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JayadevaPrinceton Yoga Community Center Founder & Director
Jayadeva began teaching yoga in 1969 and was blessed with the opportunity to have studied and lived with Sri Swami Satchidananda, the founder of Integral Yoga, at Yogaville, the Integral Yoga ashram in Buckingham, Virginia. He went on to serve as Manager of the Integral Yoga Institute, New York City and was Director of Integral Yoga Teacher Training there as well. Jayadeva was instrumental in developing the training materials that are now used worldwide. Jayadeva brought Integral Yoga to the Princeton area over 20 years ago and has served as Director of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Princeton Yoga Community Center and as a member of its Board of Trustees. Jayadeva is certified to teach all levels, directs the Princeton Integral Yoga Teacher Training School, and is an E-RYT 500 Registered Yoga teacher with the Yoga Alliance.
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RonManager, Princeton Yoga Community Center
Ron is the Manager of Princeton Integral Yoga Community Center and a Certified Integral Yoga instructor and is registered with Yoga Alliance. He has been teaching Yoga in the Princeton area since 2002. Ron is also a certified Integral Yoga Raja instructor. He teaches an Advanced Raja yoga class at the Integral Yoga Institute New York and is one of the lead instructors for Integral Yoga Institute Princeton Teacher Training. He also serves as treasurer on the Board of Trustees and runs his own company, Web 401K.
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SAVANNAH PARVATI
Communications Director & Integral Yoga Instructor
Savannah is the Communications Director of Princeton Yoga Community Center, and a Certified Integral Yoga Instructor registered with Yoga Alliance. With a background in dance and gymnastics, Savannah started practicing yoga at a young age in 2010, when a dance instructor of hers utilized Salute to Sunrise in their warm ups. She instantly fell in love with the fluidity of yoga, and the challenge of incorporating breathe work into her movements. Ten years later she attended a yoga class at PYCC, that opened her up to the mental and spiritual aspects of yoga known as Integral Yoga. Integral Yoga showed her that yoga is so much more than just a physical form of exercise, but that every asana has a positive effect on the body, and that sequencing these poses can bring you into a meditative state. She fell in love with yoga even deeper this time, and sought out her teacher training from PYCC. She now teaches Level 1, Multi Level, and Level 2 Yoga at PYCC, as well as private instruction, where teaching and practicing yoga has helped her feel the best she has ever felt both physically and mentally. Savannah's goals as an instructor are to make yoga feel inclusive for everyone, encourage her students to be playful in their practice, and to help students find that the physical practice of asana renders mental, emotional, and physiological wellbeing.
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KEYUR
Keyur has been teaching yoga at PYCC since 2016 and identifies body-awareness, sense-control and mental-clarity as the biggest gains of the PYCC style of yoga. He completed his 200-hour Yoga Alliance Teacher Training with the IYI New York in 2015. Keyur started his personal journey into Yoga two decades back in India and since then he has studied and applied a variety of yoga practices encompassing Karma yoga, Jnana yoga, Bhakti yoga and Raja yoga. Keyur’s Multilevel Hatha class is structured around a deep harmony of Action, Awareness and Will and aims to take the students to a state where they naturally begin to feel healthy, whole, empowered and eager to self-realize. He considers Svadhyaya and Satsang as the backbone of Yoga Sadhana and has built an app powergita.com to help with those. Aside from yoga, Keyur has a PhD in statistics, enjoys his day job in pharmaceutical R&D, likes tennis, and is happily married to Unnati who also (not so coincidentally) is into the yogic lifestyle.
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Sunita BhavyaSunita is a certified Integral Yoga and Children’s Yoga Instructor. Inspired by her grandfather Sunita started practicing yoga over a decade ago. A volunteering opportunity through a friend got her into teaching yoga. She has taught at various places in New Jersey including after-school yoga at township public school. Sunita finds balance & peace in life through her yoga practice. She is associated with Hindi USA and teaches Hindi in her township. In her free time she enjoys listening to, and learning music.
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MargaretMargaret was introduced to yoga by her mother. They both fell in love with the practice and took teacher training together in 2017. She has continued her education taking further teacher trainings and workshops in the years since. She is very grateful to her teachers, especially Jayadeva, who have lit the way, and is honored to share these teachings with others. When teaching, Margaret is warm and friendly and is inspired by Swami Satchidnanda and the philosophy that life is for fun! Her classes focus on the goal of attaining an easeful body, peaceful mind and useful life. She grounds students in an ongoing awareness of breath while guiding them through poses with clear directions, modelling, and hands-on adjustments. Gently spiritual in her approach, she provides a physical workout that students of all levels can easily modify. A retired school teacher, Margaret enjoys playing tennis, hiking and spending time with friends, family and her grandchildren.
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ryan hanumanRyan ‘Hanuman’ Coulter, RYT 500. He teaches regular hatha yoga, pranayama and meditation classes at PYCC and in the surrounding Princeton area. He has been influenced by a range of spiritual traditions and has been blessed to study under numerous teachers such as: Rev. Jaganath Carrera (Raja Yoga, Triaxial Yoga), Shyamji Bhatnagar (Nada Yoga, Microchakra Psychology), Paulie Zink (Yin and Yang Yoga), Swami Tadatmananda (Vedanta, Meditation) and Adyashanti (Meditation). Ryan also completed his Basic Yoga Teacher Training, Advanced Yoga Teacher Training and Therapeutic Yoga Teacher Training programs through PYCC under the direction of Jayadeva Mandelkorn, Ron Cohen, Andrea Sacchetti and Sandi Merrill.
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KATHI KALYANI
Kathi Kalyani Townsend has worked in many capacities in the field of human services since 1972: clinician, administrator, trainer, program developer and systems change agent: a Masters level clinician holding license and certifications: FEMA and Harvard Medical Certifications in several facets of disaster management and emergency response, crisis counseling, Certified Practitioner in Trauma Art Narrative Therapy (TANT), Certified as both a Practitioner and Trainer in Mental Health First Aid and Mental Health First Aid for Veterans and Their Families. Kathi has authored 2 books: “STONES IN MY HEART FOREVER” Authorhouse, 2008 & “ESCAPE FROM THE LAND OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS” Lulu 2014. Certified Hindu Yoga and meditation since 1969. Member of the International Meditation Teachers Alliance. Black belt in 7 Star Praying Mantis Kung Fu since 1987; Tai Chi instructor. Master and teacher Usui Reiki, being five removed from Mikao Usui. Membership in the International Association of Reiki Professionals. Developed an innovative system of teaching yoga, meditation, stress management and energy work to dogs and their humans, called Pawsitive Energy in 1990. Certified Vata Asana Aerial Yoga teacher, 2017. Certified Yoga4Sobriety Teacher, 2016. Instructor on Trauma Informed Yoga.
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CYNTHIA
Cynthia Maltenfort has more than 30 years of experience in the healing arts. She enjoys combining ancient and modern healing systems for health of body, mind and spirit including; Yoga, Energy Medicine, Tai Chi, Qigong, Sound Healing and Drumming. She holds a 500 hour yoga teaching certification from Sun and Moon Yoga Studio and a 200 hour Tai Chi/Qigong teaching Certification from the IIQTC (http://www.instituteofintegralqigongandtaichi.org). She is a Senior Trainer for the IIQTC and the Healer Within Foundation (https://www.healerwithinfoundation.org) and is a Master Trainer of Sound Healing with Tibetan Tones. She is also certified with Health Rhythms for group empowerment drumming.
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JayaJaya is a Yoga Alliance registered E500 RYT instructor. She has been practicing yoga for more than 45 years. In 2003, her life was transformed when she used yoga to heal herself after an accident. That faith in yoga led her to the Integral Yoga Institute (also known as Yogaville) in Buckingham, VA, where she received her certification as an Integral Yoga instructor. She is also a certified Yoga of the Heart instructor under Nischala Joy Devi, who was director of Dr. Dean Ornish’s program for reversing heart disease, and a Structural and Ayurvedic Yoga Therapist under Mukunda Stiles. Since 2003, Jaya has taught Beginner/Intermediate Yoga, Gentle/Chair yoga, Yoga for Heart, Yoga for Stress Management as well as Yoga for back, neck or shoulder pain at Fair Oak Hospital in Oak Hill, VA and the Sunrise Assisted Living facility. She has also taught Children’s yoga and many yoga classes in her own studio in Oak Hill, VA, spas, schools, community centers, and to private clients as young as 5 and as old as 94. They learn to relieve pain, heal from physical or emotional trauma and educate themselves in the daily practice of meditation, yoga, deep relaxation and breathing. This therapy training has transformed her life and Yoga has become her passion.
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RajeshwarRajeshwar is a Certified Integral Yoga Instructor. He has been practicing yoga for more than 41 years. In 1980 he was a student in the Bangalore University and had difficulty concentrating and breathing. To address these new stresses in his life, he turned to yoga and meditation. His life was transformed when he discovered yoga through a book titled “Yoga Postures” by James Hewitt. Rajeshwar had knee surgery, at that time he joined Integral Yoga and adopted the total class teaching methodology. He was practicing Raja yoga through the Shri Ram Chandra Mission (SRCM) since 2006. That faith in yoga attracted him to Princeton Integral Yoga Practice (PYCC). He completed teacher training through PYCC and is now teaching Level 1 & Multi Level Yoga at PYCC, as well as teaching private lessons. Teaching and practicing yoga has helped him physically and mentally. He serves in various non-profit organizations. He was the former President of North American Teleugu Association (NATA). He is the current executive committee member of NATA, Telangana President of Indian National Congress (IOC), and Board of Trustees of Walker Gordon Farm (WGF) homeowner association.
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senthilYoga deepens, broaden and strengthen the visionary power of the mind, It opens the door of the realm of sensing beyond the five senses - Sadhguru. By abiding by yoga ethics, Senthil strives to deliver the highest standard in yoga, therapeutic work, and revitalization of the body and mind’s health by utilizing his knowledge and experience so that his students can enjoy optimum health and wellbeing. Senthil teaches hatha (all levels), power yoga, hot yoga, therapeutic yoga, pranayama and meditation, yin yoga, and vinyasa (all levels). Senthil has taught yoga around the world, including India, Singapore, Macau (China), Moscow (Russia) and Taiwan, and now brings his worldly insight to the Princeton area community!
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ASWINIAswini has been with PYCC since 2013, beginning her journey here as as a volunteer receptionist. Trained by Masters of Oneness University in India, Aswini has centered her life on spirituality for the last 25 years. She is a certified advanced trainer in the field, conducting retreats and mediation sessions. Aswini also enjoys taking yoga classes here at PYCC, and leads chakra mediations every Monday evening.
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AmbikaAmbika has been practicing yoga since 1964. She is a Certified Integral Yoga Teacher for over 9 years and 500 RYT registered with Yoga Alliance. Ambika has taught at the Freehold Yoga Center and also at the Princeton Center for Fitness and Health. In addition to her dedicated yoga practice, Ambika is a Registered Nurse and Certified Childbirth Education Specialist. She is currently employed at the University Medical Center at Princeton, working full time in Labor and Delivery.
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