50 Hour Yin Yoga Teacher Training @ Dragonfly Yoga Barn
Katie O’Connell, E-RYT 500 with over 16,000 teaching hours, and over to 2,000 hours of logged training in yoga & meditation. Ayurveda Health Practitioner, Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist, Heart Based Meditation (HBM) Teacher, Thai Yoga bodyworker, Reiki II Practitioner.
Katie, owner & principle teacher at Dragonfly Yoga Barn, is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (ERYT), has been practicing yoga for 27 years, has over 2,000 training hours in yoga studies alone, and has taught over 16,000 hours since she began teaching in 2003. 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 (Here are just a few: Paula Tursi, Bernie Clark, Dr. Paul Dugliss, Dr. Marc Halpern, Sudha Lundeen (Kripalu), Cora Wen, Janet Stone, Sadie Nardini).
Katie studied Ayurveda Yoga Therapy with Marisa Kinman 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 and Dr. Sundara Raman. She 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. 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, who you will meet when you join us for this Yin Yoga Teacher Training, as he is our our amazing chef!
Lindsay Mayock PT, DPT, CYT 200 is a Doctor of Physical Therapy and owner of Reverence Health for Women 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.”
Lisa Buerk, RYT 200 grew up in South Florida and was a children’s dance teacher before becoming a flight attendant. She has lived in New York, California, and finally landed in NH. When she is not flying across the country, she loves floating over the local lakes and mountains with her husband in their antique airplanes. She enjoys canoeing, kayaking, hiking, and growing and gathering fresh vegetables in her garden and preparing healthy meals with her husband and friends. Lisa has been practicing yoga for 20+ years and is excited to be sharing with others her love of yoga and the peace and calm it brings. She is certified in Yin Yoga by Bernie Clark, has Pilates Mat certifications, and she is currently studying advanced yoga therapeutics with Tiffany Cruikshank. Lisa teaches her myofascial release and flow classes at Dragonfly and in the Dragonfly Yoga Summer program at Rockywold-Deephaven Camps in Holderness, NH.