Meet Our Teachers
PEG KOLLER
Peg spent most of her younger life riding race horses at Belmont Park, and so, in a fateful way, she first found Ashtanga Yoga after she was almost killed in bad fall from a race horse. The slow and building practice of ashtanga enabled her to heal so well and so quickly, both physically and mentally, that she was back riding her first race horse just 6 weeks after the original fall. She was even more drawn to the practice then, starting her studies in earnest soon after, and since has been able to study with remarkable teachers such as Manju Jois, David Swenson, Doug Swenson, Caroline Klebl and Danicia Ambron. She studies primarily today with Christopher Hildebrandt, who she is lucky to call both a teacher and a friend, and has also traveled to Mysore India in 2008 to study with Sri K Pattabhi Jois. Today she is humbled and honored to be named on the teacher's list of his son, Manju Jois. Peg is also a registered ERYT with Yoga Alliance, having completed the qualifications for that at Yoga Sutra in NYC. She opened Yoga Yama in January of 2003, and since has had the joy of watching it grow into a place of vital energy, education and peace. Her biggest hope is that Yoga Yama continues to add light, education, and that powerful healing that she used so many years ago, to this world,today.
RENEE LENNON
Renee is a 500 hour Yoga Alliance certified teacher having studied traditional Ashtanga yoga in Mysore, India. Renee has been sharing her love of yoga for 20 years and has been leading Ashtanga yoga classes at Yoga Yama for 10 years.
LOU ANN ROCHE
Lou Ann is a retired NYS certified elementary school teacher with 33 years of classroom experience. She has been a Yoga Alliance Certified teacher of adults since 2009 and a Yoga Alliance Certified teacher of children since 2014. Lou Ann has maintained a deep personal yoga practice of her own for over 20 years, and enjoys sharing her passion for yoga’s physical and emotional benefits with yogis of all ages.
KAREN ZORZENON
After studying yoga and gaining a foundation in the Iyengar tradition of yoga, Karen began a more serious physical and spiritual journey in the traditional Hatha yoga under the guidance of her “guru” Angela Caruso. After having the opportunity to “student teach” at Angela’s studio, Inner Light, Karen enrolled in the 200 hour Yoga Alliance Teacher Training at Yoga Yama of Patchogue. Karen received her 200 hour certification in June 2009 and has been teaching since. Karen is looking forward to sharing her training and taking her students to a higher and deeper level of practice.
ROSE FAVA
Rose has been teaching yoga since 2015. Trained in Ashtanga yoga at Yoga Yama, she has applied the traditional practice to her unique Vinyasa flows that can be accessed by all yogis, both new and advanced. Rose has experience teaching a varitey of classes, from meditiation, to gentle beginners flow to Vinyasa. Each of her classes work to welcome students of all ages and experience levels. Rose's yoga philosophy is grounded in graditude and encourages each student to remain grateful to themselves and their practice, regardless of what they universe has instore for them today.
JIMMY LENNON
Jimmy has been teaching Yoga for the past 15 years. He has trained and received certifications with Baron Baptiste, Doug Swenson and Beryl Bender Birch in the vinyasa traditions as well as the Classical Eight Limb Path. Jimmy has also been to India to study Ashtanga with Sri Pattabhi Jois and Sharath and has studied extensively with Manju Jois. Currently Jimmy practices at Yoga Yama with Peg Koller and Christopher Hildebrandt.