Come experience yoga and movement classes in two pristine, state of the art studios overlooking our peaceful White Mountain landscape. Movement classes include qiqong, pilates and meditation. Our yoga and movement classes offer the opportunity to deepen your awareness and self-understanding through breath, movement and meditation. There are many different styles of yoga and movement. While each style has benefits, it is important to evaluate your own needs. In addition to our scheduled classes, the wellness center offers a wide variety of workshops and retreats.

Practitioners

Rose Goldblatt

Rose’s first teacher was her father, David Goldblatt, who has been teaching yoga since 1976. From the start, Rose loved how yoga stretched and strengthened her body. At 15, she went to a class taught by Patricia Walden, a renowned Senior Level Iyengar teacher, and realized then that yoga would become her life’s work. After nine years intensely dedicated to studying and practicing Iyengar yoga, Rose became the youngest person to ever receive an Iyengar Teacher certification in the United States. In eight years of teaching, she has completed four levels of this rigorous certification, and is now an intermediate junior 2 level teacher. Rose has traveled regularly to India to study directly with the Iyengars, and now nurtures an ever growing following of devoted students.

Rose is a naturally gifted yoga teacher who teaches attention to alignment in a variety of levels of yoga from gentle to advanced. Her teaching is professional, yet soft. She is precise, yet fun. She offers challenge, yet compassion. Rose’s students often spend years studying yoga with her, finding sanctuary in the quiet calm that Rose creates in her classes. Her love and dedication to yoga shines through in her teaching.

Rose is indebted to all the Senior Level Iyengar teachers who instruct her, particularly Patricia Walden, Joan White, and Janice Vien. She also recognizes Edwin Bryant for his work with her on both the Yoga Sutras and the Bhaghavad Gita. And finally, Rose honors Mr. Iyengar, whose work inspires her each and every day as a student and a teacher of the eight elements of yoga.

For more information, email Rose at [email protected] or visit yogawithrose.com.

Tina Mangold

Tina started practicing yoga regularly in 2007. It only took about a year until she developed a “serious” relationship with her yoga practice. She completed her Kundalini Yoga teacher training at Golden Bridge NYC. Science based kundalini yoga can strengthen the nervous system & physical body to help face life’s inevitable challenges and she was hooked after her first class. 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 teaching.

For more information please contact Tina at [email protected] or

Caryn Clark

Caryn Clark is a certified yoga instructor, Nia White Belt, licensed massage therapist and member of AMTA. She brings to her practice a BS in Art Therapy, along with over 25 years of experience in YMCA Camping and Outreach development. She has combined her love of art, yoga, the outdoors, and bringing people together to create retreats and programs that open hearts and minds inviting participants to explore their deepest desires and touch their yogic souls. Inspired by many teachers over the years, Caryn continues exploring yoga, Nia, massage and various arts to expand her knowledge and her practice. She has a passion for beauty and a compassionate view of humanity that infuses her life and work.

Yoga with Caryn is a gentle hatha flow with an approach to practice that honors each individual’s unique creativity and spirit. Weaving together asana, breathwork, music, heart centered readings, guided meditations, intuitive movement and a variety of other techniques, Caryn creates an atmosphere that is nurturing and accepting. Mondays 9:00–10:15am beginning December 16th. All levels are welcome.

Caryn can be reached at [email protected] or telephone

Becca

Becca has travelled extensively for over 20 years studying healing, movement and martial arts. She is currently teaching in the Liu family tradition of medical Qigong and Taoist medicine. She lives in Franconia. NH, where she has a thriving private practice.

For more information , please call Becca at or email at [email protected]

Elizabeth Ware

Elizabeth has been practicing yoga since 1996 in such disciplines as Iyengar, Yin Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Vinyasa Flow, Barkan, Bikram, and Ashtanga. She is certified as a Healing Movement 500 hr. trained teacher focusing on yoga as therapy and has a certification for Yoga Nidra, and Reiki I. When teaching, she focuses on alignment, the healing and regenerative benefits of yoga, as well as building strength, flexibility, balance, and mental wellbeing. In her other life, she is a fifth grade elementary school teacher and has also launched a workshop (Providing a Mindful Classroom, Creating Compassionate Students) for school educators to provide asana, meditation, and breath work for their students to help children develop mindfulness and strategies to navigate through difficult issues. Elizabeth’s goal is to share the opportunity to explore the philosophy, practice, and healing benefits and of yoga, mindfully and compassionately.

For more information or to contact Elizabeth: Mindful and Compassionate Yoga [email protected] or www.mcyogatherapy.com

Abby Pisegna

Abby likes to play. As a youngster, she played many sports and, today, stays active by hiking, snowboarding, and adventuring with her dog, Chakra. In 2011, she earned a B.A. in Psychology from Boston University and her background includes training in mental health, addiction, and trauma.

Over the past 8 years, her personal yoga practice has morphed from a weekly physical exercise, releasing back pain, to a daily ritual, alleviating anxieties and stress, and unifying her body, mind and spirit. The practice reminds her to live mindfully, love hard, breathe deep and maintain an attitude of gratitude. She has experienced the transformative powers of yoga and is passionate about sharing it with others. Abby has been teaching yoga for 3 years and is known for making the practice accessible to anyone wiling to try and holding a supportive, compassionate environment for students to connect with their own divine spark.

Abby has over 500 hours of teacher training with Divine Play Yoga, created by Claire Este-McDonald and Gregor Singleton, owners of Baptiste Yoga studios in Boston, MA.

For more information, contact Abby at or email at [email protected].

Jenny Johnson

Jenny Johnson, M.Ed. Health Education, Health Promotion

As early as she can remember, Jenny was cooking. Inspired by her grandmother who prepared large family dinners on a wood cookstove well into her 90’s, Jenny, too, loves cooking for a crowd. Even as a teen, while most of her friends would take advantage of a weekend morning by sleeping in, Jenny would rise early to get in a long distance run and prepare a delicious and nutritious breakfast! And not much has changed over the past twenty years – exercise, nutrition, and family are still her priorities.

Completely self taught, Jenny combines her passions for creativity and clean eating when she’s in the kitchen, sourcing local, organic, and sustainable ingredients. As a Health Educator, Sports Nutrition Specialist, runner, adventure racer, momma of two, farmer’s wife, and founder of Well.Nourished.You. she believes that food is fuel and medicine – it nourishes our whole being and is a crucial component to being the best version of ourselves. Jenny is well versed in a wide variety of dietary needs and preferences, can’t wait to have fun in the kitchen with you at Balance!

Please contact Jenny at [email protected] or .

Zarvin Palacios

My name is Zarvin Palacios and I have been teaching Argentine Tango at Balance Bethlehem since October 2015.
The class is geared toward getting us to the dance, Milonga, floor with grace, confidence.
Together we will begin with: learning to walk, step by step; exploring the idea of weight shifting; mold technique & form into our dance; use of muscle memory exercises to get us better acclimated to tango; add in random practice to stretch our learning curve and shazam, we have a dance.
Who am I? I’m a lover of rhythm, flow, music, motion. I’ve been that way since I can remember. I play most any sport and always looking forward to the swim season. I grew up reading comics, sci fi and 9 times out of 10 order dessert first.
Dance really took off for me. Like anybody else in the beginning I was unsure, awkward, clumsy. But I hung in there and inch by inch I was on the dance floor dancing.
My biggest influences in Argentine Tango: Monsieur Manuel Soto of Las Piernas in Montreal; Susana Schwartz of Tsunami Tango, Cordoba Argentina & Karla Bourland of UV CATS, Vermont. A shout out & props to them who really helped mold me into tango; become better.
Tango is a cerebral walking dance. It is also community oriented and social. No partner required. We all practice, learn together. All are welcome who would like to learn & dance.

More info: [email protected]

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Sofia Mangold

Sofia earned her certification as a Next Generation Yoga teacher for 8-13 year olds in August of 2012 when she was 9 years old. For the past 3 years she has been practicing Iyengar Yoga with Rose and David Goldblatt. On travels with her family she enjoys practicing various styles of yoga and even participated in a workshop with MC Yogi. Sofia’s other interests include surfing, creative writing, dance, drawing and connecting with nature. She aspires to continue her yoga training so she can teach a wider variety of students.

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