Meet Our Teachers

Your movement and healing guides.

  • Adrianna Naomi (she/they)

    Owner & Teacher

    Adrianna is a 200 E-RYT, 500 RYT & YACEP accredited professional by Yoga Alliance. She teaches Power Vinyasa, Cathartic Fire, and Restorative Yoga.

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  • Kimberly Marcotte (she/her)

    Head of Operations & Teacher

    Kim is a 200 RYT accredited professional by Yoga Alliance. She teaches Power Vinyasa and Restorative Yoga.

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  • Nikki Assanti (she/her)

    Teacher

    Nikki is a 200 RYT accredited professional by Yoga Alliance. She teaches Power Vinyasa and our monthly Power Vinyasa & Contact Improvisation Workshop.

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 Meet Our Partners

Our expert partner professionals host monthly movement and healing practices.

 
Lara Gobins Brooklyn Yoga Teacher

Lara Gobins

Partner & Fluid Full Moon Teacher

Lara is a Brooklyn-based mindful leader and movement teacher with +10 years of experience teaching Yoga Asana, meditation, and leading Teacher Training Programs. Her meticulous Yoga Asana sequences invite all beings to celebrate their bodies through movement while cultivating self-awareness, strength, and equanimity. Inspired greatly by her teachers Jason Crandell, Amy Ippoliti, Kathryn Budig, and Rolf Gates, Lara's classes will empower you and her thematic journeys will encourage you to see the world-and yourself-from new and exciting perspectives. If you are looking to connect to yourself and those around you, while allowing the outside world to fade to the background, Lara's class is for you.

 
Dustin Maxwell Brooklyn Yoga Teacher

Dustin Maxwell

Partner and Point of Transition: Somatic Death Cafe Teacher

Dustin Maxwell is a 500-hour experienced, registered yoga teacher (ERYT 500) and continuing education provider (YACEP). He has been guiding yoga since 2010 and has taught over 4,000 classes. He is also a dancer, Thai yoga bodyworker, meditator, and eastern philosophile. This eclectic knowledge and experience fluidly and intuitively make their way into his yoga classes while honoring and applying the root intentions of yoga as a spiritual practice through asana, bandha, mudra, pranayama, and meditation. Dusitn’s primary intentions are to help people step fully into their bodies with unconditional friendliness, to know themselves fearlessly, and to cultivate witness consciousness – that inner observer who remains unaffected and unconditionally loving. He has studied with awakened teachers from all over the country. In honor of his teachers and of the Teacher in All Things, he is grateful for the opportunity to facilitate practitioners’ movement toward freedom and fulfillment at Ananda Shala Healing.