Adrienne Jamiel, MA is an anatomist, yoga teacher trainer and exercise scientist with a specialty in kinesiology. She has spent 20 years researching anatomical gender differences in joint design and teaching about the increased risk of injury to women practicing traditional yoga asana poses which are based upon male joint alignment.

Adrienne was founding program director and principle instructor for the 100-hour advanced level anatomy and physiology training at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health (2000-2005); the anatomy instructor for Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy School (1998 – 2006); and the Founding Director and anatomy instructor for the Marymount Manhattan College Personal Fitness Trainer Certification Program (1988 – 1993).

Adrienne has extensive experience designing and teaching individualized yoga sessions having maintained a successful one-to-one private practice in New York City since 1995. She also teaches group Therapeutic Yoga for the Jewish Home and Hospital’s Medical Day Care Program. Adrienne is a certified Yoga Therapist by the International Association of Yoga Therapists (C-IAYT.) She was thrilled to receive a scholarship from the NOK Foundation to complete advanced-level study in yoga therapy for women at the
Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (KYM) in Chennai, India.

She is a certified professional level Kripalu Yoga teacher (eRYT500) and a certified iRest® Yoga Nidra guided meditation instructor. Adrienne’s specialty is her hands-on teaching method that clarifies anatomical
misunderstandings about the female form while supporting the practical application of anatomy for both women and men. Her passion is making anatomy
fun and easy.

Instagram: @YogaLikeAWoman
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M.A., ERYT 500-HOUR​

ADRIENNE JAMIEL

Rev. David Wallace is a dean and the senior teacher for One Spirit Interfaith Seminary in New York City. He is a graduate of St. John’s College in Santa Fe, NM, and has continued those studies as a lifelong student of the “great books” of philosophy and archetypal psychology.  An ordained interfaith minister, David is a regular guest lecturer at the Kripalu Institute in Lenox, MA, and the Interspiritueel Seminarie in the Netherlands, and has taught at Integral Yoga in NYC, the Esalen Institute, the Omega Institute and other educational venues. In addition to the core curriculum of the seminary, David teaches electives on the sacred texts of both the Eastern and Western spiritual traditions for One Spirit.

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Prior to his work in interspiritual ministry and teaching, David had an extensive career in publishing and marketing, as well as award-winning work through the retail galleries he created in New York City, The Enchanted Forest and After the Rain.   Known for his deep and passionate teaching style, his recent seminars on the Tao Te Ching, the Parables of Rabbi Jesus, and the Upanishads have drawn a worldwide audience as one of One Spirit’s most popular teachers.   He is currently working on a book, and shares a home in the Berkshire Mountains with his partner, senior Kripalu faculty and international retreat leader, Jurian Hughes.

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email: kitchenpoet@aol.com

YAMAS + NIYAMAS

REV. DAVID WALLACE

Laura is an alum of the 200hr YTT Intensive 2015 at ISHTA Yoga, cultivating her practice of yoga and meditation for 15 years. This May Ms. DeRubeis-Byrne completed her Clinical Psychology PhD Program at the Derner School of Psychology at Adelphi University successfully defending her dissertation: Understanding the Intrapsychic Processes of High School Students During Guided Meditation: A Longitudinal Study. This July Ms. DeRubeis-Byrne presented her dissertation study on a panel at the Psychoanalysis on Ice Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Prior to her work in psychology, Laura was a principal dancer with VISIONS Contemporary Ballet for over 9 years. Laura has taught beginners yoga classes at Anthea Yoga Studio in Astoria, Queens until they closed and yoga classes at the Campus Recreation Center at Adelphi University, and teaches private lessons. In September Ms. DeRubeis-Byrne will begin a year-long clinical psychology internship at Manhattan Psychiatric Center, where she looks forward to connecting her yoga and psychology backgrounds, and her expertise in working with psychotic disorders and trauma. Laura has held year-long clinical psychology externships in Maimonides Medical Center’s Child Adolescent Outpatient Service, the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and in an adult geriatric inpatient unit at Mt Sinai Beth Israel. Laura is a Hunter College alum where she co-led research at an Infancy Research Lab under Tricia Striano, PhD.

During her Undergraduate Independent Study Internship at NYP/Weill Cornell she helped create a Yoga Therapy Group in the adult in and outpatient units and for the adolescent outpatient service. Laura is particularly interested in tapping into the wisdom of the subtle body. Her mission is to bridge the gap between the yoga and psychological communities by showing the therapeutic benefits of yoga, meditation and mindfulness practices, with an emphasis on how trauma is embodied.

M.A., ERYT 200-HOUR

LAURA DERUBEIS-BYRNE