Cattitude - Yoga studio in Bar Harbor, Maine

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Cattitude Teachers - Mary Cline
Heather Murray
Laura Neal
David Walker
Jen Munyer
Lyn Gatz
Siri Temple
Deirdre Swords
Sivadas

David Walker - David Walker continues into his 19th year of Teaching a heart-centered Yoga class that incorporates a strongly alignment-based training in the Iyengar and Anusara traditions, and draws from a life- time love of Yoga that began in 1973 when he took his first class and followed in his brother's footsteps. David's love of Astanga Yoga, Mantra Yoga, Buddhism, partner Yoga, inversions, and his experience as a full-time Yoga teacher and trained Yoga Therapist all contribute to a class designed to inspire and awaken students physically and spiritually.

David has led Yoga Retreats in Mexico and Costa Rica, conducted many weekend retreats and taught hundreds of students on the coast of Maine since 1988. He is founder of the Blue Hill Center for Yoga and can be reached there at 374-2004.

Deirdre Swords - Deirdre Swords was inspired to begin her yoga practice by seeing yoga transform her mother spiritually, physically and emotionally. She has kept up her practice for 13 years and became a certified yoga teacher in 2000 after finishing a month long intensive teacher training course through the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center. Deirdre taught for 2 years and took time off to run Havana Restaurant which she still co-owns with her husband. However the biggest change in her life has been the birth of her daughter Zoe, in 2006. Deirdre truly feels having Yoga in one's life helps to harmonize, purify and strengthen one's body, mind, and spirit, which allows for inner peace.

Heather Murray - Heather Murray first came to yoga as a young child trying to imitate her grandmother as she watched her practice. After years of rock climbing, she was drawn back to yoga as a means to balance her body and find a greater level of flexibility. With a background of study in Iyengar, Ashtanga and Vinyasa Flow, Heather most recently studied with
Seane Corn at a teacher training at Kripalu and has been apprenticing with and assisting Jennifer Munyer at Cattitude. Off the mat, she is a jeweler and a part time rock climbing guide for her husband's business, Atlantic Climbing School. An alumni of College of the Atlantic, Heather lives in Bar Harbor with her husband Jeff and cat Rascal.

Jennifer Munyer - "Peace is an inward evolution of consciousness manifested externally." Freestyle vinyasa flow yoga is a beautiful practice that has the potential to guide its practitioner into deeper understandings of "Self" and the divine connection that self has to everything in the material world. Jen comes to Cattitude from Gainesville, Florida where her pratice of yoga began. Her pratice has been inspired by several amazing teacers she has had the privledge of working with at both the studio she owned in Florida, Silver Lotus, and here at Cattitude. More recently, she has looked to Seane Corn and Schuyler from The Kula Project in NYC to assist her in deepening her understanding of moving meditation and manifesting intention through vinyasa flow. Her love of anatomy and alignment is expanding with the guidance of Laura Neal, the Iyengar trained owner of Cattitude, and with the inspiration of Anusara Yoga. Jen has had the privledge of experiencing Anusara through amazing classes lead by Lena Koob-Emunds and has had the opportunity to work with John Friend and Deserie Rumbaugh at yoga conferences.

Applying the wisdom of yoga off the mat into her daily life, Jen offers other avenues of realizing the Self through mindful, intuitive massage, utilizing connective/deep tissue, swedish and energetic techniques. Taking teaching off the mat and into academia, Jen has lead group and independent studies at College of the Atlantic and in January 2007 will be teaching Applied Yoga Philosophy at the same academic institution.

Laura Neal - Laura Neal is a Mindfulness Yoga teacher and the owner of Cattitude. Completely unaware of the life transforming path yoga would lead her to travel, Laura took her first class from Roseanna Rich in 1997 to recover from the effects of back surgery. She is now exploring the integration of yoga postures (asana) with mindfulness meditation (vipassana) through study with Frank Jude Boccio.

Laura is particularly interested in helping beginners discover the physical and mental benefits that yoga can bring to their lives. In addition to teaching classes at Yoga at Cattitude in Bar Harbor, she offers personal training at Fitness at Cattitude in Northeast Harbor. She is also certified in Thai Yoga Massage through the Lotus Palm School in Montreal.

Laura lives in Bar Harbor with her awesome husband and Vice-President of Cattitude, Kyle Duckworth. And she really, really likes cats.

Lyn Gatz - Lyn has been teaching yoga since 1999 when she became certified in Hatha Yoga at the Shambhava School of Yoga in Colorado. She has completed Levels I and II of training at Shoshoni. She feels blessed to have worked with a variety of instructors and you will find their influence in each of her classes. Yoga has been such a gift in her
life and she is grateful to be able to offer it to others.

In addition to her Vinyasa Flow class at Cattitude, Lyn offers yoga to students at Mount Desert Island High School where she also teaches Spanish. She resides in Bar Harbor with her husband and beautiful baby boy.

"Yoga is wonderful for strengthening our bodies, fortifying our immune systems, and building our capacity to deal with daily stress. It goes beyond the physical practice; it opens our hearts and our minds."

Mary Cline - Mary Cline believes that Yoga has brought more physical and spiritual blessings to her life than she could have imagined. She views teaching as an honor and a way to give back in a small way the abundance she has received. Her classes combine Iyengar-style attention to detail with a gentle, flowing style to awaken the grace and gracefulness in her students. Mindfulness and spirituality combined with the healing power of music and sound are important components of each class. Mary enjoys working with beginners of all ages.

Mary studies Iyengar style yoga with Laura Neal, Kundalini Yoga with Siri Temple and Flow Style Yoga with Jen Munyer. She has been a student of Roseanna Rich. Mary completed her 200 hour Iyengar style teacher training with Kim Valeri and Tammy Begin-Leblanc at YOGAspirit Studios and is a Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance.

Mary lives in Bar Harbor with her husband Peter, sons Jeremy, Ben, and Jason and 2 dogs and 2 cats. She practices mediation and family law in the Hancock County area.

Siri Temple - Siri Prakash Kaur Temple (affectionately known by her students as Siri) is a Kundalini Yoga and Meditation teacher, a mom to two awesome kids, a devoted wife, and director of Lotus Living Arts, an Ayurvedic Complementary Health Clinic in Town Hill. She credits any happiness and success in her life to a loving family and to following the path of Yoga - and continuing to return to the path even when she falls off the "Yoga Wagon"! Siri thanks the Siri Singh Sahib Yogi Bhajan and Maharaj-ji Neem Karoli Baba for being such great guiding lights on the path to peace.

Sivadas - Franck Duriez (Sivadas) started his journey in a gentle yoga class in Paris, France, then moved to the west where he practiced many different styles of yoga: Ashtanga, Iyengar, Vinyasa...
He graduated from the Sivananda ashram yoga farm in june 2006 and then traveled to India living in different communes, gathering experiences and a fundamental knowledge of advaita vedanta: Atman being the self and Brahman meaning the "all soul" or the universal consciousness. The Vedas speak of the mystical union as the realization that Atman is Brahman.
Siva has also studied Ayurvedic yoga massage from the creator Kusum Modac .