Our Teachers

Click the picture or the link below to go to the teachers biography page. You can read their biography and listen to a 15 minute interview where they talk about what yoga means to them, why they started teaching yoga and several more topics.

Jack Godfrey teaches Ashtanga Yoga.	Helen Fong teaches Gentle Flow Yoga.	Kim Dawn teaches Kripalu Yoga.	Jeannine Saulnier teaches Prenatal and Hatha Yoga.	Sarah MacKeigan teaches Ashatanga Yoga.	Michele Casey teaches Power Yoga.	Veronica Sherwood teaches Kripalu Yoga.

Introduction to Sunrise Yoga

Click the play button below to listen to a 3 minute Introduction to Sunrise Yoga Studio

or right click here to download the mp3 file.

New to Yoga?

If you are new to yoga, have a look at our Introduction to Yoga class.

6 Core Benefits of Yoga

There are many benefits to having a regular and frequent yoga practice. The key is that it is regular (at least once or twice a week) and consistent.

Improve flexibility

Your range of motion tends to decrease, as you get older. Yoga helps to reverse this process by taking your joints through their full range of motion, increasing your flexibility gradually. Over time, the ligaments, tendons and muscles lengthen, increasing elasticity, and making your body more flexible. Your body alignment and posture will improve helping to relieve back, neck, hip and shoulder pain. You'll be amazed at how much easier everyday activities like walking or running will become when you increase your flexibility. Your hockey, golf, basketball or baseball game will become better as you increase your flexibility.

Lessen your stress

Yoga reduces the physical effects of stress on the body. By encouraging relaxation, yoga helps to lower the levels of the stress hormone Cortisol. It also lowers blood pressure and heart rate, improves digestion and boosts the immune system. Yoga reduces the symptoms of conditions such as anxiety, depression, fatigue, asthma and insomnia. Your lung capacity will improve, and so will the quality and depth of the breath. People, who practice yoga on a regular basis, will notice that they will have less upper respiratory infections, as a result of the quality of the breathing they practice during a yoga class.

Improve your energy level

You have to expend energy to gain more energy. But some types of exercise can get you feeling more energized immediately and this is one of them!

Strengthen, lengthen and tone your muscles

Yoga creates long, strong and lean muscles, from head to toe. Enjoy powerful muscles without adding bulk!

Detoxify the body

By synchronizing breath and movement and gently stretching muscles and joints as well as massaging the internal organs, yoga ensures the optimum blood supply to all parts of the body. This helps to flush out toxins from the system and to eliminate stress hormones as well as maximizing nourishment to your body. It improves your complexion, increases vitalityand recharges your enthusiasm.

Lose weight permanently

A study at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle linked yoga and weight loss. This 10 year study of over 15,500 men and women showed people who did yoga lost weight while the control group gained weight. Another study presented in 2006 at the America Heart Association found yoga helped overweight high school students lose weight while the control group gained weight. Yoga can help you lose weight in more ways than just by burning calories. It helps your hormonal balance, reduces food and alcohol cravings, and builds muscle.

New to Yoga?

If you are new to yoga, have a look at our Introduction to Yoga class.

Never pay for a class you miss with our 5x or 10x passcards

You know how most yoga classes are only available as 10 Monday nights or 12 Thursday nights. What this means is that you are committing to come every Monday or Thursday night for that number of weeks.

If life should get in the way, as it so often does with your busy life, and you are unable to get to a yoga class then you loss the money you spent for that class.

With our 5x and 10x passcard at Sunrise Yoga you only use the classes on your passcard when you actually attend a class. If you miss Monday night, no problem, the class is still on your passcard. Also if you can not come on Monday night but you can come on Wednesday night this week that is no problem either. Our 5x and 10x passcard lets you accomodate your busy schedule and you can come to a yoga class whenever you can. If you have to miss a week that is no problem. You do not loose any classes from your passcard.

The passcards do eventually expire. They are good for one year from the date of purchase.

Our newsletter brings you interesting articles about practicing yoga, and keeps you up to date on the happenings at the studio and any schedule changes.

New to Yoga?

If you are new to yoga, have a look at our Introduction to Yoga class.