Our Teachers
We ❤️ Our Team
Our teachers are the heart of every class. Each brings unique insight and experience to the classical Hatha yoga style. They skillfully guide and support all students—and have fun while doing it. Come join us!
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Kacper and Kris are Co-Founders of Center Yoga.
Kacper is a 500+ hr TT & has been teaching yoga for 10+ years. He is also a Licensed Massage Therapist who has dedicated his life to the study of yoga and the body in order to bring physical and emotional healing.
Kris is a 200+ hr TT and an artist. She brings yoga to others so that they can find relief of the body, mind and spirit.
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Yoshio Hama started practicing yoga in Caracas, Venezuela. From 1998 and 2008 he had the opportunity to study Vinyasa Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga, Rocket Yoga and Iyengar Yoga under the guidance of Mariangel Romero and many other great teachers.
In 2006 he got a Rocket yoga certification in Venezuela and in 2008 he came to New York with the intention of practicing and studying all styles of yoga. The first studio he visited was the Dharma Yoga New York Center, and the same day he took his first class with Sri Dharma Mittra. That day he found his Guru. He is a 200, 500, 800 & 1000 Hour Dharma Yoga Certified.
He has been teaching Yoga in many countries and working as a mentor for Teacher Trainings and yoga programs.
For him, to teach Yoga means to transmit the message of Yamas and Niyamas as the foundation of the practice. Companion, collective conscious and offering the practice to the supreme Self that is everywhere.
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Shane is a 500+ hour registered yoga teacher (Science of Self, Daya Yoga) with a focus in meridian therapy, as well as an acupuncture detoxification specialist (NYHRE). Additionally, Shane is enrolled in an AASECT recognized Sexual Consulting program at the Sexual Health Alliance, in tandem with his studies at Hunter College as a Human Biology major. Shane's intention is to listen. Cultivating an ethos of body positivity, with upbeat, challenging class offerings for every level. You’ll leave class with a smile.
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Jermaine is a Yoga teacher with a warm, friendly demeanor teaching awareness through posture sequences. His intention is to keep an open space available for students to recognize their movement, emotions, and identities through the quality of the breath. This genuine approach to liberate human beings from inner suffering uses Eastern and Western medicinal principles for healing.
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Liza has been practicing and studying yoga for almost 10 years, and has been teaching classes for nearly 5. She began practicing as a way to ease anxiety, stress, and discomfort in the physical body, but over time she connected to it more deeply as a way to transcend limitations and discover mental and spiritual health and freedom. She is passionate about helping people connect to deeper levels of themselves, and ultimately to the true self, which is the life-long practice that is yoga.
Liza’s classes utilize pranayama, meditation, and mindfulness to amplify and compliment the asana, or physical practice. Her classes, like Liza, contain a lot of fire and strength, but they are also nourished by water, the more feminine, yin energy that we all need. Liza helps her students feel good in their bodies, by offering plenty of alignment cues and variations. She loves to constantly change and explore new ideas, both in the yoga practice, and in life.
Trainings and certificates:
200 hour Yoga Alliance Certification: Open Doors Yoga, Weymouth, MA, 2016
50 Hour Acupressure Meridian Therapy Yoga Training: Science of Self, NY, NY 2019
50 Hour Yin Yoga: BeWell with Alana Kessler, NY, NY 2019
Thai Yoga Level 1: Erhard Rohrmuller, Hawaii, Hawaii, 2021
Advanced Yoga Teacher Certification: Science of Self, NY, NY 2021
Liza has completed over 500 hours in training, over four years experience teaching, and has expertise teaching Hatha, Vinyasa, Power, and Yin yoga.
