Cohasset Yoga Center
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Cohasset Yoga Center
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Mary NortonMary 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 DonnellyAmy 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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ChristineChristine 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 MatheisonCindy 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 DwyerKim 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 ShaughnessyLori 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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