Lily Cushman has been practicing Yoga since 1998. After many years of intense self practice, she began studying with Sri Dharma Mittra in 2007. Under his guidance, Lily dedicated herself to the exploration of happiness and service through Yoga. For several years she served as the Co-Director of the Dharma Yoga Teacher Training program, as well as the assistant to Sri Dharma in his teachings. In 2010, Lily opened the Brooklyn Yoga School along with her husband, Jeremy. She teaches (almost) daily, sharing these ancient practices to cultivate compassion, patience, courage, joy and ultimately, freedom.

 

Jeremy Frindel has been blessed with many great guides on this path to live a centered life, embedded in the true Self. He spent several years alongside Sri Dharma Mittra, learning the science of Yoga. During this time he traveled throughout the US and the world with Sri Dharma, assisting in workshops and teaching in the Life of a Yogi Teacher Training Programs. Jeremy received his 200 Hour certification from Integral Yoga Institute and his 500 Hour certification from Sri Dharma Mittra and is the Co-Founder of BYS. He currently studies Advaita Vedanta and The Bhagavad Gita with Swami Prabuddhananda Saraswati, and travels extensively with Krishna Das.

 

Elizabeth Kurzweil began practicing yoga in 1999. She completed her first 200 hour training in 2006 because of a deep desire to quench an internal thirst to learn more, and began teaching immediately after. In 2007, Elizabeth met yoga master, Sri Dharma Mittra, and has been studying with him ever since.  She is a Dharma Yoga 200 and 500 hour trained teacher, and shares her knowledge of classical yoga in this unbroken lineage. She teaches as an offering to the countless beings who have dedicated their lives to passing along spiritual knowledge, and as an offering to the students who show up day in and day out.

 

Yiannis Andritsos began studying yoga when he moved to the United States from Greece in 2002. He met the great yoga master Sri Dharma Mittra, with whom he has been studying and practicing full time ever since. He has been a dedicated teacher for over seven years, with a specialty in Dharma Yoga. He is an avid student of Bhakti yoga, Karma yoga, Sanskrit, meditation and pranayama, and is also a Thai yoga masseuse, which has enlightened his teaching and knowledge of body dynamics. Inspired and awed by the way that yoga has transformed his life, Yiannis teaches so that others may also experience the many benefits of yoga to the body, mind and soul. He is committed to healing and helping others reach their full potential.

 

Katurah Hutcheson began practicing Yoga in 1998 and has studied Yoga Asana and meditation under the guidance of many devoted teachers on the path. In 2009 she had the good fortune to see a yoga documentary briefly featuring Sri Dharma Mittra and immediately became his grateful student in a 200 hour teacher training. For the last three years Katurah has deepened her study of meditation and yogic texts in silent retreats of several weeks time in India and in a pilgrimage region of rural Spain. She studies Sanskrit and Advaita Vedanta in NYC with Swami Prabuddhananda Saraswati. Katurah hopes always to practice and teach in the spirit of devotion to all of her teachers along the way, in and out of the classroom.

 

Nicole McBride is a 200 Hour Vinyasa yoga teacher and a 500 Hour Dharma Yoga teacher. She began her yoga journey in college where she heard of someone called Dharma Mittra from her first teacher. She had no idea who Dharma Mittra was. Life would later move Nicole to New York to begin a glamorous career as a public-school educator. It was during this time she realized her students needed something more than reading and writing – they needed love. Yoga was one thing that has taught Nicole (and is still teaching her) about love. Nicole is so grateful to all her teachers for their compassion and desire to share the love that is yoga- and she only hopes to do the same.

 

Suzie Diano lives the practice of yoga and loves the practice of teaching, yet never planned to bring them together. The world had better plans. She now works to balance her job as a full-time elementary school teacher with teaching yoga at the Brooklyn Yoga School, and continues her studies as a lifetime student of yoga. Suzie is a Dharma Yogaa 200 and 500 hour trained teacher. She integrates the multiple disciplines she has studied and practiced to teach yoga to practitioners of all levels. Suzie is thankful for the opportunity to teach and enduringly grateful to Sri Dharma Mittra for all that he is as a teacher and guide.

 

 

Gentle Marvin was first introduced to the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. After returning from a three month trip to India, he began to explore the world of Modern Dance and became friends with a fellow dancer, Eva Grubler and her husband Dharma Mittra. Around 1991, Marvin started taking class with Dharma and in 1996 began teaching at the Dharma Yoga Center. Since then, Marvin's classes have become known as Gentle Yoga…

 

 

Myk Freedman first tried yoga searching for a way to cope with chronic physical pain and severe health complications from fibromyalgia. After trying a variety of health/exercise regiments, he found the Science of Yoga was the only way to transcend his diagnosis and live life to its fullest. His experience has inspired him to share the techniques of Yoga with others. Myk believes that everyone, regardless of their physical state has an entry point into a yoga practice. He finds joy in making yoga accessible to all. To deepen his practice as well as develop as a teacher, Myk has studied Iyengar, Ashtanga, and is a 200 hour certified Brooklyn Yoga School teacher.

 

Shaina Hecht was drawn to the physical practice of yoga after many years as a gymnast. She began her practice with Bikram and became a certified instructor in 2008. After three years of intense asana practice Shaina began to discover other paths of yoga. This exploration led her to Sri Dharma Mittra, with whom she has been studying ever since. In his presence Shaina has learned the real practice of yoga: to surrender the ego and attain purity of the mind, in order to realize the Divinity dwelling within. In 2012 Shaina completed a 200 hour teacher training at the Brooklyn Yoga School. Shaina hopes to share the blessings of spiritual bliss through teaching and with constant practice.