Terry Gardner CSYT, RYT 500

Terry was born and raised in Rehoboth Beach. She married and moved to the Outer Banks, North Carolina in 1982.  A few years later she attended her first yoga class to help with pain from a serious car accident. It helped so much she continued to practice yoga until she moved back to Rehoboth in 1991. After a year’s break from yoga, the pain resumed in her body. She found a new teacher and the style was Svaroopa®.   Svaroopa® Yoga had a profound effect on her body, and mind as well.  This was the beginning of a desire to share this amazing practice.

She became a Certified Svaroopa® yoga teacher in January 2001. Terry has continued to advance her knowledge and love of yoga ever since, adding many hours of advanced training, including Embodyment® practitioner, Vichara® therapist, Meditation Teacher and more.  Terry’s mission is to improve students’ physical, mental and emotional well-being. She shares Svaroopa® Yoga’s vision of cultivating and supporting a conscious community.

Sandra (Sandy) Gilbert CSYT, RYT 500

            Sandy started taking Svaroopa® yoga classes in 2001 after relocating to Rehoboth Beach from the Washington, DC area.  She enjoyed the quiet lifestyle here – so different from the demanding career where she spent many hours a day in an office and conference/meeting setting.  She began taking yoga classes mainly for relaxation.  Svaroopa® yoga not only greatly reduced or eliminated her stress.  It also provided her relief from hip and shoulder pain.

            Sandy began taking teacher training mainly to enhance her personal yoga practice.  To her surprise, the training had set her on a second career path to become a Svaroopa® yoga teacher and yoga therapist.  Sandy currently is a Certified Svaroopa® Yoga Teacher (CYST), an Embodyment® practitioner and a yoga therapist.  She is also a registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance.

            Sandy’s goal in her second stage of life is to bring Svaroopa® yoga to others so that they can also feel its power to heal the body and mind.

Chelsea King CSYT, RYT 500

    Chelsea King has been teaching Svaroopa® yoga since 2002.  Her background as a professional ballet dancer and struggle with rheumatoid arthritis lead her to the healing benefits of Svaroopa® yoga.  As a mother of three young children, Chelsea weaves yoga into her daily life to keep her arthritis under control and help her stay present, grounded and energetic.  Enthusiastic about sharing yoga, Chelsea's attention to detail helps to ensure the reliable spinal openings of Svaroopa® yoga, which provide so much more than just physical benefits.

     Chelsea has been a Certified Svaroopa® Yoga Teacher since 2003.  She also teaches Prenatal and Deeper yoga and is an Embodyment® practitioner.  She continues her training in the Advanced Teacher Training Program at Master Yoga and looks forward to sharing the benefits of yoga with you.

Michele Gordon, CSBT, RYT 200

            Being an educator in Physical and Special Education for twenty-five years, Michele did the day-to-day of trying to balance home and work.  It all equaled stress!  In the summer of 2000, she attended her first Svaroopa® yoga class.  After just one class, she never looked back.  Although Michele knew she was not “cured” of stress, she immediately realized there was a tool, plus techniques, which could help her find calm at any time.  It was called Svaroopa®.

            Michele is a Certified Svaroopa® Basics Teacher, holds a Living Yoga Business Certification, and is an Embodyment® practitioner.  She is also registered with Yoga Alliance.

Mary Jean Skinner, CSBT, RYT 200

Mary Jean is a Certified Svaroopa^® Yoga Basics Teacher and an  Embodyment® practitioner and has been offering Introductory and Continuing yoga classes at Rehoboth Beach Yoga since 2007.  She is also a registered teacher with the Yoga Alliance and a member of the Svaroopa® Association of Teachers.

Mary Jean discovered Svaroopa yoga when she retired from Federal Contracting in January of 2006, and moved from the D.C. area to Delaware. Looking for a modality that would relieve her sciatic pain and general tightness, she began attending two or three Svaroopa® yoga classes a week and immediately noticed that changes were taking place not only in her body, but in her mind as well.  She started a home practice and over time came to realize there was a calmer more centered way to be in the world.  She came to more fully understand what Pantanjali meant in Sutra 1.3 of the Yoga Sutras:  “tadaa drashtuh svaroope vasthanam”, the moment your mind becomes still, you will reside in the bliss of your own being.

Mary Jean is planning to continue her studies at Master Yoga in the hopes it will not only enrich her own practice, but the practice of the students she is privileged to encounter.