Teachers
Leslee Hartwell
Leslee Hartwell, founded Well Heart Yoga and Casco Bay Yoga Teacher Training School. She has been the catalyst for the annual Yoga Teacher’s Retreat Weekends, bringing a sense of community and support by Yoga Teachers for Yoga Teachers. She has led many retreats from Yurt Yoga excursions, Yoga on the Beach, Mountain climbing tours and other fun Yoga field trips in New England, Ireland and Spain. A student of Yoga for over 12 years she has curiously tried many styles of yoga including Vinyasa, Restorative, Iyengar, Kripalu, Ansura, Astanga and Kundalini she accepts all traditions and honors all fellow teachers in their quest for sharing. Leslee’s own teaching journey has evolved to embrace the many traditions of Hatha (physical) Yoga with the goal of maintaining physical and spiritual health. Since 2006, when graduating from a residential school, she has taught in earnest; meditation, women’s weight-loss circles, Ayurveda health care, 12 step Yoga Recovery, Astanga, Iyengar, Children’s Yoga, Yoga Dance and Yogilates.
“The goal of the Teacher is to free the Student of the Teacher.”- Zen proverb
Suzanne Silvermoon
Suzanne Silvermoon is a Holistic Nurse, Yoga Therapy Practitioner, and Certified Yoga Instructor, who draws from 30 years of personal study and yoga practice in a wide variety of styles. The gift she brings to her teaching is a broad understanding of the multidimensional aspects of the human experience and a deep respect for yoga’s healing and centering effects. Her teaching style is warm and engaging, as she encourages her students to find their bliss while practicing within their safe “sage edge”. Suzanne continues to deepen her awareness and skills in therapeutic yoga and tantric healing practices as she is enrolled in a 1,000 hour apprenticeship program with Kim Valeri of Yoga Spirit Studios. She is currently teaching community classes at The Blue Pearl Yoga Studio in Lovell, Maine, and seeing private clients at The Wellness Center in Bridgton, Maine. You can also listen to Suzanne’s monthly Yoga Wisdom segment on Blog Talk HeartGlow Living Radio. FMI Visit:www.indigolotusyoga.com
Hugh Tims
Hugh Tims is a 30 year old Yoga Instructor from Cornish Maine with a passion for Tai Chi. He has been doing yoga since he was 18 and was certified in Lewiston, Maine. He has been doing Tai Chi since he was 23. He believes in unifying internal and external life energy to bind mind, spirit, and body together in peaceful harmony.
RAJI
I am a total lovergirl of life and am so thrilled to share my passions…which I make my life’s work, with YOU. I draw on the joy of my own daily sadhana (personal practice) to inspire and uplift others in my teaching. My sadhana consists of my favorite things, Kundalini Yoga, dancing, hiking, and barefoot running through the mountains. I choose to use my spiritual name, RAJI, as much as possible as a constant reminder; this name means, ‘princess, lioness of God, who dwells in a divine state of conciousness and uplifts others with kindess and compassion…YES!!
I am blessed to teach Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan, JourneyDance, am a professional numerologist, and the lucky mother of Finn, age 8, who inspires me (and chellenges me) to keep it real and keep it now. I look forward to meeting you and sharing what is most alive and present in that moment!
If you can’t see God in all…you can’t see God at all ~Yogi Bhajan
Tasha Brodeur
Tasha’s passion for yoga led her to the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health where she received her 200 hour yoga teacher training in March of 2010. Tasha has had the pleasure of studying under Priti Robyn Ross, Sudha Carolyn Lundeen, Devarshi Steven Hartmann and Grace Jull. She serves on the advisory board for Farm Wellness Retreats and owns a small, organic farm in Parsonsfield, Maine. Her primary influences are Baptiste, Anusara, and Kripalu Yoga. She strongly believes in guiding students in finding their own yoga, in hopes that this will lead them to the discovery of their true selves.
Susannah Sanfilippo
Kirtan is part of the path of yoga called Bhakti, or devotion. Singing is the heart of kirtan (call & response chanting) and it doesn’t matter what you sound like; part of the practice is to cultivate non-judgment toward self and others. During our time together we learn Sanskrit chants and sing to the many names and aspects of god. Although it comes out of the Hindu tradition, this practice is not religious, but is a celebration of the world and an expression of gratitude.
As meditative music, we link our voices and breath with sound and silence, merging with the bigger conciousness of beloved divine energy. 
Kirtan is a beautiful, powerful, renewing, transformative means of finding our heart and to our connection with Life. Unfold with us in co-creating a vocal journey with melody and rhythm. No previous experience is needed. Susannah (harmonium and vocals) and Francesco (drums and vocals) Sanfilippo lead accoustic kirtan throughout New England. http://kirtanandyoga.com/