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Our instructor have years of experience in different yoga traditions. 
They come with varied backgrounds that make for inspiring classes. 

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Leslie Beckett
Leslie has been practicing yoga for over 25 years.  She began teaching Svaroopa® style yoga in 2004 and was registered with Yoga Alliance in 2006 at the RYT 500 level.  Additional certifications include Embodyment® yoga therapy, Kripalu® YogaDance™, Relki, therapeutic massage, Touch-for-Health® and Tae Kwon Do.  Her studies inform her precise and compassionate yoga instruction.  Students consistently find her classes deeply effective  and relaxing.


Linda Vrooman
After studing Tai Chi Chuan for 20 years and Tensegrity for five years, LInda found yoga to be a more holistic movement tradition. She brings 16 years of physical therapy experience into her classes, emphasizing therapeutic benefits of yoga. She is an Anusara-inspired teacher, bringing grace and humor to her teaching. She graduated in 2005 from the teacher training program at Willow Street Yoga Center in Washington, DC., the largest Anusara center in the country.

Bill Shearer
Bill Shearer combines a professional expertise in yoga, sports psychology,      psychology, campus ministry, and counseling with a love of the great                outdoors. His yoga classes are gentle to moderate in style and emphasize       posture/body alignment, breath, patient stretching as well as strengthening     of muscles, deep relaxation, range of motion, and wholeness of body,              mind, spirit, and breath.  He carefully listens to and encourages students          young and old, beginners and advanced, to learn, grow, and transform  their   lives. Bill's eclectic Hatha Yoga style blends Kripalu, Iyengar, and Integrative      Yoga .
                                                                                                                               


Marie Wagner Marie (Weese) Wagner began teaching in the fitness industry over 25 years ago. Belief in the amazing healing and health benefits of vinyasa yoga led her to devote her time and efforts to the practice and study of vinyasa yoga. She has completed teacher training programs with world renowned master teachers Baron Baptiste, Beryl Bender Birch, Rodney Yee and Shiva Rae.


Esther D'Antonio
Esther has been practicing Tai Chi for 12 years
and teaching for 8 years.  She teaches the Yang style
of Tai Chi and brings a light meditative quality to her classes.

In addition to teaching at the Hockession PAI,
she instructs seniors at Cokesbury Village.  She
volunteers at the Newark Senior Center and the
LPGA.  She is a retired floral designer who loves
 to play golf.