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Cristin Tighe (Simran Kaur), RYT, is the former owner of Spiral Flight Yoga. She is certified to teach Kundalini Yoga through the Kundalini Research Institute’s International Teacher Training program, and she has advanced training in Conscious Pregnancy and Relax & Renew Restorative Yoga. She has extensive expertise in childrens yoga and trains children's yoga teachers (see www.kidsandyoga.com). She is a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher and a member of the International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association. She offers Radiant Child Yoga Program and Yoga4Teens trainings, as well as pregnancy and Kundalini Yoga workshops. Learn more at www.yogasimran.com.
Eliana Baccas, director of Suparna, Partners in Transformation of Madison, is a 500 hour Registered Yoga Alliance teacher.  Founder and former director of SpiralFlight Yoga Center of Washington, DC, she has taught many thousands of classes and workshops since starting her teaching practice in 1977.  She is a graduate of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, with a specialty in "Working with Physical Process".  Her teaching focuses on awakening the intelligence of the INNER BODY and offers students a deeper, more primal level of body/mind awareness.  Her work is most inspired by her teachers, Victor van Kooten and Angela Farmer who specialize in inner movement from the body's core, and by gifted Shamanic healer Luisa Kolker of Santa Fe.
Karen Soltes is the Director of the Therapeutic Yoga program at Circle Yoga/Budding Yogis and a graduate of the teacher training at Willow Street Yoga Center. She holds masters degrees in both Clinical Social Work and Education and has worked in a variety of therapeutic and educational settings over the past 30 years.  In addition to her work at Circle Yoga where she teaches both traditional and therapeutic yoga, as well as Yoga Nidra, she is developing and teaching  a yoga nidra program for veterans at the Washington DC VA.  Her overall intention is to weave together her years of clinical experience with the practice of yoga and mediation to empower and support people to live life in a more balanced way. She offers a Relaxation Series on Yoga Nidra.
Kathleen Furin is the co-founder and co-director of the Maternal Wellness Center. She holds an MSW from Temple University and is a Birth Works certified childbirth educator and Birth Works certified trainer. She has extensive experience working with HIV+ pregnant women and with teen parents. She is a regular contributor to The Mother magazine. Her work has also been published in Literary Mama, The Mother’s Movement Online, Mamazine, Philadelphia Stories, Midwifery Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and other journals. Her essay, “Album,” is featured in Operation Homecoming, an anthology of writings about the war in Iraq. Furin is the recipient of the 2007 Birth Works Childbirth Educator of the Year award. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and two daughters. She offers the Birthworks International Childbirth Educator training here.