INSTRUCTORS

Melissa Rock, Founder & RYT:  In teaching yoga, Melissa offers a safe and sacred space for self inquiry and exploration.  She provides her students with the tools to skillfully cultivate tone, strength and flexibility of both body and mind.

Melissa, a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) certified in the Kripalu tradition, has been a student of yoga for nearly a decade.  Her classes blend a combination of Hatha Vinyasa and Kripalu yoga styles. Melissa's personal practice and teaching style are influenced strongly by her time studying with Robyn Wexler (Yoga Yard, Beijing), Mimi Kuo (Yoga Yard, Beijing), Donna Farhi (author of Bringing Yoga to Life; Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit; The Breathing Book, and Teaching Yoga), and with the knowledgeable teachers at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health (www.kripalu.org), where she completed her yoga teacher certification.  Melissa is a member of the Kripalu Yoga Teacher's Association (KYTA) and is a registered yoga teacher with the Yoga Alliance (www.yogaalliance.org).

In addition to being a committed yoga student and teacher, Melissa is also a full-time dual degree doctoral student at Penn State University's Departments of Geography and Women's Studies.

Melissa is currently in China conducting dissertation research. To contact her regarding yoga classes when she returns, you can email her at: myrockyoga@gmail.com or info@yogavillagepa.com.

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