Bridge To Learning Staff
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Vasanthi Srinivasan, Director of Bridge to Learning Yoga and Fitness Programs, is a certified Radiant Child Yoga teacher with a Bachelors Degree in Special Education and a Masters of Education in Early Childhood Education.
She has worked with children at various grade levels and abilities, in both public and private schools, as an elementary classroom teacher, Learning Disabilities Specialist, Emotional Support Teacher, Life Skills Support Teacher, Early Childhood Educator, and Gifted & Talented Teacher.
Olena is a Certified Yoga teacher. In 2004, Olena completed a Yoga Alliance approved Anusara teacher training program (200 hr) at Health Advantage Yoga Center in VA. In the fall of 2004, she went on a month long trip to India immersing herself in the culture that gave birth to yoga, and taking daily yoga classes at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute under the tutelage of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. She also studied with Andrey Lappa of Ukraine, the founder of Universal style of yoga, on her trips back to her home country, and continues taking yoga classes with her main teacher Doug Keller. Olena is a delicate and well-poised yoga teacher. Her students say that Olena's teaching is non-intrusive, yet instructional, and her demonstration of yoga postures gives them something to strive for. Olena believes in helping her students progress at their own pace honoring where they are in their practice. Olena views yoga both as an art form and as a science. Although she does not approach a yoga class as a workout, she refers to it as a journey on the mat that never repeats itself and takes you places you've never been before. Let your journey begin!
Guru Simran ... (more to come)