V A L E R I E    N O R M A N   ( o w n e r )
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Valerie Norman has been teaching yoga privately and to groups since 1999. In addition to Home Yoga NYC, Valerie teaches adults at The McBurney YMCA in Manhattan. Valerie earned her yoga teaching certification in 1999 from the International Sports Medicine Association and also completed Be Yoga's 500-hour teacher training program, where she studied under yoga master Alan Finger and master teacher Beverly Murphy.

In 2003, Valerie completed the Radiant Child Teacher Training program with Shakta Kaur Khalsa and has been teaching children's yoga classes at St. Luke's school in Manhattan for the past two years. She also teaches children's yoga classes at Be Yoga/Yoga Works. Prior to that she taught dance for two years to children at The Montessori Family School and The Mulberry Street Theater School.

Valerie has been practicing Thai yoga massage since 2004 after completing the International Thai Therapists Association's approved Somaveda™ course created by Anthony B. James. She has also studied Thai yoga massage with Jonas Westring and Kam Thye Chow.

Prior to teaching yoga, Valerie was a personal trainer for 3 years, training clients at New York Sports Club and Equinox. She is certified as a personal trainer through the American Council on Exercise and the American Red Cross in C.P.R.

Valerie holds a B.A. from Connecticut College (1995), where she majored in Dance and minored in Art History. Upon graduating, she spent six months in China teaching dance to college seniors at The Beijing Dance Academy.
Valerie offers insightful teaching of yoga postures through use of imagery and an in depth understanding of anatomy. She believes in continuing her education and deepening her yoga practice as the key towards keeping her students inspired and helping them grow, both as yoga students and in their daily lives.

K E L L Y   E U D A I L E Y
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Kelly began studying yoga almost ten years ago as a complement to her dance training. After moving to New York in 2001, she found that yoga's holistic, invigorating and non-competitive practices moved more and more to the foreground of her life. Kelly had the good fortune to begin practicing at Be Yoga under the guidance of Beverley Murphy, Alan Finger and Jean Koerner and at Bodhisattva Yoga with vinyasa teacher, Vivekan. She received her yoga teacher training in the Ishta Yoga lineage at Be Yoga, which focuses on adapting yoga to the individual's needs through proper asana, breathwork and meditation.

Kelly has been teaching classes at YogaWorks and Bodhisattva Yoga in Brooklyn since 2004. She has six years of experience working with children at the Little Red School House. There she has taught yoga to groups of adventurous three to seven-year-olds, incorporating the use of games, songs and play. Most recently, Kelly assisted an incredible two-week retreat to South India with Alan Finger, Mona Anand and Sarah Platt. She has also assisted retreats with Beverley Murphy and Alan in lovely Mar de Jade, Mexico.

Along with the influence of her teachers, Kelly's style is inspired by a deep respect of anatomy, the somatic practices of Body Mind Centering, her dance training and a wish to see more New Yorkers take a deep breath and relax!

She hopes that your yoga practice encourages you to give your best effort regardless of results, to live in a more fully embodied way, and to be happy right where you are.