Catherine Mazur | Bruce Symonds | Jayne Alenier | Nick Beem | Scott Adelman | Allison Wilmes | Adam Braun
Catherine Mazur
Catherine offers an invigorating practice, emphasizing the union of movement and breath, while guiding through a safe exploration of the asanas. She leads her students in the beauty, flow and ease of yoga practice which she encourages integrating into our everyday lives.
Led to yoga through her fascination with the healing powers of the body, she draws on her training in energy medicine and shamanic healing to create a vinyasa flow class that is strength building as well as empowering.
She received her teaching certificate at NYC’s Sonic Yoga with Jonathan Fields and Lauren Hanna, in addition to certification with Yoga Fit and study with some of the nation’s premier teachers—to whom she is most grateful.
Come explore and grow in a practice that features dynamic world music that will open your body and your heart.
Bruce Symonds
Bruce Symonds has been a serious student of Yoga for many years and has been certified to teach Hatha since 1994. In addition, Bruce is a Certified Meditation Instructor, and a graduate of the Kriya Yoga Seminary. He has led retreats across the Americas teaching hatha, raja, and meditation and continues his studies with advanced teachers from around the world in the many disciplines of Yoga.
Bruce has taught in his community of Lincolnshire for over a decade, having started the Adult Yoga Programs at both Stevenson High School and the Village of Lincolnshire. He is currently on the Board of Advisors for the Kriya Hatha Yoga Home Study Certification Program, assists in the Seminary Program, and volunteers Spiritual Guidance at the Temple of Kriya Yoga.
Bruce is a lifelong resident of the North Shore, a householder, businessman, and ordained Swami. Bruce’s enthusiasm and devotion to yoga, his tireless dedication to his students, and his passion for learning and sharing make his classes a unique experience.
Jayne Alenier
Jayne began practicing yoga as a means to manage her own chronic illness. Studying under the tutelage of Himalayan Institute trained instructors, she began to see the healing powers that yoga could provide. She has since gone on to study many styles of Hatha Yoga including Iyengar and Anusara yoga. Her teaching style is heart centered with the goal of honoring each student’s uniqueness and empowering individuals to foster their own healing and wellness.
Jayne is Yoga Alliance certified and is also a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists. Jayne has a unique and varied background that lends itself to bringing a broad and deep knowledge base to her teaching. After receiving her B.S. in Biology, Jayne went on to earn an M.S. in Nutritional Biochemistry. She then spent several years working overseas as a Nutritionist. Returning to the United States in 1985, she completed an M.B.A. and worked in the area of Training and Development. After a number of years, she decided to devote her professional life to yoga. A decision she hasn’t regretted!
Nick Beem
Nick is a certified Kripalu Yoga instructor at the 200-hour level. He spent 2004 studying yoga, meditation (and life in general) in India and Southeast Asia. He has been practicing yoga for five years, primarily a Vinyasa style that focuses on synchronizing breath and posture in a moving meditation. The recent Kripalu training has him thinking about how to use physical postures to reveal habits of the heart and the mind. Nick has been a student of Buddhism for six years, and its emphasis on mindfulness and compassion shows up in his teaching. Other influences include a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, improvisational theater, West African dance, and a love of brain science. He graduated from Brown University.
Scott Adelman (Sat Atma Singh)
In his search for mind, body, spirit connection Scott was influenced in his youth as to the benefits of a yogic and vegetarian lifestyle by his uncle and teacher, Sri Ram. In 1995 he began studying in depth Tai Chi and Hatha Yoga, followed by intensive training in Bikram, Ashtanga and Vinyasa Flow. In 2001 Scott attended Summer Solstice in New Mexico with over 1000 yoga teachers and students. All day intensives in Kundalini Yoga and White Tantric Meditation transformed his spiritual practice and he was called to teach Kundalini Yoga.
Scott is also a family man, a successful general contractor and senior staffer for the New Warrior & Path to Sprit Trainings for men and women.
Allison Wilmes
Allison is a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance and a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists. She has studied many styles of Hatha yoga, especially Anusara and Iyengar. Allison is a therapeutic yoga apprentice with Gabriel Halpern at Yoga Circle in Chicago, and she continues her education with numerous workshops. She teaches classes and private sessions in a variety of suburban locations. Allison’s goal is to offer individualized and whole-hearted attention to each student.
In addition to teaching and practicing yoga, Allison coordinates programs at a library, and organizes fund-raising events for non-profit groups. She is an accomplished chef and gardener.
Adam Braun
Intrigued by the spiritual practices of Yoga, Adam began down a path towards new Life. In the midst of his first Yoga class, Adam found himself falling in Love. Amazed by the clarity of mind, and the comfort of his body, he soon began to study the teachings of yoga. Upon the completion of a Yoga Teacher Training program at the Temple of Kriya Yoga in 2002 he began his real training, to teach! “They say that to teach is truly to be taught, and I have found nothing else to be truer than this.”
Studying in the tradition of Hatha Yoga, and Ashtanga Yoga, Adam incorporates elements of alignment, vinyasa, pranayama, meditation, and lots of joy and laughter into his practice and teachings. “Continuing to grow and learn from every class that I teach, and every class that I take, I feel an ever greater sense of beauty, blossoming from within. Looking forward to sharing in this beauty, I bow with servitude to the light with in.”