reduction (aka surviving modern life) and meditation, along with breath work and inner quiet.

Drawing from an interdisciplinary yoga background, and blends different styles and techniques that allow the body to open and expand throughout its entire range of motion. Offering a strong foundation in yogic essentials, as well as an encouraging and up-beat learning environment that allows each student to practice safely and at their own pace.

Come have some FUN !

• E- RYT-500 Yoga Teacher certification with Don and Amba Stapleton; www.nosarayoga.com
• Yoga of the Heart, yoga therapy training with Nischala Joy Devi, the former director of Yoga for the Dr. Dean Ornish Heart Program for Reversing Heart Disease and co-founder of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program; www.abundantwellbeing.com
• IYT-Integrative Yoga Therapist training with Joseph Le Page; www.iytyogatherapy.com
• Thai Yoga Bodywork certification Levels 1 thru 4 with Jonas Westring; www.shantaya.org
• Pilates Mat Certification at the PhysicalMind Institute.

Dale Rowley

Dale Rowley graduated from University of California, Davis with a Bachelors degree in Studio Art and Art History.

Born in New York and raised in California, Dale has studied and practiced yoga for the last fourteen years.

She was trained and certified as a Yoga Teacher through YogaFit in CA, including prenatal certification, and has taught yoga extensively both in California and in Connecticut where she has recently joined the teaching staff at Dew Yoga.

Also certified through the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America as a group exercise instructor, Dale brings a passion for teaching, staying in shape, and believes that yoga is part of life which everyone can enjoy and benefit from.

Lisa Shufro

“Every day we fall into bad habits and repetitive motions that can hurt us over time,” says Lisa Shufro. She learned this after 20 years of playing violin professionally caused her serious injuries.

Eventually the Feldenkrais® Method helped Lisa regain the power of “natural movement.” Inspired by her own transformation and full recovery, Lisa trained for 4 years to become a Certified Teacher.

She is currently on the faculty of the Feldenkrais Institute of New York. “Great teaching is surprising people with their own capabilities,” she says. “I always look for ways to create ‘aha moments’ for my students.”

Ann Russell

Ann “discovered” yoga as a teen in the ‘70’s. TV gurus Richard Hittleman and Lilias Folan planted the seeds of a life-long exploration. 

Hatha yoga was included in the curriculum at AADA West and after graduation in 1980, Ann was led to Hari Singh Khalsa in Pasadena to continue her study of yoga in the Kundalini style of Yogi Bhajan. 

The late ‘90’s brought an exploration of the Ashtanga and Vinyasa styles of practice in San Francisco at “It’s Yoga” with Larry Schultz and Hatha Flow with Darren Main at “Castro Yoga”. Moving to Norwalk, CT in 2000, “Yoga Source” owner Roberta Fortune Dale urged Ann to begin teacher training and invited her to teach at “Yoga Source” in Darien, under Roberta’s knowledgeable guidance in the Sivananda style. 

Longing to deepen her personal experience and garner more tools as a teacher, Ann was led to the “Kripalu Center for Yoga” in the Berkshires to continue her on-going education. 

With deep gratitude to the many senior Kripalu teachers who have guided her — Yoganand Michael Carroll, Sudhir Jonathan Foust, PremShakti Mary Stout, Sudha Carolyn Lundeen, Stephen Cope, Bhavani Lorraine Nelson, to name a few — Ann has earned her 500-hour certification. 

Ann offers on-going group classes, series, workshops and private instruction in Fairfield County, CT.              

Ann has "public classes" Monday & Wednesday Mornings 9:30-11:00 @ Stamford JCC (follow the link for address and hours) and also teaches privately. Contact Ann

Rita Trieger

Rita Trieger is the founder and editor-in-chief of Fit Yoga magazine, as well as the author of Yoga Heals Your Back (Fairwinds, 2005), and Tranquil Mind, a meditation and yoga CD.

A nationally known and sought after teacher, Rita incorporates many different traditions into her inspiring and challenging flow-style classes. She is also a certified Relax and Renew (restorative yoga) teacher as well as a Reiki practitioner.

Rita lives, practices, and teaches yoga in New York City, and in Connecticut at Elements Yoga, Stamford Hospital's Health and Fitness Institute and the Bennett Cancer Center. More recently, Rita has been hired as the stress management facilitator for the newly established Center for Integrative Medicine and Wellness, also at Stamford Hospital. Her dedicated students are truly a testament to her genuine, spirited style. 

You can also practice with Rita at Elements Yoga in Darien, the Tully Center, Stamford, Ct and the Bedford Post Inn/Yoga Loft and you can follow her blog Yoga with Ritatude