Teachers

Vicky Cooley

Grace Osora Erhart

Grace Osora Erhart (RYT 500) brings her deep love for yoga and decades of experience to the mat. For Grace, yoga is mediation in motion, and the physical aspects, thought important, are simply a vehicle for personal growth and present-moment awareness. Putting special emphasis on pranayam (breathing exercises), she guides her classes through an energy-learning physical practice so that her students can feel more balanced, stable, and alive. Grace's yoga training began at Kripalu thirty years ago, and she has since integrated her many talents into her teaching, including her roles as a Registered Nurse, Licensed Massage Therapist, Phoenix Rising Massage Therapist, and Level 3 Dream Teacher in the Robert Moss School of Active Dreaming. Grace also holds certifications to teach Vinyasa, Restorative Practice, Meditation Instruction,  Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy and is a Reiki level 2 Practitioner.

Joanie Fisler

Joanie’s style of teaching yoga is eclectic with emphasis on alignment and encouraging the mind, body, spirit integration. She aspires to keep the environment playful but also conducive to inner stillness.

Joan has been  practicing yoga for 20 years and began teaching in 2009. She studied with Lara Ward at Lotus Gardens in Connecticut. Yoga prepared Joan for a meditation practice which she considers a gift to her spiritual path.

Joanie lives at the farm in Lyme with her husband and her dog Chase. She has two grown daughters, a son-in-law and a two grandkids. Her hobbies include tap dancing & reading.

Deb Novack

Deb has been practicing Yoga for over 45 years. She became a Certified Yoga Teacher in 2015 having participated in Yoga Pagoda Teacher Training 200hr and 108hr Advanced Teacher Training, both taught by Shelley Adelle. Deb has augmented her Certifications with further training in Restorative Yoga, with Judith Curiel; Yin Yoga, with Sara Powers; as well as various other trainings at Sebastian Yoga and One Yoga Planet.

Deb has enjoyed a growing popularity in the Vero Beach area, as a teacher. Particularly those students who have been away from Yoga for many years and students new to Yoga.

Her motto is "yoga is for every body.

Anne Redfield

Anne has been practicing yoga most of her adult life, and teaching (CTY200) since 2010. Her style of teaching emphasizes alignment, breathing and feeling the movement of energy in each pose.  She encourages her students to listen to their bodies, but experiment with challenging themselves.  Anne believes that yoga is for anyone at any age or level of physical ability. She appreciates how yoga teaches us all to approach life with the “beginner’s mind.”

Anne grew up in Old Lyme, and returned here in 2021 after several years living and working in the Hudson Valley, where she raised her two children.  When she isn’t practicing or teaching yoga, Anne enjoys kayaking, dancing, and keeping her 2 new kittens out of mischief.

Monzelle Schmiedeck

Monzelle is a 200 RYT through Kripalu Yoga.  She has been teaching for over 15 years with classes in Hatha, Yin, Kids and Stand Up Paddleboard.  Participating in countless workshops and trainings (including Meditation Training at the Nosara Yoga Institute in Costa Rica).  Instructing fitness and aerobics and Reiki training are all parts of her background.  

Having just moved to the area, Monzelle is excited to meet, share and connect with the community.  Her classes are varied and can be calm and serene, as well as leaning more toward the physical.  But all are focused with the intention of going inward and finding peace, harmony and joy in class - and then taking that into your life.  

Lisa Terenzio

Lisa is a certified yoga instructor with an advanced credential in yoga therapy. She focuses on using yoga to help her clients make incremental yet powerful changes in their ease of motion.