Sarah Bell

was certified in 1989 by Kali Ray as a Tri-Yoga  teacher (slow posture flow that balances body, breath, and mind).  She enjoys introducing people to Hatha yoga and supporting their on-going practice by focusing on yoga pose alignment and by encouraging personal awareness on and off the mat. Sarah offers individual posture consultations, providing guidance with enhanced standing and seated postures as well as teaching appropriate yoga modifications. She has studied exercises for the childbearing years with Elizabeth Noble, teaches infant massage and has completed her prenatal yoga certification with Jacci Reynolds. Sarah is also a post-partum doula and trained massage therapist.  

Anni Barnard
is certified in both Kripalu and vinyasa style yoga as a 500RYT and has a master's degree in Fine Arts. She has been a teacher for more than a decade and brings a down to earth delight into the practice of yoga.

Belle Boyes

loves sharing yoga with people of all ages.  She is trained and certified in meditation and classical hatha yoga at the 500 hour level from the Himalayan Institute and certified in pre-natal and children's yoga.  She is as comfortable hissing like a snake in cobra pose with children as she is chanting Om with adults!  Belle is also a certified massage therapist and aromatherapist. Belle offers one-on-one yoga and self-care work for adults and children.  She also creates rocking birthday events here at ATM for kids.

Coral Brown
is certified through Shiva Rea as a 500RYT. Coral teaches Prana Flow yoga and travels the world teaching and assisting her teacher Shiva. Prana Flow is an energetic, creative, full-spectrum approach to embodying the flow of yoga cultivated by Shiva Rea and the Global Vinyasa Collective of Teachers. Students of all levels are empowered to experience prana - the universal source of breath, life-energy and conscious intelligence - as the navigating source of yoga practice and vital living. Coral invites you to come and experience your source, your SELF through yoga. Coral has also received her Masters of Arts from Salve Regina University's Holistic Counseling program and sees clients through All That Matters.
 
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Elsie Castro-Swonger

is a registered yoga teacher with the Yoga Alliance at the 500 hour level. She is a certified yoga teacher of cardiac,  prenatal, and yoga for osteoporosis, and a certified TM teacher who has been practicing yoga and meditation since 1970 and teaching since 1976 . Her focus is an Ayurvedic approach to hatha yoga.

Sheri Cavanagh

is a dedicated student and teacher of vinyasa yoga and the healing arts. She is certified through the yoga alliance and has studied with Saul David Raye, David Swenson and many other respected teachers. In addition to her extensive teaching experience, Sheri is also a practitioner of Thai Bodywork and Feng Shui.

Cathy Cesario*

is the Director of Spirit Tree Yoga Teacher Training at All That Matters. She holds degrees in Psychology and English and is a RegisteredYoga Teacher Trainer with the Yoga Alliance at the most advanced level. A student of yoga and Buddhism since 1985, Cathy has taught vinyasa, ashtanga, and hatha yoga since 1991.  She holds certifications in Pilates Mat, in Energy Medicine and as a Shamanic Practitioner on the Advanced Level. She is a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists (I.A.Y.T.) and has been practicing private yoga therapy and integrative healing practices since 1995.  She holds workshops around New England for yoga students, business executives and school teachers, as well as guest teaching in other yoga teacher training programs.

Diane Cozine, RYT

is a Certified Svaroopa Yoga Teacher. She completed her teacher training at the 600 hour level with Rama Berch at Master Yoga Foundation Rehoboth Bech, DE and Westchester, PA. She is also certified in Yoga of the HeartR Cardiac and Cancer Therapy. Diane is passionate about teaching Svaroopa Yoga and working with students to establish a sense of peacefulness and ease in their bodies and minds.

Liz Dufresne

teaches yoga based on the Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga system.  She has completed Level l and ll, over 200 hours, with Baron Baptiste.  She has been a student and practitioner of yoga and the healing arts since 1997.  Liz holds a master's degree in Psychology and is a Reiki Master.  She assists in yoga boot camps and A Course in Miracles classes at All That Matters.

David Dwyer

a chiropractor since 1986, David began meditating in 1978 with initiation in TM.  He began his yoga studies in 1984 at Shining Waters Ashram in Missouri.  His yoga is influenced by the Ashtanga system and his study of biomechanics.  He is one of the creators of and co-owns All That Matters.

Mel Gorman Wegimont
is a certified yoga teacher with the Yoga Alliance and a teacher of vinyasa and hatha yoga styles. She has completed yoga teacher training with Cathy Cesario director of Spirit Tree Yoga here at All that Matters.She has been a student of yoga and the healing arts since 1999 and is certified in Reiki I and II. Mel brings her zest for life and compassion to support her students in their practice. One week after having been diagnosed with breast cancer at age 37, a friend brought Mel to Kendall Sheldon's yoga class. In that first class she discovered the powerful healing benefits of yoga and continues to share that with others.

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Amy Hagan

is a certified yoga teacher, she completed her teacher training at the Yoga Center of Amherst with Patty Townsend.  She is the former director of the Yoga Annex and has been practicing yoga since 1993.  Her classes are classic hatha yoga with an emphasis on fun and self acceptance.,  Amy's continuous studies include the Kripalu, Iyengar, Anusara and Vinyasa schools of yoga.

David Harrigan
is a certified teacher with Yoga Alliance. He is is a graduate of Spirit Tree Yoga at All That Matters and a long time student of yoga and the healing arts. Dave holds a Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do and practices Shamanic Healing and Thai Yoga Bodywork.

Mel Johnson

a certified yoga teacher with  Yoga Alliance through Spirit Tree Yoga, practices vinyasa and hatha yoga. She has a Bachelors in Psychology and Painting, a Masters of Art in Teaching Visual Arts, and has a certification in Expressive Arts. She is also a certified Kingian Nonviolence trainer through the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at University of Rhode Island and is certified in Advanced Reiki. Mel focuses on the integration of the healing arts as a way to tap into the creative force that dwells in each of us.

Jessie Meyer-Eisendrath
A devoted practitioner of yoga since 1996, Jessie seeks to apply her passion for yoga not only to the mat but also to the way in which she lives her life. An advocate for sustainable living and organic, local farming, Jessie brings this grounding to her practice and classes. A long-term student of Tom Gillette, Shannah Green, and Shiva Rea, (200 hour YTT), Jessie incorporates lessons from these mentors and combines them with her twenty-two years of classroom teaching experience. In addition, her workshop studies include Rodney Yee, Baron Baptiste, Tias Little, and Beryl Bender, among others. She guides her students to access their heart and grace through careful alignment, self-respect, and conscientious breath within a prana flow vinyasa. 

Natalie Schiffer

Natalie Schiffer has been practicing Svaroopa® yoga since 2003. After trying different styles of yoga, she decided Svaroopa® yoga was her passion. Since then, she has become a certified Hatha yoga teacher at the 200 hour level with Yoga Alliance studying with the Master Yoga Foundation. She is also a certified Embodyment® Yoga Therapist and seeing clients on a private basis. She continues training with Master Yoga Foundation to complete her certification as a Svaroopa® Yoga Teacher (RYT 500). She has had the honor to study with Swami Nirmalananda Saraswati, the creator of Svaroopa® Yoga, as well as many of their master teachers. Natalie is a patient, compassionate teacher who loves to share the gifts of yoga with her students and invites you to join her classes.

Kendall Sheldon

is the founding teacher of the All That Matters yoga program, which started in 1995. She has over 30 years experience in the practice of yoga. She was certified by Kripalu Center in 1980, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Center in 1994 and holds a 500 hour advanced professional teaching certificate from the Yoga Alliance.In 2009 she completed the Advanced Training in Integrative Restoration, iRest, with Richard Miller, Ph.D. of the Center for Timeless Being. Kendall comes from a family of yogis; both her mother and uncle continue to teach today. She considers them and the meeting of Swami Kripalu the inspiration for her path of yoga. Her ongoing study and practice is influenced by Erich Schiffman, Shiva Rae and Gary Kraftsow as well as her students.

Mary Stracensky
is a Certified Svaroopa Yoga Teacher (600 hours) trained in Gentle, Continuing, Pregnant, and Deeper Svaroopa yoga; she continues her life long yoga education with Svaroopa advanced teacher training. She is a Certified Kripalu yoga teacher, a registered yoga teacher (RYT) at 500 hours with Yoga Alliance and is a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists. Mary has a M.A. in Holistic Counseling and is trained in Hakomi body centered psychotherapy. Her private practice as a Yoga Therapist blends the philosophy and techniques of yoga with holistic counseling methods and body centered therapy.

Margaret Trezza

(Amrit Kaur) is a registered yoga teacher with the Yoga Alliance, KRI Certified and a member of the International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association.  A practitioner of Kundalini Yoga, as taught by Yogi Bhajan, for 20 years, Margaret received her Kundalini Yoga and Meditation training a decade ago at the Baba Siri Chand Yoga Center in Millis, MA.  Margaret is available for Reiki and private Kundalini and Meditation classes through All That Matters.  She holds a Childplay Yoga teaching certification and designs programs for special needs children, as well as teaches "Yoga in your Chair" for people with physical challenges.  Margaret also holds a Yoga Nidra Guide certification and is available for private and group Yoga Nidra sessions through All that Matters. Her teachers have included Hari Kaur Khalsa, Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, Gurucharan Singh Khalsa, Gurudass Kaur Khalsa, Guru Dev Singh Khalsa, Sat Kartar Kaur Khalsa, Myra Partyka, Willi Tetelbaum, and Jennifer Reis. Margaret receives immense pleasure in donating her time to charitable organizations, such as the Rhode Island Food Bank.  Possessing a background in ballroom dance, aerobics instruction, voice and piano study, and choir singing, Margaret feels right at home teaching the transformational power of meditation and yoga through music and sound.  Her debut CD is Sat Nam~Meditation and Motion.

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Philip Urso

is a Master Baptiste yoga teacher.  He assists Baron Baptiste at teacher-training bootcamps internationally and leads his own teacher-training certification programs.  He owns and directs a Baptiste Affiliate studio, Salt Pond Yoga, in RI.  Philip studies A Course in Miracles and offers two, five-star podcasts on iTunes: “A Crash Course in Miracles” and “Yoga Classes, Baptiste Power Vinyasa.”

As a Yoga Teacher, Philip teaches presence-in-action. He plays Baptiste Sequence as if it’s an obstacle course to presence. He will help you discover where and how you may abandon presence, and help you practice the quick path back.  The goal is for you to go beyond presence – that is, to live in the energy of your inspired self.