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Thursday 05/08/2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Friday 05/09/2025 7:30 am - 8:30 am
Friday 05/09/2025 4:30 pm - 5:15 pm
Saturday 05/10/2025 8:30 am - 9:30 am
Sunday 05/11/2025 8:45 am - 10:00 am
Monday 05/12/2025 8:45 am - 9:45 am
Tuesday 05/13/2025 10:30 am - 11:45 am
Wednesday 05/14/2025 9:00 am - 10:15 am
Thursday 05/15/2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Friday 05/16/2025 7:30 am - 8:30 am
Friday 05/16/2025 4:30 pm - 5:15 pm
Saturday 05/17/2025 8:30 am - 9:30 am
Sunday 05/18/2025 8:45 am - 10:00 am
Monday 05/19/2025 8:45 am - 9:45 am
Tuesday 05/20/2025 10:30 am - 11:45 am
Wednesday 05/21/2025 9:00 am - 10:15 am
Thursday 05/22/2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Friday 05/23/2025 7:30 am - 8:30 am
Friday 05/23/2025 4:30 pm - 5:15 pm
Saturday 05/24/2025 8:30 am - 9:30 am
Sunday 05/25/2025 8:45 am - 10:00 am
Monday 05/26/2025 8:45 am - 9:45 am
Tuesday 05/27/2025 10:30 am - 11:45 am
Wednesday 05/28/2025 9:00 am - 10:15 am
Thursday 05/29/2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Friday 05/30/2025 7:30 am - 8:30 am
Friday 05/30/2025 4:30 pm - 5:15 pm
Saturday 05/31/2025 8:30 am - 9:30 am
Sunday 06/01/2025 8:45 am - 10:00 am
Monday 06/02/2025 8:45 am - 9:45 am
Tuesday 06/03/2025 10:30 am - 11:45 am
Wednesday 06/04/2025 9:00 am - 10:15 am
Thursday 06/05/2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Friday 06/06/2025 7:30 am - 8:30 am
Friday 06/06/2025 4:30 pm - 5:15 pm
Saturday 06/07/2025 8:30 am - 9:30 am
Sunday 06/08/2025 8:45 am - 10:00 am
Monday 06/09/2025 8:45 am - 9:45 am
Tuesday 06/10/2025 10:30 am - 11:45 am
Wednesday 06/11/2025 9:00 am - 10:15 am
Thursday 06/12/2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Friday 06/13/2025 7:30 am - 8:30 am
Friday 06/13/2025 4:30 pm - 5:15 pm
Saturday 06/14/2025 8:30 am - 9:30 am
Sunday 06/15/2025 8:45 am - 10:00 am
Monday 06/16/2025 8:45 am - 9:45 am
Tuesday 06/17/2025 10:30 am - 11:45 am
Wednesday 06/18/2025 9:00 am - 10:15 am
Thursday 06/19/2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Friday 06/20/2025 7:30 am - 8:30 am
Friday 06/20/2025 4:30 pm - 5:15 pm
Saturday 06/21/2025 8:30 am - 9:30 am
Sunday 06/22/2025 8:45 am - 10:00 am
Building on the foundation of Level 1 classes, Yoga Level 1-2 includes more postures for the advanced beginner and some preparations for a Level 2 practice. Level 1-2 classes typically emphasize building strength and endurance in postures, refining alignment, and working with more challenging variations on basic postures. Level 1-2 is designed for continuing students who have taken Level 1 classes and who are familiar with basic standing and seated poses. Level 1-2 is not intended for students who are new to yoga.
Wendy McGrath
Wendy is a Yoga Alliance RYT (Registered Yoga Teacher) and former ACE (American Council on Exercise) certified fitness instructor with a background in dance. She has practiced yoga regularly since 1994, starting with the Kripalu and Bikram styles in Burlington, VT. She began practicing Ashtanga in 1999, when she moved to Washington, DC. Wendy apprenticed with David Ingalls and began teaching at the Ashtanga Yoga Center in 2011. She completed her 200-hour teacher training at Circle Yoga Cooperative in 2019. Wendy is also a certified HeartMath Trainer and a certified Positive Psychologist Coach. She lives with her husband, two teenage children, and two dogs and loves to walk, meditate, practice yoga, and spend time with friends. She is thrilled to be able to share the gifts yoga with others as the practice has been transformative and remains a continuing revelation for her.
Rachel Henry
Rachel's yoga journey began in 2005. What started as a means to “work out” very quickly evolved into a place of deep reconnection with the self. The process of integrating mind, body and breath opened a new world for Rachel. A world with more self compassion, self awareness, clarity, serenity and empowerment. Rachel graduated from RYT 200 program at Blue Heron Wellness in 2013. Her classes are light-hearted and lively and also offer an opportunity to dig deep into the potential of your postures and personal practice. You'll peel away the layers to re-connect with your natural, unique gifts and let your inner light shine. You can expect attention to alignment to help fine-tune your asanas, as well as a sweet flow. Rachel is continuously inspired by her three playful, young children and supportive husband. She is deeply grateful for her teachers, who bring inspiration to her practice and her teaching offerings.
Lisa Ferrugia Atkinson
After 35 years of dance training and practice, Lisa found her way to yoga during the early months of the pandemic. In those first days of practice, she discovered her yoga mat as a safe haven and refuge that not only offered a way to explore a new arena of physical practice, but also brought quietude and strength to a season of external chaos. In 2023, Lisa completed the year-long yoga teacher training program at Circle Yoga and became certified to teach through Yoga Alliance. Her classes are informed by a dancer’s sensibility toward movement and flow, an ongoing curiosity about how bodies work, and a delight in the gift of sharing space with others. She works to create multi-layered practices that offer entry-points for many types of students, and to foster a community environment that is supportive, collaborative, and a little playful.
Lisa holds a BA in creative writing from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA in dance from The Ohio State University. Her professional background includes five years as a company dancer for Laboratory Company Dance (LABCO) in Pittsburgh, PA, and three years teaching in the dance program at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, MI. She shares life with her husband and two daughters in a semi-urban neighborhood, surrounded by an aspiring native-plant garden, an urban zoo of wild rabbits, carpenter bees and mockingbirds, and a gaggle of neighborhood children climbing her crepe myrtle tree.

Anjali Chaturvedi
Anjali started practicing yoga twenty-something years ago as a way to loosen up her legs after her long
runs. But yoga soon expanded in her life as she saw how yoga connected body, mind, and spirit. Anjali’s
curiosity led her to seek her 200-hour RYT certification in 2018, followed by a leadership coaching
program that convinced her that connection to our hearts is critical to reaching our potential. In 2020,
during the pandemic, Anjali continued her yoga studies and became a 500-hour RYT
certified yoga teacher.
Anjali believes that yoga allows us to set an intention, offers us the ability to balance effort and ease,
and graces us with the chance to start over with every breath. Yoga also gives us a rich
opportunity to dive into the history, philosophy and knowledge of this beautiful practice.
Johanna D. Derlega
Johanna has been practicing yoga since 2011. She gravitated to Circle Yoga soon after moving to the neighborhood, and it has become one of her favorite places to find ease and community. Over the years she has taken innumerable classes, worked the front desk and served on the board. Since completing her 200-hour certification through the Circle Yoga Teaching Training in 2017, she’s incorporated yoga philosophy and practice into her work as a leadership coach and consultant. In her classes, she focuses on breathwork and alignment and encourages students to create space and perspective. She believes that curiosity is powerful, that challenges make us stronger and that the practice of learning and incorporating creates confidence. She believes in the journey. She is on the path and invites you to join her!
Krista Mason
Krista discovered yoga many years ago as a mother of two young children, and she is forever grateful for that discovery. She loves the beauty and joy found on the yoga mat and the peace that continues on and spills over into daily life. Through shifts, moves, job and life changes, her love for yoga stuck with her.
In addition to being a certified yoga instructor, Krista is also a certified personal trainer through the American Council on Exercise and enjoys how the marriage of the two of those disciplines informs her practice and teaching style. She teaches an alignment-based Vinyasa style class, a slower, steadier Hatha class with a bit of flow-inspiration, a Yin class where she asks everyone to slow down a lot, and strength classes that ask students to stay mindful in their practice while working hard. She is frequently heard telling her students to listen to their own bodies and to find gratitude for their strong bodies.
Krista teaches a joy-filled class and is always happy when her students leave a little more peaceful and relaxed than when they came in.....even in her Strength classes. On the weekends you may find Krista going on bike rides, hikes, or cross-country skiing with her just about grown kids. Krista received her RYT-200 through Sky House Yoga and is so grateful for her teachers and all she has learned through them.

Anne Kennedy
More than 18 years ago, Anne called her mom to report that she was leaving her desk job to train as a yoga teacher. There was dead silence and a lot of worry on the other end. Today, Anne has a job that she never could have dreamed up. As the Executive Director at Circle Yoga Cooperative, she gets to spend her work hours at a mission-driven, cooperative business, where she is barefoot most of the time. She loves working side by side with a such a talented and committed group of teachers and staff. After a 5-year break from teaching weekly classes at the studio, Anne is back on Tuesday mornings at 10:30am.
Leyla Kenny
Leyla is extremely grateful to her students and teachers. After spending a year-long residency at the Kripalu Center in Lenox, Massachusetts, Leyla became a Kripalu certified yoga instructor in 1998. A life-long learner, Leyla continues her yoga training by learning about anatomy, yoga for aging bodies, and yoga philosophy. She is also a certified Qigong Teacher. Leyla has been teaching at Circle Yoga since 2010 and is currently serving on the CYC Board.
She has been fortunate to teach at a variety of locations including Glen Echo Park, Whitman Walker Clinic, Catholic University, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Supreme Court. In 2002, she co-founded Capitol Hill Yoga and remained co-owner until 2008. In addition to teaching yoga, Leyla is a professor of social work at Catholic University, a mindfulness instructor at Sibley Hospital, and a psychotherapist.
What to expect in Leyla's class
With compassion and clarity, Leyla creates a safe space for beginners and experienced students alike to connect with their breath and bodies. Each class will have instruction on breath, alignment cues for safe poses, and end with a guided sivasana/relaxation. She choreographs her classes to progressively open and strengthen the body with plenty of "warm up" movements to ease the body into yoga poses. Since yoga is a practice for all bodies, abilities, and ages, Leyla provides modifications to ensure everybody feels comfortable.

Sumana Brahman
Sumana Brahman is originally from Chennai, India, and grew up in Guyana, South America. She has returned to the US after spending 10 years in Jakarta, Indonesia, where she practiced and taught yoga, while pursuing her career in public health programming. Her teaching style focuses on enhancing mind-body awareness in the pose and correct alignment, while increasing the student’s strength, flexibility and stamina. For her, the path of yoga is a deeply spiritual journey, and she is very grateful to her teachers, in particular, Swami Rudra Dev, who inspire her personal practice and teaching style. Sumana also holds Masters degrees in International and Development Education and in Public Health, and works in the field of international health and development.
Elise Pierre
Elise Pierre is a musician and yoga teacher who has adopted a holistic approach to treating an
autoimmune disease that developed following endometriosis cancer. Her practice integrates
sound, holistic breath-work, movement, and mindfulness to create energy-liberating experiences.
She is particularly dedicated to Sound Bath and Yoga Nidra practices.
Elise enjoys working in her vegetable garden and drawing with her two daughters. She is
passionate about hiking in the beautiful Shenandoah Mountains and swimming in the
Mediterranean.