Teachers

Michael Conley, Ed.D. has been practicing yoga since 1978. He has traveled to India, practiced Vipassana meditation, Rajneesh meditation, Iyengar yoga, Ashtanga yoga, and Kripalu yoga since that time. Michael became certified to teach Kundalini Yoga after training with Gurucharan Singh Khalsa in 2005 and has been leading classes in high schools and in his own studio ever since. He is a certified English and Social Studies teacher and has an earned doctorate in education, focused on adult development and he weaves theories of psychology and human development into his classes. During the day, he teaches Special Education at Mascenic High School and works as a counselor at Monadnock Family Services.

Denise Dumas has been practicing T'ai Chi since 1976. She learned and practiced with the Taoist T'ai Chi Society in Montreal for nine years, and taught five years for them as part of her training. Over the years she continued her practice of the Yang style with different groups in Quebec. T'ai Chi is the mental and physical core discipline in her life.

Since her move to this country, she has shared her knowledge and her passion for this art of meditation in movement, first in her studio in Wilton with friends who attended a weekly regular class. This last summer she started T'ai Chi in the park in Wilton as her contribution to the community.

Denise is a multimedia artist, and she teaches art as an adjunct at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell. She was just granted a New Hampshire Council on the Arts 2010 Fellowship for her professional achievement. For more information, visit NH Arts and meet the 2010 Fellows.

Kim Govoni - Zaanti co-owner has been practicing yoga and meditation for over 19 years. She has worked in accounting and was a Graphic Designer for eight years before turning to the nonprofit world where she has been a Director of Development, Board of Trustees member for a variety of educational nonprofit organizations, and currently works in administration at High Mowing School in addition to guiding the administrative work and visioning at Zaanti.

Mary Graham is a professional artist who has been practicing yoga and meditation since 1976. She is certified as a Kripalu Yoga instructor, Certified Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist, Certified Polarity Therapist and as a Cranio-Sacral Therapist through the Upledger Institute. In 1990, she founded the Concord Yoga Center in Concord, NH, where she taught yoga and meditation, and had a private practice in yoga therapy and polarity therapy. She has explored meditation extensively through practice in Vipassana, Benedictine contemplative prayer, and Tibetan and Zen Buddhism.

Nome Graham has discovered through her years of personal yoga practice, and by witnessing the blossoming of her students, that yoga fosters the bravery, integrity, and joyfulness to live in one's own truth. Nome became certified to teach Kripalu Yoga Dance in 2008 and loves the way that yoga can provide a strong and steady center, while expressive dance can take you into unknown personal waters creating an ecstacy of self discovery and celebration! Wahe Guru!!!!

Helen-Ann Ireland has been a meditant for over 25 years. She began exploring various traditions before becoming enamored of the work of Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy. Helen-Ann has been working daily (or almost daily!) with the Calendar of the Soul meditations for twenty years. "I like to think of these as Steiner's version of the Zen koan. These are very lofty thoughts and it takes time, patience, and perseverance to penetrate their meaning sometimes. But then, I have never shied away from a good challenge!"

Hari Kirin Kaur Khalsa, MFA, MA, is a teacher trainer in the Kundalini Yoga tradition and an artist dedicated to healing through yoga and art. She studied with Yogi Bhajan for 23 years and has taught yoga since 1985. One of the few Kundalini yoga teachers in the north east certified to train teachers; she also holds master degrees in Creative arts therapy and visual art. You can visit her website at Art and Yoga.

Amy Kleine Amy has been a student of yoga for the past twenty years with experiences in Hatha, Iyengar, and Kundalini yoga. She has had a steady Kundalini practice for the past five years and recently (2009) became certified to teach it. She is looking forward to sharing this yoga of awareness and the joy it has brought her.

Lisa Loring - Zaanti co-owner has been practicing yoga for over 16 years. After these many years of personal practice she earned her certification as an Embodyoga instructor, an Ashtanga-based practice emphasizing integrated body alignment from the inside-out and from the ground up. She is also a registered member of the Yoga Alliance.

Finding her way to Zaanti and helping Zaanti come to life has been an amazing experience that will continue to unfold. This has been a culmination of the practice, the family life she values so deeply, and many years working with two local schools and their larger communities. When a person is doing the thing she is supposed to be doing it does not feel difficult or hard but truly is a joy.