Joe Adlesic is a certified Iyengar yoga teacher and has been to India to study at the Iyengar Yoga Institute. He has studied with John Schumacher and other senior Iyengar teachers from the U.S. and abroad since 1982. He is the director of Blue Ridge Yoga and a member of the Unity Woods Yoga Center teaching staff in Washington, D.C. Joe has a B.A. in Psychology and has done graduate training in health education.
Since 1984 Mary Bridle, R.Y.T., has studied yoga with Betsy Downing, Sandra Pleasants, Joe Adlesic, and with senior Iyengar teachers on an ongoing basis. Over the years yoga has become more and more important in her life. The curative tradition in Iyengar yoga particularly interests Mary, as she is an occupational therapist. Over the years she has worked with people with a wide variety of conditions, both physical and psychiatric, acute and chronic. Yoga was an important part of her own recovery from cancer and helps her maintain her health and strength. Mary enjoys teaching the Gentle Yoga class at Blue Ridge Yoga and delights in seeing her students develop new skills and discover new aspects of themselves. She takes much pleasure in sharing the magic of yoga with others.
Shaaron Honeycutt, R.Y.T.* is a certified Iyengar yoga instructor and studied in India at the Iyengar Yoga Institute during January of 2009. She is currently apprenticing with senior Iyengar teacher John Schumacher in Bethesda, MD, and has attended numerous workshops with senior Iyengar teachers from across the country and abroad. She has also studied Iyengar Yoga intensively with Sandra Pleasants since 1998. She teaches a special Parkinson’s class at the Charlottesville Senior Center. Shaaron’s dynamic and methodical style offers compassionate challenge with humor, while encouraging students to move beyond perceived limitations and open to their own inherent greatness.
Sandra Pleasants, E.R.Y.T.*, is certified at the Junior Intermediate Level III in the National Iyengar Association. Her Registered Yoga Teacher certification by the Yoga Alliance indicates completion of at least 500 hours of yoga teacher training. In addition, she has completed a two-year, 700-hour certification program with the Yoga Research and Education Center founded by Georg Feuerstein. Sandra has studied at the Iyengar Institute in Pune, India, and attended four national Iyengar conventions, at which either B.K.S. Iyengar or his daughter Geeta gave instruction. Her primary teachers are Patricia Walden and Gabriella Giubilaro of Florence, Italy, who she had the privilege of assisting for several summers in Minsk, Bylarus. Sandra’s life experiences as a mother of five and grandmother of seven give her an accessibility that allows students to feel simultaneously challenged and supported. Her down-to-earth teaching style is precise, dynamic, and laced with humor.
Tricia Emlet has studied Iyengar yoga since 1980. She has studied locally with Sandra Pleasants and Joe Adlesic and attended numerous workshops with senior Iyengar teachers from around the country.
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Nazli P. Weiss, R.Y.T*, who originally hails from India, has studied Iyengar yoga since 1996. She has studied with many senior Iyengar teachers, including Patricia Walden, Lois Steinberg and Laurie Blakeney. She continues to study regularly with John Schumacher, Anne Wuchiett, and Joe Adlesic at Unity Woods Yoga Center. Nazli has a Master’s degree in English Literature, and has trained as a classical Indian dancer. Enlivening her teaching with yoga philosophy, Nazli emphasizes the centering, balancing and healing aspects of Iyengar yoga.
*R.Y.T. Registered Yoga Teacher is certification by the Yoga Alliance of completion of at least 200 hours of yoga teacher training.
