Kim Chandler is the founder and director of Innerlight Center for Yoga in Middletown, RI and also was the founding director of the Innerlight School for Yoga in Portland, Maine. A former resident of the Kripalu Center, she has directed Yoga Teacher Training courses at Kripalu and has been a certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher Mentor since 1992. Kim was a founding member of the Kripalu Yoga Teacher Association (KYTA) and from 1993-95 was the associate director of KYTA. In 2002 she co-directed the international Kripalu Yoga Teachers Conference in Lenox, MA. She is adjunct staff at Kripalu, presenting several programs each year, most recently Come As You Are: A Yoga Retreat for All Levels and Mind In Motion: Yoga and Proprioceptive Writing. In addition, Kim has been an Outward Bound course director and has founded and directed several alternate schools in Maine. Kim has been influenced by a variety of traditions; for several years her interest has been focused on the practice of Anusara Yoga.

Janne (pronounced Yanna) Sahady is a senior teacher at Innerlight Center for Yoga, co-director and co-developer of the Innerlight Yoga Teacher Training program, and a yoga teacher for the Newport Hospital Enough Is Enough program. She is a Yoga Alliance E-RYT 200 with 1000 hours of teaching experience. She has taught yoga in yoga studios, homes, schools, barns, parks, businesses and conventions.

Her training includes a 500-hour course at Innerlight (1998) and a 400-hour Anusara-based course with Todd Norian (2003). Janne has also studied with John Friend, Suzie Hurley, Doug Keller, Ann Greene, Tom Myers, David Swenson, Richard Freeman and Beryl Bender Birch. She has assisted in many programs at Kripalu and elsewhere, including Introduction to Yoga and Meditation, Rebalancing Body, Mind and Spirit, Ashtanga Yoga, Anusara Yoga, Chakra Yoga, Partner Yoga, and Snow Shoe and Yoga.

"Yoga is my gift from the universe. My experience with yoga is that it is a life changing force. Yoga develops strength and flexibility, focus and confidence and a sense of connection with a spirit greater than just me. Yoga grounds me and at the same time opens possibilities. My intention in teaching is to pass that on, that sense of living life to the fullest, vibrant, strong, and open."
Janne is currently working on getting her leg behind her head, and expects that in about five lifetimes from now, she may be close.

Additional faculty staff includes:

• Katherine and Christopher Carbone
• Jane Maguire

You will also have the opportunity to experience a wide variety of sadhanas (classes) with many of the Innerlight teachers.