Johanna Bell is a lifelong mover, artist, teacher, and ordained Interfaith/Interspiritual Minister whose work lives at the meeting place of embodiment, spirituality, creativity, and the sacred human experience.

A former professional dancer, actor, singer, choreographer, and spontaneous mystic, Johanna discovered yoga as a language that could bring her many worlds together. Her teaching draws from more than two decades of study and practice, including 500-hour training with Sri Dharma Mittra, more than 500 hours of Kundalini Yoga Therapy with Guru Dharam Khalsa, Prana Flow with Shiva Rea, and Non-Dual Tantra with Sally Kempton and Christopher Tompkins. She is also an ongoing student of shamanic practice.

Johanna is the founder of Illumina Yoga and its teacher-training programs, which are rooted in her signature approach, Full Spectrum Sequencing. Her heart-child, Full Spectrum weaves intelligent movement with music, poetry, metaphor, mythology, breath, and contemplative practice, inviting students beyond the mechanics of asana and into a soulful, (sometimes sweaty) journey into the heart of what it means to be human. Her teaching is rooted in the belief that the body is not separate from the spiritual path, but one of its most intimate doorways.

Known as a teacher of teachers, Johanna is passionate about helping yoga teachers discover and trust their own authentic voice. Through Illumina’s teacher-training programs, she mentors teachers in the art of creating meaningful, intelligent, and deeply personal experiences for their students.

Johanna holds a Master of Divinity and is a Core Faculty member at All Paths Divinity School, where she teaches and mentors students in embodied spirituality and interspiritual practice. Her own spiritual practice continues to be supported by the humor and wisdom of mystic and author Andrew Harvey.

She lives in South Freeport, Maine, with her husband Jim and daughter Lucia, where family, nature, yoga, ministry, and the ongoing adventure of Life's journey continue to shape her work.

Kathleen Savoy, is a 500 hr ERYT and the creator of The HAY Wellness App, a progressive web app designed to help people reconnect with themselves through awareness rather than self-improvement.

Through keynote talks, workshops, trainings, classes, retreats, and mentorship, she support individuals examine the ways they've learned to dismiss their own wisdom ~ and how to return to it.

Her work with studios, retreats and organizations blend storytelling, yoga philosophy, behavioral wellness, and lived experience to create conversations that are both practical and reverent to the human experience.

website: https://www.kathleensavoyspeaks.com/

My yoga practice is a devotion to engage with the full spectrum of life. Rooted in Bhakti Yoga and Tantra, my classes are Heart-centered and intend, through the journey into the Self, to connect us to the infinite. 

Designed around a specific energetic theme, my vinyasa classes weave together asana, mudra, moving metaphors, breath, mantra, archetypal energies, and music to explore the wonder of nature and the depth of this human experience. Through a unified theme, we go on a journey together, while leaving room for the individual experience - I offer questions for reflection and options within the asana to make the practice your own. The physical sequencing is cyclical; the postures build on themselves, embedding choices to stay in foundational variations or play with deepening complexity as the class goes on. Breath, presence, and self-compassion are prioritized; deep reverence and a sense of humor go hand in hand.

I began practicing yoga in 2009 in the tradition of B.K.S. Iyengar with Melora Gregory. With a strong foundation in asana alignment, I discovered vinyasa flow and fell in love with the way that the practice embodies the rising and falling, always-changing nature of life. I am a graduate of Sonic Yoga's 200 hr and Illumina Yoga's 300 hr teacher trainings, both under the guidance of Johanna Bell, and am now honored to be on the teaching faculty of Illumina Yoga's trainings. As a teacher of new teachers, I specialize in guiding others to source inspiration and transform it into a full spectrum classroom journey.

I offer gratitude and reverence to all of the teachers who have skillfully and ethically transmitted the powerful teachings of yoga from their roots in South Asia to our studios today, and to those who continue to guide Yoga’s evolution with care.

website: https://www.mariawagnerclarinet.com/yoga

TEACHER

Ankati Day is an E-RYT 500 yoga teacher, sound healer, and retreat leader based in the Seacoast NH region. A practitioner since she was 19, her path deepened when she felt called to complete her yoga teacher training at the Pachamama School of Yoga in Costa Rica, where she then stayed on to assist her teachers and live immersed in a yoga and meditation community for two years.

Since returning to coastal Maine in 2015, Ankati has continued deepening her studies, completing her 500-hour training with the Kula Collective in 2022. She served as lead facilitator for Yoga Teacher Trainings with Barre & Soul from 2017–2022, guiding eight cohorts of new teachers to their Yoga Alliance certification. She now co-facilitates trainings internationally with the Kula Collective, and has led retreats in Peru, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and the Azores. After teaching at 3 Bridges for a number of years, she is excited to be part of the team guiding this 300hr training!

Dr. Beebe is the co-owner of Areté Chiropractic. In 2015, she was awarded a Diplomate in the Craniocervical Junction Procedures (DCCJP) through the International Chiropractic Association (ICA). Dr. Beebe specializes in Blair Upper Cervical care to stabilize the spine, with a specialty in headaches and head and neck injury. She is currently serving as the Vice President of the Council on Upper Cervical Care (CUCC). Dr. Beebe also serves on the Board of Directors for the Blair Upper Cervical Society as the director of research. In 2019, she was awarded Blair Chiropractor of the Year by the Blair Society and her clinic was awarded Innate Clinic of the Year by the CUCC. Dr. Beebe also co-founded the Craniocervical Foundation in 2017 a non-profit organization that is dedicated to subsidizing upper cervical chiropractic care for veterans, active duty military and people in extreme financial need. Dr. Beebe is a graduate of the 3BY 200 Hour Teacher Training Course of 2017 and enjoys yoga, competing with her two horses, and spending time in nature with her family.

Stephanie Paolini is the owner of 3 Bridges Yoga.  She serves the Seacoast communities through her public classes at 3BY, she leads international yoga retreats and holds an E-RYT 200 YA Certification, Reiki 1 as well as a trauma-informed certification.  She took her first yoga class in 2005 and knew it would be a practice she would have with her for the rest of her life.  Stephanie trained at the renowned Yoga Tree studio in San Francisco with the intent purely to learn more about the practice of yoga.  Upon completion of training, she felt called to share the practices, the light and the lineage with others.  She teaches a heart-based practice and truly believes that every single person can be a conduit for positive change when we move from a place of love and compassion.