Our Staff
Vasanthi
Vasanthi , 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.As a mother of three children, Vasanthi strongly believes parents need to set examples and provide children with the tools to succeed at early age will set them on the right path to a healthy future physically, socially, and emotionally. Her passion for teaching, and the need for educating children on how to develop healthy nutrition and exercise habits, and her love for yoga and fitness helped form Bridge to Learning.
Vasanthi currently holds EYT-200 & RYT-200 hours through the Yoga Alliance.
Vasanthi was formally trained under Neel Kulkarni (R.Y.T. at Grandparenting Level), under the classical training of the Authentic Yoga School.
Vasanthi recently completed the Dharma Mittra's Life of a Yogi 200 hour training in October and teaches in the style of the Dharma lineage.
Raymonde
Raymonde’s experience with yoga began at the Sivanada Ashram in the early 70’s.
Swami Vishnu Devananda, Sivananda’s leader, modeled a yoga-way of perseverance and spirit.
Today, Sivananda and a rich array of teachers and trainings have inspired Raymonde’s
creative yoga-style. Raymonde blends classic with contemporary yoga.
Raymonde’s classes offer joy, laughter, breathing exercises, simple & challenging
poses, and quiet relaxation. Students have remarked:
“My sleep is sound after yoga.” “Yoga breathing helps me to focus.” “My neck pains disappear.”
“It helps me to relax.” and “I am happy to wake up each morn.”
Raymonde’s gentle-yoga classes include Prenatal/Postpartum, Laughter, and Seniors.
Along with her students, Raymonde continues to pursue yoga’s lifelong journey of
self-compassion and abundant joy. “Yoga is about honoring the self”, Raymonde explains.
Even as an elementary school teacher, Raymonde brought the wonder of yoga to the classroom.
Raymonde loves knitting, reading, playing the Native-American flute, and meditating alongside her dog and cat.
Raymonde aspires to the Dalai Lama’s model for peace and loving-kindness.
Kelly
Kelly Cleveland began her study of yoga shortly after her daughter was born in 1989.
She completed her Iyengar Teacher Training in 1994 and started teaching at Health Advantage
Yoga Center in 1996. She has studied with several prominent teachers; Betsey Downing,
John Friend, Paul Grilley, Sarah Powers, Erich Schiffman, Judith Lasater, Rodney Yee,
Desiree Rumbaugh, and Doug Keller.
She has studied many different alignment based yoga styles over the years.
They have helped to shape and deepen her yoga practice which inspire her love for the yoga she teaches.
Her love for life after breast cancer and other calamities has taught her to appreciate her yoga
even more each day. Her intention is to inspire her students to reveal their individual greatness
in listening to what their bodies need thus strengthening their mind, body and spirit and step into the flow of grace.