The teachers at MiMi Yoga make up the heart and soul of all we do. They are all diverse but most importantly they love to teach yoga!
Founder and Director
She believes the way to connect the body to the spirit is to make the soul smile through a practice that is fun and challenging and that belief is what she brings to the mat.
Lisa has two beautiful daughters Daniella and Jaiden. She would like to thank them and her husband Greg for always filling her with love and inspiration.
Jocelyn Krasner
Jocelyn
Krasner, RYT, AADP, is a yoga teacher and holistic health counselor
known for her playful, compassionate nature and free-spirited teaching
style. Jocelyn is trained in Kripalu Yoga, as well as Shiva Rea’s
Vinyasa Flow, and holds additional certifications in restorative and
prenatal yoga. Her classes inspire fluid movement while focusing on
mindfulness of breath and alignment, encouraging a safe environment in
which to explore asana for students of all levels. Jocelyn’s wellness
programs help clients discover the foods that work best for them, while
guiding them to make personal choices that inspire more balanced,
energized, and passionate living. www.yourwholelife.net
Deanna graduated from Lotus College of Yoga,
where she trained with Laughing Lotus founder, Dana Flynn, Alison
Cramer, and many incredible teachers who share that teaching is an
offering of the heart. She is a Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga
Alliance (RYT). She celebrates the practice of yoga as a powerful tool
for opening the body, mind, and heart, and embracing one’s true Self.
When Deanna first began her yoga practice, she had chronic back pain
due to scoliosis and back injuries. A consistent practice has helped
her immensely, deepening her understanding of our innate ability for
healing and transformation. Her classes are infused with passion for the power of yogic philosophy and the rhythm of conscious breath and movement flowing into stillness. She challenges her students to recognize opportunities to watch the mind dance, let go of old patterns, confront comfort zones, and float on the waves of experience that surge along the path.
Lexi Coen
Always
filled with high energy, Lexi began practicing yoga in 1997 in Center
City Philadelphia to balance her regular cardio and free weight intense
workout. Lexi loved the calm that yoga gave her and found yoga to be the
perfect anecdote to her fast-paced publicity career.
After moving to Hoboken, NJ in 2001, Lexi continued to develop her yoga
practice while adding marathon training to her regimen and continuing
with a busy career. Recently, Lexi took a leap of faith and changed her
career path to teaching yoga to individuals, moms, babies and groups.
Lexi completed her 200-hour yoga teacher certification through the
Bright Spirit Teacher Training program at Devotion Yoga in Hoboken with
Carrie Parker Gastelu and Jillian Pransky.
Lexi has earned certifications in:
Relax and Renew Restorative Yoga with Judith Hanson Lasater;
Prenatal Yoga with Carrie Parker Gastelu;
Baby Om with Laura Staton and Sarah Perron;
Postpartum Yoga with Mary Barnes;
Restorative Yoga with Jillian Pransky;
Balance Integration Corporate Yoga with Tevis Gale; and
Itsy Bitsy Yoga ® with Helen Garabedian.
Lexi’s love of yoga can be seen in her approach to each of her classes.
She takes the time to learn about each of her students’ needs and
creates customized programs enabling her students to develop a strong
and balanced yoga practice. Suzanne Ausnit
Further studies include workshop intensives with Erich Shiffman, Tom Myers, Todd Norian and a human disection workshop with Gil Hedley.
Tracy Rock
During your session with Daba, her goal is to lead you into a space where you can tap your inner awareness. To do this, she encourages practitioners to close their eyes and focus on their prana – life force or breath - as it runs through their bodies. Once yogis have established a connection to their breath, they become increasingly aware of every movement throughout their body.
After receiving her 200-hour certification from Yoga to the People, Daba now lives, practices and shares her yoga teaching in the NYC metro area (including Jersey City, Hoboken, and Manhattan). She is blessed to share yoga in her community.
I am a former professional dancer, turned yogini. I've always found myself inspired by creative movement. At the end of my dance career, I walked into a yoga class to de-stress. There I was, moving all over the mat, flowing through the asana, creating these new shapes. By the end of the class, I was in love. Not only was I more inspired than I had been in years, my body felt free and my mind was calm. I knew that this journey into yoga would change my life forever.
I completed my 200 hour teacher certification through the Center for Yoga Studies at Sonic Yoga in NYC. Sonic Yoga teaches Vinyasa Yoga inspired by the teachings of Shiva Rea. I have also completed my prenatal certification under Carrie Parker at Yoga Works and children's certification through Karma Kids Yoga. I have been truly inspired by the teachers I have studied under and feel very honored to share this gift with my students.
Barbara is a certified and registered Yoga Educator and Therapist, having completed her training with Bright Spirit under Jillian Pransky and Carrie Parker, Yoga Therapist at Kripalu and certification in Restorative Yoga II. Additional training includes studying with Nischia Joy Devi, Bo Forbes, Gary Kraftsow, Judith Hanson Lasater, Mark Whitall, AlanFinger, Shiva Rea, and Jonas Westring. Ten years ago, Barbara’s overwhelming interest in the practice and the profound effects that yoga has brought to her life, spirit and well-being inspired her to leave her NYC corporate career of many years and take the leap of pursuing her love of yoga...she’s very happy she did.
Barbara’s work as an actress in New York and as a published fiction writer contribute to her creative and upbeat style. Her aspiration is to give others the gift of yoga and to guide them into being able to find union (yoga) between the experience on our mats and those we meet in life by unveiling the rich tapestry that is yoga–body, breath and relationship as it relates to each individual.
Julia teaches therapeutic yoga, restorative yoga, and chair yoga in
New York City as well as in Hoboken and Weehawken, New Jersey. In
private sessions, she helps individuals with a range of physical and
emotional difficulties—including stress, back pain, and chronic
illness. She teaches an annual two-day chair yoga teacher training
and workshops on a variety of topics, including mudras, chakras,
back-care, and stress reduction.
When Julia took her first series of yoga classes in the 1970s, she felt as though she had come home to her body. During her career in psychology publishing, she continued yoga studies in Manhattan and at Kripalu and Omega, with an early introduction to restorative yoga with Judith Lasater and to the chakras with Todd Norian.
Ten years ago, Julia made a career change and trained to be a Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist. She soon followed through with training in Integrative Yoga Therapy and began teaching in the New York area. Subsequently, she became a Relax and Renew Trainer with Judith Lasater, apprenticed in medicinal herbs with Robin Rose Bennett, and became certified in Yoga of the Heart with Nischala Joy Devi. In addition she has trained in restorative yoga with Jillian Pransky and with Sudha Carolyn Lundeen, and she is certified in Integral Yoga’s Gentle Yoga and Extra Gentle Yoga Training. She is a member of the Yoga Alliance (E-RYT 500) and a reviewer for the International Journal of Yoga Therapy.
