Teachers
ABOUT ALEKSANDRA TOWNSEND
Aleksandra found yoga in 2001 during her first visit to Maine from Poland and she was drawn instantly into this transformative and healing practice.
She completed her initial 200-hour vinyasa teacher training with Yoga Source in Richmond, Virginia. She holds 40-hour Prenatal Training with Still Point Healing Method, Shiva Shakti School of Yoga, and Kids Yoga Teacher Training with ChildLight Yoga. Additionally, she has a strong background and certification in Pilates, Ayurveda, and is a Usui Reiki Master.
Aleksandra completed her 500-hour advanced Yoga Teacher Training with Yoga of Energy Flow. She additionally completed Yoga Nidra and Thai Yoga Bodywork training with Shiva Shakti School of Yoga.
Her teaching style is heart and alignment driven with a therapeutic lense. She strives to create a safe space for healing to occur across all ages and levels of experience. Aleksandra recently graduated from Physical Therapy Assistant Program and currently works full time in a busy orthopedic practice seeing patients for orthopedic, neurological and pelvic health diagnoses.
When not teaching, Aleksandra enjoys being in nature, travelling and spending time with her children Axel and Konrad.
ABOUT MELISSA UREY
Melissa Urey (RYT 500, Usui/Holy Fire ART Reiki Master) has forever been drawn to the union of mind and body in the present moment and the learning that can take place there. Coming from a background in theater and dance, she began sharing this as an important life skill with children of all ages through those mediums.
Finding yoga while in recovery from surgery, Melissa realized that everything she loved most about teaching theater, she could share even more deeply through yoga. She completed her 200HR YTT with ShivaShakti School of Yoga in 2016 and her 500HR YTT in 2018. She has done specialty trainings in Yoga Nidra, Pranayama and Meditation and Children’s Yoga with ShivaShakti and Restorative Yoga training with Margo Rosingana. A great lover of Sanskrit and the Bhagavad Gita, she currently studies both with Prem Sadasivananda from whom she received her spiritual name in 2017.
More recently she has begun to share her strong affinity for healing with others. Through studies with the International Center for Reiki Training (ICRT) and Melissa Rose Redman she acquired her Usui/Holy Fire ART Reiki Master certification in May 2019. Melissa also facilitates the 6@6 Collective Healing Meditation Facebook group to assist in a global effort to pause and send healing energy every evening at 6pm.
Allowing the awareness to come out of the busy mind and be aware of how the body feels is a guiding force in all of her classes. Her classes are accessible for all levels of practice.
Melissa is honored to be a part of the Rosemont Wellness Yoga team.
About Alex Argo
A devoted practitioner and student for many years, Alex Argo felt a deep calling to share yoga with others. In 2018 she had the honor of journeying further on this path by completing her Krama Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training through Illumina yoga under the guidance of Johanna Bell, Kathleen Savoy, Melissa Lopez Landers and Maria Wagner.
Alex is a deep believer in the therapeutic qualities of yoga practice; that movement, breath and stillness can have profound effects on well-being. She feels passionately that there is a form of yoga for every body despite age, physical limitations and fitness levels. Her mission as a teacher is to create an atmosphere of inclusion and accessibility to all levels of experience and ability.
Alex hopes to inspire practitioners to bring mindful movement, breath and alignment off their mats, promoting greater body awareness and overall health and well-being.
About Kate Holden
Kate finds inspiration in movement and in April 2020 when the whole world shifted she found her way to a yoga mat and her life changed forever. Developing a regular yoga practice quieted the mind, it moved the body, and became a needed balance to a rigorous professional life. Through the mind/body connection she's been able to strengthen physically, mentally, and emotionally. Her passion is to share this journey with others through the teachings of yoga and to empower her community to find peace through practice.
Kate is a 500 RYT, receiving her 200 training at Sundara Yoga and her 300 training as an advanced teacher of therapeutic yoga from the Kripalu School of Integrative Yoga Therapy. She's also completed the Art of Stillness Restorative Yoga training with Margo Rosingana and Movement Science for Yoga Teachers with Erin Ehlers.
She believes in the therapeutic qualities yoga offers and teaches from the perspective that practice should be personal and accessible. Through a therapeutic approach her classes are designed for all levels. Working with Kate is not about looking perfect in a pose but rather finding a path of self-awareness through embodiment and movement.
In addition to her yoga practice, she loves to be on the water. She grew up on the coast of Maine and these experiences have shaped and grounded her throughout her life. She loves living on the water, exploring Maine’s beautiful islands, and being part of this special place that is her home. In Maine's winter months she looks forward to snow and the quiet it brings.
Photo credit to Sunset Ridge Photography
Connect with Kate:
website: kateholdenyoga.com
Instagram: @kt.holden
About Katy Christie
Katy Christie is an RYT200 Yoga Teacher, NASM Certified Personal Trainer, group fitness instructor, and holistic nutritionist/health coach, dancer, and performer based in Southern Maine.
Katy has always been passionate about movement in all its forms from dancing as a child to when she started teaching group fitness in college. Over her 20+ years of teaching movement modalities, she has gravitated toward more subtle, less intense movement practices, which led her to Yoga-based fusion fitness in 2013.
In early 2019, Katy began designing her own movement modalities (liit/HIIT and mindful fitness) as she wanted to integrate her years of learning into formats that felt truer to her nature and focused on joyful movement.
She completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training with Yoga Muse School of Yoga (and Bridge Studio at Art of Awareness) in the summer of 2020. This training was deeply rooted in Yoga's foundations, trauma-informed practices, and inclusion.
Katy is a firm believer that yoga, movement, and wellness practices should be available to all bodies and backgrounds. She aims to create a body-positive, welcoming, and accessible environment for everyone. Her dream is that anyone can walk into her classes (or work with her 1:1) and feel respected, safe, and celebrated, regardless of identity or socio-economic status.
Connect with Katy:
@mov_e_volve for Instagram
website is: www.movevolve.com
