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Teachers
• Sarah Perron, co-founder
• Laura Staton, co-founder
• Naghmeh Ahi
• Anneke Faas
• Rachel Lynch-John
• Marisa Sullivan
• Ede Thurrell
• Debra Wolk
Sarah Perron
Sarah Perron, co-founder of Baby Om, is a yoga teacher, dancer and mother. Along with Laura Staton, Sarah began Baby Om after the birth of her first child in 1999. As a devoted yoga follower, her yoga practice extended through her 40th week of pregnancy and resumed within 4 weeks of her baby's birth. Her daughter, Rosey, inspired Sarah's extension into the exploration of mother and baby yoga through Baby Om.
Sarah began her yoga studies as a child, sharing her practice with her own mother for eight years until, at age 16, she discovered modern dance. As a professional dancer, she has performed with several renowned companies including Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project, David Gordon Pick-Up Group, Tere O'Conner Dance and with Laura Staton, Lucy Guerin and Mark Dendy. She has toured worldwide as a performer and teacher, and had her original choreography commissioned in Europe as well as the United States. She is currently the editor/mentor for Tere O'Connor Dance Company.
Sarah completed her teacher training with Joni Yelsnichek in 1994. Recently she earned a certificate in prenatal and postpartum fitness through DTP (Dance Thru Pregnancy) at Yale University. She also has completed a teacher training in Yoga for Women with Jeanne-Marie Derrick.
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Laura Staton
Laura Staton, co-founder of Baby Om, is a choreographer, performer and yoga teacher. Along with Sarah Perron, Laura began Baby Om after the birth of her first son in 1999 and continued to develop the Baby Om techniques throughout the pregnancy and birth of her second son in 2001.
She began studying yoga as a teenager and continued her studies at Jivamukti in 1991. Her teaching style and practice are influenced by the specificity of lyengar yoga in addition to such movement influences as Pilates and the Klein Technique. Laura completed her teacher's training with Yoga Union in New York City and has recently completed a teacher training with Jeanne-Marie Derrick, an lyengar specialist in women's health issues. She is also a member of the New York Yoga Teachers Association.
Laura has taught yoga in New York City at The Printing House, Yoga Union and privately. Currently she teaches Baby Om in various locations throughout Brooklyn and New York City including Yoga People and The Shala. She has also had over a decade's experience in personal fitness training and worked with Susanna Weiss Personal Fitness from 1993-1999, however her primary inspiration continues to be found in teaching and her personal yoga practice.
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Naghmeh Ahi
Bio to follow soon
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Anneke Faas
Anneke Faas is a Registered Yoga Teacher and currently trains at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of New York. Originally from Colorado, Anneka studied anthropology and dance, which she integrates in to her teaching style to make yoga asanas both accessible and inspiring. Anneka started teaching prenatal yoga in Denver, where she trained with Leslie Bradley, who is a leading yoga teacher in women's health issues. Anneka completed the Baby Om teacher training in April 2004 and has been teaching with Mommies and Babies since then.
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Rachel Lynch-John
Rachel Lynch-John is a dancer, shiatsu practitioner, yoga instructor and teacher. She has worked with pre-schoolers through to adults, teaching modern dance, creative movement, structured playgroup and adult yoga. She moved to New York in 1989 to study at the Merce Cunningham School, and shortly after began teaching dance technique at the Cunningham studio. Having worked with children alongside her mother, who ran a pre-school, Rachel continued to be interested in working with young people.
In 1992 she began working as a caregiver/ nanny in addition to teaching structured playgroups and creative movement for pre-schoolers at Families First in Brooklyn. In 1994-1996 she opened her own structured playgroup, Home from Home, with some of her original young charges. She also began teaching yoga to adults, privately and in small groups at various venues in New York. Since 1989 she has danced with choreographer Keely Garfield with whom she received a Bessie performance award and has studied yoga with Genevieve Kapular since 1992. Presently, Rachel teaches adult yoga and Baby Om at Artscetera as well as providing child care/nanny, dancing and practicing shiatsu in New York.
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Marisa Sullivan
Bio to follow soon
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Ede Thurrell
Ede Thurrell has practiced yoga for 15 years, including both an Iyengar-based therapeutic approach, and vigorous Vinyasa styles. She brings to her teaching a sensitivity honed as a professional dancer — member of Stanley Love Performance Group and Bopi's Black Sheep Dances by Kraig Patterson. Ede is also a certified personal trainer, with experience working with osteoporosis, pre and post-natal populations, and people of all ages and body types.
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Debra Wolk
Bio to follow soon
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