Paige Schreiner

Paige Schreiner (RYT200) received her training through the Therapeutic Yoga Teacher Training program at yama studio (Yoga, Ayurveda & Meditation Arts), in Baltimore, MD. She also holds Level 2 certification from Radiant Child Yoga. Paige enjoys teaching an ecclectic array of therapeutic yoga styles, incorporating her study of Satyananda Yoga, as well as Viniyoga and Anusara principles into her classes. She has been practicing yoga for over 10 years, becoming increasingly more drawn to yoga as a tool to manage chronic pain and stress. From 2009-2011, Paige owned the Paige One Yoga & Wellness Center in Damascus and had the honor of teaching alongside many local, talented yoga teachers. Paige continues to train, teach and practice yoga because there is always something new to be learned, shared and enjoyed! Paige loves to share the gifts of yoga to people of all ages and abilities with a sense of humor and adventure.

Carolyn Smith

Carolyn Smith (RYT200) is a former financial professional turned Yoga Teacher and Life Coach with a passion for helping people connect to their greater purpose in life through breath, movement, and contemplation. Carolyn has been a student of yoga for over 10 years and has been teaching since 2006. She holds teaching certificates from both the Yoga Center of Columbia and Willow Street Yoga Center and is a trained Life Coach. Drawing her inspiration from Anusara® yoga, Carolyn’s teaching style is informative, challenging, and fun! She encourages her students to connect with the deeper lessons yoga has to offer and to use those lessons to empower their lives, on and off the mat.

Maria Littlefield

Maria has been a yoga practitioner for many years and in 2009 trained in the Radiant Child Yoga program with Shakta Kaur Khalsa. Since then she has taught yoga classes for tots to teens. Children really seem to respond to her, as she communicates with them in a fun, friendly and trusting way. Her classes are filled with magical yoga journeys, games, stories, art projects, music, lots of fun, and often include an educational component to compliment the theme of the class. With a degree in Horticulture from the University of Maryland she also likes to incorporate her love of plants and nature into her class plans.
It is Maria’s belief that a child who learns yoga, mindfulness and relaxation will not only be more learning ready but also will be developing essential skills they can use for a lifetime of health and wellness in body, mind and spirit.

Stephanie Desmond

Stephanie comes to Paige One Yoga with a life and a heart full of learning and teaching. The chapters of her professional story include being a student, practitioner and instructor of massage therapy, dance, fitness, distance running, yoga, energy medicine, and meditation to all ages.

Stephanie has been a practitioner and teacher in the Washington area for 17 years. She has maintained a private practice during that time as well as working in chiropractic, physical therapy, and other medical facilities. Her professional certifications and technical training includes Swedish massage, deep tissue, myofacial release, reflexology, reiki, acupressure, sports massage, infant massage, prenatal massage, and other bodywork disciplines.

Stephanie is a student of yoga and meditation, and teaches meditation at Paige One Yoga. Her wide variety of personal experience and training coupled with a continued fascination with the wondrous human body, mind and spirit and its unique ability to heal, gives her the raw materials for a creative and effective practice of therapeutic bodywork and energy healing.

Jennifer Eden

Jennifer Eden, (RYT200, LMT, KYT) a Maryland licensed massage therapist has an established practice in Frederick celebrating its tenth anniversary year in September. Although a yoga practitioner most of her life, she was more recently encouraged by a good friend and mentor to teach. Deciding that it could be another tool and adjunct to her massage practice she completed the Kripalu 200 hour teacher training program in 2005. She has been teaching and offering postural assistance to massage clients ever since.

Linda Evans

Linda Evans, RYT 200, has been practicing and studying yoga since 1996. She completed her Yoga Teacher Training at The Yoga Center of Columbia in 2008 and Anusara Immersion in 2010. As a former Montgomery County Public Schools music teacher, she blends her talents for teaching with her love of yoga. Linda brings a joyful approach to yoga. Creating a supportive class environment, she encourages mindfulness and alignment. Linda has benefited from and is grateful to all her teachers for their inspiration, especially Heather Schwartz and Kathy Donnelly. When Linda is not practicing yoga, she enjoys a game of tennis or a bike ride on local country roads.

Lara Hennessey

Lara started practicing yoga as a way to gain the flexibility she had as a young gymnast. When she got deeper into her yoga practice, she noticed the stomach pain that had plagued her for years had lessened.
Now a firm believer in the healing power of yoga, Lara got her 200 hour certification through Yoga Center Amherst and works to deepen her practice everyday. She hopes to bring the same healing and joy to her students’ lives through yoga that she is experiencing in her own life.
Her Vinyasa Flow style brings breath into movement to calm the mind and exercise the body.