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INSTRUCTOR BIOS
ANNIE MAHON, Founder of Circle Yoga and Budding Yogis
Annie founded Circle Yoga and Budding Yogis to bring the practice of mindful yoga to children, families, and adults in the DC area. She trusts in the ability of these practices to bring balance and ease into her own life and she joyfully shares their gifts with her students.
Annie is an Anusara-affiliated yoga teacher-- although her first hatha yoga love was the Ashtanga yoga of Pattabhi Jois-- and currently studies Mindfulness Yoga with Anne Cushman and other teachers at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California. She has done several kids yoga teacher trainings, including Next Generation Yoga with Jodi B. Komitor in NYC, and Shakta Kaur Khalsas Radiant Child Yoga. Her main dharma teacher is the Zen monk, Thich Nhat Hanh.
Annie has a strong interest in using mindfulness yoga to help people with emotional and psychological struggles, and has taught many children and teenagers with anxiety related disorders, such as OCD, anorexia, and bulimia. She has also taught conflict skills/peace studies and peer mediation in the DC schools. She lives in DC with her husband and her four teenager children.
LINDA FELDMAN
Linda is a certified Next Generation Yoga teacher, a certified YogaKids Associate, holds a certification through Radiant Child Yoga Program, and has  trained with the Samarya Center for Integrative Movement Therapy. She has been teaching kids yoga in D.C. since 2002. She began her own practice of Iyengar yoga in the early 1990's in Chicago, and has continued to study in New York City and Washington, D.C. Linda holds an M.A. and has spent her professional life working for foundations and as a Public Television executive.
Through her yoga teaching, Linda strives to inspire creativity in children and to help them develop healthy and peaceful minds and bodies. She works to encourage children's respect for themselves, their bodies and others.
Linda currently lives in Washington, D.C. with her own budding yogis.
MARNIE BENNEY
Marnie is a certified Budding Yogis instructor and has been practicing yoga for six years. Fitness has been a constant part of Marnie's life, having previously been a competitive swimmer and managed a marathon team for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. She has long appreciated the mental and physical balance that yoga has brought to her life.
Marnie has had the opportunity to work with children of all ages as a swimming instructor, environmental studies teacher, and English teacher. She loves working with children because she finds their enthusiasm for life incredibly inspiring. She looks forward to sharing the benefits of a yoga practice with her students and to helping children carve out a little space they can call their own.
LUANN DROLC FORTUNE, LMT (DC MT 21)
Luann has been practicing and teaching massage in DC for 15 years. Her massage work incorporates western techniques, including NMT, deep connective tissue, and passive/active stretching, into various non-structural approaches, such as aromatherapy and energy modalities. She teaches a wide range of community workshops and professional training programs, and holds advanced certifications in parinatal massage, infant massage and aromatherapy. In her previous career, Luann was a management consultant. She currently serves on the DC Massage Regulatory Board.
DEBBIE HELFELD
Debbie has been practicing Anusara yoga for nearly 10 years and recently graduated from the Willow Street Yoga Center's 400 hour Teacher Training Program. Yoga has been such a transformative experience in her life that she wants to share its joys and benefits with others as she continues on her spiritual journey. Debbie lives in Silver Spring with her husband, 2 teenagers and 2 cats.
CAMILLE MARTONE
Camille is a certified Next Generation Yoga teacher and has practiced yoga for many years in traditional and nontraditional methods. She has been working in the fitness field for over sixteen years, with AFFA and CPR certification, teaching adults in aerobics, water aerobics, pre and post natal exercise, and teaching gymnastics to children, ages 3-6. She has a degree in Architecture and worked in the field for ten years before happily retiring to have her four children.
Camille really enjoys working with kids and has been a volunteer in her children's schools for the last ten years teaching art, architecture, science, and yoga. She is very excited to teach yoga to kids, and hopes to encourage kids to become more self-confident and comfortable in their bodies, as well as becoming stronger, more flexible, and more spiritually balanced. In addition, through her yoga teacher she hopes to encourage good nutrition and to inspire young yogis to know that eating right can positively affect the union of body and mind, because what you put in your body is also part of who you are.
On any given day you can find Camille at home learning yoga postures from her four year old who knows them all, and some!
MARISA VARGAS
Marisa Vargas grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She has studied classical hatha yoga in the Himalayan Tradition of Sri Swami Rama since 1998, primarily at the Institute of the Himalayan Tradition in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her teaching promotes self-awareness, inner balance, and the links between the physical poses and meditation. She places an emphasis on students going within themselves to understand their own bodies and minds. Marisa holds an M.A. in Human Development with a focus on Yoga and Healing at the St. Marys University (MN).
Budding Yogis
Mindful Yoga Studio
3838 Northampton Street NW
Washington 20015
E-mail: annie@buddingyogis.com
Phone: 202-686-1104
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