Teachers
All of our teachers are highly trained and in service to you. Read below to learn more about individual Laughing River Yoga teachers.
Emily Garrett
(Owner, Co-founder Laughing River Yoga) Emily has been teaching yoga since 1999. She taught her first class to a group of homeless women and immediately recognized the power of sharing yoga. Since then, she has continued to study and teach. Certified as both a Kripalu and Vajra Yoga teacher, Emily’s teaching emphasizes that through yoga [...]
Sofi Dillof
(co-founder Laughing River Yoga) Sofi is an advanced certified Jivamukti Yoga instructor and LifeForce Yoga practitioner who has been teaching Yoga since 1997. Since her earliest experiences with the Yoga, Sofi has felt the profound transformative benefits of the practice and continues to use it on a daily basis to meet the emotional and physical [...]
Jane Jarecki Lanza
(co-founder Laughing River Yoga) Jane co-founded Burlington Yoga Conference, Liberate Music & Yoga Festival and Laughing River Yoga studio. When she’s not practicing or teaching yoga, Jane enjoys to travel, meditate, cook, laugh, dance, swim, and spend time with friends and family in VT and on the road. Jane’s inspired by her yoga teachers and students from around the world, by her personal [...]
Jane Michaud (Karambir Kaur)
Jane came to yoga at the ripe old age of 43. Though she had always been curious, it wasn’t until she organized a group led by a local teacher to come to her house that the journey began. What an amazing process it has been. She has been blessed to receive teachings from many beloved [...]
Lindsay Foreman
Lindsay is a certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher. She has been practicing yoga for six years and meditation for eleven years. As a yoga and meditation teacher her primary focus is to create a container for people to come home to their true selves with deep compassion and acceptance. Her students describe her approach as gentle [...]
Mandi Michetti
Mandi started practicing yoga twelve years ago. In 2004 she attended her first Ashtanga teacher training with Kathy McNames of Yoga Vermont and then with David Swenson. Mandi has also studied with LRY’s Sofi Dillof, Desirée Rumbaugh in Anusara & biomechanics, Linda Ruth Spitzfaden in Transcendental Meditation, Bob Schroedter and Shelly Power in Polestar Pilates [...]
Patrick McAndrew
Patrick McAndrew’s world changed when he began meditating in the lineage of Nityananda (“forever in bliss”) in 1997. Devotionally exploring the interconnectedness of everything, he became a regular at yoga classes in New York City while earning his diploma in Theater at The La Guardia High School of Performing Arts. He came to Vermont to [...]
Julia Howe
Julia is a certified Kripalu Yoga teacher who has been benefiting from the boundless gifts of the practice for ten years. She took her first yoga class at age sixteen, and since then has been a devoted practitioner and student of asana, pranayama, and meditation. Yoga planted the initial seed on Julia’s journey toward self-discovery, [...]
Danny Morris
Danny Morris is an electrical engineer by day. By night, he explores Buddhism, Yoga, Meditation and Modern Physics. Danny has studied many styles of yoga with many wonderful teachers in Burlington. Trained to teach through Yoga Vermont with Kathy McNames and the Anusara Yoga Immersion with Todd Norian and Ann Green, Danny’s classes are a meld [...]
Gabrielle Goldberg
Yoga and Snowboarding go hand in hand. Gaby started her study of both through the past 9 years with stints as a snowboard coach at Killington, a Seva volunteer at Kripalu Center for Health & Yoga, and as a Living Yoga Trainee (LYT) at the Sri Swami Satchidananda Ashram (Yogaville) in VA. She earned her [...]
Deb Sherrer
Deb fell in love with yoga in a pre-natal class 15 years ago and began practicing regularly soon after. While she has always engaged in various forms of exercise, it was immediately apparent that yoga offered an opportunity to work with mind, body, breath and energy all in one powerful package and that the [...]
Elise Newbold
Elise ( Weezy to most ) started practicing yoga with her mother many many years ago. Since then she has been fortunate to practice and study with some remarkable teachers. Elise is honored to be teaching at Laughing River Yoga.
Jill Mason
Jill Mason is a 200-hour-certified Kripalu yoga teacher. A long-time student of modern, jazz, and West African dance, she began taking yoga classes in 2009, at age sixty-five, and fell in love with it. Since then she has been taking multiple classes a week, and in June 2011, partly inspired by Laughing River co-founder Jane [...]
Margaret Pitkin
For Margaret, yoga reveals the wild freedom and outrageous joy that is the birthright of every human heart. Margaret has been a dedicated student of Anusara Yoga for over ten years, a yoga teacher for over six years, and is Vermont’s first Certified Anusara Yoga teacher. She has spent over 1000 hours studying yoga under the guidance of [...]