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Meet Your Restore Your Prana Mentors
This select team has been hand-picked by Robin for their knowledge, dedication, and commitment to this work. Each one of these women has studied and practiced with the RYP methodology extensively. In addition, they have completed the Buteyko Educators’ Training with Patrick McKeown, author of The Oxygen Advantage and renown trainer of the Buteyko Breathing Method. As Certified Yoga Therapists, the RYP mentors are experts at weaving the western physiologic concepts into elegant practices based on the tradition of yoga. They will act as your guide, your coach, your teacher providing feedback on all your homework and practicum assignments. They will help you to assimilate and customize the RYP material in a way that supports your completion of the program and guarantees your success in teaching this to others. When you register for the training, you will be assigned a mentor who will follow you throughout the course. Once your application is accepted, she will contact you to launch your immersion into the Restore Your Prana Certification Program.
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Adjunct Faculty
Janet Brindley
Janet Brindley has created beautifully-animated tutorials detailing the science of respiration specifically for the RYP Certification Program. She qualified as a yoga teacher with the British Wheel of Yoga in 1983 and has recently retired from teaching classes. She has a background in medical research and biochemistry and worked in hospital pathology laboratories for many years. She was one of the first people in the UK to train as a Buteyko teacher and has been teaching Buteyko since 1999. As a life-long asthmatic with an asthmatic son, Janet has experienced the benefits of yoga and Buteyko herself, making her a keen advocate of breathing therapy.
Restore Your Prana Mentors
Lynn Crimando, MA, C-IAYT, NBC-HWC, CPT
Lynn Crimando serves as the teaching mentor for YogaUOnline's Wellness Educator Program. She is a yoga teacher, board-certified Health and Wellness Coach, C-IAYT Yoga Therapist, Certified Personal Trainer, and Buteyko Practitioner. She has a private practice in New York City and teaches classes throughout the city on behalf of Health Advocates for Older People. In addition, Lynn is on the faculty of the IAYT-approved Yoga Therapist Training at YogaNanda in Garden City, New York. To learn more about Lynn, visit her website: yogalynn.com.
Tamara Gilest, C-IAYT, RYT500
Tamara is Certified Yoga Therapist, C-IAYT, and Yoga Teacher and trainer (CYT 500 level) registered with the Yoga Alliance, and a Certified Buteyko Breath Practitioner. She owns and runs BendnMove Yoga Therapy. She most recently completed a 200 hour training program in sacred sound healing from the Heart of Sound and her level 1 teacher training with iRest Yoga Nidra.
Tamara had a 25 year career in technology before finding her home in therapeutic yoga and Buteyko Breathing Method. After a serious bike accident in 2005, she was introduced to Robin and found profound healing through yoga therapy. Her yoga training comes from Krishnamacharya, Viniyoga, and Iyengar traditions.
Tamara is a lover of anatomy and loves helping people find ways to move their body in a natural and authentic ways. She works mostly with the vibrant aging population over 50, although her breathing related clients are of all ages. Tamara works with people recovering from injury, illness, and PTSD to help manage the condition and guide them towards wellness.
Tamara earned a Masters degree of Science in Strategic Management, a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Accounting. She attended Essential Yoga Therapy program to earn her C-IAYT designation.
Gloria Harris, C-IAYT, RYT500
Gloria has been practicing yoga for over twenty years and has completed both her 200 and 500 RYT certifications in Viniyoga, and a three-year, 1000 hour Yoga Therapy Training Program with Robin Rothenberg and Essential Yoga Therapy (EYT) and will be C-IAYT certified in October 2020. In addition, she is certified to teach the EYT Essential Low Back Program and is a Buteyko Breathing Educator. Gloria is also looking forward to serving as a mentor in the EYT, Restore Your Prana (RYP) Training.
Gloria began practicing yoga to improve flexibility and low back issues, and it is now an integral part of her life, helping her navigate life’s challenges with more acceptance and compassion. She retired from corporate life after a 40+ year career with AT&T, and now enjoys sharing the benefits of yoga with others. Gloria is a wife, mother and grandmother and a full-time caregiver to her husband who has multiple health challenges. She enjoys spending time with family and friends, grandparenting, traveling, reading, gardening, walking/hiking, cooking and eating!
Carol Klammer, C-IAYT, RYT500
Having practiced yoga since 1990, and taught since 1996, Carol graduated from Robin’s Essential Yoga Therapy program in 2013 as part of the first therapist training cohort. She attended Buteyko training at Robin’s studio in 2017 with Patrick McKeown.
Before Covid (BC!) she worked with individuals as well as taught a dozen–plus group classes a week, from Head Start preschoolers to chair yoga at the senior center, group classes in her studio, and everything in between. Several weekly classes she offered through her local hospital group for cardiopulmonary rehab patients and cancer patients/alumnae offered her the most challenging and interesting settings within which to integrate functional breathing and the Buteyko Methods.
She finds noticeable improvements in her own health and breath using Buteyko Methods, especially while hiking and cycling. Since pandemic restrictions, she holds group and private classes online from her studio, for the foreseeable future.
Aggie Stewart, C-IAYT
Aggie is part of the EYT Mentorship team for the Restore Your Prana program. She is a certified yoga therapist, accredited Buteyko Breathing Method (BBM) provider, and certified iRest Yoga Nidra meditation teacher. Aggie studied BBM with Robin Rothenberg and internationally acclaimed BBM provider and educator Patrick McKeown. She has presented on the BBM at the Integrative Medicine for the Under Served conference in 2017. Aggie specializes in the therapeutic application of breathing practices and is especially interested in their efficacy for people who have experienced trauma and have been diagnosed with autoimmune conditions. In 2019, Aggie published Yoga as Self-Care for Health for Healthcare Practitioners: Cultivating Resilience, Compassion, and Empathy with Singing Dragon, an imprint of Jessica Kingsley Publishers in the UK and US.
Llewellyne Arden, C-IAYT
Llewellyne is currently a Mentor for both the Essential Yoga Therapy Foundations Advanced Teacher Training and Restoring Prana certifications. Beginning in 1998, she pursued her practice and study of yoga under Senior Iyengar Teacher Felicity Green. In her 18 years in that tradition she completed several teacher trainings, apprenticeships, and continuing education programs which include pranayama, Vedic chanting, prenatal yoga, Sanskrit, yoga philosophy, functional anatomy and yogafor a variety of different physical ailments such as scoliosis and osteoporosis. Her passion forAyurveda has led her to participating in many workshops, avid home study and cooking, and living by the Ayurvedic philosophy, diet and lifestyle.
Llewellyne completed a 500-hour-Advanced teacher training in 2017 with Robin Rothenberg ofEssential Yoga Therapy which further broadened her personal practice and teaching style. She alsohas certifications in yoga for Parkinson’s disease, The Essential Low Back Program and is a certified Therapeutic breathing instructor under the tutelage of Patrick Mckeown of Buteyko Clinic International.
In her 24 years of teaching she has taught to a wide spectrum of students from k-12 to weekly specialty classes in a non profit organization for older folks, and everyone in between with the belief that yoga is adaptable and available to everyone. Following her passion for helping others realize their full potential through the diverse practices of yoga, Llewellyne is completing the yoga therapist certification with Essential Yoga Therapy in August 2022 to become certified as a yoga therapist with the International Association of Yoga Therapists. She has a thriving yoga therapy practice on Lopez Island, WA along with remote clients via video sessions. You can find more information at www.vitalityyogatherapy.com.