AYC Teachers
Marinda Hollar
Marinda Hollar is a certified
Dharma Mittra teacher. Marinda has owned Arlington Yoga Center since
1999. She brings 29 years of experience in body/mind/soul teachings to
the center. Years of studying metaphysics, spiritual writing and
psychotherapy, and also meeting several spiritual leaders, have led
Marinda to redirect and focus her life on creating a wellness/spiritual
community for yoga. Marinda is registered with the Yoga Alliance to
teach at the 500 hour level, the highest registry available. Marinda
was inspired to open her own yoga center by Dr. Maha Maharashi
Paranjothiyar (Guruji), head of the Universal Peace Foundation in
India. Guruji returns to the Arlington Yoga Center bi-annually to lead
workshops in Kundilini Yoga. Marinda sponsors regular workshops with a
variety of seasoned yoga teachers.
Lynn Macaluso
Lynn Macaluso is
a certified Dharma Mittra teacher. She has been a student at the
Arlington Yoga Center for eight years and has been teaching here for
the past five. Lynn is dedicated to helping new students learn
yoga in a gentle and positive way. Lynn has a relaxed style of teaching
so if you are looking to have yoga realax and rejuvinate you then Lynn
is the perfect teacher for you.
Ariel Nessel
My path of yoga is a 24/7/365 commitment to being my highest and best
self. After an epiphany in 1997 changed the way I related to food, my
heart opened up to the impact each and every person can have on the
world, to be a force for truth, love, compassion, kindness and ease.
Soon after, I had a vision of myself attaining all of my then existing
goals and dreams, yet still feeling empty inside. Thus began my path to
Buddhism and Yoga and their practices (yama, niyama, meditation, metta,
asana, pranayama, retreat, service & ahimsa), and my intention to
choose new goals which would provide greater meaning and fulfillment.
I am still very much a novice yogi. However, I have been blessed to be surrounded by some very wise and elevated beings, John Robbins, Rusty Wells, Ingrid Newkirk, Thich Nhat Hanh, Venerable Haju Sunim, David Life, Sharon Gannon and, my teacher, Sri Dharma Mittra. It is my hope that I can share the insights and practices of these sages in my classes in a way that helps my fellow yogis manifest their own highest and best self.
In my day job, I oversee a company that has a great amount of
responsibility to our customers, employees and the earth. I actively
experience the challenges of being a modern-day yogi, and the delusion
that life can be compartmentalized into separate areas such as family,
work, hobbies/exercise, spirit etc. The practices I offer have helped
me reveal the riches of my own life, and I believe they have the power
to do so for others. All of my proceeds from the classes I teach will
be donated to Mercy for Animals.
Jessica Copeland
Jessica Copeland is a certified 200-hour Sivananda Yoga Teacher and is
registered with the Yoga Alliance. Her most recent training
certified her as a HeavyWeight Yoga® Instructor as the first of only 2
yoga teachers to attain this level.
Seeking help with stress and pain
management, Jessica came to yoga. She stayed with yoga when it
struck a peaceful cord in her heart. Her teaching practice
focuses on the promise of yoga for everyone, based on an interpretation
of one of Patanjalis’ Yoga Sutras, “Asana is a steady, comfortable
posture.”
She has witnessed the transformative
powers of yoga both within her own life and within her classroom.
She believes yoga is a joyous, healing gift available to anyone who is
willing to move within its discipline.
+ Jessica’s Hatha Yoga classes focus
on adapting and adjusting yogic postures for her students’ current
bodies and abilities.
+ Her HeavyWeight Yoga® classes are specialized to adapt
yoga for people who are overweight or obese as created by Abby
Lentz.
+ Her Senior yoga classes offer both chair and mat options adapting yoga for Senior bodies.
+ Her Sivananda classes offer the classic Sivananda Yoga interpretation as taught by Swami Vishnu-devananda.
Scott Jessup
A native of Fort Worth, Scott Jessup has been a member of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra viola section for 28 years and is currently Assistant Principal Violist. He has been an avid student of Eastern philosophy, meditation, metaphysics, etc. for many years. He came to yoga approximately 20 years ago seeking help for back pain associated with being a professional musician. Dr. Kari Rollins of the Wellness Center in Fort Worth directed him to yoga, and after marrying his wife Shelley in 1992 they began a home practice that continues to this day. He has been largely self-taught via books, audio recordings, and video tapes and DVDs. His “teachers” include Lilias Folan, Alice Christensen, Rodney Yee, Patricia Walden, Rod Stryker, Suzanne Deason, the Nityananda Institute, various Iyengar teachers, Robbin Hallford of Karmany Yoga Fort Worth, Cyndi Lee of OM Yoga, Swami Vishnu-devananda, Joseph van Arsdale, Anodea Judith, Kim Wilson, Shiva Rea, and others. Most recently he has been mentored by Marinda Hollar and is actively studying the yoga of Dharma Mittra at the Arlington Yoga Center. It is his sincere desire to share his passion for yoga using the very best he has learned from these many teachers.
David Weiland
I am a relatively new teacher, having completed my 200hr teacher training with Dharma Mittra in June of 2010. I am truly blessed to be able to share this practice, which has improved my life in so many ways. In my classes, I strive to combine a strong physical practice with a calm, focused state of mind, so that students may experience a tranquil and blissful state of being that stays with them long after the class has ended.