Jessica Hartmann is a full time Physical Therapist and Kunga Yoga Teaching Specialist on faculty with the Kunga Yoga School. She is a graduate of Duquesne University with a Masters Degree in Physical Therapy, and has over ten years of experience as a manual therapist in a variety of clinics.
Adjunct Faculty member, Frances Murchison, 200ERYT/500RYT, brings 11 years of yoga experience to her classes. She completed her 200hr Training under Daren Friesen at Moksha Yoga in Chicago, and has completed her 500-hour Kunga Yoga certification. Originally a runner, she embraced yoga for the physical benefits of strength, flexibility and endurance.
Executive Director of the Wilmington Yoga Center, Ali has been practicing yoga since 2000 when she took her first therapeutic class. She joined her mother who was in recovery from breast cancer, and was instantly hooked on a practice that can benefit both your body and your mind.
North Carolina born and raised, Logan Thompson originally began her yoga practice many years ago as a means by which to relax after intense workouts, such as running, but soon realized that yoga can be as challenging, and sometimes even more challenging, than many other forms of exercise;
Heather Lilly (goes by“Lilly”) received her 500hr ISHTA Yoga certification in 2003. After teaching over a 1000hrs of group classes, private sessions, and yoga festivals in NYC, Pennsylvania, and Raleigh she joined the Wilmington Yoga Center family in December of 2009.
Donna Gardner has been practicing yoga and Insight Meditation for over 20 years and is an experienced teacher. She holds a Masters Degree in Dance from New York University, and is an ACE certified personal trainer. In addition, she attended the Graduate School of Social Work at Boston University
Teaching Specialist Mary’s formal yoga training began at Kripalu Yoga Ashram where she briefly lived and studied Bodywork (1989). Next she obtained her license in Massage Therapy from the Florida School of Massage and Hydrotherapy in Gainesville Florida (1991).
Trained by power Vinyasa guru, Tamal Dodge, Ronnie brings the flow (Vinyasa) to Ageless Yoga with basic and power level classes. Additionally, when he is not teaching beach yoga during the summer months, he teaches his very popular Hatha yoga class on Sunday mornings to the sounds of Billie Holiday.
Masankho is sits in as one of the Kunga Drummers and is an accomplished African dancer, drummer and choreographer. He brings his knowledge of dance and drumming from his upbringing in Malawi and from all the teachers he has learned from here in the United States. MAsanko is an International PeaceBuilder, Educator, InterPlay Leader and Healer/Masseur who resides in Oakland, California. In 2001 Masankho was awarded the Unsung Hero of Compassion award by his Holiness The Dalai Lama.
You can learn more about Masankho at UCanDAnc.org. The Mission of UCanDanc’ is to build peace, inspire diversity and inclusion and foster healing using InterPlay, dance, music, drums and stories.
Drummer/percussionist Troy Pierce was classically trained at the North Carolina School of the Arts. He later studied jazz at the Manhattan School of Music, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the State University of New York at Empire State College.