Katie O’Connell, E-RYT 500, Owner of Dragonfly Yoga Barn and Lead Teacher in Dragonfly Yoga’s 200 and 300/500 hour trainings; Certified Ayurveda Health Practitioner, Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist, Heart Based Meditation (HBM) Teacher, Thai Yoga bodyworker, Access Bars Practitioner, Reiki II Practitioner, and HEALY Microfrequency Practitioner.
Katie is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT), has been practicing yoga for close to 24 years, has nearly 2,000 training hours in yoga studies alone, and has taught over 15,000 hours since she began teaching in 2003, logging 12,000 of these hours with Yoga Alliance since 2007. She has been training yoga teachers since 2011, and has studied with veteran teachers and experts in the fields of Yoga, Ayurveda, and meditation since 2003: Paula Tursi, Bernie Clark, Dr. Paul Dugliss, Dr. Marc Halpern, Sudha Lundeen (Kripalu), Cora Wen, Janet Stone, Sadie Nardini, as well as many others. Katie studied Ayurveda Yoga Therapy with Marisa Laursen and Dr. Marc Halpern, head of the California College of Ayurveda, with whom she also earned a certification in the ancient science of Yoga Nidra. Katie is an Ayurvedic Health Practitioner, studying under Dr. Paul Dugliss at New World Ayurveda and has over 1,000 hours of study as an Ayurvedic Practitioner and Ayurveda Yoga Specialist, as well as traveling to India each winter for Panchakarma therapy and to study Ayurveda with Dr. Chandra Mouli . She also has numerous certifications in Thai Yoga with Peter Kaaberbol (2006), Sunny Klaber (2012), and T’ai Jamar Hannah (2013), and is SUP Yoga trained by Michelle Clarke of Moondala. Katie is a long-time student of Bernie Clark, one of the three primary Yin Yoga teachers in the West, having fallen in love with Tao Yin Yoga in 2008. Katie continues to study and is currently enrolled in Advanced yoga teacher training with Janet Stone, and completed a second year-long training with Dr. Paul Dugliss in Spiritual Mentorship and Heart Based Meditation in early 2020. Her greatest teachers of all are her students, her own children, and her husband and partner in everything, Declan, aka Dhadood.
Katie teaches daily yoga classes, offers Ayurveda & Yoga consultations and classes, private Thai Yoga bodywork, Yoga Mentoring, YTT, Ayurvedic Indian Cooking classes, and Reiki appointments in front of the sun-filled windows facing the peaceful hemlock forest here at Dragonfly Yoga Barn.
Lindsay Mayock PT, DPT, RYT 200 is a Doctor of Physical Therapy practicing at Mountain Center Physical Therapy in Conway, NH. After growing up in Conway, she went off to receive a Bachelor of Science in Education from the University of Virginia in 2005 and Clinical Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Simmons College in 2008. After working and living on both coasts and internationally, Lindsay returned to the Mt. Washington Valley in 2014 to set down some roots.
Completing her 200 hour YTT in 2015 with Meghan Currie in Nicaragua, and Yin TT with Bernie Clark, Lindsay teaches weekly classes, as well as incorporates yoga-based techniques into her patients’ treatments. “I think yoga is one of the best mediums through which we all become more acquainted with our physical form. Through sound teachings firmly rooted in human anatomy and biomechanics, I seek to guide my students to a deeper understanding of how to move their bodies safely and efficiently, on and off the mat.”
Lindsay’s humor and easy-going personality makes her impressive knowledge of functional anatomy a little less overwhelming for yoga students and truly helps teacher trainees and clients alike to embody their own practice with detailed awareness and care. Her reverence for the human body is a wonderfully infectious joy that allows us to navigate the body and all its systems with curiosity, honor, and playfulness.
Dr. Paul Dugliss, MD, Dean of Students at New World Ayurveda, author of numerous books, practices and leads trainings from his home in Maine. Paul brings his unique and wonderful understanding of Yoga Philosophy & Heart Based Meditation to all of our yoga teacher trainings here at Dragonfly. “Dr. Paul” has been meditating over 40 years and is the leading exponent of Heart-based Meditation. His passion is helping others to transform through developing higher consciousness and the power of love, and he is the author of Think with the Heart / Love with the Mind. Dr. Dugliss is an Internal Medicine physician practicing Ayurvedic Medicine and Ayurvedic Spiritual Counseling. He is the Academic Dean and Director of New World Ayurveda School, leading the movement to create a healthier world by making online Ayurvedic studies accessible to all. Dr. Dugliss is an Acupuncturist and practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine, has been a member of the Board of Directors of NAMA, the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and is currently on the Board of Directors of the Association of Ayurvedic Professionals of North America (AAPNA), and has authored many books including: Ayurveda – The Power to Heal, Enlightened Nutrition, Capturing the Bliss: Ayurveda and the Yoga of Emotions, The Myth of Cholesterol, Yoga & Ayurveda, and Patanjali in the Light, his 2018 publication on the Yoga Sutras.
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