Please note for those interested in a Yoga class please sign up at shantisanctuary@gmail.com
Our yoga classes will be held on a sign up basis only and our instructors below will be available for your sessions.

We will also be scheduling Salsa classes as well. Should you be interested in salsa classes please send your sign up to shantisanctuary@gmail.com subject titled "interest in salsa classes"

All payments are due the day of the class, please arrive a half early.
We will be sending out emails with days and times of classes available as well as our new address.

About our Yoga Instructors

Stephen Moore
(Gururattan Singh) is a certified teacher in Hatha (vinyasa) and Kundalini yoga. He is also a licensed massage therapist. Stephen has been teaching in New York City and Jersey City for over a decade. He currently holds weekly classes at several fortune 500 companies and health clubs, in addition to his one on one classes. Sign up for the free Moore Yoga Poses newsletter and be kept up to date with yoga tips, fun tests, wisdom, future events or workshops and more!

Quinn Lemley
is a certified teacher in Hatha (vinyasa) and Senior Chair yoga, pilates mat and Reiki.  Quinn has been teaching in New York City for the past five years. He currently holds weekly classes at several health clubs in New York City, in addition to one on one classes. She is a graduate of NYU.  Quinn is also an accomplished performer for which her yoga and pilates practice is essential to total well being!

Kim Lowe, E-RYT 200
has 23 years of movement expertise including Yoga, Pilates and bodywork. Her dynamic vinyasa classes place emphasis of proper alignment, develop core power strength and get those creative healing juices flowing.


Hernan "Ash" Aviles- From the paradisiac west coast beaches of Puerto Rico, ASH comes to Us, offering with meaningful intention, some of the best self healing practices that will help us to re-direct our lives towards wholeness, itegrity and balance. Initiated in Tantric Yogic practices in the summer of 2003, he began to see life in a very different way, finding himself on a new path not only towards self awareness but collective or universal oneness. Such experience allowed him to awaken to the interest of learning and practicing various healing modalities. To keep himself mentally strong & focused, physically fit, young and healthy, he practices and teaches the powerful technique of Meditation, Yoga Asanas (postures), Hatha Yoga (more passive) or Vinyasa style (more active flow of poses), along with breath work.

In class, ASH’s teaching style incorporates the ideas and wisdom of the different modalities of his studies into both Classical Hatha Yoga and the Vinyasa style. He is a compassionate and patient teacher who brings challenging and creative, as well as nurturing and inspiring dynamics to his class. He strongly believes that the foundation of the practice is within ones intention, alignment and breath.

 

 
Laurel Katz-Bohen - Laurel lends her experience to our Shanti Sanctuary Studios. She comes to us from Harlem Yoga Studios, located in the heart of Harlem. She is a native New Yorker, a longtime Harlem resident, and the owner of Harlem Yoga Studio. She is a graduate of the Integral Yoga Institute and is certified to teach Hatha Yoga, Prenatal Yoga and Raja Yoga. She has practiced yoga since the age of 5. Laurel is a singer and songwriter who has toured throughout the United States and the world with various groups. In addition, she has a background in childhood education, as an elementary school teacher in the New York City public school system. She will headstart our Prenatal classes.
About our Belly Dancer - Ann Pipoya


In her teens Anna danced professionally and choreographed her own dance pieces since. She has also trained in New York with well-known artists as Andrea del Conte for flamenco at the Broadway Dance Center ,and took classes at Fazel's School for Belly Dance. Specifically, she is trained in classical ballet, jazz ballet, flamenco, belly dance, took some classes of Indian ancient folk dance and more recently she has been exploring hip-hop and many other types of dances to create her own unique mixture of synthesizing of old and new.

 

 

About our Courtesan Coach - Yolanda Shoshana


Yolanda Shoshana “Shoshi” is a media personality,  courtesan coach, sensualist, speaker, writer living in New York City known as the Luscious Lifestyle Diva.

Shoshi graduated from The College of Santa Fe with a BFA in theater with the aspiration to become the next Whoopi Goldberg, but her life’s journey led her down a different path.

Self growth and following her bliss has always been a key part of her life. Shoshi followed her entrepreneur spirit by starting a lifestyle company that engages the senses to help people live lusciously. The services include: courtesan coaching,workshops/classes, pleasure planning, image consulting, empowerment through media, wedding officiating, etc. She is the founder of the School of Courtisane Moderne, a modern day courtesan school which teaches women the art of seduction. She also is the creatrix and sensualist of luscious creams, potions, etc. that helps women unleash their inner courtesan!

 

Shoshi has lead seminars and workshops to a variety of audiences. Her workshops have been about life issues, food, empowerment, and laws of attraction. She has also produced and hosted her own talk show for women in Manhattan on Channel 56 for the past 4 years titled “The Luscious Life with Shoshi”

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