Yoga

As a yoga teacher, Marisa’s classes help students to experience the connection between their own body, mind and breath. The hope is that students walk out of the class empowered and rejuvenated to be and feel themselves, while also building an inner strength to seek and be a positive change force off the mat. Marisa wants to create spaces that cultivate joy, strength and healing. Marisa has practiced yoga since 2003, and has been teaching a mix of vinyasa, restorative and slow flow yoga since early 2017. She completed her 200 hours of yoga teacher training with the Prana Yoga Studio in Central Square.

Abbie is a lover of all movement and a lifelong student and teacher. She is a certified RYT-200 from Prana Power Yoga, and brings encouragement, challenge, mindfulness, breath work, and smiles to all her yoga classes. Abbie is trained to teach vinyasa flow, introductory yoga classes, restorative and yin practices. With Abbie guiding you through your practice, yogis are always met with sequences that feel fresh, new, while also meeting the needs and desires of the community space.With lessons from the class community, Abbie leads a practice that will make you feel noticeably more grounded, relaxed, stronger, and full of strength for all the activities you partake in off the mat. You can follow Abbie on Instagram at @led.by.abbie.

Stephanie came to yoga as a teenager after years of serious ballet training. Throughout the years, being on her mat has always felt like coming home. Stephanie trained at Prana Power Yoga / YogaWorks and became a certified yoga teacher in 2019. She strives to foster breath, movement, joy, and calm through her vinyasa-based classes.

Eve Marie Mugar has been teaching yoga since 2016 and practicing since 2004. She was trained at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health where she also spent a year as an intern in the school of yoga. She enjoys teaching Hatha and Yin yoga as well as mindfulness meditation. Her teaching is heavily influenced by her interest in and studies of yoga philosophy, mindfulness and her work as a psychotherapist. You can follow Eve on Instagram at @enlivened.with.eve.

Ari Rubenstein (he/him) has been practicing yoga for more than a decade, has been a certified yoga instructor since 2019, and has taught vinyasa-style flow classes at Gallery 263 since 2021. Ari believes that yoga is for everybody and for every body: while his classes are fast-paced, he loves welcoming beginners and offers variations for all levels of experience and ability. In his classes, you can expect lots of breath, lots of heart, and a little bit of humor. Outside the gallery, you can find him organizing to challenge transnational corporations’ abuses by day, volunteer teaching with Hands to Heart Center: Yoga for the People, and leading night-time restorative yoga mini-classes on Zoom. You can follow Ari on Instagram at @yogafitnessbread.

Ana Baumgart Schreck has taught yoga in the Boston area since 2013 and has completed 500 hours of yoga teacher training from Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health and additional training in teaching hatha yoga, vinyasa yoga, yin yoga, restorative yoga, pre-natal yoga, and Ayurveda. The focus in her classes is to bring awareness to the body, breathe, and intuition while flowing with the seasons of life. Every body is welcome. You can follow Ana on Instagram at @ana.yogateacher.