PRESENTERS
We are in the early planning stages and are looking forward to connecting with past teachers at Maine Yoga Fest and bring new ones to the weekend as well. If you haven’t already filled out your teacher application, please do so here.
2025 TEACHER LINEUP
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WORKSHOP DETAILS TO COME
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Tiffany has been in the fitness industry since 2010. After three years of consistent yoga practice, Tiffany went to a Hatha Yoga teacher training program with a focus on anatomy with teachers who had studied both Baptiste + Bikram. From 2013 - 2019, she completed all trainings with a national barre franchise + became lead teacher at her local studio. She went on to complete her Buti Yoga certification in 2019, her 300 hr YTT in the spring of 2021 and Forrest Yoga advanced yoga teacher training in the winter of 2021. More recently she’s completed + continues to study Katonah Yoga® which is a syncretic Hatha yoga practice developed by Nevine Michaan over 40 years. This practice layers material from Taoist theory, geometry, magic, mythology, metaphor, and imagination — in a practical framework designed to potentiate personal and communal well-being.
WORKSHOP: details to come
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WORKSHOP DETAILS TO COME
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Holly Martzial has been teaching both barre and yoga for over a decade. She taught ferociously from 2015 until the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 when she consciously took a step back from teaching to spend time at home with her little boy and focus her energy on renovating her house and growing her digital marketing career. During her hiatus, Holly reconnected with her personal practice and began to evaluate when and how she would once again hold the seat of a teacher. In 2023 she felt the calling to re-enter the studio, starting off slow with a single matte class at the Portland Yoga Project, later adding a vinyasa flow class to her regular schedule, and is excited to continue to mindfully grow her offerings as both time and space allow. Her teaching style is rooted in alignment and strengthening functional movement through intelligent sequencing. Holly’s classes consistently showcase her dry sense of humor, solid playlist-building abilities, and her fierce aspiration to always speak with intention and clarity.
WORKSHOP: This workshop is for barre-curious yogis interested in adding a bit of fire to their flow. We will begin with 45 minutes of barre, a low-impact yet challenging full-body workout that builds strength by isolating and fatiguing our major muscle groups through small, repetitive movements. This barre class can be modified for those who are new to the practice and will challenge even the seasoned barre practitioner. Once we have thoroughly worked to tone the body, we will temper the fire we've built with a deep, slow, flow designed to stretch and lengthen our muscles. The second half of this workshop will incorporate grounding, cooling, yoga poses to counterbalance the more challenging first half.
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Kat Cynewski is an international business coach & yoga teacher (700hr+ RYT/YACEP), founder of Be Well Events, and host of the Wealthy & Well Woman Podcast. After climbing the corporate ladder she had a wake up call on a yoga retreat and in 2018 took the leap into full-time entrepreneurship. Now she helps other ambitious wellness leaders to gain clarity, own their power, package their expertise, and build their dream life + business with freedom at the forefront.
She has been teaching powerful vinyasa classes for over a decade in New England and at events and retreats all over the world.
In addition to her love of vinyasa she has completed training in trauma informed yoga, restorative, aerial, SUP, and stretching.
Her yoga classes are based on upbeat music, fun flows, intentional sequencing, and safe alignment. Kats intention is to guide students to deepen their practice on and off the mat. She loves to make yoga fun and approachable while building strength and resilience!
Kat lives in Portland, Maine with her husband, baby boy, and French Bulldog.
WORKSHOP: Flourish Flow: Upbeat vinyasa flow and meditation to spark your vitality, strength, and JOY. (75 minutes)
WORKSHOP: Life by Design: Create the life that supports your purpose and fulfills you in every capacity. In this workshop you will gain clarity around what you truly and deeply want out of your life. Discover the things that are blocking you from reaching your biggest goals and create a plan to create the life that supports your purpose and deepest desires. It's time to find your flow state, fight fear, and build your own luck to reach your limitless potential.
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Darren Marc Levene is a kirtan artist from Santa Barbara. He has been leading kirtan at yoga studios and festivals around the country for over 10 years. His heart-centered songs draw from pop and folk influences. They incorporate ancient Mantras and uplifting English lyrics. His gatherings help people to access their innermost joy.
WORKSHOP: In this workshop, we take a deep dive into the heart and explore the fundamental practices of Bhakti Yoga. Bhakti Yoga is the yoga of love and devotion. The practice brings us into ecstatic union with the divine. In this workshop we'll explore Japa Meditation, Kirtan (singing the names of God), Bhakti inspired poetry, and group devotional songwriting.
WORKSHOP: Join Darren for Heart Songs Kirtan. Come together in community and share your voices in a celebration of the heart. Kirtan comes from the tradition of Bhakti Yoga which is known as the Yoga of Love & Devotion. By singing to the forms of God, we connect to our innermost joy and move towards yoga, union with the divine.
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Mama, teacher, speaker, and spirit junkie, Maria Salvatore has been teaching yoga and meditation for over two decades and has been studying with master yoga teachers since 1999. Maria offers movement and meditation as a way to approach our world with realistic reverence and gratitude. Her classes are a masterful, candid blend of artful alignment and attention cues for your body, mind and heart. From local yoga studios to the beautiful lawn at Central Park, Maria is honored to offer larger-scale experiences of yoga and meditation, but her true service is in shifting awareness within the smallest interactions, one person at a time. In addition to virtual classes, Maria teaches weekly and monthly classes in New Jersey and New York and offers retreats, workshops and trainings. Maria serves on two boards- the Advisory board for the "Graf Center for Integrative Medicine at Englewood Hospital, as well as the Executive board for "Kula for Karma", a nonprofit organization that brings therapeutic yoga to populations struggling with trauma and addiction." She most recently worked with Mt. Sinai Hospital in NYC creating a free resource (www.cardyfit.com) using yoga to help in healing for cardiovascular patients.
In addition to her yoga practice and philanthropic work, Maria is also a certified Usui Reiki Level II Practitioner. As well as a YACEP, which is a Yoga Alliance designation for individuals who teach continuing education courses, mentoring & certifying teachers. She has most recently added sound healing as a modality for healing in her offerings. “Her primary intention is to help people realize they have the power to heal themselves."
WORKSHOP: Journey Into the Chakra System:
A Discussion and Practice That Will Light Up Your Internal GPS System
If you’re like most of us lately, there are imbalances, blockages or behavioral patterns sabotaging your energy, confidence or grounding, which manifest as fatigue, confusion or fear. When this system is in BALANCE we are aligned.
This workshop will include a discussion on:
What are Chakras? Where they are located and how they work. We will look at shadowside and common blockages.
Guided yoga practice and Chakra Meditation, experience the energy of each center, allowing you to come into complete alignment, for your very own chakra tune up.
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Amanda was drawn to yoga at an early age as a way to help aid in processing traumas she was moving through, and to add meaning to her life. She felt the dynamic energy of a room full of like-minded people was a comforting experience. Once she began to peel the layers back, major growth and transformation took place that left a huge impact on her state of mind. As her interest in this practice got deeper, she began to emerge herself in deeper levels of transformation. Graduating from the Pranotthan School of Yoga in 2016, she instantly started down her teaching path, bustling with a desire to share and spread this innate wisdom. Using a ground up approach, Amanda leads students into the most basic postures and offers layers to those who would like more challenge, creating a safe space for all levels. She teaches from a place of honoring the Self in every moment.
Continuing her education, Amanda has assisted in Teacher Trainings, received her 300HR training from Yogamu Institute, graduated from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition as a IIN Health Coach, received a master level Holy Fire Reiki certification and has taken several trainings in Ayurvedic bodywork treatments such as Champissage, Abhyanga, Reflexology and more. She helps people find their path to wellness through yoga, meditation and breathing, holistic wellness coaching and Ayurvedic treatments to help sooth the nervous system in the process of transformation.
WORKSHOP: All Levels Vinyasa Flow
This class is a moderately paced vinyasa class that links breath with movement and allows for time in some of the postures to breath and feel. Modifications are offered first and layers of depth are offered beyond that if it feels safe.