300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training

Kendall Sheldon, a founding teacher of All That Matters’ yoga program (1995), comes from a family of yogis. Practicing with both her mother and uncle, and meeting Swami Kripalu set her on her path as a teenager. Certified by the Kripalu Center in 1980 and Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Center in 1994, Kendall has been sharing yoga with students and clients for over 30 years. In 2009 she completed the advanced training in Integrative Restoration (iRest®) with Richard Miller, PhD – who developed this modern adaptation of the ancient meditation practice of yoga nidra.  Kendall is also a senior teacher in the Pranotthan Yoga Teacher Training at All That Matters since 2013.

Kendall teaches yoga as a practice of self-inquiry that invites students to experience their greatest potential.

Mel Gorman Wegimont, E RYT 500, has been teaching transformative yoga classes for 11 years. She completed her 200-hour teacher training with Cathy Cesario of Spirit Tree Yoga and her 500-hour Prana Flow® teacher training with Coral Brown. She is trained in Restorative Yoga through Jillian Pransky, is a certified Reiki Master and a co-teacher in the Pranotthan 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training. Mel’s journey with yoga has led her to study in Rishikesh, India and beyond. She regularly leads local workshops and trainings as well as yoga retreats around the world. 

Mel became a student of yoga and the healing arts in 1999, when a friend brought her – one week after a breast-cancer diagnosis – to Kendall Sheldon's yoga class. In that first class Mel discovered the healing power of yoga, and today she is not only radiantly healthy but also joyfully sharing the healing benefits of yoga with students and mentoring others coping with cancer. Her practice and teaching are informed by study with numerous teachers, and her classroom setting is one of safe and sacred space where her students encounter a mixture of levity, reverence, and honesty as Mel guides them to their own experience of yoga. She encourages students to take their yoga – this practice of finding what they need in body, spirit, and heart – off their mats and into their lives.

 Tara Beaulieu is a graduate of the Pranotthan Yoga School through All That Matters. Her teachings are informed by extensive study of sacred texts, yogic philosophy, and modern-day yoga and movement modalities with teachers like Doug Keller, Alanna Kaivalya, Trina Altman, Georg and Brenda Feuerstein. She is trained in Deep Play for Kids, Yin Yoga and Meditation, Restorative Yoga, and is currently completing a yearlong intensive study of the Bhagavad Gitā. Tara is also a teacher in the Pranotthan 200 and 300 Hour Yoga Teacher Trainings, a Reiki Master, and Co-Director of All That Matters Yoga + Wellness.

A lifelong student of yoga and the arts, Tara’s practice is guided by her creative process: finding a balance between intuitive living and mindful action. Making the choice more than 20 years ago to step out of the workforce and stay home with her three boys and pursue her art, she learned that the secret to living a consciously happy life is to practice listening to oneself. She believes that doing the work to make space for inner knowing, learning to trust instincts, and above all honoring personal truth paves a clear path for happiness in our lives. When we learn to interpret the signals that are inherent to our being (tuning in to our life force) we awaken an awareness and understanding that allows us to heal from within.

In addition to teaching yoga and leading retreats, Tara is a mother to 3 amazing young men, a sea glass artist, and a silversmith.

Joan Dwyer founded 

All That Matters, 

a "little yoga studio with a big vision" back 1995.  

Over her 25 years as owner and leader All That Matters had expansive growth as the largest nonresidential holistic center in New England. 

As a strategic consultant, Dwyer brings decades of holistic education and business experience to empowering teachers, practitioners, and yoga studios to succeed. 

She also shares her expertise on radio, television, at the Yoga Alliance and Mind-Body Conferences, global wellness retreats and other venues.

Devarshi Steven Hartman, 

E-RYT 500, is the dean of the Pranotthan Yoga Guild, faculty member of Nosara Yoga Institute’s Advanced Yoga Teacher Training Curriculum, and former dean of The Kripalu School of Yoga. He has been a student and teacher of yoga and yoga philosophy since 1974, was a longtime Kripalu Ashram resident, and has dedicated his life to the study and practice of the art and science of yoga.

Devarshi is author of the best selling audio series The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita and the DVD Vigorous Kripalu Yoga. Founder of LifeQuest Intensive, Co-Founder of Acharya Intensive, and teacher of A Course in Miracles, Devarshi has lead transformational programs for over 35 years. He maintains a private practice in yoga therapy, life coaching, transformational breathwork, and bodywork in Maui, Hawaii.

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Grace Jull, MA, LMT, 

integrates her understanding of activism, embryology, osteopathy, anatomy, aquatic massage, and yoga into a poetic, passionate, and contagious approach to life, writing, and teaching. 

She serves as adjunct faculty in the mind-body medicine programs at Harvard’s Rehabilitation Lifestyle Medicine Residency Program, Cirque de Soleil’s 

Inuit Intervention, 

and Saybrook University. 

Grace is cofounder of the Shakti-Initiation yoga leadership training in Bali, Indonesia. She has been described as the “Mary Oliver of the yoga mat.

 Missy Brown E-RYT 500, 

E-RCYT, YACEP, has dedicated her life to supporting people of all ages to open to their true potential. Her passion in empowering others is offered through classes, training programs, events and workshops that truly transform lives through play and joy. Using her skills of creativity and playfulness, she fosters experiences where mindfulness and body centered practices are explored with a sense of humor and open hearted authenticity. Missy is the president and founder of Deep Play for Kids, LLC (“DPK”) and Deep Play for All. 

Missy is committed to supporting safe opportunities where all people can discover, explore, and embrace their true limitless self. Sharing re-creatable skills and tools to build resilience needed not only on the worst day, but to thrive on all days, is at the core of her intentional offerings. With her loving presence, Missy uses a trauma sensitive lens in everything she does. As a dedicated seasoned yoga and wellness practitioner, Missy has 45 years of personal practice and 25 years of service and teaching. She is admired as a pioneer in this field and is sought after to present and speak at national conferences. The Deep Play for Kids School has trained and certified 350 DPK teachers, influenced thousands of children, parents, teachers, clinicians, medical professionals, administrators, with this number continuing to grow. She has been lovingly compared to The Pied Piper and Mary Poppins, and that hearing her voice or connecting with her exchanges evokes calm, grace, and presence.  A sense of being seen, heard, feeling welcomed with full permission to be met exactly where they are, as they are. 

Doreen Wiggins, MD, is the founder of the Center for OB/GYN in Providence, Rhode Island. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Teaching Excellence Award from Brown University medical students.

 She is a fellowship trained breast cancer surgeon employed by University Surgical Associates and is developing a Women’s Cancer Survivorship Program at Lifespan, the major teaching hospital affiliated with the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University.

Doreen has been practicing yoga for over 30 years, and is a graduate of the Pranotthan Yoga School.  She has taught at international yoga retreats with Rajashree Choudhury since 2011, and is a Yoga Medicine writing contributor and teacher. Doreen is currently in the Andrew Weil Fellowship in Arizona for Integrative Medicine.

 With a deep understanding of the natural world and its connections to our emotions, thoughts, and physical body; Mairead offers massage and Ayurvedic bodywork treatments, yoga therapy, personalized herbal formulations and consultations geared to finding balance and support by aligning with your surroundings. Mairéad believes that nature and it’s elements are so much a part of who we are. Her healing gift is the ability to see and meet her clients’ challenges with compassion and equanimity guiding them to experience life, as it comes, with tools of mindfulness and self care. 

Rebecca Lyn Gold is an author, editor, writing coach and E-RYT 200 yoga teacher. She is the founder of 

Yogic Writing™  a practice that utilizes the philosophies and disciplines of yoga, meditation, and journaling for writers of all levels to break through resistance, 

uncover memories and write their life stories.

Rebecca has studied with esteemed memoirists including Natalie Goldberg, Julia Cameron, Dani Shapiro and Candace Walsh, among others. She received her E-RYT 200 yoga and meditation teacher certification through the Pranotthan Yoga School at All That Matters Yoga Center in Rhode Island,

 along with an additional certification in Yin yoga. She is also a graduate of the MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) program.

Rebecca served on the board of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) and founded the first international region for SCBWI in Argentina and Uruguay. 

She is the author of 

Till There Was You: An Adoption Expectancy Journal, A Wizard Called Woz: 

a biography of Stephen Wozniak, 

How To Write It Funny 

with author/humorist Amy Koko, 

From Your Mat to Your Memoir: Creating a yogic writing practice to find and write your life stories.

A Friend Named Sunny Skies: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and the Music of James Taylor.

Rebecca Gold has been teaching and coaching writers of all ages for over 

two decades. She leads workshops, retreats and online programs using 

Yogic Writing as a tool to find and write life stories.

 Malika spent the first 40 years of her life living a reality that didn't feel like her dream. She had the good fortune of attending prestigious institutions such as St. Stephens' College in India, Harvard Graduate School of Education in the US, and had a successful career in digital marketing working for start-ups to large companies. She describes this time of her life as a being a closeted hippie. On occasions, she ventured off to live in other countries, or took time off from corporate life to just be, and those were her happiest moments. Having felt purposeless for a long time, a weekend trip to the Kripalu Yoga Center became a turning point. Subsequently Malika completed her first Yoga Teacher Training in 2013 through the Pranotthan School of Yoga.

A few years later, Malika found the courage and opportunity to leave the high stress world of marketing and move to an ashram. The teachings of the Amrit Yoga Institute are based on an energy lineage and that of Swami Kripalu, on whom the Kripalu Yoga Center is founded. She lived at the ashram for almost 3 years and took the basic and advanced trainings in Yoga & Yoga Nidra. In 2019, she moved back to India, leaving the corporate world behind for good with an opportunity to finally live her dream. She loves to teach as part of her practice. Every opportunity in which she can share what she has learned, she considers a gift, and a reinforcement of the yogic teachings. Her current teaching focus is on spreading the energy based teachings of Yoga and Yoga Nidra through classes, workshops, and discussions.

Morgan Huling, 

E-RYT 200, RYT 500, YACEP, discovered yoga as an anxious high school student, and quickly fell in love with its positive effects on her body, mind, and spirit. 

In 2010, as a young adult, she traveled to Costa Rica for a 200-hour yoga teacher training through the 

Marianne Wells Yoga School, and later returned in 2013 to complete her 500-hour certification with a focus on yoga therapy. 

Since then, Morgan has focused her studies on the gentler side of yoga—most notably with Amy Weintraub’s LifeForce Yoga® to Manage Anxiety and completing two levels of Restorative Yoga certification with Sudha Carolyn Lundeen. 

These practices have played a huge part in shaping Morgan’s work with 

The Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation, offering yoga classes to cancer survivors since 2013. 

With yoga teacher trainings having sparked a love of anatomy and addressing physical pain, Morgan also became a licensed massage therapist through the Bancroft School of Massage Therapy in 2011, and has since completed multiple trainings in reiki, prenatal massage, craniosacral therapy, oncology massage, and myofascial release. Her love of bodywork and energy work is evident in her yoga classes, and vice versa.

Morgan’s passion as a yoga teacher lies in teaching students new to yoga and those looking to release stress, anxiety, and chronic pain. She recognizes the power of movement, breath, and meditation to transform a person’s energy and outlook, and dedicates her classes to creating the space for these shifts to occur.

 Everything Sheri has studied thus far has carried her further along the path of truth, beauty, and love. 

She calls this divinity, the ultimate dance of our life energies, understanding what it means to create a positive, balanced, vital beat in our everyday experience. 

 Sheri started with a career working in NYC in fashion and design. In 1998 her path into motherhood brought her back to Rhode Island where she began her holistic studies into yoga and Interior Design at RISD. 

She has been a student and teacher ever since and has had the blessings of many great teachers, with her root teacher being Saul David Raye. She began her studies with Saul in Thai Yoga Bodywork, an exquisite system of assisted yoga stretches, and acupressure based on the meridian system.

Sheri deepened much of her yoga and advanced training with Saul and has had the pleasure and honor to travel and assist trainings in both Thai Bodywork and Yoga Teacher Trainings.  

She continues intense studies in sacred dance and is certified in Dance of Oneness, in addition to certification in Feng Shui, Reiki and 

Cranial Sacral Therapy.

Sheri is currently enrolled in her second year with Her Mystery School; a school devoted to the teachings of the sacred feminine, which she is very passionate about sharing with other women.

  Elsie Castro-Swonger is a longtime advocate of healthy living through good nutrition, exercise, and stress-reduction techniques. She has studied, practiced, and shared the life-enriching potentials of classical hatha yoga and meditation for over 40 years. 

After earning a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1972, Elsie devoted three years to service in the Peace Corps in Liberia. In 1976, she was certified in Transcendental Meditation, and taught at T.M. centers in Providence and Newport for several years. 

A registered yoga teacher at the 500-hour level, Elsie also holds specialized certifications, including Cardiac Yoga, Yoga and Ayurveda, and Yoga for Osteoporosis Prevention. In addition to general practice yoga classes, Elsie offers workshops in Yoga for 

Bone Health.

With a master’s degree in education and many years of dedication to yoga and meditation, Elsie brings a natural, nurturing, and gentle style to her yoga classes. She emphasizes preventative and healing methodologies as an avenue to physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing.

 Marjie upholds the belief that yoga is for everybody and every body. She began her yoga practice at age seventeen, learning sun salutations from a book. Her joy-filled passion for life and yoga is contagious, and her deep love and appreciation for the natural world inspires her practice, her classes, and her life. Marjie received her 200-hour yoga teacher training from the Pranotthan Yoga School at All That Matters and her 500-hour certification with Theresa Murphy.

Marjie’s yoga classes offer a holistic experience; leading students to use their breath and non-judgmental awareness to build strength and flexibility, release tension and re-energize. She shares that yoga offers not only physical health benefits, but it’s most extraordinary gifts are found off the mat, seeping deeply into one's regular life and supporting profound shifts towards well-being. Marjie welcomes her students to let yoga open them to the extraordinary in each ordinary day of being alive. Off the mat, she is a long-time Morris dancer, science teacher, horticulturist, and lifelong learner.