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 Mary
Norton has been practicing yoga since the
early 1970's and is certified by the Kripalu Center
for Yoga and Health. Her commitment to establishing
a community for the practice of yoga and meditation
began in 1993. After teaching on the South Shore
for almost ten years, Mary took over the Cohasset
Yoga Center beginning with just four yoga classes
a week. Mary is inspired by many traditions in
her teaching and focuses on structural alignment,
anatomical awareness and breath. The Cohasset
Yoga Center has grown over the years into a thriving
yoga community that serves students from the South
Shore. In addition to yoga, Mary has had a private
practice as a massage therapist for 20 years.
In her practice, Mary provides gentle coaching
toward lifestyle changes combined with bodywork
within a context of safety, respect and caring
to meet the individual needs of her clients. Country
Way Health is located in Scituate, MA.
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 Amy
Donnelly
has been a student at the Cohasset Yoga Center
for many years and has been the office manager
since September, 2000. In August 2001, Amy became
a certified instructor in Pilates mat work and
began teaching at the Cohasset Yoga Center.
In 2005, she completed a higher level of certification
and now incorporates the use of balance balls,
light weights, resistance circles, and thera-bands
in her Pilates Plus class.
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|  Elizabeth
Rogers
has been practicing yoga for more than ten years
and received her teaching certification from the
Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. Elizabeth
began yoga following her recovery from breast
cancer and found that her practice was enormously
helpful in restoring a sense of balance to her
life. Elizabeth retired from a career in
banking and systems analysis to pursue her current
career teaching yoga. Elizabeth is also a Reiki
practitioner.
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 Christine
O'Shaughnessy
began teaching
Yin Yoga in January 2004 after completing
an
intensive training in California with Sarah Powers and Paul Grilley. Christine is also
certified in Meridian Yoga which activates and
balances energy in the 14 major
meridians or energy pathways of
the body. Christine is a registered teacher with
Yoga Alliance - RYT200. She is also a Pan Gu Shengong
instructor. Christine lives in Scituate with her
husband, Jim and their two children.
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 Cindy
Matheison began practicing yoga in 1999 after
the birth of her second son. She developed a passion
for the Ashtanga tradition while practicing at
the Cohasset Yoga Center. In 2005, she intensified
her Ashtanga practice and completed teacher training
in March 2006 with Michael Hamilton who is authorized
by Pattabhi Jois to teach Ashtanga yoga as it
is taught in Mysore, India. She continues to study
and practice with authorized Ashtanga instructors.
Cindy finds inspiration for her practice in the
Yoga Sutras and values the balance and equanimity
a regular practice brings to the life of a mom
and householder.
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 Kim
Dwyer fell in love with yoga as a
student at Cohasset Yoga Center. She found
that yoga began to affect every aspect of her
life in a deep and meaningful way. She began
to notice changes in her relationships with
her husband, children and friends. These experiences
prompted her to continue her study by spending
a month at The Kripalu Center for Yoga and
Health to become a certified yoga teacher.
She is a committed and compassionate teacher
who truly enjoys sharing her love of the practice
with her students.
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 Cindia
Norton has
been teaching group exercise classes for 20 years.
From a background of dance, she started teaching
aerobics classes in college to earn some money
and to help herself and her fellow students stay
fit and healthy. Currently, Cindia is certified
in Zumba which is a latin dance-inspired aerobic
class, Pilates level II, Hatha Yoga and most recently
in Yin Yoga. In addition to teaching grown-ups, she
also teaches yoga in her second grade classroom
and Zumba in after school programs. Cindia has
a MA in creative arts with children and has taught
continuing education classes for teachers. Her
passion for fitness and health keeps Cindia on
her toes while raising her four lively sons with
her husband.
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 Lori
Shaughnessy began practicing yoga at
Cohasset Yoga Center in 1998. Over the years,
she found that yoga brought a deep sense of balance
to her life physically, mentally, emotionally
and spiritually. She wanted to inspire others
as she had been inspired and so decided to become
a yoga teacher. She completed her training at
the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in 2006
and began teaching shortly after. Lori brings
a joyful love of yoga to her teaching that encourages
her students to make gentle progress in their
lives.
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 Joy
Tarr has been practicing yoga for several
years and received her teacher certification at
Open Doors in Weymouth, MA. In addition, she is
certified in meridian yoga and prenatal yoga.
Joy recognizes the healing benefits that yoga
has on the body, mind and spirit and brings this
understanding into both her life and her work.
While working as an occupational therapist at
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston. she
became interested in adapting yoga into a therapeutic
modality and developed a yogarogram for brain-injured
clients. A mother of two young children, Joy also
loves teaching prenatal yoga.
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