Balance Bethlehem offers a range of practices and treatments each nurturing an integrative approach to health and wellness. We offer yoga and other health promoting movement classes, holistic health & body treatments, and nutritional guidance and demonstrations. As we are each on a personal journey Balance Bethlehem encourages students to look within and find the style that best resonates with them.
Tina Mangold
Tina founded Balance Bethlehem in 2013 in an effort to create a healing and nurturing space for herself and the community.
Tina moved to Franconia, NH with her husband Davis and oldest daughter in 2004. Prior to her move to the east coast, Tina spent years working in the medical field and received her BS in Microbiology from UCSD.
After a family tragedy and a bout with cancer, Tina chose to empower herself and take charge of her health. In 2007 she started practicing yoga regularly. It only took about a year until she developed a “serious” relationship with her yoga practice which inspired her to share this love with the community. She completed her Kundalini Yoga teacher training at Golden Bridge NYC. Tina is also a certified Holistic Health Coach with the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.
An ongoing process of learning is what provides the fresh insights that inspire her teachings and vision at Balance Bethlehem. Travel, cooking mouthwatering healthy food and her family are passions which fuel her soul!
Contact Tina at: [email protected]
Jaime Platts
Jaime Platts (Devi Japa Kaur) is a member of the Sat Nam Foundation team, a non-profit with the mission of empowering yogis to serve. She recently moved to the North Country to help pioneer the Foundation’s vision of its new home base at Ski Hearth Farm and is managing the operations at Balance Bethlehem.
Jaime transitioned from Pennsylvania where she lived with family, worked a corporate job, taught Kundalini yoga, and connected deeply with the local yoga sangat and Eastern woodlands. Having lived as both a professional and an adventurer, she brings a balanced blend of skills, heart, and grit to these new endeavors. While working in the corporate setting satisfied an intellectual aspect, there was always a strong pull on her heart for adventure and deeper meaning.
Obeying the call of her soul, Jaime hiked the entire Appalachian Trail in 2010 and completed most of the trek again in 2012. The experience shifted her understanding of what is important in this lifetime and created an even stronger ache for something unknown.
It wasn’t until several years later when she joined the volunteer team at Sat Nam Fest and experienced Kundalini Yoga for the first time, that she was able to identify the missing component – spiritual community. Jaime is now committed to living her life in Truth and is passionate about sharing the sacred science of Kundalini Yoga.
Holding service in her heart and love for all beings, you can find her sauntering in the woods or gardens, hunting wildflowers and edibles, petting bumble bees, and sweet-talking the intentional plants while apologizing to the weeds.