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  Iyengar Certified

Only the world's most knowledgeable, rigorously-trained teachers earn the Iyengar Yoga Certification Mark.


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Suzy in
Adhomukha Svanasana
(Downward Facing Dog)
  Susan Pennington - Certified Iyengar, E-RYT 500
Suzy is a certified Iyengar instructor, RYT 500, and the founder and Director of Susquehanna Yoga.  She has studied comparative philosophy since 1976, Iyengar Yoga since 1993 and has been to India to study with Mr. B.K.S. Iyengar and his family, Geeta and Prashant Iyengar.  Suzy continues to apprentice with John Schumacher of Unity Woods Yoga Center.  Suzy has a B.S. in psychology and a MBA, and likes to swim, hike and travel.  She's a challenging and inspiring teacher.
 
IMG_0867.JPG (65677 bytes)   Bonnie Caslow Allan - Iyengar Tradition, RYT 500

After teaching art to middle school students for over 25 years, Bonnie decided that it was time for a change.  She loves to paint outdoors, but all of her energy for that was going to her students.  Bonnie began taking yoga with Patti Quicksilver of Susquehanna Yoga.  She looked forward to her weekly class, and noticed the effects Yoga was having on her entire well-being.  The more she practiced, the more she enjoyed the way it made her feel.  Her decision to teach yoga stemmed from that.  She has been doing yoga for 6 years and is finishing up the apprenticeship program.  Her desire to share her knowledge of yoga and to grow in it, informs her classes.
 
 
adam-baylus-bio.jpg (98262 bytes)   Adam Baylus
Adam Baylus joins the staff at Susquehanna Yoga after completing a three-year immersion in his own practice, highlighted by two trips to India, one to Thailand, multiple teacher trainings in Amrit Yoga and Kundalini Yoga, and a number of workshops and conferences, which featured premiere teachers from a hosts of other yoga styles, including Iyengar, Anusara, Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Yin and Sivananda.
His practice and his teaching blend Qigong (energy cultivation) and gentle yoga to prepare for asana practice, which then creates a foundation for kriyas, specific sequences designed to awaken our greatest potential. His classes provide students with the opportunity to experience all the elements of yoga—balancing instruction with rich meditative experience.

In 1992, Adam was introduced to yoga at the Kushi Institute in Massachusetts, where he learned the Taoist/macrobiotic approach to healing. During that same year, upon his return to Maryland, Adam began practicing with the many exceptional teachers in this area—all of whom have had a significant impact on his development as a practitioner and as a teacher.

In addition to teaching yoga, Adam is a Maryland licensed massage therapist, specializing in his own blend of Thai Massage, shiatsu, reflexology, Swedish Massage, and individualized asana instruction.
 
Lance David Bergerson   Lance David Bergerson - Meditation
Lance began his spiritual training in 1970 at AUM, the Aquarian University of Maryland.  Inspired by the Beatles eastern philosophy he studied meditation and Kundalini yoga at the 3HO Ashram in Baltimore.  Comparative philosophy followed and several years of camping and traveling around the country.  In San Diego, Lance played in a blues band and taught Astrology in an Adult Education Program.  He has been heavily influenced by Michail Pinder of the Moody Blues and the Book of Urantia, Ken Wilber and Peter Russell.  Lance is now part of the Tibetan Meditation Center of Frederick and leads the meditation at Susquehanna Yoga.  He works at Gramaphone as a sound system consultant.
 
markbio.JPG (69956 bytes)   Mark Hambleton - Meditation
Mark has practiced meditation, yoga and other healing and spiritual disciplines for over 25 years.  He has been a student and practitioner of both eastern and western philosophy, and of various healing techniques including hands on healing, belief system modification, reiki, energy work, herbology and fasting.  Mark draws on his many and varied personal and professional life experiences in his teachings.  He is the father of 2 sons and enjoys cooking, music and land husbandry.
 
 
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Linda in Gomukhasana
  Linda Howard - Hatha, E-RYT 500
Linda Howard, RYT500, is founder and owner of Easing Into Yoga™.  She is Iyengar-influenced and Anusara affiliated.  Linda has been teaching yoga full-time since receiving her teaching certificate in 1993.  Well versed in therapeutics and communicating alignment, she brings her students a blend of styles from her studies with many of today’s yoga masters.  She is well loved for her practical, upbeat, and engaging teaching style, which blends humor and a lighthearted attitude with attentive interest in each student, detailed, individualized instruction, and hands-on assistance to provide a carefully tailored approach for every member of the class.  For more information, see: easingintoyoga.com
 
 
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Robyn in Handstand
  Robyn Katz - Iyengar Tradition, RYT 500
Robyn, a native of Baltimore, fell in love with yoga 16 years ago when she and three of her best friends went to the New Age Health Spa in New York.  There she took her first yoga class which, as she put it, was a “huge life-changing experience”.  Robyn pursued her passion by studying Iyengar Yoga under Stan Andrzejewski, Bob Glickstein and then John Schumacher.  Currently, Robyn is studying with Liz Marx, certified Iyengar teacher at Unity Woods in Bethesda, Maryland and Kofi Busia, certified Senior Iyengar teacher based in Santa Cruz, California.
  Robyn brings her love for yoga to each class emphasizing precision, alignment, strength and flexibility. 

Her approach to teaching is based on the Iyengar system's belief that anyone can do yoga postures, regardless of physical or emotional limitations.  She seeks to teach with compassion and gratitude for each student.  An open mind, a willingness to try and a sense of humor are all that you need to bring to class.  Robyn teaches beginning and intermediate levels and also instructs prenatal, school-aged kids and senior classes.
For more information, see: robynkatzyoga.com
 
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Helen in Virabhadrasana I
  Helen Kimmel - Iyengar Tradition, RYT 200
Helen Kimmel is a registered yoga teacher (RYT200). Helen began a consistent practice of Iyengar style yoga in 2000, rekindling an earlier affinity to yoga and meditation. This connection led to the completion of the teacher training program in 2005 with Suzy Pennington at Susquehanna Yoga. In 2006, Helen studied a yoga therapy approach, Integrated Movement Therapy TM, with Molly Kenny of the Samarya Center, Seattle, Washington.

Helen believes that the practice of yoga builds strength and confidence, as well as calms the body and spirit. She encourages the development of strength and stability in the foundation poses and the practice of restorative techniques to let go of stress through breathing and relaxation. Helen enjoys adapting poses to meet the needs of individuals and seeks to have a class that is accessible to beginners and more experienced students.

Helen is a clinical social worker with a career that focused on developing and managing clinical care for traumatized children. She currently volunteers in a cancer support center and in hospice and loves reading, traveling and participating in yoga and Pilates classes.

 
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Betty in Sukasana with Namaste
  Betty Lewis - Certified Iyengar, RYT 500
Betty Lewis is a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher and is also a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance.  She is the Director of Yoga with Betty and Friends and has been teaching Yoga in the Baltimore metropolitan area since 1997.  She has studied with John Schumacher for the past nine (9) years and apprenticed with and assisted John from 2001 to 2005.  She has studied with the members of the Iyengar family in India, California and Colorado.  Also she has studied with many senior nationally and internationally known yoga teachers.  In addition to John, the teachers that have influenced her teaching and yoga practice the most are Joan White and Patricia Walden. 

Betty is happiest when teaching Yoga.  She especially enjoys teaching others how to begin the process of quieting the body and stilling the mind so that they can discover their own true being.  When Betty is not doing Yoga, she studies Pilates and volunteers as a tour guide for the Baltimore Museum of Art and The Maryland African American Museum of History and Culture.  When not teaching yoga, she studies the yoga sutras.
Betty's Website: Yoga With Betty and Friends
     
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Patti in
Caturanga Dandasana
  Patti Quicksilver - Iyengar Style, RYT 200
Patti is a registered Yoga Alliance teacher in the Iyengar style, graduating from Susquehanna Yoga Apprenticeship program.  Patti is also a certified Johnny G. spinning instructor and has been teaching for the past six years.  She enjoys spending time with her three children and husband, and traveling.  Patti also teaches at MAC and Meadow Mill Athletic Club.
 
     
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Eric in
Bhujapidasana
  Eric Reid - Iyengar Tradition, RYT 200
Eric has practiced Yoga since the mid-seventies and has taught Yoga for 14 years.  He has studied with many well-known teachers and considers Iyengar Yoga a style that "covers all the bases".  As a teacher, Eric’s greatest reward is watching the positive changes that happen to students who practice over a period of time.  Born in Liverpool, England, Eric enjoys hiking, rock climbing and disc-golf.  He is the proud father of four wonderful children and is the director of Patapsco Valley Yoga in Ellicott City, MD.
 
     
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Suneel in Supported Sirsasana
  Suneel Sundar - Iyengar Tradition, RYT 200
Suneel began his practice of yoga in the Iyengar tradition in 1998, while a student at the University of California, San Diego.  He continued in Los Angeles at the Iyengar Yoga Institute, working with several outstanding teachers, including Larry Heliker and Karin O'Bannon.  Since arriving in Maryland in 2003, Suneel has been quite fortunate to study regularly with Suzy Pennington and John Schumacher.  He has participated in workshops with senior Iyengar teachers.  In class he channels these teachers, adding his own personality for flavor.  Suneel is a researcher for the federal government. He has fenced for over a decade, and enjoys running and rock climbing.  But it’s the yoga that makes the others possible. E-mail: