About the Teachers at Sanctuary Studio
Marilee Marrinan brings 20 years of experience leading yoga, meditation, and relaxation. An educator for more than 30 years, and a holistic health practitioner for 15 years, Marilee brings an inherent wisdom and grace to the classes she leads. Her daily practice and faith in wisdom and spirit inspire her style of leading classes at Sanctuary Studio with healing guidance.
Erinn Cayehal blends various traditions of yoga practice for unique classes of creative sequencing that encourages students to open and discover personal depths of practice. She is a certified Kripalu teacher, and has completed various additional trainings. She brings energy and clear, descriptive language to demonstrations and hands-on assists. Erinn’s first experience in yoga and meditation was as a child, and the practice continues to be a healing, balancing, and strengthening component of her daily lifestyle. Erinn feels that offering this transformational practice to others is a joy and honor.
Sara Sullivan discovered Pilates following the birth of her first child and was immediately engaged by the benefits of the practice. She enthusiastically leads students to find the benefits of Pilates in body and mind, and brings a positive, spiritual aspect to her instruction.
Elizabeth Brazier teaches a vinyasa flow practice inspired by Shiva Rea. Elizabeth has a strong background in athleticism, competing as a varsity swimmer at Emory University and she completed her first two triathlons last summer. Elizabeth is drawn to vinyasa flow yoga because of it’s meditative qualities. The breath synchronized movement stills the mind and opens the heart. Within this freedom Elizabeth hopes to provide her students with an opportunity to explore their soft edge both on and off the mat. Her presence in the studio invites both introductory and experienced students and her classes creatively include sun salutations, standing poses, hand balances, inversions, hip openers, backbends and twists.
Dori Thompson received her Associates degree from New Hampshire Technical College in 1999; prior to that she earned a BA in Psychology/Sociology from New England College. Dori has extensive experience in aquatic therapy with a certification from The Aquatic Therapy Rehabilitation Institute.
As a PTA, she initially worked for 3 years in an outpatient setting where she saw a variety of orthopedic conditions. She then spent 5 years at The Spine Center of Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center where she initiated and ran the aquatic therapy program. While there she worked in a multi-disciplinary Functional Restoration Program teaching relaxation and stretching classes, light aerobics and aquatics for people with chronic pain. During her time at The Spine Center, she also assisted the Physical Therapists with the treatment of individual patients in the clinic.
Dori has always been interested in working with people and physical therapy has been a good fit for her. She believes in treating the whole person and empowering people by teaching them how to take care of themselves.
She enjoys walking, yoga, snow shoeing, reading and time with family.
Thomas (TEO) Doyle, certified yoga instructor. More information to come...
Kelsey Abbot is a marine biologist and a writer with an extensive athletic background. She swam competitively while attending Bowdoin College and now trains and competes as a triathlete. She resides in Freeport and also instructs at the Casco Bay YMCA. Kelsey believes that with enough hard work and laughter everyone can have a six pack!
Lauren Ostis has spent the past several years traveling, volunteering, and learning from the communities she has found herself in, both in this country and abroad. She recently moved back to the coast of Maine where she was raised. She has been studying yoga and meditation for over ten years and certified as a Sivananda yoga teacher in the Bahamas in the spring of 2006. Her course took place in an ashram where she was fully immersed in the asanas, kirtan, Sanskrit, karma, philosophy and satsang of yoga. Lauren has taught yoga in Little Harbour in the Bahamas, in the mountain towns of Asheville, North Carolina and McCall, Idaho and has joined us an instructor at Sanctuary. As a self-employed fiber artist, a wilderness tripleader, an environmental educator, a dancer, and a student of Buddhism and of Capoeira Angola, Lauren enjoys integrating her passions into her yoga classes. Drawing from the traditions of Sivananda, Lauren's asana classes interweave many layers of spirtuality that relax the body and mind while rejuvenating the soul. Each class begins with an intention supported by quotes, poetry and moments for meditation. Chanting, breathwork and a combination of held poses and flowing movements enhance the full-body experience. The inspiration found within this class will send you off with great energy...
Lydia Lobozzo
received her yoga teacher certification from CorePowerYoga in Denver, Colorado. She sees yoga as a way to find confidence and calm that reaches beyond the mat and can give us all a little extra momentum and lightness of living. She leads a Vinyasa style of yoga for combined enjoyment & challenge in the practice, and designs her classes to build integral strength and ease in body and mind. Lydia is drawn to vinyasa yoga for its creative movement and fluidity, as well as its emphasis on breath. Lydia believes in the power of intention and precision to lead us into a transformative and liberating practice, and encourages students to bring their unique hearts and bodies to their yoga mats. Yoga is for Lydia a gift of healing and discovery, and she wishes to share it with love!
