Sharyn Galindo
Owner, Studio Director
Sharyn Galindo, certified yoga instructor and lifelong learner, is the owner and studio director of North Shore Yoga.
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Steve Galindo
Steve has been teaching Astanga Yoga and Astanga based Vinyasa Flow Yoga for the past 6 years.  His main teacher is Paul Dallaghan, training with him for the last two years in Koh Samui, Thailand. His first teacher training was completed with Beryl Bender Birch.
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Amy Hepburn
Amy was so sore after her first yoga class she had a hard time lifting her arms overhead to get her shirt on the next day. However she carried on despite her tender shoulders, sensing that she was on to something new and different.
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Becky Pontarelli
Becky started Yoga mostly for convenience. She was teaching spinning at North Shore Yoga & Fitness, which was also a yoga studio. Yoga was extremely hard for her in the beginning even down dog was painful.
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Beth Mulhern
Yoga opened not only my shoulders and hips but my heart to a better way of living my life. I have found a happier, more giving and more relaxed person within myself.
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Betsy Murphy
Betsy's professional vision and intention is to integrate eastern and western knowledge and modalities to create optimal wellness and health.
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Bridgett Piacenti
Seven years ago she signed-up she and her best friend for a Hatha Yoga class at the Sheil Park District in Chicago so they could get together once a week.  Attending the class once a week led to twice a week, which then led to three times a week... and quite immediately she knew she was "hooked".
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Chuck Frenkel
Chuck's background as an athlete brought him into contact with yoga a number of times during his life–as an Olympic style archery competitor and as a competitive cyclist. But he truly opened and committed fully to the practice in order to help rehab from a serious cycling accident.
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Cindy Simanton
Cindy was introduced to yoga, through friends, many years ago. One of her first classes was at North Shore Yoga and she has been practicing there ever since.
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Cynthia Doucette
Cynthia began practicing yoga in 1996 while spending a year off of school to ski in Summit County, Colorado, her native state. Yoga first served as a nice compliment to skiing, but quickly became more intriguing and fulfilling.
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Daniela Val
Daniela began practicing yoga to relax and prepare for childbirth when pregnant with her first child more than a decade ago. She returned to yoga for the physical benefits of cross-training after her second child’s birth and soon found the practice offered her far more than flexibility and strength.
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Holly Brady
After trying all different types of yoga, Holly found Ashtanga Yoga in London in 2000, when pregnant with her first child. She quickly became addicted and continued her practice through her three pregnancies and the raising of three wonderful children.
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Jenny Kaufman
Moving away from her 20+ year career as a professional dancer and modern dance teacher, Jenny decided to explore more fully the practice and teaching of yoga.
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Jessica Sandstrom
While playing soccer at Occidental College in Los Angeles, I was told by a trainer that sustained stretching might alleviate pain from some of my injuries. I was willing to try anything to keep playing soccer at the collegiate level and beyond and started adding those “yoga stretches” into my training regime.
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Jim Carpenter
...random experiences like finding exactly the right article at exactly the right time began to happen again and again, teaching me to have faith and be open to whatever the world offers without expectation. If you do, ultimately you’ll discover all kinds of incredible things about both yourself and the world around you.
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Judy Lesnick
Judy starting practicing yoga in 1999 after being diagnosed with a painful form of arthritis. Looking for a way out of pain and off the medications, Judy turned to Yoga. After experimenting with several different styles of yoga, Judy found her niche in Ashtanga Yoga. 
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Judy Roin
Judy is certified through the National Yoga Alliance, having completed her teacher training at Moksha Yoga in 2002. She also holds certifications through ACE and Madd Dogg Spinning, and has enjoyed teaching a wide variety of classes at North Shore Yoga since 1998.
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Julie Gordon
Julie discovered yoga while in Hawaii more than 15 years ago, but became seriously committed to it in 2001 after the birth of her second child.
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Julie Leahy
Julie was introduced to yoga by a friend shortly after the birth of her second son, and she was immediately drawn to the calming yet strengthening effects of the practice.
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Julie Rosenheim
Julie's yoga practice began after her experience of living in Nepal and traveling through India on three separate excursions. Following the birth of her second child, Julie discovered that the practice of yoga allowed her to maintain a spiritual quality within daily life. 
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Karrie Frangos
Karrie first began practicing yoga at home in 2000 while pregnant with her second daughter. She soon outgrew her yoga videotapes and sought out a class setting in a health club where she was first introduced to Ashtanga yoga.
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Katie Chowaniec
Katie came to yoga as a way to ease the cumulative effects of long-distance running. She soon found it to be that and more, eventually deciding to hang up her running shoes in favor of focusing on yoga.
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Kira Maar
I have loved yoga, yogic community and philosophy, and my mat for about eight years. It was not always like that. I remember my first yoga class, which I walked out of thinking how I would never be able to do anything remotely close to what the other practitioners were doing.
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Libby Lewis
A friend (and former dancer) brought me to my first yoga class 9 years ago. I was intrigued by the challenge of the asanas, but came to understand that yoga is so much more than just what you do on your mat.
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Nancy Mortensen
...Nancy came to Yoga first in 1984 under the semi private tutelage of Gabriel Halperin. After trying other forms of exercise and fitness, she returned to Yoga during her 20 years of living in Washington state and studied Anusara and Iyengar Yoga at Vancouver Yoga and Body Work Center in Vancouver.
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Penny Cate
Penny came to yoga in 2002 when she left the corporate world and wanted to de-stress her life, strengthen her body and calm her mind.  She found the incredible power of yoga to do all that and more to be exhilarating and now views yoga to be an essential part of a well-balanced, healthy and fulfilled life.
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Seema Chandarana
Seema began practicing Ashtanga yoga to cope with the aftermath of September 11th. Since then, she has dabbled in Kundalini, Bikram, and other forms of yoga, and always finds herself coming back “home” to Ashtanga.
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Shannon Hillenmeyer
Shannon discovered yoga seven years ago, as a means of physical fitness during her college days. As she transitioned to the "real world," she found yoga provided so much more than the physical strength and flexibility that practitioners enjoy.
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Shayna Green
Four years ago, Shayna decided to try yoga to supplement her running regimen. However, following the birth of her third child in 2005, she felt a strong need to find a better way to meet her emotional and physical needs.
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Stacey Skolnick
Yoga has been a beautiful journey for me. I have spent most of my life as a dedicated student and performer of ballet. During Graduate School, I walked into a Bikram Yoga class and found that flexibility came easily to me, but longed for more of a challenge.
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Susan Burden
Susan began practicing yoga to strengthen her back and improve her posture, and in the process was amazed at how yoga cultivates a clear mind and an open heart.
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Susan Ravine
Susan has studied the art of movement her entire life. She combines running, walking, and yoga with her practice of pilates. Susan will share her knowledge and expertise with you in her pilates mat class.
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Tricia McLeod
Constantly active has always been the most accurate way to describe me. Spinning instructor, fitness instructor, teacher, volunteer, tennis player. Always moving from one thing to the next and juggling exercise, work and family.
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