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. photo by Ron Candrea Robin Hertlein Candrea first learned about yoga when she was seventeen in an all girls' Catholic high school. One day, Miss Lowinski (her English teacher) said, "Now girls, we're going to do yoga, so move aside the chairs and take off your saddle shoes." Robin went on to become a professional modern dancer and has taught dance and yoga for most of her adult life. She received a Masters in the Psycho-Social Study of Human Movement from Columbia University in 1988. She began studying Iyengar Yoga in 1987. Her principle teachers include Rodney Yee , Joan White and Theresa Rowland. Robin is a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher.	photo by Jennifer Graham Most likely one of the only students at the Rumson Country Day School whose mother often picked her up from school accompanied by a Swami, Emily Dubin Huresky was introduced to Eastern Philosophy at a young age. When Emily graduated Magna Cum Laude from Barnard College with a degree in Religion and Philosophy, her aunt, Ellen Lichtig, who was a popular yoga teacher in Red Bank, offered to send her to yoga teacher training as a present. Although on her way to Law School, Emily took up her aunt's offer. The experience changed her life and career plans. Emily has since studied with many of the top yoga teachers in the country. She is a certified Anusara Yoga teacher and devoted student of John Friend whose teachings have dramatically improved her own practice, teaching and world view. Emily frequently assists John Friend nationally and is a member of the Anusara certification committee.
Fellow Teachers
Regina Grassia started studying yoga seriously in the San Francisco Bay area in the mid 1980's. Because California was home to many great Iyengar yoga teachers, Regina was lucky to have the opportunity to study with them. Her early yoga was especially influenced by Manouso Manos and Tony Briggs. In 1996, while living in Phoenix, Arizona, she met John Friend, who was in the process of incorporating his teaching skills and philosophy under the name Anusara Yoga. Since then she has reaped a myriad of benefits from this association and has been happily teaching Anusara Yoga for more than five years.	Kat Grausso has been a teacher most of most of her life. For many years she taught literature and writing to high school students. Kat began teaching yoga after school to a small group of interested kids as a healthy way for them to cope with stress. Her own practice began in the 70’s at a local adult ed class, when she instinctively knew she had found something important. Yoga’s ability to create balance and foster joy became fully clear when she learned Anusara principles and began studying with John Friend and other wonderful Anusara teachers. Now a certified Anusara teacher, she enjoys sharing the spirit of the practice and its philosophy with her students.
Marga Cava, Ph.D., has been a Spanish language and literature teacher for over 20 years. Although she holds degrees in romance languages, she has been studying yoga since her high school years and delights in yoga’s elegant interplay between physical actions and the celebration of the human spirit. Marga has been teaching Anusara-inspired yoga for over six years and feels blessed to be able to share this amazing gift with others. In her capacity as Dancing Foot Yoga’s office manager, Marga assists in office responsibilities and attends to phone and e-mail correspondence.	Laury Wills was introduced to yoga over twenty years ago when she took a class to fulfill college requirements in physical education. Her initial skepticism gave way to enthusiasm as she began to enjoy the benefits of the practice. She practiced casually through the years and began her serious study after coming to Dancing Foot Yoga in 2002. While her primary teachers are the staff at Dancing Foot, she has also studied with several top teachers in the Iyengar and Anusara traditions. Laury is an avid cyclist who likes to ride one hundred miles or more in a single day. She credits her yoga practice with helping her to find joy and happiness even while struggling up a long hill on her bike. Her fellow students continually inspire her to deepen her teaching skills and her own practice.
More teaching staff bios to come for:	Dina Crosta, Lisa Perry
Some of our guest yoga teachers have included:	Mitchel Bleier Kofi Busia John Friend Susan “Lip” Orem Swami Shantimurti Saraswati Sianna Sherman Gopali Vaccarelli Rodney Yee
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	The name Dancing Foot Yoga comes from the Shiva Nataraj, a famous image that commemorates the Lord Shiva’s dance of creation and being. The Nataraj, or Lord of the Dance, symbolizes the power within each person and the energy that dances within all of us. The cosmic dancer’s left foot, the Dancing Foot, is lifted in celebration gesturing to all to come and find the joy within.

Dancing Foot Yoga, 10 Broad St. 3rd Floor, Red Bank NJ 07701

Robin Candrea & Emily Dubin, Co-Directors

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